If you’ve followed my blog for the past several years, you’re probably already aware that every Cyber Monday, I take part in a gigantic sale on business ebooks and ecourses that is only valid for 72 hours.

However unlike previous years, this year’s 72 hour business sale is going to be offered in two different tiers.

The Business “Launcher” Package will have $1,033 in courses and guides all for only $97 (90% off for the 72 hour sale period)
The Business “Amplifier” Package will have $4,344 in courses (including everything in the “Launcher” package) and will be only $497 starting tomorrow (89% off).

When it comes to building an online business, having the proper education will save you time, money and a whole lot of frustration. Seriously, if all of these business courses were around when I first started, I would’ve been successful much sooner and I wouldn’t have made half the mistakes …

As I often mention in my articles, entrepreneurship and personal development are intertwined. You need the proper motivation and mindset in order to succeed with your small business which is why I’m happy to tell you about something exciting today.

A bunch of my blogger friends and colleagues have put together a killer deal involving personal development ebooks and courses. In a nutshell, for only 72 hours starting on June 20, you can purchase 22 premium personal development guides written by top experts in their respective fields for only $97.

Keep in mind that these guides come straight from the experts. Famous bloggers and entrepreneurs such as Charlie Gilkey, Leo Babauta, Jonathan Mead, Henrik Edberg, Karol Gadja, Adam Baker, Ali Luke, Thursday Bram and more spill their guts on what it takes to live a fulfilling and balanced life.

While I haven’t read all of the guides in this promotion, I can …

This morning my wife laid a huge bombshell on me while I was resting in bed.
Honey? I want to go back to work. Honestly, I’m tired of taking care of the kids all day and I really want to go back to the corporate world.
All I could do was sit there in shock. After all, we spent the last 4 years creating our business together. We spent the last 4 years setting up the infrastructure for our online store so she could stay at home with the kids. Now, we would need to find someone to manage the store full time. Now, we would need to hire a complete stranger to take care of the kids during the day. Wonderful…Oh, and the kicker is that I just renewed the MyWifeQuitHerJob.com domain for another 5 years. Great…just great.

Wife: Did I mention …

This is a guest post from Tamal Anwar. Tamal is a freelance web designer, Founder and CEO of ThesisThemeDesign. Tamal helps people to build their business online. Find him on twitter at @hellottd

Everyone is talking about online business, on blogs, on social media, and on the forums –we all want to “have our own business.” Starting your own business online is very easy and it takes a small investment (a domain name and hosting account) but it is hard to keep your business alive, get orders and maintain the cash flow.

In this article I will be sharing the 3 steps to becoming successful in online business.

Work as a Freelancer
Hire your work/outsource
Grow your business

Preface
I assume you have researched well enough before starting your own business online and might also consider running your biz from home. To own a business online, you don’t have to have a real office or ship …

This is a guest post by Tom Becker. Tom works at Money Choices, one of the leading comparison sites in Australia. You can read some of his work on their company blog.

Entering into a business venture of your own can be an exciting time in your life. A time filled with energy, optimism, and dreams of what lies ahead. And as you begin your road to business ownership, you might not want to consider the worst that could happen, however; it is often from the worst events that we can learn the most valuable lessons.

There are plenty of lessons that you can learn from running a business. There are certain things however, that unfortunately you might learn better from failure. This is where learning from others’ experiences can be an invaluable asset to the successful operation of your business. Rather than make the following five mistakes yourself, you can instead …

A bunch of my blogger friends and colleagues have put together a killer cyber Monday deal involving business ebooks and courses. In a nutshell, for only 72 hours starting on November 29, you can purchase 23 premium business guides written by top experts in their respective fields of business for only $97.

Keep in mind that these business guides come straight from the experts. Famous bloggers and entrepreneurs such as Chris Guillebeau, Leo Babauta, Eric Hamm, Jonathan Mead, Dave Navarro, Erica Douglass, Naomi Dunford, Laura Roeder, Chris Garett, David Risley, Corbett Barr and more spill their guts on what it takes to make money online.

While I haven’t read all of the guides in this promotion, I can wholeheartedly vouch for 90% of the authors. In fact, I actively follow most of their blogs.

For example, Leo Babauta, Eric Hamm and Jonathan Mead are huge names in the personal development …

If you are still on the fence about starting an online business, there’s probably no better time to set the wheels in motion than on Black Friday this year. You can sign up for quality webhosting at Host Gator for as low as 99 cents a month.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Host Gator, Host Gator is a webhost that I highly recommend. In fact, I ran MyWifeQuitHerJob.com on Host Gator for over a year until I switched over to dedicated hosting. During that year, I had no problems and no downtime at all. If they offered VPS hosting back then, I’d still be with them today.

