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www.workingsolo.com
www.workingsolo.com/resources/resources.html

Working Solo is a good site for the home or small business worker. The best stuff on this site is at the second URL above.

www.ahbbo.com
www.ahbbo.com/articles.html

When they say “A Home-Based Business Online,” they don’t mean “An Online Home-Based Business,” or “A Home-Based Online Business”; they mean, “Hey, we’ve got a lot of information on businesses you can run from your home, and we’ve put it all online for you.”

This is a great site, with lots of information for you if you want to get information about a home-based business. There are more than a hundred articles at the second URL.

www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/business-llcs-corporations

Nolo Press publishes a lot of do-it-yourself law books; this is the part of its website that offers legal resources for the small business person. Really good.

www.entrepreneurmag.com

Entrepreneur
magazine’s website. It has lists of home-based businesses, startup ideas, how to raise money, shoestring startups, small business myths, a franchise and business opportunity site-seeing guide, and a lot more. As I write, you are allowed access to the magazine’s archives, with full text of many articles, stretching back to January of 1999. (This complete, no-fee archive access is unusual for most magazines.) Many resources and articles for the self-employed, home businesses, franchises…cool stuff.

www.wwwebtax.com/miscellaneous/self_employment_tax.htm

Wow. One of the banes of being self-employed is dealing with taxes; this site has more than 1,300 pages to help you handle all of that. Articles, resources, links, downloadable tax forms (going back ten years!) in PDF files…of course, the site is selling something (e-filing tax returns), but it has a lot of free information about what self-employed people have to do vis-à-vis taxes, in the United States at least.

www.aarp.org

In past editions of this book, I have listed AARP’s small business center…which is no longer there. But I didn’t want to just yank this well-known organization’s website out of these listings, because there is still
lots
of stuff for the small businessperson—it just isn’t in one single place that I can direct you to. Best bet is to do a site search on whatever you want to know (“small business resources” works well; try others), because there are hundreds of articles and useful links on this site; they just aren’t particularly well organized at the time I write this.

www.jobsandmoms.com/work_at_home

Another article on a popular women’s site.

www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/invest/inv14.shtm

Not everyone using the Internet is as nice as you; there are people in the world who will try to take advantage of your trusting nature. Here is an article to help you protect yourself.

www.scambusters.org/work-at-home.html

A good article from
Scambusters.org
.

For the most part, I don’t advocate people applying for temp jobs through the Internet; you will likely have better luck by going, in person, to a local agency such as Kelly, Manpower, and so on. To find your local agencies, use JobSeek (see below), or go to MapQuest (
www.mapquest.com
) and type “temp agency” under Business Category.

Here are some sites and articles related to temporary, part-time, and contract work: