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Black and African History Education included in all Institutions

2010-03-14T17:50:00.000-07:00

Black and African History Education included in all Institutions

Snypr Online Gaming

2009-04-26T15:54:00.000-07:00

Snypr is a social network for gamers still under construction. We are looking to gain exposure and find web development and graphic development partners via YoBudget.

Please respond to our quotes if you operate in either graphic or web development fields.

Don't be afraid to contact us with any queries via questions or if you feel you could form a partnership or contract with us to complete our ambitions please move to add us as a connection.

We aim to enter public beta around May 2009.

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Richard Hanage Associates

2009-04-26T15:50:00.000-07:00

I provide business start-up training and support, and also help with managing small businesses. I'll be glad to help you if you are thinking of starting a business, or want some help improving your existing business. It is possible that I will be able to help you find funding and grants.

The business has four special selling points:

* DUBS Experience: I have 12 years experience of working with SMEs at the internationally famous Durham Business School (DUBS). All the Associates have worked on DUBS projects. * Practical workshops: Based on personal knowledge of actually running several small businesses. * Accreditation: I am qualified to design, deliver and assess courses to Masters degree standard, where required. * Associates: The 'Associates' are very experienced in their own specialist fields, and help me cover all aspects of SME development.

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Say NO to rip offs

2009-04-10T05:42:00.000-07:00

Most of us generally don't bother to go an extra mile to get a fair price
from tradesmen and that leads to about 65% being overcharged.

Try these simple steps.

1. Never agree with the first offer because tradesmen normally over price with the hope of making extra profit margin.

2.Make negotiating a necessary tool when confronted by a tradesmen.

3.Always make it clear that you need a competitive quote to match him with other suppliers,that will encourage him to lower the price.

4 Never look desperate as they can sense it and pressure you into making a quick decision.

5.Always collect useful complaint numbers for different trade organizations.

Take good care of your purse

Yobudget Team
www.yobudget.com

YouTube on YoBudget

2009-03-28T09:50:00.000-07:00

We'd just like to quickly introduce you to a couple of features hot out of the oven at YoBudget HQ, they were the most demanded features over the past couple of months so we're pleased we've been able to release them to the public.

- YouTube Video Support -

You can now post a YouTube video URL on either your job, or your profile to help show the job requirements, as most modern mobile phones can upload video directly to YouTube you can now quickly and easily show what needs doing and cut down on how many questions or site visits you may be requested, they also make a fantastic way to introduce yourself and your company to the YoBudget community.

- Job Description Updates -

Now even if your job is in progress, you'll be able to add additional comments to the job description to help clarify the nature of the work, all your edits are clearly marked and added as clarifications, just to help you add something you might have missed when you first posted the job.

We hope that you have fun utilising the new tools available to you at YoBudget, and as always feel free to contact us with any questions, queries or suggestions.

You'll never need to pickup the phone again!

2009-03-02T06:34:00.000-08:00

The next time you need a great price on quotes for your business just remember YoBudget.com

Whatever you need, from printing, book keepers/accountants, solicitors & more, you can find partners who'll be competing to save you money.

We have no gimmicks, no catches - and it's totally free to receive these quotes and join our site.

You will also get a detailed public profile to showcase your business to the world (and here's the best part - we'll supply you free relevant business leads so you can attract more business)

You can save time, money, effort with YoBudget.com

We've saved so much time using our own site instead of plowing through yellow coloured pages to find what we need - we're positive we can help you too.

Warm Regards

The team at YoBudget.com

www.yobudget.com

We are the bees knees for helping business - we'll go out of our way and do the best for you!

Throw away your yellow pages copy

2009-03-02T05:57:00.000-08:00

I won’t bore with unnecessary details just how we can benefit you.

The next time you need fairly priced quotes for your business and home just remember Yobudget.com.

Whatever you require, it could be gardening,removal vans,printing, book keepers/accountants, solicitors, marketing etc., you name it we will get the suppliers to fight for your money.

Okay where is the catch? - None. It’s free to use to find quotes.

You will also get a free public profile .

