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Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by kunta2simple: 7:32am On May 18, 2016
XaviDayo:
Not as easy as you make it sound. I pay very high salaries in this useless and Zombie administration using the rule of thumb to control the economy. Being an entrepreneur now is not funny but Buhari can never make us close down our business because before he became president, we existed and when he leaves Aso Rock in 2019, we will still be making our millions. Fraud of a Change
Your reason for being here is to attack Buhari and not to make any meaningful contribution to the thread.
I doubt you truly have a job like you claimed.
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by Jarus(m): 7:33am On May 18, 2016
ObiOkpor:
You can have enough rest and no rush hour to work.

Fallacy.

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Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by FullDepth1: 7:49am On May 18, 2016
joey150:
guy learn to write correctly.
your abbreviations most times where needless and very off putting.
i dont know where people learnt that it is okay to abbreviate 80% of the words in their sentences.
is that how you also write on your blog?? you did a bad job of selling it to the public if you ask me.

I tell you!.

I felt gravely disgusted reading through his writeup.

Where and how do these people learn the act of using shambolic abbreviations?

To think he directs us to his blog? I can only imagine what we'd find there.
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by brunofarad(m): 7:50am On May 18, 2016
There's no RULE that states that all SELF EMPLOYMENT must be in small scale.
A BUSINESS owner explains the climax of self employment.




themistocles:
....pls u mixin up self employed(small business) and the business owners.....d B-business owners don't need to b present buh der cashflow cums in ......
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by nigflute(m): 7:54am On May 18, 2016
Wow this is great and wonderful piece....
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by franko4don(m): 7:54am On May 18, 2016
cr80vity:
workin for yourself is not sth dat easy except you have a career nd vision drivin you else you might fail....business is not just abt you wakin up to start sth or sell sth....its deeper dan dat...
another tin is personally, I wil like self employment with real entrepreneurship...I said real cux most of us have mistaken self employment with entrepreneurship...self employment is u workin for yourself entrepreneurship is you working yourself to create sth or solve sth wch wil den be ur own business...dangote is self employed, Bill gate is an entrepreneur..think deep abt it....I Dnt no if m makin sens....self employment cud b selfishness at times cux it's abt u creating ur wealth but entrepreneurship, I min entrepreneurship is abt u creating ur wealth bt at d same time blessing d nation or people around u...blessing nt by bin a philanthropist...I v a alot to say bt m.workin on an article abt ds tins, wen its out I wil put on my blog nd publicize....
you can chk my blog for motivational and educative articles http://creativityworldsite.
so as dangote not provided employment for a good number of people? Has his products not helped a lot of people ranging from manufacturers and consumers, dnt be myopic.
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by nawebco(m): 7:57am On May 18, 2016
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They are already automated and programmed: This means they perform routine job on your behalf based on the settings given to it by you. If for example, you send a mail to someone, you may receive instant feedback, telling you that your message has been received. This is automation. The feedback was as a result of presetting given to the email address. If you own any of these automated websites, it means many functions will be performed on your behalf even when you are asleep.
They can be run or maintained easily: These sites can be run either as a part time or full time. You can run it without leaving your present job. You can even maintain it from your bedroom, sitting room or office as you do not necessarily need an office for it. You also (as a starter) need no helping hand as most of the settings will be done once and the website does the rest.
They are relatively cheap: These websites because of its automation are relatively cheap. Firstly the set up cost is cheap. Maintaining it is also cheap compared to if you were to employ staff to undertake the tasks (that were being performed by the site) for you.
A lifetime income: These websites are lifetime income. You continue to reap from it till you decide to sell it. You also continue to earn from it even when you are on sickbed or while on travelling. You also earn from it even after retiring from active service and interestingly the longer the life of a website the better for the site.
They do not require special training or skill: One amazing fact about these websites is that they do not require a certain formal education level or a special skill for you to run it. The only skill requires is to be computer literate. In addition, the requirement to start running any of these sites it to have a computer (laptop, desktop, ipad, tablet etc.) and internet connection, with these two you are on the move.
It can be maintained on the move: to run any of these sites, you do not (necessarily) need an office or station somewhere. You can run it from your room, place of work, or even in your car on the move. It’s so flexible.

