Your Second Income!

[deekay]

So now I'm about to place my first order for goods with a supplier - just a small sample of 10 items. They are based overseas.
What is going to best the best option to use for payment. I have just created a paypal account, and they do have one.

But when I log into FNB and try to top-up, if I select the reason as "Import" there is so many fields to complete such as Clients Custom number, Tax number, VAT number and Invoice/MRN Number. I don't have a company formally registered or anything like that yet.

Would it be easier to select one of the other reason such as "Gift" or maybe to not use Paypal but use credit card instead?

Do I need to top-up anyway, or can I just transfer to the company's Paypal account directly from my FNB account.

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I have created a new thread for this question over Here

 

[.QQ.]

Dang, apparently I should become a tutor.

 

[spiderz]

Have you thought about taking this idea online. So basically set up all the classes as vidoes (basic package) R2000, videos + pdf questions and anwsers (tips to look out for)+(tips to deal with this type of math problem) = "standard package" R3500 and finally the "standard package" + one on one skype sessions to deal with problem areas that student has, say 3 dedicated hours" the premium package"R5500

This basically means a **** load of work up front. BUT!!!! after that, other then the hours in the premium package, its a passive income.

Now this is my idea, not the tuition company, but the company that sets the tuition company up and provides training on how to maintain it. What do you guys think?

Free alternative:
https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.khanacademy.org/

You want the personal experience a tutor provide ... not video content

 

[spiderz]

20 The casual work website - Where people advertise jobs that they want done for under a 1000 bucks for example filing. You advertise the work you want done and how much you are willing to pay. People then respond after registering on a website (security!) and then contact you via the website for an appointment. True blue second income opportunity.

https://www.freelancer.co.za/

... but why is everyone not using them?

 

[spiderz]

It is sometime just a different approach to the same problem that achieves success ...

 

[Nerfherder]

I have two ideas in my head at the moment that I am mulling over.

1: A device that will stir food in the microwave, simple idea, will be the kind of thing you get on Verimark.

2: Old school milk deliveries to your door. With reusable containers, delivered by bike. sustainable job creation vibe.
Idea is, you order online then first thing in the morning you get bottle of milk on your doorstep, eventually include things like eggs and bread as well.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

YY the English teacher? Blimey. Could just work.

I used to give computer lessons and teach kids to play chess, but that was more because I was bored, not for income generation.

 

[WebNexus]

1: A device that will stir food in the microwave, simple idea, will be the kind of thing you get on Verimark.

This is a brilliant idea. You could use the microwaves own turning mechanism to do all the work and have the "bowl" adjust to the dimensions of the microwave. Its a pet peeve of mine to have to stir the contents, lets say left over mince, and put it back in to heat the cold parts. You just have to careful that people don't burn out the motor by stirring to solid contents.

2: Old school milk deliveries to your door. With reusable containers, delivered by bike. sustainable job creation vibe.

A potential problem with this might be distribution. Namely:
-People will only be at home during the morning or evening times.
-Irregular frequency of orders.
-Consumer tastes across simple items, like the 20 different kinds of bread.

But this is a good thing. Solve problems like this and you are golden. Maybe something like an idea I had for cooking. There must a million blogs, youtube vids and shows out there on how to cook. I would just do one thing different. It would go something like this:

-Choose your category. Eg Super complex and delicious looking Pasta.
-Watch the "how to" vid and get the recipe. FOR FREE.
-According to the recipe you need so much sugar, so much of this and that etc etc.
-You can order the entire meal bundle to make a meal for 2,4,6,8 etc, and have it delivered the next day.
-It removes the need to find the exact item shown in the show. EG you need to find this type of spice,etc.

The point I am trying to make is that the above topic/business (cooking) is already out there. Its this the approach that is different. (having the bundle of ingredients delivered to you)

You could even use existing channels. I think pick and pay and Woolworths offer online ordering and maybe delivery. This will obviously cost more, but it would enable you to scale your business to a higher level much more quickly because it would remove a **** load of work from you. Namely ordering the items(which might require a storage area) and delivering them, which you could only do in your immediate area.

Plus once you reach a certain scale, say the whole of Gauteng, you can approach the retails and request a distribution discount, by pass them and start your own sourcing department or sell the business to the company and consult.

You just have to make sure your content is **** hot.

 

[surface]

I have two ideas in my head at the moment that I am mulling over.

