Here are some more articles on how to save money with meal planning:

Quick Ways To Save and Be Frugal With Meals - Make a list. Always keep a list on hand for what you need and what’s on sale. This will also help with your meal planning. Plan your meals around sales. If pork is on sale that week add it to your menu for the week. …

7 ways to save money at the grocery store - Fresh, frozen or dried, fruit makes a satisfying, sweet end to any meal. It will add vitamins, minerals and fiber that aren’t found in cakes or candy. Working some small changes into your grocery shopping habits will not only save money …

If you’re self employed, you likely experience income slumps. It may be because your business is cyclical (being a tax professional, I am extremely busy the first 4 months of the year, but then things slow down drastically during the summer months), or it may be because the economy is slow, or it may be just because you haven’t done any marketing in a while.

Whatever the reason, I like to take some time to brainstorm about ways I can increase my income. And when things are really slow, I pull that list out and try to do something every day to get my income back up to where I want it to be.

The WAH Expo started yesterday, and is featuring a wide variety of speakers and topics including:

Do’s and Do not’s of Graphic Design - Shannon Smith and Tammy Munson

Q&A about New Media: Blogs, Podcasting, Social networking, etc

Advertising: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Patrysha Korchinski

Non-Toxic Networking - Jennifer Gniadecki

Yes. You do need an editor. Erika Geiss

And many more!

I will also be speaking about Tax Benefits for the Work At Home Business Owner later today.

Check out the full schedule here!

Someone recently asked me what they could do now to make tax time easier for this upcoming tax season.

The best thing you can do is to think about taxes before then year ends.  Most people wait until the tax filing deadline before they ask how they can reduce their income taxes.  Unfortunately, once 2007 ends, there’s very little you can do to minimize your taxes for 2007. 

To start your tax planning, you should review your income, deductions and withholdings before the year ends.  Which means you need to get your bookkeeping caught up!  You should use a software program, such as QuickBooks, Quicken Home and Business, or spreadsheets to keep track of your income and expenses for your business.

I know many of you use QuickBooks to keep track of your income and expenses for your business.

I just saw a free teleclass at www.teleclass.com on QuickBooks Basics.  I’m a little rusty on QuickBooks myself, so I’m signing up. 

Here are the details if anyone is interested in joining me…

101410. QuickBooks Basics: Bookkeeping Essentials
(Other) 

Section: 1

One Tuesday, October 30, 2007, from 3-4pm Eastern/NY.  Tuition: Free

Led by
Gabrielle Fontaine

, PB

If you’re like me, you don’t always have your business checkbook or
business credit card with you when you’re buying items for the business.

So you end up using your personal checking account or personal
credit cards to buy office supplies, postage, or other business
expenses. 

Unfortunately, it’s easy to forget about these
business expenses when you’re calculating your profit/loss or preparing
your tax return, which can cost you money at tax time.

To keep track of business expenses paid from personal funds, I’ve
created a simple worksheet which I attach to a 9×13 envelope. 

As a home based business owner and a CPA, I get a lot of questions about taxes.  WAHMs and home based business owners want to know how to report their income, whether they need a tax ID number, how to make estimated tax payments, and many more questions. 

I have been answering questions on my blog and on several WAHM forums for a while now, but as the questions keep coming, I realize that home based business owners need more help than I can provide on a blog/forum.  As a result, I am now offering the following services to help other home based business owners with their financial and tax planning needs:

A few days ago I blogged about how to get your Federal tax ID number.  Today I want to talk about the resale certificate. 

If you purchase items to sell on the internet, or if you purchase materials/supplies to make items to sell on the internet, you are not required to pay sales tax on the items you purchase that are for resale or go into the final product for resale.

When you purchase items or materials, the vendor you are buying from will want to see a "resale certificate" before they will remove the sales tax from your order.

Summer time is here, and I don’t know about you, but I get distracted easily by thoughts of a bike ride, a long walk in the park, or just sitting out on the deck reading a book.  Unfortunately, my blog (and other non-essential business activities) gets less and less attention during the summer.

To help keep our blogs in shape this summer, Crystal at Happy Mommy Thougths has set up a challenge to post each day for the next 30 days. The following fellow bloggers are taking part in this 30 day blog challenge: