The concept is that you shouldn’t be afraid to do work now if it will save you a significant amount of work in the future. The work you are doing to lay down a framework or foundation is valuable and you will see that value in the future. While it is hard to see it now, rewards are coming.

So many people forget about this in business, but it’s important. All the work you are doing for your business creates value. Recognize that value and be prepared to take advantage of it and leverage it.

Basically energy auditing is about looking at a small businesses utility bills and identifying ways that they can reduce their utility bills. I can take a look at their entire business, including the physical part of the property but also their business processes in an effort to identify ways that they can reduce their utility bills by a significant amount.

Not only do companies save money on their utility bills, it’s also a way to help the environment. I’m working on coming up with a way to certify companies as energy efficient and environmentally friendly. That gives companies these energy audits an even bigger incentive to have an energy audit.

What is needed? A single domain with focused content about the the product. The content needs to be well written and the site itself should be designed in such a way as to make it easy for search engine spiders to crawl it. If it can do that, then the only thing left is getting out the word. In other words, marketing.

Too many domains with the same message just muddle things up and cause Google to discard all of them. This is why the single domain is better. Another thing is that the single domain is easier to market since there is just one site with a focused message.

Now, for small businesses, my advice for marketing is to find local bloggers and have them put up links to the site or blog about it. Traffic is the ultimate goal of any website marketing, search engine results may be great, but all that gives is traffic. As a small businessman, it’s best to focus on traffic because that is what generates income for your site.

These are just a few things to keep in mind for now….more later.

I’d love to hear more ideas on making more money from others. So if you’ve got ideas and you’d like to share them and leave your ideas here in the comments and I might do a special report on your idea.

Why? Tech businesses are all about increasing productivity and efficiency. During a period of economic prosperity a lot of inefficiencies enter the business system. These inefficiencies eventually lead to the recession as markets get distorted.

What pulls us out of a recession? A return to more efficient businesses and increased productivity. More value is created and the period of economic growth begins once again. Tech companies need to be ready for the upswing and that means they need to be taking advantage of the market right now.

Remember, Microsoft and CNN both started during recessions. Position yourself well now and be successful.

It’s a great tutorial on the process involved in silk screening shirts. The tutorial is pretty straightforward, but I do suggest watching it a couple of times to get in all of the information. There is a lot to take in, but once you do, it’s all good. I suggest trying it out on a few shirts before you think about doing it as a full time business.

Anyways, enjoy the tutorial video.

Take for example, web hosting. I have started to do hosting of my own sites myself. This means that I am responsible for everything, including maintaining the server, securing the server and doing backups. It means that I need to do backups on a regular basis in order to keep things running smoothly. It’s a lot of work, but it is something I need to do.

Another example is programming. Since I always try to come up with something new and interesting, it means that sometimes I am coming up with entirely new ways of programming. I can’t really rely on anyone else to check and see if I am doing it right. It means I spend a lot more time doing trial and error to make sure I get things right.

That’s ok. I know both of these are improving my skills and making me more self reliant, and that’s something very good.

I am sorry, I do not think the media is looking out for our best interests all the time. I do not think politicians are looking out for our best interest all the time. I look at the actions of the crowd flocking to an issue, I look at the media or politician messages and then I begin to distance myself and look at the other side. I guess that means I end up going against the grain in politics and everything else.

This is just like this bailout plan. It’s all about the politicians and business leaders making money. There needs to be something for the individual small businessman. There needs to be a real plan to bring about honest and substantive change in the economy. Not just crowd mentality.

My idea is videos for businesses. With the particular growth in video that is occurring there is an opportunity for companies to promote themselves via videos. In fact businesses have always had the opportunity to use videos, but previously, they have always had to pay for market access. With plenty of places for videos to get airplay, now you can make a video and be able to get it shown widely.

I know you might be saying so what, many businesses are already taking advantage of it. That’s true, but local businesses aren’t and that is where the true benefit of this idea comes in. I will leave it to you to develop it more.

I have been doing a lot of research on different supplies for us to get and how to set it up here in the house. I’d appreciate any comments from anyone with information on marketing the finished soap and candles.