Welcome to the 220 Club
A Club of Good Fortune

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​​The 220 Club creates, publishes, and promotes free and affordable resources that enable creative types to gain greater mastery over their commercial endeavors and their own lives in a very efficient manner.   Our resources include educational material, curriculum, technical documentation, how to guides, do-it-yourself software templates, and more.   All our information fits into a universal commercial framework detailed in the Soul Proprietor Guide material that should result in a sense of community for commercially oriented, creative individuals who are currently separated by language, geography, trade, or business industry. ​

The 220 Club was started by a group of creative individuals who view human energy as the greatest energy on the planet.  By providing affordable, timely, and relevant information for self-employed and self motivated individuals we intend to increase your efficiency, decrease your expenses, and decrease your stress -- Our overarching goal is to free up YOUR TIME and creative energy for the benefit of our global society and Mother Earth during these transitional times. 
​Those who use our resources are expected to see significant benefits in numerous facets of their lives. The most relevant benefits will be a decrease in Technology Stress and an increase in Free Time and better Time Management.

​We view the later as the most relevant because it is with Time that creation comes into being. Putting it another way...  It's time to Bend Time.

​While not novel, incredibly appropriate for this seemingly complex Dawning Digital Age ​
Adding a little simple Structure and Community to the current Digital Chaos is one of our short term goals
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Target Audience

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Our "Core Resources" were originally created to help Self Employed individuals increase mastery over their own small businesses.  Self Employed individuals are comprised of Sole Proprietors, Sole Practitioners, Soloprenuers, Micro Business Owners, Small Business Owners, etc. 

​Our content was originally geared towards those who are already attempting a Self-Employed, solitary path, and those with enough experience  to know that just owning a hot dog cart can get complex fast.
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You will not see a lot of cheerleaders rooting for others to join the ranks of the self employed in our resources.  Our resources are the ones folks seek out after they've taken the leap and gotten a few avalanches under their belt. ​

Specifically, we were initially targeting folks who are making $20k to $250k per year in taxable income via self-employment.  While some of our resources have morphed to benefit folks well outside of this group and income range, please read with that bandwidth and that target audience in mind. ​

Are you on a W-2 and feeling a little left out right now?   If so, aren't we all Soul Proprietors in one form or another?  Even if your tax returns revolve around a W-2, aren't the requirements on all individuals in fact comparable to those who own a small business?  Each of us is in fact our own Small Business, engaged in the commerce of life.  For those on w-2's who take on levels of personal responsibility and higher levels of organization at work and in their community above the norm, if you can read between the lines a little, there's tons of great info in here for you too.

Core Resources

Each of our Core Resources is a website.   This is all a work in progress and it is expected to be a dynamic resource for quite some time -- and since proofreaders are expensive and they can struggle to keep up with random content changes across a broad spectrum of information and websites -- please always read for content only.   As you will see, most of the content on the core resources below is currently FREE, or they have a significant, FREE component to them. This is a new kind of educational sharing that goes way beyond the norm today.  
​printable:  https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/view/a1586f4f-5ccd-4cfe-990c-7bf8e6c112ba
TIP #1 :  Links to our Core Resources (websites)  can be found on the "Core Resources" menu at the top of the page.  

1) Soul Proprietor Guide ​(Core Resource)

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The Soul Proprietor Guide is a Black Book for Sole Proprietors, Sole Practitioners, Soloprenuers, Small Business owners and Engaged Individuals that is second to none. 

It's also a great reference for all who can embrace the idea we're all Small Businesses in our own little way.

The content in this website is broken into 4 Modules:  Business, Mental, Physical and Technology 
​                               "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime"
​Cost: FREE

The Technology Module of the Soul Proprietor Guide introduces http://The-Technology-Club.weebly.com . The Technology Club is a 220 Club joint venture.  It is expected to have a $199, one-time, life-time membership fee, but it's in the open and  for free right now...

