Archive for 'Business Admin'
Tip for the Week From The Finance Coach
Finance tip: Credit
Get a credit report at least once a year. It’s one of those unavoidable truths in life, but our credit history is destined to follow us around for years, and affects so many different aspects of our lives – applying for a homeloan; getting credit from the bank; trying to open an [...]
Can I reduce my underperforming employee’s salary?
Question 1: Have you ever wondered if you can pay your employee less if she’s doing less work? For example, your pregnant employee may not be able to perform her usual duties…can you pay her a portion of her full salary until she’s back “in the swing of things”?
Claire Stewart is the founder of PeopleWise, [...]
Friday Giveaway: Win a seat to the most important tax seminar of your life!
I’m not a huge tax boffin. Because of this sad fact, I have made the decision to get smart people to help me with my tax stuff. One such person is Derek Jansen of DerekJay Business Training.
Since we all know that I’m not the only one who gets a little frazzled by tax challenges in [...]
Business Lingo Explained – The Elevator Pitch
An elevator pitch is a crucial step when presenting your product, service, project or yourself to an audience for the first time. It’s an entrepreneur’s one minute explanation of his/her business model. It can take place over email, in a one-to-one conversation in a corridor or in a scheduled meeting. The term actually comes from [...]
How do I find start up capital for my business idea?
If I cast my mind back to 1999, when I started my first real business* I remember the big question on my mind was “how the hell do I pay for this thing?”
I needed staff and materials, not to mention an office. All of which cost money… LOTS of money. Basically I needed what every [...]
Should I Upgrade to Windows 7?
The latest Windows client operating system, Windows 7 is said to be simpler and even more user-friendly. Let’s see what it offers that’s new and better. There are some great new features that you’d like and here are just a few that I find really useful.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life [...]
What accounting package do you use?
When I started my digital marketing company, World Wide Creative, a few years back I was a stereotypical entrepreneur. By ‘stereotypical’ read ‘stupid in stereo’ … basically I did twice as much work as required, purely because I was instilled with the same dumbass, dogged determination that most SA business people are born with.
Besides doing [...]
Business Lingo Explained – VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP is a way of taking analog audio signals and converting them into digital data that can be transmitted over the Internet – much like an online telephone. So, it’s the delivery of voice communications over IP networks. VoIP is getting quite popular among businesses, big and small.
Yolandi Janse van [...]
5 web browsers – what’s the difference?
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari – what’s the difference, and should you care? Most businesses use Internet Explorer – should they switch?
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 [...]
3 Options for Hosting Video with Social Media
Every self-respecting website needs a well produced promo video, and I’m not just saying that because I’m a videographer. Placing a short video on your home page, to wet the appetite, should entice people to read more about your brand and increase the time they are willing to invest on perusing your site.
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