This is the first in a series of posts outlining grants available to women business owners.

Zion’s Bank Women’s Financial Group offers a Smart Women Grant.

Applicant must be a female business owner and primary manager of the company’s day to day activities or must be associated with a non-profit organization that directly benefits women.

Grant amount: up to $3000
Open to: Female residents of Utah and Idaho
Available for: small business start-up or expansion
Deadline: June 29, 2007

Priority is given to projects that:

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by: Amanda M. Gladden

Most of us in the United States have seen the infomercials or received emails claiming to have information about “free” government grants available to start a business.

If use of the word “free” in the same sentence with “grant” does not clue you in that this is a scam, then please know that the U.S. Federal Government does not offer grants of this sort to individuals.

There are, however, many other sources of free money available to new and established small business owners. Over the next several weeks, I’ll list information about some of these programs here on the blog.  Stay tuned.

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by Amanda M. Gladden

Often would-be entrepreneurs are unsure of what they want to do to make money. If you find yourself in a similar predicament, here are a few suggestions to jumpstart your brainstorm for business ideas.

Most start-up business books suggest doing what you know. Make a list of the things you know how to do i.e. your skills as well as your hobbies. Many people have been able to successfully turn a hobby into a money making venture.

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Once your new business starts generating sales, the need to utilize some type of accounting system becomes very apparent. Many new business owners use pen and paper or Excel spreadsheets to accomplish this task. To make things a lot faster and more efficient, Microsoft has created Office Accounting Express 2008, an easy to use accounting software package.

Did I mention that it is FREE?

The software features include:

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by Dorothea Carney

Would you like to know where millionaires like Richard Rosenblatt, the former owner of MySpace are currently investing their money? Well, he’s investing millions of dollars into domain investing. There is a way that you can make money too, with expired domain names!

Business 2.0 magazine reported that domain investing is creating a new class of millionaires who are making as much as $20,000,000 per year in passive income from simple domain investing.

The field of domain investing is a fairly new one which is just ready to explode with profits. The web has become the new real estate boom. Instead of investing in condos and flipping old houses, people are investing in expired domain names.

So what exactly is an “expired domain name?” When someone buys a domain name, and doesn’t renew it for some reason, it becomes an expired domain name. And each day, somewhere between 15,000 and 75,000 domain names fall into the category of expired domain names. Please tell me more! »

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