2) DIY Software Club ​(Core Resource)

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The DIY Software Club provides spreadsheet templates, google scripts (javascript with google objects), and advanced spreadsheet education that enables individuals to build and maintain web based "Software" on Google Drive.  The "software" applications are "just" a bunch of Google Sheets networked together in the cloud in a relational manner, but never underestimate the power of the word "just".  

Cost: Public information currently includes incredibly detailed screen shots and education related to using spreadsheets for database purposes.  The software templates will be for sale,  but no pricing is posted at this time.  Likewise, implementation support options will also be posted in due time. 

3) Website Builders Guide ​(Core Resource)

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The Website Builders Guide provides brief insight into website evolution from the 1990s to present and it covers the current options for website creation today. 

It encourages most small business folks to take more control over their own websites than they have in the past, it outlines paradigm shifting  tools and/or platforms that are available to do that today, and it provides step by step instructions to get going with one such tool.

Small (micro) businesses that are not e-commerce centric should have a simple website that is capable of being managed by the business owner.  This Website Builders Guide goes into those needs and it gives step by step instructions of how to do that with a website building tool that is currently fairly friendly and flexible.

Cost: FREE 

4) Spreadsheets For All  (Core Resource)

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Spreadsheets For All exposes cloud based spreadsheets, a paradigm shifting technology sitting in plain view that few are using wisely for their own benefit at this time.

Spreadsheets For All is designed to:
  1. Bust the myth that spreadsheets are for numbers only.
  2. Show people unfamiliar with spreadsheets how spreadsheets can dramatically simplify and optimize their daily lives as well as their business lives in a very efficient manner
  3. Expose people to the paradigm shifting nature of cloud based spreadsheets as offered by Google.   What Google is doing looks similar to what we've seen before but in fact it is NOTHING like what we've seen before -- and the implications are HUGE for individuals and small businesses.

Spreadsheets are the most under-utilized technology tool on the planet right now (6/9/2017) .  We have self driving cars.  We have a mapped human genome.  Yet somehow, spreadsheets are not mandatory learning for all elementary, middle school and high school students and that is an energetic crime.   Don't for a second think that because they are not required from a young age they are not relevant -- in fact, it's quite the opposite...

Cost: FREE to the Public (paid sections may be added at a later time)

5) ZAP Accounting Software ​(Core Resource)

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Zap Accounting "Software" started out as a simple, digital Accounting Solution for Sole Proprietors, Partnerships, and Small Businesses in Google Sheets.  There was also a version specifically for Personal Accounting too. It's grown into a very powerful tool. 

ZAP Accounting Software is an example of the type of "Software" that can be created using  DIY Software Club concepts and utilities. 

Intuit is one of the least liked software vendors on the planet.  They have controlled the Accounting Software monopoly for years and they lost sight of the "basic" functionality and "basic" interface desires of their user base (if they ever had it).  In addition, the insight they were able to glean and possible resell as "owners" of your data is terrifying.  It is our hope that this FREE solution is adopted by 80-90% of their current user base.    That would send a nice message to software developers and software-as-a-service providers that user needs and their collective privacy must come before digital art experiments and their desire for unhealthy monopoly. 
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Cost:  There is a lot of free information on this website.  It appears this will be rolling out for free. It is not available to the public just yet. A lot of info is on the site and there may even be a free lite version available by now. 

Summary and Suggestions...

11/16/2019 - We've been somewhat silently building a group of nameless members for a few years now. It's been a very interesting and rewarding experience. It's also been a sound indication that exciting times are just ahead. Unfortunately, a fair amount of hard work is the only thing left standing between us and that exciting future which we know is now to come -- not out of desire -- but as a function of the Clock and Mother Earth. 

Please check out the Community section of this website and then dig in a little, to the Core Resources. From there, we'll feel our way to a new world one note and one waking individual at a time. 
Continue to the chat about Community that makes this all a lot more meaningful and personal now...