As I wrote in my article, “Do It Yourself or Outsource,” I can’t do it all. There, I feel so much better about this self-revealing epiphany. As I wrote, “I find the tasks of managing cgi scripts, website design, search engine optimization, and all those other webmaster tasks tedious. Sure, some would suggest that if I have a site, I should know how to do what a webmaster must do. I say, ‘Give me a break.’ There’s got to be a better way….”

Finding “good help” is a quest of every employer (and a webmaster employs or does it all). For a multitude of causes, getting good help frustrates lots of folks. I commiserate with others; they nod in agreement. My next contractor is named Waldo; I just haven’t found him yet.

My carpenter stopped by today. He owes me an invoice for work done three months ago. Since he does not have a computer, carbon invoices record his work. He took Monday and Tuesday of this week to finish his taxes. Some of those carbon invoices had to be held against the window to read. “Does that say 2004 or 2005?” My carpenter builds and repairs with wood better than most. He just needs to get himself a computer since businesses require detailed tax records, and a computer makes that calculation easier.

Daniel Detlaf’s article, “Internet Marketing: Get Your Tax Money Back” provides two resourceful IRS links: Business Expenses) and The IRS Small Business site.

You can pay someone to suggest legitimate deductions, or you can read the IRS publication they read. You can do it for free too.