Category : Fuel Your Curiosity

Flex Fuel My Ride

Posted by Miguel Feliciano at 10:33 am

We have been running across some confusion on the internet with the FlexFuelMyRide.com website, which is actually a website not associated with Fuel My Life or Fuel My Ride.  Flex Fuel My Ride is actually a blog about vehicle engines and alternative fuels like the E85 flex fuel.

We are happy to see that someone has been motivated enough to blog about alternative fuels, which helps the ecology of our planet and in a way help eco-friendly vehicle owners to save money while saving the planet.  This is what we are doing with FuelMyRide.com, but in a different way as we leave the really hard work of finding alternative sources of fuel to the scientists and engineers.

End of Pay-Per-Click

Posted by Miguel Feliciano at 1:36 pm

Pay-Per-Click advertising and its equivalent technologies are dying technologies that cause you to bleed out unnecessary money.  We believe this so much that we have written a small ebook that tells why these technologies are dying and what you can do to save money and ultimately save your business.  We are basically trying to help businesses with their success by acquiring new customers and maintaining their existing loyal customers.

Here is the link to the PDF that you can download by right-clicking and selecting “Save as”.

End Of Pay-Per-Click

We hope you enjoy it and pass it on to other people that may benefit from this ebook.

Free Microsoft Software for Startups

Posted by Miguel Feliciano at 9:33 am

I have learned that Microsoft, in the last 8-9 months, started a program for startup companies that offers free Microsoft software. From Windows operating systems and programming software to business applications like Microsoft Office; these are all made available free for 3 years. At the end of 3 years you pay $100.

Now there are some requirements to meet, which are that your company has to be less than 3 years old and have less than $1 Million in revenue. To learn more about it go to http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark.

Building Blocks of Any Business

Posted by Miguel Feliciano at 6:27 pm

Every business is created from an idea.  Whether it be to solve a problem, to compete with other businesses with a better service or product, or just to make money; every entrepreneur faces the question of what business do I want to start and why.

Well for me it started about 2 years ago for this company.  Gas prices were rising almost every day and I, like millions of others, drove a long way to get to work.  I had to fill up my Toyota Echo every 4 days.  An idea kept popping into my head, “Free Gas.”  This was, still is, and will be a problem for everyone.  How do you pay for the one thing that helps you get from point A to point B and still keep your sanity; especially something that continues to be expensive?

I learned to keep a notebook of ideas for business from Cameron Johnson’s You Call The Shots.  So, on a business trip to Texas I was taking for a startup company I was working for, I wrote down “Free Gas” in the middle of a page and started brainstorming how to make the idea a reality.  Using what I knew about internet technology and marketing, the page started filling up and a business model started to develop.  Actually, several business models came out of what I wrote down in that book.

Now that I am getting my head out of my ass and using a GTD system with my iPod Touch and a moleskine, I have decided to pursue this business model and start a company; my second company to be exact.  I took the pages out of my book, got them notarized and mailed them to myself never to be opened unless for legal issues.

The next thing I did was to fill out the “Articles of Organization” for a Florida Limited Liability Company.  I sent that in last Monday and checked the Florida Department of Divisions website.  I saw that the company’s “Articles of Organization” were accepted on the 15th, so I was on to the next step.  I applied for an Employer Identification Number (Tax ID) on the IRS website and was able to get my Tax ID within a few minutes.  I really like that the IRS has digitized that process.

Now that I’ve done that I’m starting to look for the financing to get the company off the ground.  I may not get the financing and I’m prepared for that.  I’ve learned that any business can be started with little or no money at all.  After watching the Young Entrepreneur Society movie (the YES movie), I’ve learned that one of the best ways to start a business is to pre-sell.  I’ve already started thinking of how to pre-sell the service.  I’ll leave the financing for another post.  To wrap this up, here are the basic building blocks for your business:

1. Keep a business idea book.
2. Notarize your business idea.
   1. Copy the pages for the idea.
   2. Tear them out and notarize them.
   3. Mail the originals to yourself.
   4. Don’t open the envelope.
3. Incorporate your business.
4. Get your tax ID.
5. Pre-sell and build the business.

Fueling Your Curiosity

Posted by Miguel Feliciano at 10:57 am

Today this blog site goes live.

I plan, as the founder of the Fuel My Life company to give you, the community, a look at what it takes to build a business from concept to profits.  Along the way I will most likely make mistakes and I will not hold back on letting you know what those mistakes are so that you may learn from them to make your business a success.

Stay tuned as I will detail in the next few posts what I have already done to get here.  You’ll learn about the steps I took to organize/incorporate the business, secure the names online, start searching for the financing, and how I’m taking advantage of online technology to make people aware of this business.