If you are local enough to take advantage of this and fit into one of the following categories, you could be part of my personal scavenger hunt! I have some areas of my portfolio that I would like to expand and I'm willing to give some pretty great deals to those who participate.

If you:

• are a teenage boy
  
• are a teenage girl
  
• have a baby
  
• are pregnant
  
• have a dog
  
• are part of a couple
  
• are a senior citizen

you could get:

• 80% off your session fee
  
• 2 units free of every shot chosen for the portfolio
  
• 50% off all additional prints

You should get ahold of me!

Tags: business talk

I've had a couple tabs taken from flyers Steve put up at Dow. I haven't heard from anyone yet but I'm glad someone's seeing them!

I also had an answer to one of my craigslist ads. This is good. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere. She is looking for someone who will sell all the images taken on a CD so she can print or get them printed herself. I have good reasons for not doing this. I spent a lot of time, money and effort finding the best place to print that I could find. My quality standards are high and for my work I do not want to settle for less. I hope people will understand this. It's a deal breaker for me.

I'm not discouraged though. The word is getting out. I'm becoming more visible. I'll keep working on it and hopefully things will take off soon.

I'm working on getting a better site up and running. I may have someone to design it for me but she has a couple other things she's working on right now. She will be worth the wait. But for now, I may just get something up in the meantime. So it's more functional and so there is more information available for people who are looking. I may tweak my crushedglass template a bit and use that. I might as well. I spend all that time making it.

Tags: business talk

I made my first official sale yesterday! Sasha was able to pick up her print order earlier than expected. Exciting! And needed. It will go to good use.

Running late again. I need to eat my breakfast, then finish getting ready for work.

Biscuit is next to me purring. He's cute. He looks like he's watching me type.

Tags: business talk
Current Location: Saginaw, 48603

The contract part is giving me trouble. There is one part that I need to have say a certain thing but I don't know how to say it in the way it needs to be said. I suppose it woudl be good to know that the rest of it is right too, but for the most part it's just the one thing. I don't know how to get this done in a way I can afford though. Blah.

Tags: business talk

Yesterday I worked on picking out images for my portfolio to be. It seems that I take more pictures of Mikale than anything or anyone else. I probably should try to get some things to round it out. Maybe start sorting through some of the things I've taken in the last year and a half but haven't processed.

Barb was supposed to be calling me this morning to come look at the washer. I haven't heard from her so far though. I need to take a shower. Going back to the Renaissance festival today.

Tags: business talk

"We have received your Michigan Business tax e-Registration application, which is being reviewed. Once our review is complete, we will either contact you for additional information or complete the processing. When review of your application is complete and if you registered for sales tax, you will receive your sales tax license within 7 days. Your tax booklet with filing instructions, returns and an additional copy of your sales tax license will be mailed separately, usually within 4-6 weeks. If you do not receive this information within this period, please contact our Registration Division..."

Wee! Moving forward.

Also, I love my credit union. I went there earlier and it was pretty simple. She just made a copy of my dba paper and set it up so that under my regular personal account, I can cash checks made out to my business name. I also had her put in another savings account that I will use strictly for business money. Easy! More Wee!

Tags: business talk

So I'm a business!

I did lots of research and figuring out of what I needed to get done.

Yesterday I registered my dba.

Today I applied for my sales tax license, acquired a Federal Employer Identification Number, found out the when/how/how often of paying sales tax. Up to $750 in tax goes annually (like $12,500 in sales I think) and above that would be quarterly. I'll get my copy of the license in the mail in a week or so and also a book with all the information on how I send it in and the form I'll need. I'll have to pay by Feb. 28 I think. I'll need to charge tax on the sale of prints but not the creation fee.

Filling out the application for the sales tax license was challenging. In the middle of that was when I needed to acquire the EIN and on the irs site when I finished all that the number I got was 8 digits. Well an EIN *has* to be 9 digits. So I had to call the IRS and hope that my info wasn't lost in the void until I got something official. I was in luck and the lady helped me find my missing digit. A zero on the end that I swear was not there when the site showed me the number. Then there were a couple parts that if i filled them out the way the site said to, would take me to parts that didn't apply to me and that I couldn't fill out. So I had to call for help on that and the lady told me to just answer the other way (even though the site said something different). But in the end I got it all worked out.

Now I'm going to go over to my credit union and see about setting up an account so I can accept checks in the business name. So I don't look all shady or anything making people sign checks to me personally.

Also, unrelated to the business junk at all, Biscuit was in the bedroom with me while I was on the phone and he was ferociously attacking steve's ear plugs. They were good prey. He batted them, carried them in his mouth, batted them some more. It was very amusing.

Tags: business talk, critter tales