When most people hear IRS they immediately cringe BUT the  IRS can be the good guys.  The IRS is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to starting your own business, purchasing an existing business.  When is the last time that you visited their website (www.irs.gov)? 

STARTING A NEW BUSINESS

What New Business Owners Need to Know About Federal Taxes

 http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99336,00.html

Small Business Resources

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/content/0,,id=98864,00.html

Online Classroom

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/content/0,,id=146331,00.html

Publication 4591, Small Business Federal Tax Responsibilities

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4591.pdf

Recommended Reading for Small Businesses

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99083,00.html

 Tax Information For Businesses

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/index.html?navmenu=menu1

Operating a Business

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99930,00.html

Small Business Events by State

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99202,00.html

Wikipedia’s definition of LinkedIn:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn

Top 5 Tactical Mistakes on LinkedIn:  http://linkedintuition.com/blog/the-top-5-tactical-mistakes-on-linkedin

Top 20 LinkedIn Groups ALL Job Seekers MUST Join:  http://www.careerrocketeer.com/2009/06/top-20-linkedin-groups-all-job-seekers.html

I was perusing the internet this morning and found the following offer.

Today’s FREE offer

Free Dunkin Donuts Coffee

click on the above or follow this link http://www.dunkinathome.com/index.aspx and click free sample.

In this day in age where the heads of households are being laid off in record numbers it is great to come across a site (see link below) that will guide you to restaurants where kids eat free.

http://www.kidseatfree.com/

The list is not as long as it use to be but it still has several participating restaurants.

Thank you to all the men and women past and present for keeping our country safe. Thank you daddy (Vietnam) and grandaddy (WWII) for keeping our legacy going. I wish we could all just get along BUT until then I salute all the brave men and women that have put their lives on the line for our way of living.

Here is a neat video for setting up lights and shooting your subject(s) outdoors.

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=979724063&channel=607902895

neat video that shows you how to bounce your flash using a Canon 580EX II

This image was taken at the doctor’s office two days ago.  It was GREAT to make the minutes go away in a creative way.  The Canon G9 is GREAT, because I can keep it in my purse.

I used available lighting on the image which had a soft blue cast from the window and decided to play around a little bit with the image in Adobe Lightroom and the above is what I achieved.

A friend of mine gave me Lightroom (Adobe) as an early birthday present.  I played with two images today.

The following imags were captured by me and post processed in Lightroom (by me too).   

(going for a vintage look)

(going for an urban flavor)