What Is A Trade or Business?
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What is a business owner?
A business owner is someone who owns a business that offers a product or service that benefits its customers. Business owners typically have a thorough understanding of their industry and know who they should market their products to from the time they start running their business. A business owner who runs a company or organization can step into their role after a business is already in operation, or they might start a business of their own with support from other professionals.
Another key detail about business owners is that they profit from the success of their business, which they often use as their only source of income. This means that their primary responsibility is running the business and that they can completely support themselves through overseeing the business they own.
What is an entrepreneur?
An entrepreneur is someone who starts a business based on an original idea for a product or service. Many entrepreneurs begin establishing their companies on their own and are responsible for seeking out support like funding from investors or vendors for materials. Entrepreneurs can take risks with their business, as most entrepreneurs start with a small network and limited resources. Many entrepreneurs support themselves with other sources of income while they're starting their business, as new companies need time to build a customer base and turn a profit.
Most entrepreneurial businesses focus on innovation, which means they try to create a product or service that is not yet present in their market. This can also contribute to the time it takes their company to be profitable, as they need to advertise their product or service heavily to introduce it to potential customers.
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ReplyDeleteRestoration is a recurring theme in scripture as those who strayed from the teachings and love of God. Further occurrences of repairing what had decayed included personal relationships, fortunes, and health.
Biblical Examples: Job 42:10
10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
Joel 2:25-26
25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm — my great army that I sent among you.
Oxford Dictionary
1) Repay: Pay back (a loan, debt, or sum of money).
2) Restitution the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.
3) Recompense: make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate.
4) Restoration: the action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition.
5) Wisdom: The soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment.
6) Knowledge: Facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
7) Study: The devotion of time and attention to acquiring knowledge on an academic subject, especially by means of books.
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What's An Affiliate Program
ReplyDelete"An affiliate program is an agreement in which a business pays another business or influencer ('the affiliate') a commission for sending traffic and/or sales their way. This can be achieved through web content, social media, or a product integration."
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"Best Affiliate Marketing Networks"
ReplyDelete1)"Amazon Associates
2) eBay Partner Network
3) Rakuten Advertising
4) PartnerStack
5) CJ Affiliate
6) ShareASale
7) FlexOffers"
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Self-employed
ReplyDeleteSelf-employed people are those who work for profit or fees in their own business, profession, trade, or farm. This includes those who intended to earn a profit but whose business produced no profit or a loss. Therefore, self-employed people with zero or negative income from their business, profession, or farm are still classified as employed if they worked at least one hour in that enterprise during the survey reference week.
Self-employed people may be classified as employed before their business is in operation if they spent at least one hour during the survey reference week in activities setting up a new business such as:
searched for a place of business
dealt with prospective suppliers, contractors, or advertisers
ordered equipment or inventory
searched for or met potential clients
interviewed future employees
People with ownership in a business or farm solely for investment purposes, with no participation in its management or operation, are not considered employed in the Current Population Survey (CPS) based on this ownership stake, and therefore are not included in the self-employed estimates.
Unless otherwise specified, CPS estimates of the self-employed published by BLS reflect only people whose businesses are unincorporated. In most CPS estimates, the incorporated self-employed are classified as wage and salary workers. This is because, technically, the incorporated self-employed are paid employees of their corporation.
https://www.bls.gov/cps/definitions.htm#selfemployed
Bartering and trading? Each transaction is taxable to both parties
ReplyDeleteSometimes, when the right opportunity presents itself, you may be able to pay for goods and services that you need or want by trading goods that you own, or providing a service that you can perform in return.
An example of this is if you own a lawn maintenance company and receive legal services from an attorney and pay for those services by providing an agreed upon amount of mowing and maintenance services at the attorney’s home or place of business.
In this scenario, the fair market value of the legal services provided is taxable to you as the lawn maintenance company owner. At the same time, the fair market value of the lawn and maintenance services you provide is taxable to the attorney or his firm.
This type of transaction — bartering or trading — can prove to be useful when cash-flow problems would otherwise prevent you from securing needed goods or services. And, while
there is no exchange of cash or credit, the fair market value of the goods or services that were exchanged is taxable to both parties and must be claimed as other income on an individual or business income tax return.
