If you're a US citizen living outside the country more than 330 days/year, then you meet the Foreign Income Exclusion test. Talk with your tax preparer about this. If you meet this test, you're first $100K (roughly) is income tax free, if + only if you take the money yourself. If you run the m...
You can use affiliate marketing for this. ClickBank.com has lots of spirituality related products that will be great for advertising on this kind of niche. Generate link for those products from ClickBank, add banners or in-text links for these product and bring a lot of traffic. You can earn abou...
Likely this is the wrong question, so my response is just a guess... from doing software development since 1982... Best to tool your infrastructure, so no load balancers are required. If you design your code where your most accessed data remains memory resident + moving data from persistent sto...
You could use a payment processor and also a call system such as twilio. If you want to work with the phone companies (i.e. 1900 number in the US) this is also an option but the API's are not friendly (or non-existent) and they will take a larger fee.
In my experience great advice can move across industries in several categories; cash flow management, human resources, process improvement, systems and measurement. Ask him questions relating to how he measures, rewards and retains his best staff. Ask about how he ensures proper cash flow manage...
I don't have any tools or articles off the top of my head, but I can share some tips on evaluating decisions like this. I think there are two key questions to answer when evaluating investment decisions like this. First, what is my outcome I hope to get? Secondly, are there any objective metri...
Google has placed importance on responsive design because it improves user experience and therefore more users visit the site and stay on the site longer. In turn this raises the sites ranking in Google. Your site content still needs to be good for you to rank in Google. Making a poorly ranking s...
A referral from someone that you know is always better than online reviews but unfortunately this is not always possible. Before I start engaging with any unknown business I start with a few basic online research actions. 1) Who owns their web domain. Goto https://www.whois.com/whois/ and ent...
Here's a good explanation of what AdWords is: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/adwords.html Beneficial? Yes, but only when the time is taken to understand how it works and the importance of using the right keywords and phrases in respect to the available budget. I've seen too many companies go th...
I would not trade equity for design work. Unless this person will actually become a part of your team and create enough value to warrant equity. Otherwise it is short sighted to trade equity for something you need very early on just to launch. I'm sure your design/brand will evolve over time and ...