Once again

1. Save time and Money.

2. Get a fair price

3. Rate , rank and leave feedback

NB. All the time taken during reading this advert was recycled form every customer that ditched yellow pages and other directories and used us for all their enquiries.

Nice to meet you

Yobudget Rebels

www.yobudget.com

Property and Recruitment now at YoBudget - Beat the Recession!

2009-02-27T06:10:00.000-08:00

Today we've released our new and improved categories with an increased focus on the struggling property and recruitment areas.

You can now list and sell property on YoBudget, you can list your property until you sell it, and if you sell or meet the buyer through YoBudget there is just a small one-time fixed fee of £74.99 for the service - and befitting the YoBudget philosophy - if you don't sell, you don't pay a penny.

We've also introduced a recruitment service for our premium business members where they can post job vacancies and use our detailed profile system to find the right candidates, you need to be a premium member currently to access this service - but the pricing remains the same and we're just squeezing in more value for existing (and new) customers.

If you've recently posted jobs in old categories or are subscribed to track the old categories you don't need to do anything, we'll take care of moving you into the new categories and your jobs or job tracking will be updated over the next 24 hours.

Improve your YoBudget ranking and leads!

2009-02-10T06:31:00.000-08:00

Following our launch success we thought we'd share a few tips with our members in order to promote their companies and get the most out of YoBudget.

Best of all, it can take as little as 15 minutes to boost your company position and prominence on our website.

Tip 1: Ensure you've written a brief profile & uploaded a company logo

By writing a brief profile on our site and uploading a profile image you'll find that you'll get 5 free reputation points in order to push your site up our ranking system, the profile and logo will also help convince future job posters to use your company should they choose to post a job within your area.

Tip 2: Be proactive!

We take most of the legwork out for you letting you know about relevent jobs via e-mail (or SMS) but it doesn't hurt to show additional interest in jobs by asking a few questions, just like in a job interview where the interviewer can be most impressed by your questions for them, a job poster may take you more seriously if you seem to ask relevent questions that show knowledge before bidding on a job.

Tip 3: Create connections

We've always had the connection feature but underplayed it in the past while we weren't as popular, but now it can be a really effective way for your company to find work - by creating a connection with companies or job posters that may have work for you in future you can make sure you always get invited to post on their jobs and vice-versa.

Tip 4: Make sure you're watching the right areas

Check that the categories you are watching are where your relevent jobs are being posted and be sure to include some 'tags' specific to your company, for example, if you are an SEO specialist make sure you include 'Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Searching, Web Rankings' as possible relevent tags, so if someone posts a web development job with a focus on SEO you'll be notified.

We hope these tips help you out and we look forward to your ongoing partnership!

We have officlally launched

2009-01-30T17:53:00.000-08:00

Yobudget.com has officially launched.

Press Release

2009-01-22T13:45:00.000-08:00

'Website Offers alternative to Local Directories and Search Engines'

Middlesbrough, United Kingdom January 2009- Lepang Baker was getting tired of having to call many different numbers in the directory and scrolling through possible tens of search engine results whenever he needed a service. His frustration drove him to create a solutionwww.yobudget.com which is to be launched January 31st 2009.

The aim of the site is to help people and companies to save time & money by allowing customers to post jobs that need doing at their desired budget and date for free and receive quotes from relevant businesses/service providers. After service providers/businesses provide their initial quotes, other interested businesses will enter a bidding contest in attempt to win over the customer. The customer then chooses the quote that suits their budget and (or) specification.

The site also allows businesses, tradesmen and professionals to get job free job leads and build successful portfolios through robust rating and the two way feedback system that lasts up to 6 months after the job is completed. 'The robust two ways feedback tool is to help customers and service providers make informed decisions ' added Lepang.

Both customers and businesses have an opportunity to be improving their performance rank on the site's ranking table which is updated every 24 hours. Businesses/service providers get free unique customized profiles to showcase their work which can potentially improve their chance to be chosen for the work which has a networking tool as an added advantage.

