http://lorib.me New home of LBnuke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:54:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://lorib.me/2008/09/12/taking-care-of-business/ http://lorib.me/2008/09/12/taking-care-of-business/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:15:01 +0000 Lori http://lorib.me/?p=334 Related posts:

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]]> I have officially given up on voc rehab to help me with my business. I’ve been working with them for over 3 years and am tired of not doing other things because of waiting for them to help.

The last straw was when I was going to do a 10 week business program in my community. I got approved on the condition that I had a tutor to help me process the information. Karen was willing to do it, but since she works full time it would be best to find someone else. The rehab people acted like they could help find one but kept putting us off. By the time we gave up and decided to do it anyway, there were no more spots left in the program.

I did some research and found a business consultant who I will meet with for a few months. Her job is to help me structure my business so that I make more money. I met with her last week and she had some great ideas. Seems to think my case is easy because I already have clients. I hope she is right! I am excited about it.

Last month, I finally had time to fix Aspieland and the Autistic Planet Store. I will probably move the store away from printfection when I have some time because I don’t like that they charge more for larger sizes and there is no way to equalize it. Still, better than no store at all.

Soon I will start a hosting affiliate program. I have the backend set up where affiliates would log in to their accounts, but need to make some banner ads and publicize it. I will post an announcement when I get it all together. It will be a good way for me to get more hosting clients and for whoever becomes an affiliate to make some extra money.

My friend Kim was here last week. It was great to see her and we had lots of fun wandering around San Francisco. By strange coincidence, me and K are going to Baltimore next week and will see her again!

Done uploading files now. Time to get back to work.

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I decided that I need a single name to refer to all of these autism related websites that I am hosting, running, and/or creating. I want to have a website explaining what each site is and ways for people to help support them. I got this idea because I am trying to raise money to move all of the sites to a reliable virtual private server and off of the not completely reliable shared server they are on now. I am feeling extra responsible for server reliability since starting Autiblogger!

My first priority is fundraising to get money to pay for the server. It is not cheap and there is no way I can afford to pay for it myself. I’ve decided to sell products, all or mostly made by autistic people, and to put all of the proceeds from those sales towards keeping up these sites and others like them.

I registered the domain name AutisticPlanet.com after trying about 50 other domain names that were already taken. Then, I created a graphic (above) that I will put on t-shirts and other products and add them to the list of items for sale.

The t-shirts are available in 7 colors in a choice of lightweight cotton for $15 each, or heavyweight cotton for $20 each. Currently, the only sizes that are available are S-XXL (men’s t-shirt sizes). I have emailed the folks who are printing the shirts and requested that they make larger sizes available too. Children’s sizes are also a possibility.

I have just ordered a lightweight black t-shirt and Karen has bought me a heavyweight red t-shirt (thanks K!) so that we can see what the shirts will look like when printed, and also because the money is going to a good cause

You can buy the t-shirts here!

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