This weeks issue of HomeBizBytes answers the question...

     What is the fastest and easiest way to make a quick buck?

Hint: I'm willing to bet $100 you won't guess this within your 
first 10 guesses!

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              July 24, 2002

     Library of Congress - ISSN #1530-8790
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- Dave's and Heidi's Ramblings
     ...Know what we did today?  You should too.
     ...Dave and I need your expertise.
     ...Have a prize you'd like to contribute? Great exposure!

- Reminders
     ...$1000 Prizes at forums
	Self-employment Tax Guide

- 2-Liners For Our Fellow Home-based Entrepreneurs

- Featured Article
     Unequivocally the Fastest and Easiest Way to Make a Quick Buck!
     ...It's not what you think.  You've gotta love this.

- Current Forum Winners
     ...Check to see if your name is on this list!

- Classifieds

- Kind Things You Have Said... Thanks!

- Contact, Submission and Subscriber Info

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_____ DAVE'S AND HEIDI'S RAMBLINGS _________

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Friends and Readers of HomeBizBytes,

--> Today is Pioneer Day here in Utah, so we took the kids down 
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You know, there's something about just getting out and taking a 
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know.  

So, we issue you this challenge today.  No matter what kinds of 
stresses or deadlines you might have, take one morning and/or 
afternoon off before next week's issue (Wednesday) and go 
outdoors - away from your home - to do something fun.  Pure fun!

Now, we're going to put the pressure on and ask you if you took 
the challenge in the next issue.  I promise, your deadlines will 
thank you.

--> A small handful of you are having troubles receiving this 
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Well, a handful of the "biggie" internet marketing experts and 
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_____ FEATURED ARTICLE _____________________


       Unequivocally the Fastest and Easiest 
             Way to Make a Quick Buck!


Now, I know what you're thinking...

This is another one of those sleazy, scam-like articles.

Hold onto your britches.  Don't blow out the peace pipe yet.  
This is nothing like that.  In fact, I'd wager you wouldn't even 
be close to this article's topic no matter how many guesses you 
made.

With that said, I really do know the easiest and fastest way to 
make a quick buck.

Really I do!  The concept is simple and practically fail-proof. 
 And, the craziest thing is that you may have already made 
money, knowingly or unknowingly, using this method.  Now, I'm 
going to share this mind-boggling method with you step-by-step 
below.

Take out your pencil and notepad.  Ready?  Here we go...

Step 1)
Go to any store (not a virtual store - must be a 
brick-and-mortar store) with a $5 bill in your wallet.

Step 2)
Buy an item between $2 and $5 dollars (make sure it will ring up 
an uneven amount).  For purposes of this article, let's say you 
purchase a sandwich for a total of $2.70.

Step 3)
Give the clerk your $5 bill.

Step 4)
Make an impulse buy of gum ($.40).  The clerk adds this to the 
sale in the register.  He/she already has your $5 bill, and your 
total is now $3.10.

Step 5)
Give the clerk another $.10.

Step 6)
Although you should receive $2.00 in change, you are almost 
guaranteed the confused clerk will give you $3.00.

See?  You just made a quick buck!  Works every time.

Now, let's get serious here.  Certainly, you must understand 
that I'm not suggesting you actually keep this money.  It's not 
yours to keep.  However, admittedly, Dave likes to play this 
little game just for his amusement.  Although tempting to keep 
the money (I mean, giving the money back would just confuse the 
poor clerk even more!), Dave returns it.

So, why in the world would I be sharing such a silly concept?

Just this...

John Taylor Gatto coined the phrase "Dumbing us Down."  Much has 
been said about how we are becoming a world of non-thinkers.  
But, let me bring this closer to you and myself.

As small business owners, we have become complacent with knowing 
there are people out there who can solve our problems.  We hire 
accountants to take care of our finances, tax specialists who 
only need our signature for filing, web designers who can give 
us ready-made websites, and marketing experts who can do 
miracles for us.

In short, when budgets are tight, we've worked ourselves right 
out of our own businesses.  We're losing the art and science of 
running our own businesses with knowledge.

Does this mean you shouldn't hire help?  Certainly not!

However, you are in charge of your own business and every aspect 
of it.  While you may hire people to help you, or you may 
outsource some of your work, or you may purchase software to 
make your life easier, you are still ultimately responsible.

What does this mean?

Simply put, it means you need to learn and understand 
accounting.  You need to learn HTML for building your web pages. 
 You need to learn marketing to build your business.  And, yes, 
you even need to learn about what business tax deductions are 
available to you as a small, home-based business owner.

You need to empower yourself!

While you may have software or professionals that can save you 
time with these things, you need to understand enough to make 
the final decisions, to catch errors, to tweak for greater 
outcome.

Some examples...

Internet marketing expert Corey Rudl has hired copywriters to 
write sales letters for him or to look over his own work.  It 
saves him time.  But, he knows how to copy write, and well at 
that.  He knows whether or not the work he receives needs 
tweaking.  Home-based online expert Terry Dean hires out some of 
his web design.  Nevertheless, he knows HTML and can change or 
add things on his websites as needed.  Most accountants don't 
understand all the tax credits to which home-based business 
owners are entitled.  You may need to educate them.  Not only 
this, but popular tax software may miss some of those credits.  
You'll need to eyeball the figures and  know what you can do to 
improve your tax base.

Are you ready to take control of your own business?  If not, 
like the poor clerk, you might just find yourself short a buck 
or two.

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HomeBusinessOnline.com and PrettyGreat.com.  Receive free 
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_____ CURRENT FORUM WINNERS ________________

The forums are growing!  We currently have 125 registered 
members 
and plenty of excellent discussion going on.

Here's a list of those who have recently won prizes in our Forum 
Contest.  All quality prizes come from Franklin Covey.  As a 
quick reminder, each time you post in the forums, your name is 
placed in a database from which a random drawing is done.  The 
more you post, the better your chances of winning.

Congratulations to the following 3 recent winners...

Theresa 
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member of forums since 21 Jun 2002

Haydn
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member of forums since 03 Jul 2002

Kim
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member of forums since 02 Feb 2002

Note to the winners:
Dave and I will be emailing you soon.  We're even going to let 
you choose from a selection of prizes...one of the perks of 
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an early winner!

Hey, there's no reason you can't win again and again.  The next 
drawing will be in several weeks, and we have dozens of prizes 
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