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Why Freelancers Should Ask for Payment in Advance
You want to eat some homemade peppermint crisp fridge tart. You go the local Spar or grocery store and do NOT pay as you walk out with your ingredients of cherries, caramel, peppermint crips chocolates, Orley Whip or whipping cream, and tennis biscuits. You go home with all your peppermint crisp fridge tart ingredients, and you make the tart. You invite some friends around for tart and tea. You all enjoy the tart, and some friends even ask you if you would be happy to make them a tart for their next event if they pay you enough that you make a small profit. Your tart is now making you some money. About a month later you casually saunter into the shop where you walked out with the ingredients for your tart … Read entire article »
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Getting Feedback on your Business with StartUpLift
Getting feedback on your business website or app, and on your business ideas presented in that business website or app, is something that can come in very handy when you are trying to target a specific market with the products or services you offer. Getting feedback also helps you know what the general public think about the way in which you present or market your business. Using details in feedback provided by members of StartUpLift can help you analyse what you need to do to improve your business. A startup business needs all the help it can get, to make sure that the foundations are strong enough to handle adequate and correct growth forward. The better the foundations of a startup business are, the better and more quckly it can move … Read entire article »
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Why does Being Paid in Dollars instead of Rands put you off Working From Home?
Are you worried that places or people will be unable to pay you because you are in South Africa and South Africans use rands and not dollars? If you see a website or program that is not South African that you are keen to join in an effort to make some extra income, why do you not join the site or program? When trying to earn an extra income online or as a freelancer, and you see a website is an American website, do not jump to the conclusion that you won’t be able to get paid or that you can only be paid in American dollars instead of in South African rands. Look through the site, read frequently asked questions on the site, or even attempt to join, and while filling … Read entire article »
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Easy Invoicing with X-Sheet Invoicing
Invoicing is a pain in the neck. I’m sure my standard 7 (Grade 9) Accountancy teacher was psychic when she invited me to leave her class, never to return. Because I am stubborn, I stayed, and managed to fool the Matric exam markers into believing I knew more than I did, and I subsequently passed Matric Accounting. Records and record keeping are not my strong points. I prefer to just do my work, get it done and move on to the next project. However, I also need to live in the real world, and I do need to get paid for the work that I do. In the real world, people pay when they get an invoice (most of the time). At TnT Unleashed we don’t carry any stock items, as all … Read entire article »
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What you Need to Know to Start Working from Home
You are ready to start working from home; you have chosen a product or service you are passionate about, and now you are going to start working from home, but to start working from home you need to know a few things: You may be very good at the service you are offering from home, or you may have excellent products that you plan to sell from home, but how many people are going to hire you or buy your products if nobody knows about you? To start working from home you need to know that advertising is of the utmost importance, and you also need to know that advertising your home business may take up an incredibly large amount of time. Do not panic too much about the expense of advertising as … Read entire article »
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Is your Good Idea going to Make You Your Fortune?
So, is your good idea really going to make you a fortune? That’s a good question. How many times have you had a really great idea for a new business venture that is going to make so much money for you that you wouldn’t know what to do with it all? Or, how often have your friends invited you to join them in their newest and greatest scheme that would take the world by storm, turning you both into Bill Gates contenders overnight? Once? Twice? More? And for some reason you just cannot get out of the rut you’re in. Your business is just not working. You rented the office space, you bought the furniture, the computers, the new cell phone and the sunglasses. You’ve been sitting in your brand new office wearing out the buttons … Read entire article »
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My Own Make Money Online in South Africa Questions and Answers
Question How long is this list of make money online in South Africa questions and answers going to be? Answer I don’t know. I’ll see as it goes along. This list of make money online in South Africa questions is to help me focus on what needs to be done, and can probably help others in South Africa who want to make money online too. There’s bound to be further questions and answers that pop into my head the moment I think I’m done with this list, and have published it, but I’ll add those later, or start a new list. Question Why didn’t I rather add this list of questions and answers to either my My Notes and Lists site or my Make Money Use Internet site? Answer Having quite a few sites when trying to … Read entire article »
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Have Degree but Can’t Find Job in South Africa
What? I do NOT have a degree but I have a job. If you have a degree but can’t find a job in South Africa, work for yourself like I do. My boyfriend and I work from home because he could not find a job in South Africa. He does not have a degree and neither do I. Yes, it’s hard work working from home, but at least we have a job in South Africa, degree or no degree. How on earth did we manage to start working from home without having a degree? Is that an odd question? I would think it is easier for people who have a degree to start working from home in South Africa. And yet many people in South Africa who have no degree are working … Read entire article »
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Importance of Target Market and Where You Live
When trying to save on your advertising costs, it helps if you can target people driving or walking by your home, simply by putting up a sign on your gate, your wall, or on your front door. When thinking about what you might want to try doing from home to earn a little extra income, or even a fulltime income, take a look at your surroundings. Who stays in your neighbourhood, or frequents your neighbourhood? If you live across the road from a retirement complex, do you think it would be a better idea to sell indoor plants or to sell handcrafted skateboards? If you live just down the road from a primary school, do you think it would be a better idea to sell good quality second hand educational books or … Read entire article »
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