What’s the magnitude of our unemployment problem?

I don’t think I had a real sense of the magnitude of our current unemployment problem until I pulled out my trusty old calculator.
Out of curiosity, I searched the internet to find out how much average adult workers in the U.S. were earning. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the average adult full-time worker [...]

How much money does it take to start a business?

Many people think that starting a new business takes a great deal of money. Realistically, many do.
You can’t start a trucking business without a fleet of trucks. And you can’t build a freestanding restaurant without a lot of time and money.
I have two primary goals at ThinkSelfEmployed.com. The first is to help people start a [...]

Get rich quick

Like you, I see opportunities daily that claim to help someone make thousands of dollars a week or month in a business of their own. Many, of course, have to do with Internet businesses.
The one thing that these all have in common is that they boast tremendous financial rewards.
I clicked through to an offering this [...]

Avoid unnecessary distractions

Most people who start a new business are doing it for the first time. So they don’t have the firsthand experience of knowing what to do and what not to do during those critical first couple of months.
If you head off to the library or a bookstore or surf the Internet, for example, you’ll find [...]