Host Gator is offering ridiculous deals on web hosting between 12:00 AM Friday November 26th CST (-6 GMT) until 11:59PM CST (-6 GMT) 11/26/2010..

In any case, starting at 12:00 AM on November 26, Host Gator is …

Every now and then, I take a look at all of the different terms that people search for to find my little blog. I do this for a few reasons. One, it helps me to do research on what topics to write about and to get an idea of what information people are looking for. And two, some of the search terms that people use to land on my blog are downright hilarious. Here are some of my favorite search terms that will land you on my blog.

How convince my wife not to quit her job
How can my wife make money while I stay at home
My wife is lazy. Sell my wife
Wife wants to stay at home crap
Home business for lazy wife
How to play mind games with your wife
How to motivate a lazy wife
Wife lazy piece of crap

Sure sounds like many husbands …

Every now and then, a reader offers to write a guest post in which I have absolutely no clue about the topic at all. In this case, Matthew Bruns of SuretyBonds.com is here to tell us about Surety Bonds. Most small online businesses probably do not require the use of a surety bond but it’s good to understand what they are and what they are used for.

Starting a business is hard work.

Make your life easier — spend a few minutes ensuring you understand the world of surety bonds. These key risk mitigation tools have become an integral part of the business world, from construction and finance to car dealerships and travel agents.

Bonds can make the difference between a thriving venture and a flailing one.

The Basics on Surety Bonds
Surety bonds are often mistaken for insurance, but they’re actually more like a form of credit. They’re basically an agreement between …

One of the main points I emphasize at MyWifeQuitHerJob.com is that you really need to be your own boss or start your own side business in order to build wealth at the fastest possible rate. Sure, you can increase your nest egg by simply saving your money and spending less, but realize that being frugal can only take you so far on your path to wealth. Our day job salaries simply aren’t enough.

There are many ways to make money outside of having a regular day job and thanks to the web and the internet, we can all find ways to have a side business without risking a lot of money. Every now and then, it’s also useful to take a step back and look at some other people’s perspectives on entrepreneurship. Here’s what the blogosphere is saying about starting your own business and making …

First off, I just wanted to thank everyone for taking part in this contest. I got far more entries than I was expecting and the feedback was extremely helpful in determining which direction to take with my future blog entries.

Photo By Vetustense Photorogue

Of the six topics that I presented, the order of popularity from highest to lowest was as follows

Personal stories about obstacles we face running our business
How to guides with respect to building an online store
Motivational articles focusing on entrepreneurship
Marketing an online store
How to increase productivity
Ecommerce strategies to boost sales

Thank you for all of your responses. The lucky winner of this contest is….Sophia of www.ellies-whole-grains.com. Congratulations Sophia! I will be contacting you shortly for your address information and have your phone shipped out immediately.
How The Winner Was Chosen
Picking the winner wasn’t easy but it was definitely fun. I hadn’t used my perl skills …

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for supporting my blog these past 1.5 years. I really appreciate your comments and your continued readership. I also wanted to announce that MyWifeQuitHerJob.com has partnered with HP to give away a free HP iPaq Glisten Smartphone to one lucky reader! The odds of winning this phone are actually much higher than you think. Read on to find out more about the phone and how to win.
HP iPaq Glisten Smartphone Features

The HP iPAQ Glisten is a stylish, 3G smartphone designed for on-the-go professionals who need to stay connected to the people and information they care about.

Here are some of the Glisten’s features:

A quad-band world phone, featuring Windows Mobile 6.5
Built-in Wi-Fi and GPS functionality
3.1 megapixel digital camera
5 hours of talk time and 15 hours standby battery life
Full QWERTY keyboard for fast, easy and …

I recently spent some time working with Adsense on MyWifeQuitHerJob.com so I thought I’d share with you some of the optimizations I’ve made with Google ads on this blog. As many of you may have noticed, this blog makes part of its revenues from Adsense ads which can be found directly above and below the content. But depending on how you arrived at this site, you may not have noticed the ads at all.

Because the income I make from Adsense ad clicks is directly related to the conversion rate of the people seeing the ads, it is to my benefit to only show these ads to interested parties. If too many ad impressions are shown but do not lead to conversions, Google will reduce the payout per click for my entire site. This phenomenon is know as “smart pricing”. In this case of MyWifeQuitHerJob.com, the …

This is a guest post written by Joel Ohman. Joel is a Certified Financial Planner™ and the founder of 5 web startup companies. Among the 1000+ websites that he owns, his latest project is www.creditcardchaser.com where he helps people proactively search and compare different credit card offers.

