Tips for tricky homemade questions, hiring help, mobile payments and tough times

Here’s this week’s collection of articles from around the traps. We pick articles which we think will help you make a healthy income, work a little more productively or just inspire you to ‘get on with it’! Enjoy x.

1. Do you do everything yourself? This teeny weeny little note is a fabulous reminder that choosing ‘myself’ to do stuff isn’t always best.

2. Here’s another fabulous little tip, especially if you make homemade.  I know lots of you will chuckle knowingly at the comment “Why don’t you make them in square loaf pans like everyone else?”

3. Did you know that we pay more when we pay by credit card? It doesn’t hurt as much. So if you’re selling on the go (at fairs etc)  it makes sense to be able to take mobile credit card payments. But where do you start? Here’s a good article on all the different types. The flip side, of course, is that if you’re trying to save money pay in cash.

4. Here are seven great ways to make your time go further. It’s not always easy to do but I’m a huge fan of number 2.

5. Finally, this one’s for you if you’re going through a tough time.

6. And even more finally. Did you see this on the Maker Movement? Of course we all knew it was big, didn’t we?!