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Posts Tagged ‘LLC’
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Forgive me for the geeky summer-themed title for this post. However, the sentiment of the title is true. My website company, Usable Web Solutions, LLC, is heating up with business this summer.
Some of my clients are rebuilds of existing websites, others are just looking for hosting packages, and some are looking for the total deal. That’s fine with me. I’ve been sure to give myself off a bunch of time in July and some more time in August so I can complete some of these projects. Since I started this company a few years ago the summer has always been when things start to heat up. Ha! Had to use it again.
When these projects are complete, I will be sure to add links to them on this blog so you can see the fruits of my labor.
The other big Usable Web Solutions, LLC project that I have for myself this fiscal year is to tighten up my existing contracts and make sure that, where applicable, I have subcontractor agreements in place. I’ve done a good job of marking how much time I spend on each of my clients’ sites (as well as my own) and that should come in very helpful when I do my taxes again next year.
Other than a few other administrative odds and ends that I have to attend to (such as preparing an online payment portal for my clients), the website company is coming along just as I had hoped for at this point in time! Some people often ask me why I don’t spend more time working on the website company and the truth is that I really don’t want to make the company too big. I have a small niche that I want to fill and I’m filling that niche very well.
And any time you can convert a hobby (creating websites) into a way of spending time that creates a positive cash flow, I think you’ve done something right!
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
One of the most important parts of any home or professional office setup is the chair that sit in while doing your work. As most of you know, I operate my small website company – Usable Web Solutions, LLC – out of my home and thus I have a mini home office in my bedroom. With my mini home office, I need to have a pretty good chair since I spend a lot of time reviewing my websites and client information database.
I’ve had the greatest cloth covered chair for the last seven or eight years. The pump on it broke about two years ago, though, so every time I sit on it I just sort of sink down to the bottom. It’s really bad for your posture and it makes sitting at my desk a real pain in the back (literally).
On Saturday I went into Office Depot to find a new chair since they have dozens of nice looking chairs out on display at all times. They had a little section of “floor models for sale” which I found intriguing because I had never seen this area before. I saw a nice pleather (plastic + leather = pleather) chair with a high back which was originally $99, but was on sale for $79 since it was a floor model. Immediately I knew I was going to buy this chair, but I thought it would be good to take a look around at some other models.
Over in the regular chair area I saw a pleather chair that looked strikingly similar to the one I wanted to buy. After doing a few quick takes between the two chairs I was convinced that the only difference between the two were the prices. The floor model for sale was $79 and the new one that I was looking at sold for $149. With that, I asked one of the employees why the floor model was for sale and he said that the previous owner bought it a few days ago, but it turns out that his daughter was allergic to the pleather used so they bought it back a few hours before I saw it. I told him to ring it up.
He rang up the price tag on the floor model ($79) and as he was typing it in he mentioned that this was a good price because the original was $99. But when he typed in the model number, the machine told him that the original was $149. You know what that means? They marked the tag on the returned floor model wrong! It should have been $99 marked down to $79 – it should have been $149 marked down to $129! So…I purchased a $149 chair for $79. How awesome is that? Plus I bought a plastic floor mat to protect my rug in my bedroom and the floor mat came with a one year warranty for the chair.
I win, Office Depot loses. However, I’ll be back at Office Depot – they’ve done me well!
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Hey everyone. Just looking for some advice with this post. Most of you know that I own JerseySmarts.com in addition to a number of other websites. The original purpose of purchasing JerseySmarts.com was to eventually make THAT site my main blog and have this URL simply forward to the new domain name. As we can plainly see, that has not happened.
In order to streamline my daily website updates and create (hopefully) a higher visibility site, I’ve been thinking about finally making this merge. Both sites get about the same amount of hits (given the story, time of posting, relevance of my meanderings, etc), though Joe’s Journal currently sits at 1,106 posts while JerseySmarts.com sits at 368 posts. Joe’s Journal also has some 1,011 comments while JerseySmarts.com has 111. None of this information would be lost during the merger and it is likely that both designs would be thrown away for a new, more up-to-date design.
Thoughts?
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
By now I’m sure that you’ve all noticed the slightly augmented design for Joe’s Journal. The header is a little bit bigger (and my mug is a bit bigger in the picture above). I have a few more pictures that I want to wedge into the graphic above, but what you see is pretty much what it’s going to look like in the end.
I also darkened the background of the site because I didn’t really care for the bright off-white color any more. It’s boring, you know?
Plus, you’ll notice the stagnant “JerseySmarts.com” 468×80 banner has been moved from right above the first blog entry to the bottom of the main page. That site (which is essentially this blog in a different format) is ranked higher than this blog by some rankings! What total BS! I think that Joe’s Journal is hurt by not having a specific “.com” name, but since joesjournal.com appears to be owned by a marketing company, I think purchasing that domain is out of the question. Anyway, the Google ad above is an adequate replacement and what’s better – it pays!
For those of you who are tech-heads out there, Joe’s Journal is still operated on the WordPress 2.3.3 database system. JerseySmarts.com is operating on the new 2.5.1 system and the internal Control Panel is a complete disaster. The engineers at WordPress ruined the posting page so that you have to scroll all the way to the bottom to find certain options. Garbage. I have no intention of changing the Joe’s Journal internal structure until WordPress fixes the debacle that is 2.5.1.
The only other change that I made was to make one of the stock text advertisements at the very bottom of this page a little bit smaller. Truthfully, it looks better with smaller text. I might set it off in it’s own box, too.
I hope you enjoy. 
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
You may have noticed a new site or two on the “Check Out These Sites” listing on the sidebar. One of them is GetRichSlowly.org – a great blog site about attacking debt and learning to build wealth in small steps. The gist of the blog is that you can’t really get rich quick in an overnight scheme, even though the late night infomercials are packed with such ideas. The main writer on this blog, J.D. Roth, explains a variety of ways that you can begin to look at money in a different way. One post I found spoke about making money from your hobbies.
I thought that this post would be most beneficial to share with everyone as this is essentially what I’ve done with Usable Web Solutions, LLC. I created Usable Web Solutions, LLC for a bunch of reasons – one of which was to generate some extra income. Now, with the company at about two and a half years old, I have an additional yet modest stream of income coming my way each quarter. Is it enough for me to break out of the rat race? Not a chance. Is it enough to provide me with some comfort in a bad economy and with a variety of worst case scenarios possible at any time? Yes.
In any event, I just thought that you all would like to read about what other people have done to transform their hobbies into profitable businesses. After reading Roth’s post I thought up an idea for a new company…one that focuses on writing! I might put that one on the sidelines, though, as I’ve been thinking more and more about writing a book lately. So, we’ll see what happens!
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Over the course of the last month, I’m pleased to announce that Usable Web Solutions, LLC has been fortunate enough to work with some great new clients to create websites for their organizations. In addition, we completed a project for one of our existing clients that relied on third-party group to get their act together before we could complete our design.
Please feel free to check out our friends and their website at GreaterEmanuelTemple.org. We also had the opportunity to redesign and upgrade the Jersey Shore Alumni Club of Sigma Pi Fraternity’s website.
There is already a new batch of clients waiting for redesigns, new designs, and hosting packages from Usable Web Solutions, LLC. These sites include NeptuneMAP.org, BAMillwork.com, AdministrativeSolutionsLLC.net, and ZuricaLaw.com.
Oh, and if you get a chance, be sure to check out the newly redesigned UsableWebSolutions.com! And remember, if you need a usable website for your business needs, contact Usable Web Solutions, LLC first!
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