Is Freelancing For You? The pros and cons

Freelancing isn’t for everyone. Being your own boss can be both rewarding and challenging. Ultimately, though, the choice is yours.

Freelancing in a home office

Today, more people than ever are choosing to freelance. Freelancing has become a lifestyle choice for many, and these freelancers are doing it all: from photography, graphic design, blogging, copywriting and web development to writing code, designing apps and marketing etc.

Before deciding freelancing may be right for you, decide what you want to get out of it. Here are the pros and cons that other freelancers have shared to help you decide.

The Pros of Freelancing

Freelancing is becoming a more popular career choice, and with the many benefits it comes, it’s easy to see why.…

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Building a Community For Your Online Business

Every business is looking for an edge. Some have it by being the most competitively priced, others by having a product no one else has. For many businesses though, the best edge is loyal customers. Loyal customers are a byproduct of engaging with them. For many online businesses, a great way to engage your customers is to create an online community around your product or service.

Build a community

In this article we will take a look at some of the benefits of building a community for your customers, how to build one, and the potential risks involved.

The Benefits of an Engaged Community

For many businesses that primarily operate online, their interactions with their customers are relatively brief.…

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How Call Spamming Can be Damaging to Your Business Reputation

As a business, one of the most important things you have is your reputation. It takes a lot of time to build up a customer’s trust and loyalty, and it can be shattered pretty quickly if you do something wrong. That said, it’s not always you who ruins your business reputation.

Call spamming victim

If there is someone pretending to be a part of your business, who scams or upsets one of your previously loyal customers, and they don’t realise that it’s not actually you, or someone from your company, this can be really negative for your reputation.

Hopefully, people will do a phone number search and this will tell them that it is a common scam, and not actually a call from your business but this relies on people using this online service.…

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Adapting to Change Can Help Protect Your Business

When you want to keep your company running smoothly, one of the things you have to consider is how well your business can adapt to change. Companies — and individuals — who aren’t good at adapting may find that they’re not having the level of success they’d hoped for. That’s because the world of business moves and changes rapidly, and if you’re not keeping up with it your competitors can easily leave you behind.

Change management

Customers want to work with companies that are staying up with the latest and greatest in their industry. You can be one of those companies, if you’re committed to focusing on the value of change.…

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The Filling Machine of Juice Bottle

Sheenstar

Juice filling machine - Sheenstar

A great innovative company that offers complete package solutions for all types of water used for drinking and beverage production lines and turnkey projects, is none other than “SheenStar”. It offers multiple solutions of systems systems of treatment of water, moulding machines (bottle blow), filling lines of liquids including (water, carbonated drinks, juice, beverages) labelling machines, 5 gallon water filling line, film shrink and cotton packing machine. It also provides good quality manufacturing.

Founded in 2010, Zhangjiagang Sheenstar Technology Co., Ltd focuses on production of water and beverages. It’s in Leyu town, Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, China, at NO88 Lezhong Road.…

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How & Where To Get Section 12J Property Investments In South Africa?

Investing in Section 12J has been quite popular among South Africans for a while now. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s the most effective tax saving option that allows small and medium businesses to grow by working towards increasing their equity finance access.

Property investment consultation

Since the Section 12J has been written into the Tax Act, SMMEs have seen an increase in investors, since those have been given the opportunity to achieve a 100% tax deduction by making those investments. This has turned out to be a win-win situation for everyone and the process of doing it has become much easier, as explained here.…

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4 Essential Steps to Kickstarting Your Online Business

The number of online buyers is expected to reach 2.14 billion in 2021. And that’s great news for entrepreneurs that are thinking of launching their own business. Even though the competition can be fierce, the opportunities to make sales and leverage digital business tools allow almost anyone to create a store and find their audience.

Start an online business

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But getting started can be scary as well. You have to navigate countless regulations, figure out your place in the market, and be ready to meet customer expectations from day one.

To help you get started with all of that (and more), let’s go over a few of the key steps you’ll need to take to kickstart your online business in 2021.…

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Tips for Successful Customer Data Management

Regardless of the type of business you run, the industry you’re in, or the clients you service, you and your team surely collect data about customers frequently. In this day and age, when data is more prevalent and vital than ever, not to mention lucrative to hackers, it’s crucial to track, manage, secure, use, and preserve client details effectively.

Customer data management

This idea may sound a little overwhelming, but the practice doesn’t have to be. There are multiple steps you can take to manage data in your business successfully.

Work Out Your Goals

It’s essential to get clear on exactly which goals you’re pursuing with data management, so you can be more focused on collecting and managing relevant information.…

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Add to Your Small Business Skillset with G Code

Whether you’re planning on investing in CNC machinery or already use it as part of your process, learning G Code could be a real feather in your cap. Don’t worry if you’ve never coded before or aren’t sure where to start, it’s incredibly easy to pick up with a little time and effort. Although you won’t become a master on your very first go, it’s an essential skill when it comes to making the most out of your CNC machine.

CNC machine programmed with G Code

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Whether you’re interested in G Code milling commands or looking to develop a more general understanding of operations, your small business could really benefit from any newfound knowledge.…

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Reasons to Hire a Small Business Accountant

Solo entrepreneurs usually run small businesses. A small business is most likely to have budgetary constraints. In such a situation, the business owner would wear many hats, doing most of the work including accounts.

Small business accountant

Accounting is a very important activity and not giving it sufficient time and focus can cause problems in the long-run. Since entrepreneurs are more focused on business growth, they may not be able to devote time for accounting. This is why it makes sense to hire a small business accountant to ensure accounting operations are managed effectively.

There are many reasons why a small business should hire an accountant.…

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