Having any of these automated websites is a means to an end to seeking for jobs or better put, planning for a better later life (retirement). So think of any of these you need to start with and start today.

Also before choosing a type of website to own, you must consider yourself as you can easily excel in your best area of passion and profession. If, for example you love youth, think of sport, job, youth, education or fashion related website. If you have passion for health (or you are a health professional); think of health, gymnastic or such related website.

Who needs these sites

Having any of these automated websites is a means to an end to seeking for jobs or better put, seeking for paid or monthly job. Planning for a better later life (retirement) with good business feasibility report, you can live better life even than in your active service life. Here is a business that is so flexible that you can decide when and how to run it.

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How you earn from any of the site: Apart from specific ways of earning form each of the sites, you can earn by selling space in your website (for advert) or place advert codes (google adsence, chitika, etc) on your site. The more people you have in your site, the more you earn.

Here are some of the automated websites:

1. Job Service Sites
having this site makes you an intermediary between service providers and service seekers. Service providers list their service on your site and service seekers seek for the service. Once the service is delivered (mostly online), the transaction ended.

How you earn from this site: you can charge service providers to pay before listing their service or you charge him after he has delivered the service. Fiverr for example earns 20% of the income of a seller. if your sellers make $100 in a day (as a starter), you make $20.

2. Bulk SMS site Read here how you can create sms site by yourself
If you have this site, people register on your site to be able to send customized bulk SMS message to phone users.
There are big companies, schools etc using bulk SMS for advert and communication. the more customers you have, the more money you make.

how you earn from this site: You buy the sms units at lower price and sell at higher price (trading) and you have a profit margins (as high as 40% G.P)

3. Advert Management site you act as intermediary between advertisers (those that want to advertise through their website) and publishers (owners of websites). Publishers register with you, so also are advertisers. Advertisers request advert while publishers place the advert to appear in their own website.

how you earn from this site: you give certain percentage (as you wish) out of payments made by advertisers to publishers and the difference (as much as 40% G.P) is your own gain. The more advertisers you have, the more the gain.

4. Forum Site a forum site is a meeting place for people to undertake certain common tasks and the more popular your site, the more people you have on your site.

How you earn from this site: you can charge people to pay before they register on the site or before they make a post. You can also place an advert (sell space for advertisers)

5. Job Creation Site In the world today, one of the most challenging issues is employment opportunity for graduates from secondary and tertiary institutions. Having a job placement site is one way of assisting so many to get job opportunities. Employers place advert of job openings to your site and job seekers browse these jobs to get the best for themselves.

How you earn from this site: You can charge employers of labour before they place job openings. A site (as at February 2014) charge $40 for one job placement. You can also charge job seekers. You earn massively from selling space on your site (because people keep coming to your site to search for jobs)
there are so many other earning income opportunities like create a consulting outfit (writing of CV, resume letter, subscribe, alert, etc.) for job seekers.

6. Directory Sites Directory sites are mini encyclopedia, almanac, handbook that gathers information about specific item or issue. You can have a directory of many categories or a single category. A single category like football directory, job sites directory or a multiple directory like sport directory that has each sport as a category. You can also have a more complex directory like having a category for art, business; fashion, sport, job etc. and each of these categories also have a sub category like job category having accountancy, administrative, etc.

How you earn from this site: mostly you charge webmasters before they enlist their sites on your directory. you earn massively from selling space on your site (because people keep coming to your site to make new search)

7. Online store as the name speaks, this is a store, but online. You welcome sellers (mostly non-digital goods) who place their goods on your site; while buyers browse the site to buy goods. Buying from online store are becoming more popular globally. This is largely due to increasing computer (laptop, desktop, tablet, ipad) and internet accessibility.
You may need some helping hands in successfully running this site so as to manually control some important areas of the transactions. This is principally to guide against fraud.