Remember, just like payments made with money, if a business makes payments of bartered services to another business (except a corporation) of $600 or more in the course of the year, these payments are to be reported on Form 1099-MISC.
Occupations for gig employment
ReplyDeleteGigs are more likely in some occupations than in others. Work that involves a single task, such as writing a business plan, lends itself well to this type of arrangement. Any occupation in which workers may be hired for on-demand jobs has the potential for gig employment.
The BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) covers about 83 percent of the jobs in the U.S. economy. Its 329 detailed profiles of occupations are sorted by group. This section highlights some of those groups in which gig work may be increasingly relevant, giving examples of occupations in each.
Arts and design. Many occupations in this group, including musicians, graphic designers, and craft and fine artists, offer specific one-time services or customized products, which makes them good candidates for gig work.
Computer and information technology. Web developers, software developers, and computer programmers are among the occupations in this group in which workers might be hired to complete a single job, such as to create a small-business website or a new type of software.
What Craft and Fine Artists Do
Craft and fine artists use a variety of materials and techniques to create original works of art for sale and exhibition. Craft artists create objects, such as pottery, glassware, and textiles, that are designed to be functional. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators, create pieces of art more for aesthetics than for function.
Duties
Artists create objects that are beautiful, thought provoking, and sometimes shocking. They often strive to communicate ideas or feelings through their art.
Fine artists typically display their work in museums, in commercial or nonprofit art galleries, at craft fairs, in corporate collections, on the Internet, and in private homes. Some of their artwork may be commissioned (requested by a client), but most is sold by the artist or through private art galleries or dealers. The artist, gallery, and dealer together decide in advance how much of the proceeds from the sale each will keep.
Most craft and fine artists spend their time and effort selling their artwork to potential customers and building a reputation. In addition to selling their artwork, many artists have at least one other job to support their craft or art careers.
Some artists work in museums or art galleries as art directors or as archivists, curators, or museum workers, planning and setting up exhibits. Others teach craft or art classes or conduct workshops in schools or in their own studios.
Craft and fine artists specialize in one or more types of art. The following are examples of types of craft and fine artists:
Cartoonists create simplified or exaggerated drawings to visually convey political, advertising, comic, or sports concepts. Some cartoonists work with others who create the idea or story and write captions. Others create plots and write captions themselves. Most cartoonists have humorous, critical, or dramatic talent, in addition to drawing skills.
Digital artists use design and production software to create interactive art online. The digital imagery may then be transferred to paper or some other form of printmaking or made available directly on web-accessible devices.
Video artists record avant-garde, moving imagery that is typically shown in a loop in art galleries, museums, or performance spaces. These artists sometimes use multiple monitors or create unusual spaces for the video to be shown.
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https://www.bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/craft-and-fine-artists.htm
Labour Force
ReplyDeleteThe labour force, or currently active population, comprises all persons who fulfil the requirements for inclusion among the employed (civilian employment plus the armed forces) or the unemployed. The employed are defined as those who work for (pay or profit) for at least one hour a week, or who have a job but are temporarily not at work due to illness, leave or industrial action.
The Unemployed
The unemployed are defined as people without work but actively seeking employment and currently available to start work. This indicator is seasonally adjusted and it is measured in persons.
Source: OECD.org
Self-employment Rate
ReplyDeleteSelf-employment is defined as the employment of employers, workers who work for themselves, members of producers' co-operatives, and unpaid family workers. The latter are unpaid in the sense that they lack a formal contract to receive a fixed amount of income at regular intervals, but they share in the income generated by the enterprise. Unpaid family workers are particularly important in farming and retail trade. All persons who work in corporate enterprises, including company directors, are considered to be employees.
Who Are Employees?
ReplyDeleteGenerally, employees are defined either under common law or under statutes for certain situations.
Employee status under common law. Generally, a worker who performs services for you is your employee if you have the right to control what will be done and how it will be done. This is so even when you give the employee freedom of action. What matters is that you have the right to control the details of how the services are performed.
See Pub. 15-A for more information on how to determine whether an individual providing services is an independent contractor or an employee.