1: A device that will stir food in the microwave, simple idea, will be the kind of thing you get on Verimark.

2: Old school milk deliveries to your door. With reusable containers, delivered by bike. sustainable job creation vibe.
Idea is, you order online then first thing in the morning you get bottle of milk on your doorstep, eventually include things like eggs and bread as well.

something like this?
http://www.mysmartbuy.com/p-1076-MicroStir-Self-Stirring-Microwave-Cooking-Bowl.html

 

[Nerfherder]

something like this?
http://www.mysmartbuy.com/p-1076-MicroStir-Self-Stirring-Microwave-Cooking-Bowl.html

Yes, I have a different solution, but that is actually quite a clever bowl.

 

[Gnarls]

With regards to the tutoring, it's an awesome thing to do although you also have to look at how much time you'll be working due to school holidays etc.

I'm in 3rd year accounts (CA) and I go to a guy with a friend of mine. He charges R270 per person for an hour and a half. He does this everyday and gets around 6-7 lessons a day depending on when tests and exams are.
He's only working about 8-9 months a year due to the long University holidays. Everything is in cash so he doesn't pay tax and if he does it's very low as there's no trail. He barely has any 1 on 1 lessons and he is coining it! Word of mouth helps him so much to the point that he is full full every week now.

Have a look at offering help with University subjects, you can up your fee and market yourself to different universities in your area. My accounts lecture has around 400-500 people, getting through to 10 of them and letting them sell your service is great. That's also just for accounts CA. There's still bcom accounts and managerial accounting.

I used to buy notes off the students a year ahead of me and uploaded it to dropbox - a folder per subject. Close to exam time I'd tutor and sell the notes via good old usb transfer and like a couple of days before the exam I'd sell access to the specific dropbox folders.

Made some nice cash there. And I learnt the material myself lol

 

[DominionZA]

I used to buy notes off the students a year ahead of me and uploaded it to dropbox - a folder per subject. Close to exam time I'd tutor and sell the notes via good old usb transfer and like a couple of days before the exam I'd sell access to the specific dropbox folders.

Made some nice cash there. And I learnt the material myself lol

Brilliant! Well executed!

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

I used to buy notes off the students a year ahead of me and uploaded it to dropbox - a folder per subject. Close to exam time I'd tutor and sell the notes via good old usb transfer and like a couple of days before the exam I'd sell access to the specific dropbox folders.

Made some nice cash there. And I learnt the material myself lol

Obviously sold to doff students...surely the first who purchased it "shared" the notes with everyone else?

 

[NeonNinja]

Obviously sold to doff students...surely the first who purchased it "shared" the notes with everyone else?

Thinking same. Only one needs to buy. If it's not nicked for 30 seconds.

 

[DA-LION-619]

You'll think students have a merry association... Its a cut throat affair, no one is really your friend...

 

[Gnarls]

Obviously sold to doff students...surely the first who purchased it "shared" the notes with everyone else?

That's why you sell it just before exam time cause then folks don't have the time to phone a friend and make it as granular as possible and finally me personally tutoring you was priceless cause finance 1 and 2 along the stats, gold!

 

[philthom]

It is sometime just a different approach to the same problem that achieves success ...

Jip, like Google did. The idea doesn't have to be unique. The execution of it just needs to add value to consumers better than your competitors can to achieve success.

As for me, I wish I could make some moolas from music. Currently writing my own tunes and lyrics. Hope to start gigging and producing my own records is also an ideal.

Maybe in the long-term I can start my own label. The sky is the limit!

 

[Pakka]

Those who have tried Web hosting businesses, did you find the business lucrative? I'm considering buying reseller accounts and then develop and host.

The one concern though is that with hosting comes mail hosting, and with that comes endless problems with users c who don't understand Outlook etc. I'm afraid that tech support might take too much time during my day job. Any ideas?

 

[Thor]

You'll think students have a merry association... Its a cut throat affair, no one is really your friend...

+1

 

[Dylan_G]

You'll think students have a merry association... Its a cut throat affair, no one is really your friend...

+1

Nah. I think it depends where you're from. Engineering at UKZN, people will offer you resources (notes, past papers) and help. Law at UKZN (from what I've heard) is cut throat AF.

You'd have to find a very specific market for this idea to work, especially as someone said, the first person who buys it can just distribute the notes. I think they tutoring thing would work better, especially if you're a solid one.