How you earn from this site: you can charge the sellers before they list their goods on your store. You can charge certain percentage of worth of goods sold by these sellers. you earn massively from selling space on your site (because people keep coming to your site to search for items to buy)


8. Website Buying and selling site There are millions of websites across the globe so as there are millions of website buyers and sellers of websites. This is another trading site where sellers of website listed their site in your site, while prospective buyers of websites browse through your site and buy the one that they need.
How you earn from this site: you can charge the sellers before they list their websites on your site. You can charge certain percentage of worth of websites sold by these webmasters. you earn massively from selling space on your site (because people keep coming to your site to search for new website listings). There are so many other earning income opportunities like create a consulting outfit (special services for buyers and sellers of websites)

9. Social Media Site example: This is money spinning site as the world is going more on social than business. Launching a successful social site is like planting a tree of life. Just try to create unique activities that will distinct your social site from many others. Let people know you for specific attraction and service.
How you earn from this site: I know you might have been to any of the above or other social media sites. Now imagine how they get their income from the sites.

10. Search Engine Site: People tend to get to websites or find solutions to their issues through search engines. Search engines shall continue to dominate as long as internet and browsing exists. Having a good search engine is a good source of income.
How you earn from this site: imagine how Yahoo or Google earn income from search engine. The income there is multi-faceted. The more popular you are, the more money you make. But it is a long term business.

11. Article Submission Site ,there are millions of articles on the web, majority of which was listed in these article sites for maximum exposure. The world cannot turn away from learning through article (this is one of them), so having article submission site is a way to everlasting income. In addition that most of the articles are going to have links which directly and indirectly increase your site backlinks thereby given you fast traffic and rating opportunity.
How you earn from this site: You can charge writers before you accept article from them. You can create special places (feature, confirm, rated) in your site which attract additional income for you. All these in addition to selling space in your site for Google, among others.

12. News site example: News site is another way of earning constant and continuous income especially that news will always emerge every blessed day. It means a good news site should have the opportunity of attracting constant traffic searching for the latest. You can also categorized your news site as you may deem fit. You may have sports news, family news, entertainment news, politic news etc.

One main issue is you must have the time and personnel to constantly update the site for current news. Although because of its automation, all you need is to feed the content and you can also use one form of software or the other to ease this task.

How you earn from this site: It is a big source of income from subscription, adverts and other innovative services.

13. Auto responder site: Auto responder sites are another money making ways as it deals with marketing, online marketing of sites and goods and services. As long as there is life, marketing or advertising will never seize to be.
Auto responder by definition is a computer program that automatically returns a prewritten message to anyone who submits e-mail to a particular Internet address, whether an individual or a Web site.

How you earn from this site: Advertisers are charged to make payment based on the package they need. There are also extra services that could fetch a furtune. Adsence banners, mtt banners etc are also source of income

14. Banner exchange site: This involves making banner exchange with other website owners, thereby giving them impressions/clicks through your site.

How you earn from this site: You as the banner exchanger, you have certain impressions/clicks from those that give you and give less to those that need the impressions, say ratio 1:0.7, the 0.3 is your gain which you can use or sell to those that cannot exchange banner with you and need impressions/clicks.

source: http://mytrafficthunder.com/article/50-automated-websites-that-could-earn-you-for-life-1/
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by misscall247: 7:59am On May 18, 2016
kunta2simple:

Your reason for being here is to attack Buhari and not to make any meaningful contribution to the thread.
I doubt you truly have a job like you claimed.
And you are here to defend him.....that failure who has cripple Nigeria economy#God will judge u and buhari#kan buru ba shage.

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Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by Galaxyowerri(m): 8:08am On May 18, 2016
Absolute truism! I am into self employed and wont give it up for anything, not even a bank job, federal government job or anything else. There are so many advantages in being self employed and also include growing at your own pace, not being at the whims and caprice of "oga at the top" etc and with a clear vision and hard work one can achieve whatever he dreams of, though the economy at the moment can be frustrating to business owners but at the same time you are not at risk of being sacked if you were to be working for someone.

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Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by Pidggin(f): 8:29am On May 18, 2016
Buhari is ruining the economy for small businesses, it was better before sad
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by themistocles: 8:32am On May 18, 2016
brunofarad:
There's no RULE that states that all SELF EMPLOYMENT must be in small scale.
A BUSINESS owner explains the climax of self employment.