See Pub. 15-A for details on statutory employees and nonemployees
Source: IRS.gov
Sole Proprietor Business With No Employees
ReplyDeleteA sole proprietor without employees and who doesn't file any excise or pension plan tax returns doesn't need an EIN (but can get one). In this instance, the sole proprietor uses his or her social security number (instead of an EIN) as the taxpayer identification number.
* However, at any time the sole proprietor hires an employee or needs to file an excise or pension plan tax return, the sole proprietor will need an EIN for the business and can't use his or her social security number.
* If you have an existing EIN as a sole proprietor and become a sole owner of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) that has employees or needs to file an excise or pension plan tax return, you need to get a separate EIN for the LLC to file employment taxes.
Source: IRS.gov
Bartering For Property Or Services
ReplyDeleteBartering is an exchange of property or services. You must include in your gross receipts, at the time received, the fair market value of property or services you receive in exchange for something else. If you exchange services with another person and you both have agreed ahead of time on the value of the services, that value will be accepted as the fair market value unless the value can be shown to be otherwise.
Example 1. You are a self-employed lawyer. You perform legal services for a client, a small corporation. In payment for your services, you receive shares of stock in the corporation. You must include the fair market value of the shares in income.
Example 2. You are an artist and create a work of art to compensate your landlord for the rent-free use of your apartment. You must include the fair rental value of the apartment in your gross receipts. Your landlord must include the fair market value of the work of art in their rental income.
Source: IRS.gov
Bartering For Property Or Services
ReplyDeleteHotels, boarding houses, and apartments. Rental income you receive for the use or occupancy of hotels, boarding houses, or apartment houses is subject to SE tax if you provide services for the occupants.
Generally, you are considered to provide services for the occupants if the services are primarily for their convenience and are not services normally provided with the rental of rooms for occupancy only. An example of a service that is not normally provided for the convenience of the occupants is maid service. However, providing heat and light, cleaning stairways and lobbies, and collecting trash are services normally provided for the occupants' convenience.
Source: IRS.gov
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Performing Arts
ReplyDeleteThe performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
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3.1 Performance/production disciplines
Acting.
Dancing.
Musician (vocal or instrumental)
Musical theatre.
Variety performance, including stand-up, magician, puppetry.
Pantomime and commedia dell'arte.
Physical theatre.
Circus skills.
Source: Wikipedia & ONET Online
Street Performer
ReplyDeleteThe performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
25-1121.00
3.1 Performance/production disciplines
Acting.
Dancing.
Musician (vocal or instrumental)
Musical theatre.
Variety performance, including stand-up, magician, puppetry.
Pantomime and commedia dell'arte.
Physical theatre.
Circus skills.
Street Performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. In many countries, the rewards are generally in the form of 1) Money but other (gratuities) such as 2) Food, 3) Drink or 4) Gifts may be given. Street performance is practiced all over the world and dates back to antiquity.
Source: Wikipedia & ONET Online
Transfer; Discontinuing a Service
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In the event that we discontinue a Service, you agree that The Motley Fool may transfer your subscription to another Service of equal or greater value.
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Credits and Credit Transfer Information
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Affiliate Marketing Programs
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Affiliates Motley Fool
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Windows System Administrator
ReplyDeleteNetwork and computer systems administrators install, configure, and maintain organizations’ computer networks and systems.
Security and Compliance:
- Implement and enforce IT security policies, procedures, and access controls.
- Conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments.
- Ensure compliance with relevant data protection regulations and industry standards.
Various Titles: Systems Administrator, Network and Computer Systems Administrators, Computer User Support Specialists, Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
Source: Indeed & ONet
IT Systems Administrator
ReplyDeleteBachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
Key Responsibilities: Systems Maintenance and Monitoring, Network Management, User Support, Security and Compliance, Documentation and Reporting, Infrastructure Planning and Scalability
Source: Indeed
Work, Rest & The Sabbath Day
ReplyDeleteAnd on the seventh day God ended (His work) which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His (work) which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it (He rested from all His work) which God had created and made.
Jesus & The New Covenant
* “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his” (Hebrews 4:9–10 NIV; see also Matthew 11:28).
Rest Definition: Oxford Languages
1) cease work or movement in order to relax, refresh oneself, or recover strength.
2) an instance or period of relaxing or ceasing to engage in strenuous or stressful activity.
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