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I'm getting much better at using the touchscreen keyboard so now I have no excuses for running around the blogsphere on my lunch break and catching up with my friends. Not only when it give me a fun break during the day but it will free up my writing time at night.
My writing time is usually split between blogging, promotional junk and writing/editing in the evenings and weekends. But there are so many wonderful blogs out there, I have no trouble spending two or three hours just hopping here and there. And it is taking from my writing time.
So hopefully, my smartphone was a good business expense. So a few questions. Do you think I can deduct my phone as business expenses? And how much time do you spend on blog visiting? Do you do it from you computer or an other device?
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I don't own a cell phone but I do own a Nook and from there, we can connect to blogs. But I don't really use it for that, more for just reading in the dark.
Technology is fun, I think. Hope you enjoy your new toy. As for a deduction, I don't know.
Hope the grilled food was good last night. And that you got a chance to veg.
Cheers and Boogie Boogie.
I got a Blackberry but next time will get a smart phone because the internet is too slow and hard to see on my Blackberry. It's great for emails and Twitter but that's it. Oh yes, and being a phone, and an organizer.
I have a so-called smart phone but I'm pretty sure I got the dumbest one in existence. Or maybe I'm just saying that to make myself feel better...
I read some blogs with the phone but most of my blog time is done at my physical computer because my phone makes it too irritating and difficult. But I do love the phone for Facebook and Twitter.
Unfortunately, I've hardly gotten any chance to check other blogs lately. But I usually check blogs on a different computer than the one I write on. It helps me focus for some reason.
Yes, deduct it as a business expense!
I have an iTouch, so I'm used to the small buttons. Made transitioning to the iPad so easy. I do some of my blogging on that as well as my computer.
I do all my blog visiting on a computer--the phone I have is of the prepaid kind (burn phone) so I can't really do much with it except call people. Which is what I have it for, so I don't mind. :P
I'm years away from a smart phone - too cheap to pay for the data package, but I can identify with how easy it is to let blog reading eat up writing time.
As for claiming it as a business expense, I was told once that in order to claim a phone as a business expense it has to be used 100% for business. I'm not sure how accurate that is so I'd do a little Googling or ask a tax pro
I WISH I had a smart phone. My brother has a Droid and loves it.
I visit in stages. A half hour in the morning. A couple of fifteen minute breaks in the middle of the day and another half hour to an hour at night, depending on who's left on my list.
Ref: business expense
From what I remember from last year on Turbo Tax, it takes a percentage of the cost of the phone and any other business related machines, office equipment and utilities.
I got an iphone for my birthday this year and I love it!!! I'm not very good with the tiny keypad though. Good thing I don't text.
I love my smartphone -- I only wish it was smart enough to teach me how to use all its wonders.
I'm way too old skool for a smart phone. I'm running 33 1/3 rpm in an mp3 world. My phone only makes calls. I don't text, and all my blogging and blog reading is at my laptop.
And of course I spend way too much time catching up on blog composing and reading instead of writing. I need some type of law for myself that acts like the separation of church and state. Except for writing and futzing around on the internet.
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