Tag Archives: work from home
Starting Your Home-Based Business
The rising cost of living these days has started a lot of people thinking about running a business from their home. There is the added convenience of cutting out the daily commute, and now that most things can be done online there seems every reason to give the idea serious consideration. But is a home-based [...]
Investing In Working Moms Has Spectacular Returns
Research shows that top companies give mothers better benefits. The debate concerning working mothers versus stay-at-home moms isn’t new. Can women do both? How well? New research has provided a possible answer, showing that the best employers make provision for mothers in the workplace. The latest findings from the CRF Institute’s Best Employers Index, which certifies [...]
Crafting A Business Plan, For Freelancers
So, you want to start a freelance business. Or, you’ve started one, and you want to formalise or clarify your offering in your mind. It’s business plan time. They aren’t just for the biggies; for the entrepreneurs aiming to sell 100,000 units of personalised coffee mugs during Q4. They’re a useful way to turn your [...]
3 Top Work From Home Tips
So, you’re a trailblazing entrepreneur who works from home, deftly selling your talents to grateful clients who are only too lucky to have you as their remote project coordinator? For many South African professionals this is the dream, working from home, being your own boss, scheduling your own hours. And unless you’re dead-set on completing that [...]
The 5 Types Of Clients That Freelancers Face
It’s occurred to me more than once that 98% of my work stress as a freelance copywriter comes from 2% of my clients. The majority is utterly divine: easy to work for, easy to work with, more or less aware of what I do and my industry, happy to be guided by me, and able [...]
4 Handy Tips For Work From Home Businesses
South Africa is the perfect place to start a small work from home business. It’s one of the fastest growing markets in the world with an economic climate that bodes well for the future of startups. Starting your business isn’t necessarily easy, though, even in South Africa. There’s a lot you have to do on [...]
Work From Home: Create The Virtual Office
Over the past 8 months, my wife Yolande has been working on a business idea* and has set about creating a work space at home. We have 3 kids, so these things tend to take a little time. Setting up a home office is not as easy as you may imagine. A critical element, as [...]
How to set up a work from home office
We’ve had a lot of response from last week’s article on working from home, where we listed the top 10 home-based jobs. This week, we answer a big question: how does one set up the ideal work-from-home office? The three main protagonists at Ideate have some experience with this since we’ve all worked from home [...]
Top 10 Legitimate Work From Home Jobs
At Ideate, we get a lot of request 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 [...]