.........kip quiet and dnt say wat u don't knw...self employed is notin near to a Business System...... wen u r financially literate..... u wuld understand like d likes of warren buffet, john.D.Rockefeller, Larry Ellison,Henry Ford etc...operate a business system DAT dey can travel thru out a year n der business wuld not stop running buh a self employed must b present n does his tin himself...bro b financially intelligent...though it's not taught in skul

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Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by SilphaGG: 8:37am On May 18, 2016
We are buying raw gold,contact me on bisioyebade@yahoo.com or 08029348334,mobile no is my brother in nigeria and mail address is my direct contact.thanks
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by brunofarad(m): 8:37am On May 18, 2016
So sorry to dissapoint you
Am not available for a brawl with you
Its after 8 and am just Too busy to engage you in verbals.

Bye

Got work to do



themistocles:
.........kip quiet and dnt say wat u don't knw...self employed is notin near to a Business System...... wen u r financially literate..... u wuld understand like d likes of warren buffet, john.D.Rockefeller, Larry Ellison,Henry Ford etc...operate a business system DAT dey can travel thru out a year n der business wuld not stop running buh a self employed must b present n does his tin himself...bro b financially intelligent...though it's not taught in skul
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by kunta2simple: 8:45am On May 18, 2016
misscall247:
And you are here to defend him.....that failure who has cripple Nigeria economy#God will judge u and buhari#kan buru ba shage.
Ubanka ne shege, dan buzuzu, dan bola, wawa
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by Nobody: 8:52am On May 18, 2016
Team self employed. Check my signature and you'll be grateful. It's easy, convenient and reliable.
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by Abee79(m): 9:24am On May 18, 2016
ObiOkpor:
You can have enough rest and no rush hour to work.
Right on point. I am in a salaried employment and there are days I wish I could extend my sleep till at least 9:00am, but I can't. I have to keep showing up at work 8:00am whether I feel like or not. Sometimes the stress accumulates and my personal output drops, but no one gives a damn as long as I show up at work as required. Most days I just stare at my computer till 4:30 . . . (or I lounge at NL like I am doing now grin cool) Then I carry my bag and go home. The next day, the circle starts again. At the end of the month, my account is credited. I spend it and wait again for another one to enter. The monotonous routine is killing me. I keep asking myself: "How long can I keep this up?"
PS: Don't get me wrong. I love the fact that I don't have to hussle too much for the money I am getting. The financial security is cool, but I feel something precious dying inside of me . . .
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by hardbody: 11:00am On May 18, 2016
I will work for myself when I retire and can rely on strong asset base and limitless cash flow. I tried that stunt once and was parking my car to jump buses and leg the rest to meet appointments that yielded nothing. After a while I dusted my degrees and joined the corporate ladder. Today they provide my cars and fuel, mega size generator with diesel, they pay my club bills, pick my phone bills, pay my DSTV, where do I even stop. Salary is regular, they pay for offshore and local trainings, i use the employers facilities to even do small PPs and even the tablet I am using to type this plus the data is provided by them.

Let me continue to manage the 8 to 5pm thing abeg. The benefits far outweigh the downside. Meanwhile, i pray that God will provide all of us with meaningful jobs and opportunities to enable us make informed decisions whether we want to work for ourselves or others.

Peace

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Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by abbeyman1798: 11:01am On May 18, 2016
Abee79:

Right on point. I am in a salaried employment and there are days I wish I could extend my sleep till at least 9:00am, but I can't. I have to keep showing up at work 8:00am whether I feel like or not. Sometimes the stress accumulates and my personal output drops, but no one gives a damn as long as I show up at work as required. Most days I just stare at my computer till 4:30 . . . (or I lounge at NL like I am doing now grin cool) Then I carry my bag and go home. The next day, the circle starts again. At the end of the month, my account is credited. I spend it and wait again for another one to enter. The monotonous routine is killing me. I keep asking myself: "How long can I keep this up?"
PS: Don't get me wrong. I love the fact that I don't have to hussle too much for the money I am getting. The financial security is cool, but I feel something precious dying inside of me . . .


Same here brotherly. I kept asking me, why r u here? What is ur purpose on this earth? My brother, no security anywhere, your instinct is telling u to move b4 u are forcefully removed. Being an employee is hard, being and entrepreneur is hard, cloose ur hard. I have decided.

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Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by kilokeys(m): 11:33am On May 18, 2016
I always refer folks to the four quadrants

employed

self employed

business owner

investor



if u are as miserable or more miserable than somebody working in a company ...then its blind pride and foolishness to be self employed

many benefits being employed in a standard organisation ( gratuity, pensions, health insurance, basic salaries, incentives and stability)
being self employed should assure all that... i know many self employed pple that live below par.. they dont earn enough, barely get by, no health insurance, no stability..


