Legal Law

Cloud computing: the ins and outs

Cloud computing has gained significant popularity in recent years due to its self-service capability, flexibility, affordability, scalability, and its pay-as-you-go service model. You may have also heard that cloud computing is known as the cloud, cloud hosting, cloud server hosting, etc. These terms have been thrown around a lot and most don’t even know exactly…

Legal Law

The cost of doing business in South Africa

A recent survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked South Africa as highly profitable (10th out of 31 countries surveyed). South Africa’s exchange rate makes it one of the least expensive countries to do business in, particularly one with first-world infrastructure and high standards of living. Although the strongest local currency has strengthened against other…

Legal Law

The worthless college degree

It’s time someone said it loud and clear: A college degree is a waste of time. Remember, you heard it here first. Everyone “knows” that people with a college degree make more money. The only problem with that fact is that it is false. It’s easy to make it sound like a college degree will…

Legal Law

Heal and control your online reputation

Shakespeare, in Act 2 of his play Othello from around 1603, said it best: Reputation, reputation, reputation. It is the original personal brand and one of the defining realities of our lives. For Solopreneur consultants and other freelancers, reputation governs the quantity and quality of projects that are made available to us, and therefore reputation…