Author Archives: Brad Merrill

About Brad Merrill

Brad W. Merrill is the Principal at Brad W. Merrill Accounting and Tax Services. He specializes in Sales & Use taxes and accounting for small businesses. He has a B.S. in Accounting from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.

Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k/Cookie Chaser 5k

Posted on April 28, 2012

Today’s post is a follow up to a post I made back on April 10th, when I blogged about Automattic‘s Worldwide WP 5k (or rather re-blogged a post originally posted by Sara Rosso of Automattic/Word Press. Basically that everyone was … Continue reading →

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How to get more page views for your blog

Posted on April 17, 2012

Reblogged from WordPress.com News: This is a guest post by Kristina Chang, Evan Moore, Tony Xu, and Omer Rabin; students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “What makes a blog popular? What drives page views?” These are the questions that … Continue reading →

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101 Ways to Celebrate the end of Tax Season……

Posted on April 13, 2012

According to Traci Wheeler at Red Moon Solutions.  Now the primary audience for these are tax practitioners rather than taxpayers, whether individual, small business or corporate. However, I think many apply to all of us. Here is a sampling: Take … Continue reading →

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Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k

Posted on April 10, 2012

Reblogged from WordPress.com News: It wasn’t just a one-time event! The Automattic Worldwide WP 5k is back again in 2012! Set your timers for April 29th! At Automattic we work from all over the world, and we use internal blogs for socializing and … Continue reading →

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How to turn your blog into a book

Posted on April 4, 2012

Reblogged from WordPress.com News:  We know many of you love your blogs, and gleefully publish photos and posts without thoughts to reuse your work in other forms. But we know some wonder: could this be a book? Recently we wrote … Continue reading →

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Golden Rules of Business Development

Posted on January 20, 2012

Golden Rules of Business Development Today I am posting a guest post by Aaron McDaniel (aka “Mr. Business”) who is the author of the Young Professional’s Edge blog (YP Edge). He is a corporate director, entrepreneur, public speaker, community volunteer, … Continue reading →

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Strange Visitor – A Christmas Story

Posted on December 13, 2011

Back in December 1979 I was a brand new missionary for the LDS Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints sometimes called the Mormons) This was sent to me in a package I received from home.  I thought … Continue reading →

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Health Reimbursement Arrangement or Account (HRA)

Posted on December 3, 2011

It has been much to long since my last post. My life has been pretty hectic lately. This is a post that I have wanted to put up for some time. The last few months I have been doing some … Continue reading →

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Hope Rising 9/11 Bronze Monument Unveiling

Posted on September 11, 2011

Yesterday I had the opportunity/privilege to go to the unveiling of a sculpture called Hope Rising – To Lift a Nation which is modeled after the famous  photo in this post. The location of this heroic – sized (9 ft.) … Continue reading →

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What were you doing the morning the Towers came down?

Posted on September 7, 2011

I imagine many of us do remember what we were doing that fateful morning ten years ago Sunday. (It happened on a Tuesday though) The families and friends of the fallen so much more so than the rest of us. … Continue reading →

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