One of the biggest challenges facing many small business owners is the issue of how to manage a company that is bursting at the seams because of rapid growth. Many entrepreneurs love what they do and work hard to turn their “baby” of a business idea into a money making business. However, if an entrepreneur does not prepare themselves properly then they may just find that their baby of a business has turned into a growth spurting teenager complete with hormonal issues and a desire to take your car out for a spin and party with their friends until the wee …

This is a guest post written by Mike Piper. Mike is the author of Taxes Made Simple. He also blogs at The Oblivious Investor where he shares his investment knowledge online for free.

You know the old cliche “knowledge is power”? It’s hard to think of anywhere it’s more applicable than at the intersection of small business and taxation.

But who wants to learn about taxes? *Shudder*

The good news is that you don’t have to be an expert. Here are four ways that even a little tax knowledge can help save you money.
1. Make Sure You Qualify for the Home Office Deduction
The rules for claiming the home office deduction are strict, but the deduction can be huge, so you don’t want to miss out if at all possible. If you qualify, you can deduct a portion of your home repairs, homeowner’s insurance, utilities, rent, or just about any other cost related …

I can’t believe that our second child is due in just under a month! My wife is looking pretty ripe at this point and realistically speaking, the baby could arrive at any time between now and then. Incidentally, our new house also closes escrow on the day after my wife is supposed to deliver. I know it’s poor timing, but it could not be helped. When you find the right house at a good price, you need to seize the opportunity.

Speaking of seizing the opportunity, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about friends and acquaintances who have contacted me in the past about starting their own business. And as far as I’m aware, very few of them have actually decided to pull the trigger.

Every now and then, would be entrepreneurs need a little push. So I’d like to dedicate this post to my friends …

Thanks for sharing your insight!! Your story has inspired my husband and I. I am interested in starting my own online store, however neither my husband or I are from the business background, I am wondering if either you or your wife is from a business or marketing background before she quitted her full time job? For our situation, will you recommend us to take some business related classes? Thanks

My wife has a background in finance. She graduated with a bachelors in economics and worked as a financial analyst at various firms such as Agilent and Intuit. I have a masters degree in electrical engineering.

I wouldn’t say that my wife and I have ideal backgrounds for the business world. Both of us are definitely not marketers and outside of a few years spent studying entrepreneurship, I don’t possess any business experience prior to opening our online wedding …

This past week was especially busy and profitable for our online store. Sales of handkerchiefs and other personalized items were abnormally high for reasons that I can’t really explain.

Perhaps one reason for the increased sales is that I finally got around to posting a link to our store’s recent inclusion in Brides Magazine on the sidebar. Yep, our online store was mentioned in the July/August issue of Brides magazine and it took me 2 entire months to make it stand out on our online store. Pretty dumb I know, but there have been many higher priority items on my plate as of late.

For one thing, the amount of inventory that we’ve been storing has been rapidly increasing and we’ve added a ton of new products to the store in the past month alone. At some point, we will hit the tipping point and will need to …

Lately, I’ve getting a bunch of emails asking me how much time my wife and I actually spend running the store and what our day to day operations are like. All I can really say is that every week is completely different. While on the surface you would think that all we do is pack and ship orders, there is a good amount of customer interaction and other activities that occur behind the scenes.

Photo by Alaskan Dude

As with everything in life, running our store has its share of ups and downs. And while the downs inevitably suck, the variability and unpredictable aspects of running the business are things that I really enjoy. In the interests of trying something different with this blog, I thought I’d occasionally devote a post or so to discuss the highs and lows of running our business. This past week definitely …

Lately, I’ve seen a ton of bad press about various retailers using sleazy sales tactics to boost profits. Because of the recession, businesses are under so much pressure to make a profit that they are resorting to deception and underhanded methods to make a sale. For example, I was completely shocked last week when I read that a very large and well known electronics retailer was accused of purposely denying price match requests and refusing to sell computers without service contracts.

The other day my wife and I were shopping for cell phones only to be bombarded by hidden fees tacked on at the register. While the display price for the phone we wanted to purchase was extremely attractive, it apparently didn’t include a bunch of extra costs that really pissed me off.

Photo By Bonked Producer

What annoyed me wasn’t the money per se, but how the fees were …