How To Freelance And Make Money At It – Build Trust Everywhere You Go

April 19, 2009 · Posted in Financial Stability · Comments Off 

When most people want to be self employed and start their own business, the first question that comes to their mind is “how to freelance”. You see, when a business hires you as a freelancer, they want to be able to trust you. The reason for that is simple. They want to make sure their money is going to be well spent.

So how do you build trust? There are many ways to build trust. However, we’ll talk about the most important ones here.

The first thing I like to discuss is your availability to the client. You need to be available for the client to answer any questions they may have. This especially holds true when you work from home most of the time. The more you are around for them, the better. The best ways to keep in reach are a mobile phone and instant messenger programs. Read more

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Towards Creating a New Economy

February 27, 2009 · Posted in Financial Stability · Comments Off 

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For the purposes of analysis, “the economy” can be simplistically divided into 2 segments: that which creates economic activity of wealth and the opportunity for taxation; and that which is felt to diminish wealth and spend taxation. An example of the former is making luxury cars. Examples of the latter are caring for the elderly, healthcare in general and tackling global warming. At the root of this division is another concept; that of values. Buying a nice shiny new BMW has high value, bestowing prestige and a sense of being marked out as special. High wages are given to those involved in manufacture, service and sales. High wages (or indebtedness) are needed to buy one and maintain the tax, insurance and fuel duty.

Caring for disadvantaged people on the other hand is felt to have low value, low prestige, low wages. Public services go to great length to avoid paying for it at all, taking and making every opportunity to offload the cost onto someone else; ultimately the poor themselves. Politicians devise ever more sophisticated reasons to persuade us that they can actually reduce the “burden” of having to pay for this at all. The net result is that those who need social care or work within the sector grow progressively poorer, more oppressed and disadvantaged, while the economic infrastructure surrounding oil-based motor transport grows ever wealthier, or if in recession, deemed more worthy of protection and safeguarding. Read more

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Do You Want to Succeed in a Down Economy? Many Have – You Can Too

February 15, 2009 · Posted in Financial Stability · Comments Off 

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Staying afloat during an economic downturn is difficult, but it’s not impossible. Starting with the Great Depression, including the ten economic downturns since the National Bureau of Economic Research shows our economic slumps have been cyclic. The last five downturns have been shorter in duration than their predecessors. But speculate as they may, no one can predict when the economy will rebound. What you can be certain is that it will. Can you hold on? Will you be ready for the upswing?

Businesses, old and new, have not only succeeded during a downturn, they have come out of downturns much stronger.

How did businesses do it? Simple, they maintained good marketing programs, projected stability, provided quality products and services, knew their customers and how the downturn affected them and managed expenses. These companies created business stability and staying power until the economy turned upward again. Read more

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