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Sometimes… you are just surfing the internet… and you come across something so cool… you just want to share it… right now. Well, that's how I felt when I read this article about a crafter that started her business without even knowing that was what she was doing.

Funny huh? She was frustrated by the lack of cute hats for babies that would actually shade their precious little heads.

I bought hats for my kids when they were little… that I am not allowed to share photos of… ever. Just not cute, but they got the job done.

Will fashion conscious mom's forgo their babies safety because baby hats don't make a fashion statement?  

Apperantly their is a need for cute baby hats and The Little Hat Company was born! 

To see the little hat company website 

To read the original article about:  The Little Hat Crafter That Could

How to Use IRS Forms For Small Business to Shelter Thousands of Dollars of Home Business Profits
from Self-Employment and Federal Taxes

Barbara Brabec’s eBook, Secrets to Maximizing Schedule C Deductions: Proven Strategies for Cutting SE Taxes to the Bone, offers a crash course in how to save a bundle on taxes and become a more educated and savvy taxpayer.

"If you operate a business from home and file a Schedule C form, there are many things you can do right now to lower the amount of self-employment, federal and state taxes you will have to pay on this year’s business profits," says Home Business Maven™ Barbara Brabec, author of Homemade Money and seven other books for home-business owners. Her eBook, Secrets to Maximizing Schedule C Deductions, includes the proven strategies she has used for more than thirty-five years to cut her self-employment taxes to the bone.

Brabec, who has been self-employed for most of her adult life, has been helping home-business owners to greater financial success since the early 70s. "It’s not how much you earn in your business, but how much you can keep . . . away from the IRS," she emphasizes. "Your goal should be to get as many deductions as possible listed on your Schedule C form to keep your self-employment taxes as low as possible. This will also lower the amount of federal and state taxes you will have to pay."

The topic of taxes is considered boring to many, but saving money isn’t a boring topic, and this book isn’t boring, either. "It’s humorous, entertaining and chock full of tax tips and information to help you improve your bottom line," says Bill Ronay, Events2000.com.  It’s also a crash course in how to save a bundle on self-employment taxes and become a more educated and savvy taxpayer.

"Accountants rarely (if ever) remind business owners about deductions they might be overlooking, or tax strategies they might implement," says Brabec. They just work with the figures they are given. That’s why it’s so important for business owners to make sure they haven’t overlooked any deductions, and that they understand how different tax strategies can lower their taxes overall."

Included in Secrets to Maximizing Schedule C Deductions is a checklist of 65 Schedule C deductions (with discussions on most of them), plus detailed information on eleven categories of indirect and direct expenses related to the Home Office Deduction (one so many business owners are reluctant to take for fear of an IRS audit). But this is not what's likely to trigger an audit, says Brabec.

Emphasis is also given to the tax benefits of hiring a spouse or child to help with the business, as well as to the tax dangers of hiring independent contractors (especially to craft businesses who may be using homeworkers to produce goods for sale). More tax-safe options for hiring outside help are suggested in the book.

Tucked here and there throughout this helpful eBook are two dozen special tips on such things as why you should think twice before making your spouse a partner in your business instead of an employee; why married women who use a different name for their business may be losing Social Security credits by filing a joint return with their husband; and why selecting the wrong auto expense method in the beginning can be a costly mistake.

Closing the book is a Resource Chapter that includes 75 links to tax-related web sites and articles, each offering additional information on specific tax deductions or strategies discussed in the book.

Secrets to Maximizing Schedule C Deductions is a 62-page PDF eBook ($27) for U.S. taxpayers who file a Schedule C form. Add this information-packed eBook (tax deductible, of course) to your eBook library today to be alerted to tax deductions you haven’t been taking in the past, learn how to avoid costly IRS tax pitfalls, and perhaps save hundreds or thousands of dollars in taxes not only this year, but every year in the future. Click here to order or get additional information. (You can sample the book without charge prior to ordering.) IRS Forms For Small Business

The dream of owning your own craft business… working from home… selling your crafts to a ravenous market… pocketing big profits… IS IT A Dream? How can you start selling crafts to make money? It's possible… but it takes 2 things. 

• Unique products
• Marketing expertise

That's it? Just these two things? Yes… but these two points are huge and very important. 

Unique products… must be of high quality.. and something with a unique twist that no other crafter is using.

Marketing expertise… well that includes so many pieces of a huge marketing pie.

    You must have good display.

    You must be able to present yourself, your product and your business in a professional manner.

    You must be able to figure out how to reach a huge market… stop waiting for them to find you.

Homemade Money: Bringing in the Bucks: A Business Management and Marketing Bible for Home-Business Owners, Self-Employed Individuals, and Web Entrepreneurs Working from Home Base

If you're serious about making money selling crafts, you must have an education in business and marketing.

Your product may be the most wonderful, unique craft that anyone has ever had the pleasure to view.

But if it's not selling… you aren't marketing yourself or your craft product properly. 

Selling is an art. So to sell your craft - art… you need to also know the art of selling. 

Make It Profitable!: How to Make Your Art, Craft, Design, Writing or Publishing Business More Efficient, More Satisfying, and MORE PROFITABLE

Years ago… when I first started to get the idea that I could actually have a home based craft business and make a profit creating my one of a kind products - I found the "bible" of crafty entrepreneurs. 

Want to know which book I used??? My all time favorite craft business author still publishes this book, and updates it regularly… Her name is Barbara Brabec.

At that time the book was titled "Homemade Money". Perfect title… but she has gone on to expand this information and produced it into a variety of different books. 

Handmade for Profit!: Hundreds of Secrets to Success in Selling Arts and Crafts

Barbara is an old timer in the business of selling crafts… but don't think that she is outdated.

Barbara Brabec keeps up to date on all the latest marketing trends and teaches in plain… easy to understand and use terminology.  

Well… she isn't really old in my opinion… yes, she has been in this business for a good long while, and knows her stuff… but she is still incredibly young at heart! … and busy!

She even has her own website, with updated current information to help you get started making money selling crafts.
 

The Crafts Business Answer Book: Starting, Managing, and Marketing a Homebased Arts, Crafts, or Design Business

Over the years, Barbara has become a publishing powerhouse… she has helped many a (I mean a Huge Amount) crafter to reach success.

If you need the best craft business information to help you start and grow your craft business… Barbara Brabec is the one to ask.

In fact I just talked to Barbra today and she let me in on a little secret. Her latest book, QUICK MONEY SECRETS—How To Quickly Raise or Borrow Needed Cash is about to be published. Stay tuned in… I will be posting a review soon. 

"It's not how much you EARN in a home business, but how much of your earnings you can KEEP … away from the IRS," says Barbara Brabec. She says the strategies in this eBook have enabled her to keep thousands of dollars of business profit that otherwise would have gone to the IRS. "They will surely work for YOU, too," she adds. (Note that this eBook is for U.S. taxpayers only.)

Selling Crafts to Make Money