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Mar
19

7 Simple Steps To Passive Income

The problem with working as a freelancer, it seems to me, is that you’re still trading your time for money. If you’re ill, or just don’t feel like working, you’re going to see the result on the bottom line. What you need – indeed, what everyone needs – is a source of income that is …

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Mar
03

Cure for the Monday Morning Blues

When I was still working for a boss, I used to catch myself dreading Monday mornings quite early in the weekend – usually late on Saturday afternoons, but sometimes as early as Friday night. Life is too short to spend a third of it working at a job you don’t like. I would go so …

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Feb
29

Become A Blogger

If you’re aiming at making a living as a freelancer, you need a blog. Blogs are great for building up a network of contacts. A well-executed blog can be a showcase for your skills. And if you’re good enough, you can earn a living from your blog – just look at Darren Rowse. If you’re …

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Feb
28

Get In On The Ground Floor

You may be interested in an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new social networking service. http://lxcoza.qassia.com/ Qassia is a site to which you can add your websites. You can also add your knowledge, in the form of tidbits of information called “intel”. The more intel you add, the better your …

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Feb
28

What Not To Say

Shama Hyder has a great post over at FreelanceSwitch.com about things you really shouldn’t be saying to your clients… http://freelanceswitch.com/clients/10-phrases-every-freelancer-should-kick-out-of-their-vocabulary/

Feb
15

South Africans and Paypal and Hostgator

There’s a great post at imod.co.za about why South Africans can’t get paid by Paypal – the comments are especially interesting. Since I mentioned Hostgator yesterday, I’ve discovered that they have a somewhat discriminatory policy regarding South Africans. If you live anywhere in the world except, it seems, China and South Africa, you can pay …

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Feb
15

Freebie Friday

If you look at the right-hand column of my blog, you’ll see a sign-up form. Sign up for alerts, and you’ll get a short email when I add a new blog post. What’s more, I’m giving away a great e-book called “The Extremely Simple $500+/month System For Newbies”. It’s written by the Rhodes brothers, and …

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Feb
14

HTML and CSS Training For Nothing

Fred Black is giving away his excellent training course on HTML and CSS for nothing. He used to charge $35 for it, but all he wants now is your name and email address, so that he can send you updates when he posts to his blog. Fred’s one of the good guys. Highly recommended.

Feb
14

Domain Names For Fifty Rand

Did you know that you can register a .co.za domain name for R50? Most of the Internet Service Providers are still charging between R100 and R200 for every domain name you register. But Uniforum, the organization which administers the .co.za namespace, dropped the annual registration price for .co.za domains to R50 quite some time ago. …

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