Lepang Baker of yobudget.com added ‘the site is free, really easy to use, saves time’ he continued ‘ and with the trend decline of traditional directories and the undesirable economic state, yobudget is can prove to be a very useful tool to use’.

For interviews and (or) article contributions please contact:

Speak: Lepang Baker
E-mail: lepang.baker@yobudget.com
Mobile: 07737954175
www.yobudget.com

Notes to editors

• YoBudget.com is a social network aiming to connect people from any profession topotential customers - and allows anyone who needs a job or service completing to find the right partner at the right price. It was founded in 2008 by serial entrepreneur and BBC Radio Tees Budget Panelist Lepang Baker. Yobudget.com is increasing very rapidly and
becoming very popular amongst users gaining ground on most web service providers.

• Please note that Yobudget.com is no way claiming to be a recruitment service.

Gearing up for launch!

2009-01-18T11:53:00.000-08:00

We're working on a 'middle-ground' portfolio behind the scenes in anticipation for the launch, we've been told that a lot of people are finding the 5.8% fee a little harsh, and while this is one of the lowest fees in our market (and also VAT exempt at the moment), we can appreciate this might be offputting to some of our service providers and business members.

We're planning to introduce a small monthly package that is by no means compulsory, but will give businesses and service providers a number of perks within regards to their profile and also reduce this job fee to something much more managable, so frequent users and winners on the site can instead choose to pay a small monthly fee and recieve a cheaper rate on jobs and a number of other perks, including SMS text alerts directly to your mobile and more.

We haven't finalized all the details yet - but you heard it here first!

Thanks again for all your support and be sure to spread the word to anyone you think could benefit prior to our launch!

We've unlocked an accolade: 250 registered users!

2009-01-10T15:59:00.000-08:00

We've hit another little milestone in our growth and managed to scoop up 250 registered users prior to launch with still little to no publicity as we ride out the rest of our public testing phase.

We consider the site fully functional, so you can register and start using it right away (just think of us like all the other fashionable web 2.0 sites with the never-ending beta phase), there are a lot of advantages of doing so and if you have a look at a few member profiles we're sure one or two will become obvious immediatly.

Can you see anything?

We've added a series of micro-rewards, or 'accolades' as we like to call them to the site, it's mostly a way of giving positive feedback to members for using the site and helping others, a perfect example would be a user who always gets 5/5 feedback for the quality of work could get an accolade to reflect this, for example 'Perfectionist', which is a fun and recognised way of our users getting feedback in order to win them more jobs.

We've also made some adjustments to the control panel pages to make them much more convenient and pave the way for the multi-user features we are working on.

Remember, the Xmas special is ending soon, so take advantage while you can!

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-25T14:49:00.000-08:00

The team at YoBudget would like to thank you for your ongoing support in advance of our launch in 2009 and wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Hohoho

Share the wealth - Refer a friend

2008-12-11T06:05:00.000-08:00

We've been long planning a referal system to encourage you to spread the word about YoBudget and earn a little something for your troubles, today we're introducing our Referal system where if you enter your colleague or contacts referral code, you'll earn 30% of their job award fees.

For example, if you referred a business who just won a £1000.00 job, they would usually pay YoBudget (excluding the current xmas promotion) £58.00, which is 5.8% of the value of the job - YoBudget would then pay you £17.40 which is your 30% share of this percentage.

With a lot of small jobs or a few larger ones this can add up really quickly and should really help us to grow, growth will be beneficial for all our users as more users mean more jobs, and more jobs means more to earn.

We've also been generous with this promotion and for each person you refer you can gain credit for either 5 months or 5 awarded jobs, whichever comes first - so you can be confident that your hard work will be rewarded appropriately!

Visit www.yobudget.com/?p=refer for full details on how you can start making money!

http://www.yobudget.com

Tag - You're it!

2008-12-09T19:01:00.001-08:00

We had a lot of requests and messages from people who were saying we had a lot of categories - but none specific to their area of expertise, this was something we'd always intended to avoid as a lot of categories can create clutter or confusion and we wanted our proposition to be simple.

