Guest guest Posted June 25, 2006 Report Share Posted June 25, 2006 Denise, Can't offer much advice here, but I would go ahead and get the domain name while you can. It is relatively cheap. I did mine through a couple of years ago and remember the cost being either insignificant or perhaps part of the monthly fee for them to host my website. also has some tools for building your own website. -Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 26, 2006 Report Share Posted June 26, 2006 Thanks Mike! Anybody else use and happy/unhappy with them? Denise rawfood , Mike Elliot <mmelliot wrote: > > Denise, > > Can't offer much advice here, but I would go ahead and get the domain > name while you can. It is relatively cheap. I did mine through a > couple of years ago and remember the cost being either insignificant or > perhaps part of the monthly fee for them to host my website. also > has some tools for building your own website. > > -Mike > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 26, 2006 Report Share Posted June 26, 2006 rawfood , " denisedthomas " <denised> wrote: > > Thanks Mike! > Anybody else use and happy/unhappy with them? > Denise ~ I have used godaddy.com and I really like them. They have website templates available, so you don't have to know html to write your site. Plus you can call then 24/7 to get help with anything. They are based out of Arizona and every rep I have ever spoken with speaks english clearly, so communication is a breeze. Good Luck! lala Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 Hello all: I know I am responding late, and I considered responding privately, but this is the kind of topic that might be of interest to many,either now, or at some other time, either about raw food, or about something else, and I do have some information about it. bear with me, read, or delete. denise wrote: > I have slowly over the past year created a cottage business <snip> > I've been helping out by doing some Raw Food Coaching (no formal > training, just my 2 years experience of being raw myself), a Raw > Food Lecture, a couple of Raw Food Demos, making Raw Foods to sell > (meals, desserts, snacks) and catering one lunch so far. Gee.. that doesn't sound like no experience to me! If you want " formal training " , look up a distance course in " nutrition " or something that follows your philosophy, and get a certificate. Otherwise, don't mention it. I mean, if you prepare something you found in a cookbook in your kitchen and it works, and you are going to use it or something like it, isn't that pretty much like formal food-prep training? (oh! heresy!) Raw food is (forgive me!) a business in which most of the people who are involved at that top are self-trained to a greater or lesser degree, simply because it has exploded fairly recently, and there just haven't been so many places to learn how to do it before. > It feels like this is getting big enough for me that I'd better make > this an official legal tax paying business and not stay a " cottage > business " that it is now, but there is a possibility that we may > move to another state in just a couple of months, so I don't really > want to do all the paper work here in my current state & then have > to turn around and do it all over again when and if we move. Filing for a tax-exempt certificate/resale certificate (or whatever they call it in your state) is not that big of a deal. You can file under your own name. In New York City, it costs under $50 (I can't remember, at this moment, exactly how much -- I think it was in the arena of $25-$30. You can do it in one visit (my parents did it in North Carolina and said it was easy) The advantage of doing it now, even if you are going to move in 6 months, is that anything that you purchase that you will use in your business will be tax-deductible (people stretch that definition all over the place -- I am going to teach a class, so I need this new dress) If you buy a juicer in a store, you can avoid sales tax, and you can take it off your taxes, and you can depreciate it as a business expense. If you buy a dehydrator, same goes. if you buy paper, a computer, a printer, a pencil, or whatever, ostensibly to use in your business, you can avoid sales tax. If your state is one that charges tax on food, you can avoid that. If you are using equipment that you already have, you can depreciate it on your tax returns. Ultimately, you can save quite a bit of money. filing for a resale certificate is a kind of un-official announcement that you are in business, as well. as far as " officially incorporating " , that can wait... that is expensive, anyway, and many people wait for death faster than they wait to incorporate -- you can always be a sole proprietor, which just really only requires the resale certificate. go do the resale certificate now. If you move, no biggie - you do it again -- meanwhile, it is just easier to do your filing for the state you are earning money in. You may even be able to use the resale certificate for a while in the new state (I see people in New York City with out-of-state resale certificates all the time) If you buy anything on-line, you qualify for any wholesale prices if you have a resale certificate. You will make back the money you spent in savings quickly. You will have to file tax returns every quarter, but you can file a loss, if that is the reality. > Also, I have a name for my business and would like to trademark it > and get a domain name, but from my reserch it seems a bit expensive > ($200+ for trademarking and $? for a domain name) > How important is it to trademark and get a domain name? trademarking can wait, unless you are really worried that someone else might steal your beautiful name. If you register your business with your state at some point, they will have you do a name search and you won't be able to use your name if someone else already has it, but that can wait. Yes, it is not cheap to trademark. Most people don't do it, unless they see megabucks in the offing. You probably don't need to. It is not so hard to get a domain name and a place to park it. One place that is advertising recently is www.godaddy.com there, you can get a domain name and hosting (you need that) for a certain fee -- probably around $100 or so a year-- and then you just have to keep renewing the domain name -- figure that out later-- and either stay with the host, or migrate to another one you like better, keeping the same domain name. If you have a domain name, you can create a website that people can visit, and that will drive more business to you. get the domain name and build the website yesterday! (how do you think most of the people who are famous in raw food got that way? I mean, Roger in New Jersey would probably still be Roger in New Jersey if we did not have the Internet and if he did not have a fabulous website that you could visit where you could read what he thinks and buy what he sells. Susie in Alabama would not know about Roger in New Jersey or Rhio in New York, and her ideas, or any of the interesting people out there all around the world, if these folks did not have websites that she could visit, where she could read about their ideas, or buy what they sell. I would suggest getting a resale certificate, a domain name and a hosting site, and getting paypal (free), building a website yesterday, and then working online and locally until things develop. If you move, you will not need to change your domain name, but only go into the code on the website and change the address. You will still be able to do business there. (some people only do business on-line) I hope this helps Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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