Location, location, location. For some businesses, this mantra is do or die, for others not so much so. But how do you choose the ideal location for your business? There are many factors to consider but here are just a few. What Type Of Business Are You? Does your business require hundreds, or even thousands of people walking in or around your shop/ outlet? Does you business require this large foot traffic to sustain itself [ Read More... ]

In one of my first posts on my blog, I showed how I resigned from my job to pursue my own undertakings in an Internet business. In hindsight, there are some things I should have considered more thoroughly before jumping ship. Financial Security When you work, you get paid; it’s as simple as that. When you are working for yourself, you only get paid when you complete a successful sale or transaction. It could be [ Read More... ]

Most people might not know what del.icio.us is or how it works. For ease of typing, I’ll refer to it as ‘delicious’ since when you type in the word ‘delicious’ in Google, the first result is del.icio.us anyway. This is delicious. So what is delicious? Chocolates? No, delicious is a social bookmarks manager that allows you to bookmark any webpage using your choice of keywords to remind you of what that page was. You can [ Read More... ]

The first option you have is to register your business online through the government portal and the SSM website. However as you can see from my previous post about registering a business online, this can be quite a time consuming and ultimately frustrating thing. If you would prefer to do it quickly (but not any less frustrating I might add) then all you need to do is head over to the SSM building located at [ Read More... ]

The inner monologue of a virtual office. I’ve been looking around for a virtual office recently, just so that when I print out business cards, at least it will look more professional. My original idea was to rent a PO Box from the post office, but who would take you seriously if you had a PO Box address as your office address? A virtual office provides services at different costs, depending on your needs. The [ Read More... ]

[Update January 2009 - By far the easiest way to register a business is actually by doing it manually. The SSM website has changed, is not very user friendly and takes up to 1 week to process. Going to SSM and registering yourself will take no more than 2 hours.] [Update August 2008: Additionally, you can download all the steps I have listed below in an easy to read .pdf file that I took the [ Read More... ]

I recently read a very interesting article about how to start a startup. The essay was written all the way back in 2005 by Paul Graham, the creator of a number of successful web applications including the back bone for the ‘Yahoo Store’ application, Yahoo’s answer to e-Bay. Although he writes the essay from the point of view of a web programmer, a lot of what he says has relevance no matter what field of [ Read More... ]