Comments on: 8 Ways to Cut your Overhead Expenses from Minimal to Practically Non-existent

By: armadilla

armadilla — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:05:49 +0000

Great , i can,t tell you of the great importance of cheap , good quality office supplies like cheap binders or binder pocket that last more then two months, and CHEAP is the key word

By: StartUpBusinessSuccess

StartUpBusinessSuccess — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:38:53 +0000

Excellent tips for new entrepreneurs! Another great resource for saving BIG on start up and operating costs is "The Start-Up Business Survival Guide: 101 FREE Products & Services to Help Finance Your Dream of Successful Business Ownership". Check it out at http://www.StartUpBusinessSurvivalGuide.com

By: HeidiK

HeidiK — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:10:37 +0000

Very helpful tips and easy to implement. Thank you!

By: Roger Abbott

Roger Abbott — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:04:00 +0000

Excellent tips. As a home business owner, trying to tackle these things is an everyday challenge. The health insurance comment is especially interesting. I find today's technology can really aid in cutting costs. I've had a lot of luck with teleconferencing and webconferecning using Vesta Networks services. http://www.vestanetworks.com. Thanks for the post.

By: craig

craig — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:14:07 +0000

Thanks for the great post.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:10:39 +0000

very nice & interesting. good luck

By: dbb10001

dbb10001 — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:11:55 +0000

Nice article. It's clear that unfortunately for business owners like who pay for employee cell bills, texting, twittering, and minutes usage can often result in cell bills spiraling into something huge. To that point, I thought I'd mention that there are ways to directly use the internet to vastly lower a bloated business or personal cell bill. In particular, there's one great new blog called http://fixmycellbill.blogspot.com/ that constantly tracks new ways to cut wireless costs and exposes shady billing practices utilized by the cell phone companies. Also, check out the consumer advocacy website where I (admittedly) work, www.myValidas.com, that slashes the average cell bill by 22 percent. Through the site, we have currently audited over 26,000 cell lines and have saved consumers nearly $5 million off their wireless bills. You can see myValidas.com in the national news media, most recently on Good Morning America at http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6887412&....

Good luck to everyone reading on cutting expenses in the recession.

Dylan

By: Lauren Fairbanks

Lauren Fairbanks — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:43:46 +0000

@Dave Ash — I've actually never heard of Arithmo… I'm going to try it out. Thanks for the info!

@Jenny from Cricket Wireless — a prepaid phone is a good idea for on the go calling. But if you really want to “geek out” and you have the new iPod touch, you can buy the new Verizon myfi wireless router, throw it in your bag, install skype on your iPod Touch and have a handy little DIY cell phone — all without a data or phone plan.

By: Jenny from Cricket Wireless

Jenny from Cricket Wireless — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:07:35 +0000

If you need to make calls on-the-go and you can't take Skype with you, consider a prepaid cell phone plan from Cricket Wireless. A prepaid plan (or even a monthly plan with no contract) will help the self-employed keep expenses firmly under control. With no overages there are no surprises. Thanks for the great tips, I didn't realize that Open Office had a database program, I'm excited to try it out.

By: Dave Ash

Dave Ash — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:45:03 +0000

I've found the best Small Business Accounting Software package in the UK to be Arithmo, closely followed by Kashflow and QuickBooks