Top 10 Ideate articles in 2009
by Yolandi on 24/12/09 at 9:21 am
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2009 is at it’s end so we felt like refreshing your memory of the greatest posts Ideate brought you this year. We have compiled a list of the Top 10 most popular Ideate posts in 2009. Enjoy.
1. Top 10 Legitimate Work From Home Jobs
At Ideate, we get a lot of requests for information on legitimate work from home jobs. While making money from home has become all the rage recently, especially with the rise of the web (and with it, Internet home business opportunities), it seems that our audience still need some prompting on where they can make their moolah from home. So, we offered our readers our top 10 work from home business ideas.
2. South Africa is hard core: Live action police pursuit (video)
Fred Roed posted a video of a live action high speed police chase through the streets of Johannesburg which was very popular among our readers. It reminded us, once again, that Africa is not for the faint hearted.
3. 8 Reasons Why It’s Great to Be South African
This was a really funny post about all the things we do as South Africans. It included aliens live amongst us (District 9), Zuma, our lingo and Rugby coaches.
4. Recycling at work – getting with the programme
Say the word ‘recycle’ and people immediately start thinking containers. It’s actually quite amusing – we get roughly one email a week from someone who’s drawn the short straw and been assigned the title of ‘mr/ms recycle’ at work and the first thing they’re after is the receptacle for the recycling. For a quick look at what recycling logos to look out for, we offered our Green Your Recycling Guide.
5. Creating the perfect Business Plan
Small business owners, starter-uppers, entrepreneurial venturers and other mad-scientist-types the world over will understand this question: “Is writing a business plan even worth it?” Fred listed his thoughts on the topic.
6. 10 Business Opportunities for the Future
Bruce Wade gave our readers ten different categories of business ideas that you can safely bet on for the future. They included environmental, convenience and online shopping
7. 10 Unconventional Business Cards…
In the process of redesigning your business card? Shane gave us 10 unique design ideas that may give you some inspiration to push the boundaries and go for something a little more memorable.
8. Pitch your business ideas here (and make South Africa proud)
Virgin tried out a new online venture on Richard Branson’s blog “Business Stripped Bare”. It’s in the form of an interactive TV show called “PitchTV” where you can submit your business plans, in video format, to stand the chance of getting your idea funded.
9. Achieving a good BEE scorecard (2)
In Claire’s last post, she wrote about BEE Scorecards and how they apply to businesses of all sizes. Here, Claire explores how it’s possible to get a good BEE Scorecard even if you have no black ownership at all. So how does an organisation achieve points towards their rating? Claire breaks it down pillar by pillar.
10. Ideate’s Top 10 Predictions for Small Business in 2009
Every year there comes a time that everyone is gazing into the smoky crystal balls. And, true to Ideate style, if there’s a bandwagon we’ll jump on it. We got together the day before New Year’s Eve 2009 and penciled some predictions for the New Year.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi is nuts about anything on 4 wheels. Besides moonlighting as the Heavy Chef girl at World Wide Creative, Yolandi runs Autofemme, a blog about cars, as a business on the side. View more articles by Yolandi.