In a country like ours, where standard employment is hard.. i do not disapprove self employment... but it could be a means to get by, save up, learn and make yourself relevant to the global working environment... then you could decide if you will be better off starting a real thing ( owning business that can employ pple, gives u rest of mind, puts money in ur pocket and avails u free time to try out other things)


enough trash about owning a barbing salon, selling indomie in cartons, making beads, photography and the likes... the market is saturated... monopoly thrives ..

so acquire some relevant skill ( nebosh , ican etc) with ur self-employment hustle.. get employed n a credible firm 8 am to 5pm... manage ur barbing salons and petty hustles through others, via phone and at close of work.


my opinion

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Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by Malawian(m): 3:25pm On May 18, 2016
working for yourself is when you realize you dont have time for yourself. i mean, i have not even gone for exercise in more than a year. the last time was during elections.

the begining is very tedious, especially when trying to build clientel, and all manner of tax collectors are on your neck for their tax [nepa, opc security, lawma, local government levy, etc]

when i started, i can assure you that at the end of the day's work, i might go home with 200, yet i come the next day with 50 or 100 naira from inside the money grin grin grin

after 4 years, let me put it this way - i drive a jeep, i live in a 4 bdroom flat and i just returned from a restaurant after eating a plate of food costing 500 tongue tongue

dont get me wrong, although i am ok now, i could have been much larger if i had remained with my previous firm in kaduna, i might even be building my own house by now.

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Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by SLIDEwaxie(m): 4:58pm On May 18, 2016
changeAPC2015:


Please may I know why you said Cassava became a nonsense? Any reasons, glut, disease, unfavourable pricing or....?
unfavorable pricing due to the availability in the hands of the local farmers. That is, the variety we used to plant that makes us the boss is already in circulation.

Now, Cassava is selling at 100% the price of last yr.
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by cr80vity(m): 11:01pm On May 18, 2016
franko4don:
so as dangote not provided employment for a good number of people? Has his products not helped a lot of people ranging from manufacturers and consumers, dnt be myopic.
bro d point is I am differentiating btw bin self employed nd bin an entrepreneur
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by cr80vity(m): 11:08pm On May 18, 2016
kunta2simple:

So dangote no solve problems, dangote no help the nation?
It's like you don't know the positive effects of dangote cement on construction in the countries economy.
pls get me....I am nt sayin he s nt helping d nation...I am stating d differences btw self employment and entrepreneurship...fine he s providing employment for people thro d construction watever bt dat s nt entrepreneurship...can u compare it with innoson vehicles - d man making naija made cars?...he is solving a problem of innovation, dangote solvin a problem of unemployment...d both r gud bt one wil bring out maxi change to d country....imagine dangote s creating an avenue whereby we produce dose construction materials ourselves instead of importing it
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by cr80vity(m): 11:10pm On May 18, 2016
joey150:
guy learn to write correctly.
your abbreviations most times where needless and very off putting.
i dont know where people learnt that it is okay to abbreviate 80% of the words in their sentences.
is that how you also write on your blog?? you did a bad job of selling it to the public if you ask me.
and when you checked my blog, you met abbreviations?...
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by cr80vity(m): 11:12pm On May 18, 2016
freshdude99:

My brother you ain't making any SENSE jare...
Shift abeg
please go and search for the differences between self employment and entrepreneurship
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by joey150(m): 11:14pm On May 18, 2016
cr80vity:
and when you checked my blog, you met abbreviations?...
i didnt bother. because you did a bad job of advertising it
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by cr80vity(m): 11:20pm On May 18, 2016
joey150:
i didnt bother. because you did a bad job of advertising it
you don't judge the book by the cover....you should have checked before concluding...this is a social platform so I don't see why abbreviations are prohibited to you
Re: The Benefits Of Working For Yourself (self- Employed) by joey150(m): 11:26pm On May 18, 2016
cr80vity:
you don't judge the book by the cover....you should have checked before concluding...this is a social platform so I don't see why abbreviations are prohibited to you
its not bro.

but there is never a second chance to make a first impression.

you abbreviate like thats the last message you'll ever type.. not cool.

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