We had a brainwave and decided to jump onto the Web 2.0 revolution and include powerful tags on both jobs and users in order push your job to the top of the pile where it's most relevent.

For example, say a Guitar Teacher signed up at YoBudget, they would probably choose 'other' as their area of expertise - this could potentially cause them to miss potential students and business - now a guitar tutor can set a few tags they want to watch out for, in this case it would be particularly effective for them to use the following words as tags 'Guitar', 'Tutor', 'Guitar Lessons', and 'Musician' - if anyone posted a job with similar or matching tags we'd send a notification where appropriate.

Our search system also now searches tags.

http://www.yobudget.com

Christmas Promotion

2008-12-06T08:17:00.000-08:00

We've created a promotion running for Christmas that will last right up until the end of January - we call it our Christmas Special or 'First job is free - then the rest are 99p.' and not only does our title rhyme when you say it out loud, it also represents potential huge savings on an already market leading proposition.

So the most you'll pay YoBudget for finding you a job until the end of January is 99p, and the first time we find you work it'll be totally free as our way of welcoming you, after January- we return to our small 5.8% fee based on the value of your quote.

We've also reviewed our fee structure slightly and have decided to cap the maximum fee per job to £499.99, this makes any jobs with a value of approximately £8,650 and over much cheaper for our users - making us the ideal choice for your larger jobs.

http://www.yobudget.com

Telephone support, sharing and pretty colours.

2008-12-04T07:48:00.001-08:00

We've made a couple of simple, yet really helpful changes at YoBudget.com, we're hoping these changes will help improve the experience for both new and existing customers

0845 Telephone Support
We added local toll-rate telephone support to our website on 0845 224 2596 for the hours 9:30am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday.

Friendly URL's
We also added new friendly addresses so you can always share your jobs and contacts easily.

Formatting options to profiles and jobs
We added an implentation of BBCode to our site so now you can make your profile and job posts more interesting and make use of formatting techniques such as bold text to create headings or criteria.

All these changes are live on the site now, stay tuned for more updates.

http://www.yobudget.com

An introduction to YoBudget

2008-12-01T16:18:00.000-08:00

So, for those of you who maybe find the blog but aren't too sure what we do at YoBudget we thought we'd share a little summary.

YoBudget is a website that connects anyone who needs a job doing - with the people who can complete the job.

We aim to cover anything from the development of databases, to kitchen refurbishment, childminding, accounting - anything you can think of we are aiming to cover.

We've tried to make the process really easy and streamlined it's as simple as posting a job description for free at www.yobudget.com and waiting for people who feel they can complete your job.

With the credit crunch showing no sign of slowing at the moment it's a good time to pinch the pockets and try to get jobs done as cheaply as possible, without having to sacrifice on quality.

Give us a try, it's no obligation and while we build up momentum we'll do the legwork to make sure you receive quotes.

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VAT: How does this change affect YoBudget?

2008-12-01T14:31:00.000-08:00

As of December 1st the V.A.T. rate within the UK is dropping from 17.5% down to 15% this means that any product and service liable to attract V.A.T. is going to be cheaper to the end consumer.

As a result this means you can make some great savings on jobs and listings at YoBudget.com, because your contractor, or service provider will be charging slightly less for V.A.T. on the products and service they provide you.

A little tip is to check that any services you recieve monthly, i.e. Mobile phone bills and other services are updated to the lower V.A.T. rate - most utility and service providers will update your bill accordingly - but make sure to check them because mistakes can happen.

Overall, as a consumer it's also a great way to buy products and services for a little less, particularly with Christmas coming up!

http://www.yobudget.com

Introducing the YoBudget Blog

2008-11-29T08:14:00.000-08:00

As a frequent visitor of YoBudget.com you may have noticed an additional 'community' tab that links over to this blog - Congratulations! You have found the new hiding place of the YoBudget development team.

We've launched this blog to keep you abreast of any changes we make to the site, and to give you an insight into how we work and get things done here in the office.

We'll also be posting other interesting news, commenting on topics that interest us and we might even throw out the occasional money-saving tip, so add our blog to your bookmarks and we'll have something new for you every other day.

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