As a creator of digital content I must comply with tax regulations in every country where my customers are located. Failure to comply with regulations can lead to penalties and legal issues.

Whether you sell e-books, online courses, or software, many countries around the world have recently added or increased taxes on digital goods. The taxes take various forms, like the VAT (Value Added Tax), popular in EU countries, GST (Goods and Services Tax) in Australia, Canada, or Singapore and others. The biggest problem with these taxes is that, unlike the USA, the full taxability starts with the first dollar of income.

Not only that, but once you collect the tax, you have to register with each country then remit the tax. BUT you also will then have to file quarterly reports FOREVER, even if you not had any taxable transactions for that country.

Contrast that with the US, where the threshold for taxability is at least $100,000 of sales in a year or, in some states, 200 transactions. Also, in the US, Live courses are not taxed but, as of January 1st 2025 the EU now levies a VAT tax on these types of courses too.

I know many people simply ignore the taxes, hoping that it will not become a problem, but I can’t operate that way. Since A2P is just starting out, I won’t have the time to register for tax, charge tax, file returns, or remit collected funds. I want to focus on helping people to change their lives with Access.

Perhaps this will change once A2P is established but, for now, I need to focus on the US only.  

Absolutely. Every office is filled with people who need simple solutions. Access is faster, cheaper, and more flexible than most corporate software — and companies still rely on it every day.

There is no program in existence that allows you to create a finished database as fast as Access and you can make it so user-friendly that it requires NO KNOWLEDGE for that user to run it.  All they have to do is open the database and click buttons.

Also, once you learn Access, what you can create in an hour or so would take web based developers WEEKS to do and it still would not be as easy to use as Access.

Not at all! Creating customized databases for others requires creative problem solving, human insight and empathy.  Artificial Intelligence can assist in analyzing data and provide recommendations on portions of programming code for specific purposes,  but it is totally incapable of performing these other, very human, functions.

No programming experience is necessary. Most of our members (and me, too) started with no formal programming background. If you can work with Excel, you can learn Access.

I believe that everyone should learn VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the programming language built into Access (and Word and Excel!).  It is, by far, the easiest programming language to learn and use.

But also, when I create VBA programs, I do things in the SIMPLEST way possible and I will show you how to do the same.  In addition, much of the VBA programming in Access is just little bits of programming code tied to “events” on forms, so that makes it even easier!

I will take you through all these technques and, with repetition, they will become second nature to you.

That’s exactly why this community exists! You’ll have access to support, examples, and a network of people who have been where you are. No question is too small.

In addition, if you get stuck on somethiing, someone else may have a problem with that same thing.  That is why I not only want to know where you got stuck, I want to use that to create a video of the solution for others to use in the future!

We focus on people first, not technology. This isn’t about passing a certification or memorizing menus. It’s about building real-world solutions that make a difference.

What determines success with Access is all in your head, not in your computer.  I will show you how to use what some people think of as “problems” and turn them into opportunities!

You can move at your own pace. Whether you have 30 minutes a week or 5 hours, every step you take here will move you closer to real success.

What I would recommend is to make a list of all the time-consuming tasks you have to do now and figure out (with the help of the community) how to automate the biggest one. 

You may need to take some of your own time to get that done, but then you can use the time you saved to tackle the next item on the list, and so on.

Your goal should be to eventually be in TOTAL control of your time.  If I were in your position, I would set my goal to be, outside of data entry, to reduce my entire job to ONE mouse click!

If you think about it, isn’t that possible?  Report creation and other tasks are set processes that are repeated.  You could write down the exact steps you do now, then make an Access program that does them perfectly every time and about a thousand times faster!

So guess what happen long before you reach that goal?  You new abilities will be discovered by your co-workers and your boss and your work life will change forever!

The greatest thing about it is that they are not adding hours of drudge work to your schedule!  You will know how to automate the processes and reduce hours long projects to a few seconds!

What are the odds you get a raise, bonuses and maybe an entirely new job title?

I’ve got you covered! I will show you exactly how to take your first steps with Access — even if you’ve never opened the program before.

At the very start, the best thing to focus on is what is involved in developing what I call a “Success Attitude”. 

Learning Access is different than learning Word or Excel where you can just sit down and start entering things.  Access is much more mental and conceptual, rather than visual. 

This is why many people, not realizing they have to take a different approach, fail to master Access.  That means that it is just that much more lucrative for the people who DO have success with this amazing program!

I’ve created many online Access courses and they can be great for step-by-step learning.  BUT the problem is that there are often things you forget and you want to go back into the course to review.  Unfortunately, online courses are not good at being REFERENCE tools, because you can’t easily go back and find where specific topics are covered.

However, I have found a site that allows this and I have loaded ALL my Udemy courses into it.  From the homepage of a course you can click the Search icon, enter a search term and press Enter and get a list of all the videos and times where that term is referred to.  Click on one of them and you will immediately go to the video and the exact spot where that topic is covered!

To make this capability even more functional, I have combined courses together so, using my 8 workshop courses as an example, ALL the workshops are in one course!  This means that you can search through all 159 workshop videos at once and don’t have to remember which one covered a specific topic.

As part of your A2P membership, you get full 24/7 access to this site!