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Could you work from home?
Posted by ShopinJA in Business News on August 10th, 2010
If the entrepreneurs behind Exquisite Marketing Solutions (EMS) Limited have their way, many Jamaicans will be enjoying the privileges of working from home before the New Year rolls in.
Earn money from just reading ads and emails
Robert Gregory Jnr and Dr Damian Ffriend, businessmen and high school friends, have created the Jamaica Advertising Advantage which will allow members the option of earning from a home base. Gregory Jnr is the company creative director and Kingston-based CEO of Designer Fragrances, and Ffriend assumes the role of managing director and is also a life insurance advisor. The latter is also a former manager at the Registrar General’s Department (RGD).
Members of the site will be paid for each ad that they view and 100 per cent of the individual earnings of each person they refer.
Those who sign up at www.jamaicaadvertisingadvantage.com [Refer username=awjm] will earn a minimum US$0.03 cents for reading ads and emails which amounts to a minimum J$150 for every hour spent viewing ads for one minute each. Additionally they will earn bonus equivalent to 100 per cent of the earnings of all the people they have recommended and who signed up using their referral or user name. So, earnings for an hour could be J$150 multiplied by twenty or J$3,000 if you have referred 20 others who use the site and are earning as well.
Now, if this is something you and your friends are prepared to do all day, the dollars could pile up!
“An income of between US$1,000 and US$10,000 is easily achievable depending on the member’s activity,” claims Robert Gregory.
The JAA hopes to have between 1 million and 1.5million members by August 2011 with a minimum of 500,000 by December 2010.
Making Money From Your Backyard
Posted by ShopinJA in Automotive, Business News on June 24th, 2010
Many persons find it challenging to think of practical ideas to earn extra income. The key to making more money is first to identify where people have unmet needs or pressing problems that you can solve for profit. When you are trying to create a part-time source of income, you should always stick to options that fit in with your natural talents or the resources that you already have on hand.
Using these basic principles, it should not be difficult to find several opportunities to become more productive in your spare time. Today, let’s look at how you can use your backyard, whether big or small, and a little elbow grease to work your way into extra cash.
Producing seedlings
The Ministry of Agriculture is currently encouraging persons to focus on backyard gardening, so it’s an opportune time to piggyback on this campaign. Even if you don’t have a green thumb, it is relatively simple to produce seedlings for basic crops such as lettuce, cabbage, string beans and tomatoes for supply to your friends and colleagues. The advantage to growing seedlings is that you can harvest a large crop in a relatively small space.
Growing organic vegetables
While some people will gravitate towards growing what they eat, even more will be happy to buy fresh produce directly from you. You can create a steady income by cultivating vegetables and seasoning produce in a small area of your garden. If you produce crops without using pesticides and chemical fertilisers, then you can tap in on the increasing demand for organic food items.
Preparing container gardens
There are many people who would like to grow their own food items but lack the necessary backyard space to do so. Here’s a perfect solution - you can prepare and sell ready-made vegetable gardens in containers such as large pots or recycled five-gallon paint buckets. After reaping the produce, your customers can return the containers and purchase a fresh supply.
Planting herbs
There is tremendous demand for natural remedies for chronic illnesses, and the market for herbs and spices offers great possibilities. Check around at health food stores to see which types of products are best sellers and then do a little research on how to cultivate and package them. With care and effort, you may even develop an export-quality product that can earn foreign exchange.
Cultivating grass
A unique option for persons who don’t mind getting their hands dirty to earn any honest living is grass cultivation. The popularity of home and garden television shows has spurred many homeowners to become more focused on creating the right curb appeal for their properties. With minimal space and a little technical know-how, you can cultivate grass sod for lawns and supply landscaping companies or homeowners directly.
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Hike in departure, phone taxes
Posted by ShopinJA in Business News on September 30th, 2009
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inance Minister Audley Shaw last night announced an increase in the departure tax and a further hike in GCT on phone calls and instruments near the end of a marathon sitting of Parliament’s Standing Finance Committee at Gordon House.
Shaw said that the airport departure tax will move from $1,000 to $1,800, while the tax on phone calls and instruments - which was increased from 16.5 per cent to 20 per cent in April this year - will now move to 25 per cent.
The increases become effective tomorrow and will yield $1.7 billion that Shaw said will close the budget deficit.
NYU Business School Gets its First Black Dean
Posted by ShopinJA in Business News on September 15th, 2009
By: Floyd O. Wilson | Tuesday, September 1, 2009
A new day another barrier is broken. The Stern School of Business at New York University, one of the premier business schools in the nation, has turned to an economics professor at Stanford University, who is also black, as its new dean.
Peter Blair Henry, a Jamaica-born Rhodes Scholar, moves to NYU in January 2010 from Stanford, where he’s currently holding the post of Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Economics. He’ll be NYU’s first black business school dean.
Henry takes over at the school with 5,700 students at a difficult time, with many people questioning the mission of business schools after last year’s financial crash, which many now believe was caused in part by greed among business leaders.
The longest and deepest recession since the Great Depression has also proved a disaster for most of the nation’s colleges and universities. Schools such as NYU that used to benefit from alumni generosity have seen their funding sources dry up. Many of them have watched as their investments and those of their funders disappear like smoke on Wall Street.
A recent Bloomberg report said, “Millions of dollars for financial aid is out of reach at New York University, trapped in endowment accounts that can’t be touched because of a once-obscure state law thrust into prominence by historic investment losses.”
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