Hello World Welcome to Root4Plant and The Crazy Accountant Root4Plant is the company and the entity, The Crazy Accountant is our alter ego, a name with a purpose, well actually it’s me, the context is important, check out our Website’s “About Page” to find out more. Our initial focus is to provide Finance related Business […]
Building, Designing and Hosting a Website – Part 1 “The Crazy Accountant” and Root4Plant decided to build and own their own website … “Build it and they will come” so to speak. If you have thought about starting your own website or you’ve started a business and need a website, read on … as we
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Designing and selecting a Company Logo Hopefully our “Logo story” will provide a few ideas for your company logo. Importantly, as we highlight our mistakes, you can avoid a few. Follow the process taken by a non-graphic designer and a non-marketing guru, using a “common sense?” approach. For ease of reading, this article, has the
Opening An Amazon Affiliate / Associate Store The romantic notion of owning and running your own business, is often just that, a dream and if it is reality … it is quite often a nightmare. The idea is fantastic, you gain your independence, have the flexibility of making your own hours, make your own rules,
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Affiliate Marketing What is Affiliate Marketing … At its most basic level, Affiliate Marketing is a company paying for Advertising on the sale of its products or services. There are generally 3 parties in process: The Affiliate, the individual or the company advertising the product or service. The Brand / The Company selling the Goods
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STEALTH FINANCING – PART 2 – when it Shouts In September / October 2022, the following was published on our LinkedIn sites: We have two excellent examples to consider, Manchester United and the Edgars Group. The potent force of Leveraged Finance …. like compound interest can be incredibly powerful. Depending on which side you are,
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Stealth Financing – Part 1 In September / October 2022, the following was published on our LinkedIn sites: Around November of last year (2021 – time of first publication of this article was in 2022), I purchased shares in a listed South African company named Distell. At the time Heineken had put in an offer
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Energy Crisis, Blackouts and Business Continuity Plans Energy Crisis and Blackouts From time to time, South Africa leads the way in innovation and preparation. As the world struggles to come to grips with rapidly rising energy costs, the shock and horror of projected electricity rationing and for businesses, how do they manage the related risks
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Side Hustles – good or bad? What is on the job menu for today …. would you like a “side dish” with that? As an employee you are thinking along the lines of “French fries” and your employer is thinking about something skewered at this point. We are going to be discussing the contentious concept
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Conventional management wisdom “Now Pay attention”, this is important …. all right it most probably isn’t, I have always just wanted to say that phrase. Conventional Management wisdom suggests that you should work with and seek out those people who disagree with you. They will challenge you and help you grow, cultivating innovative ideas and
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Origin Series – Burn-Out As part of our “Origin” series we will not start at the beginning, we will start in the not-too-distant past. This post will be split into 2 separate posts, they are both important topics, in some ways they may be inter-related, even though they are not. They each deserve their own
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Lucky Escape From time to time, life throws one a bit of a curve ball so to speak and I think this one is worth noting, as it definitely made an impact and left an impression. Recently, I was hit by a truck …. quite literally. Granted it was a small truck, “only” a three
