History of printing

The history of printing started around 3.000 BC in Mesopotamia with the duplication of images.
The use of round “cylinder seals” for rolling an impress onto clay tablets goes back to early Mesopotamian civilization before 3,000 BCE, where they are the most common works of art to survive, and feature complex and beautiful images. In both China and Egypt, the use of small stamps for seals preceded the use of larger blocks. In Egypt, Europe and India, the printing of cloth certainly preceded the printing of paper or papyrus; this was probably also the case in China. The process is essentially the same – in Europe special presentation impressions of prints were often printed on silk until at least the seventeenth century.

Today printing is now a big business and it  is making even a small business man to be richer than he never thought he would. Some start in printing a printing brokers / middle men and grow into owning copy and print shops, while others grow further than that. Some grow into owning big Litho and/or Digital printing factories in industrial areas. These one make millions per month.

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I once had a  constructive debate with a colleague of mine about the future of printing. He was of the opinion that printing will fade away as people are now moving into online and digital marketing, i had an opposing view to his opinion (to him it was fact). Printing will continue to exist, there are so many products that will need printing. imagine a canned food that does not have a label or unbranded bread packet. Unbranded soft-drink bottle or sweets without names. Printing assist us consumers to separate and identify products easily. It helps us in making shopping decisions easy and it helps competitors to stand out from the rest.

Printing has evolved since Mesopotamian times, from one colour printing presses to 8 colour presses. Some machines can print full colour on both sides of the paper without removing the paper from the machine and manually changing it.  That is what we call evolution. If printing was going to be fade away, I do not think printing machine makers would continue making state of the art machines that can print faster and better.  Sure, they made their own research and that is why we still printing faster and making profits quicker.  Tomorrow, we will still be printing with better machines be it on paper, PVC material, t-shirt or pens.

As printers,  http://taa.co.za we here to make you stand out from the rest and make your customers identify you easy. Imagine going to a retail store that is full of products that are not labeled, and one of those products are your products?  So printing is here to help you make your products easily identifiable.

Do you think printing will fade away as time goes, I would like to hear your view

To your success,

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau

Visionary Entrepreneur

for Tau and Associates

skype: basi.tau

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Improve Your Management Skills

Improve Your Management Skills

Never underestimate the challenges of managing a small business. It requires you to be disciplined, organized and well-informed. You need to learn as much and as quickly as you can – and then practice the ‘craft’ of managing yourself and others.

The 5 areas that the management skills are focuses on are:

1. Know yourself
2. Goal setting and priorities
3. Planning and decision-making
4. Delegation and communication
5. Being effective

Small businesses like any other organisation requires the owner / entrepreneur to be versatile and be multi-disciplined, and on top of it to possess the above mentioned 5 management skills (accessed from http://www.seda.co.za). an entrepreneur that knows herself/himself is usually at a better to position to keep his temper in check especially when dealing with difficult customers and employees.

Setting goals and prioritising helps in planning for your business. It is important to have targeted goals and dividing them into smaller goals that can be achieved a piece by piece. Doing important and urgent things according to your list of priorities will help your organisation to grow rapidly, and this needs to be shared amongst employees.

Businesses are living organisations that need to be improved as you run and manage them. As a young and small business man in the advertising, printing and project management industries, http://taa.co.za , I keep on updating my skill and knowledge about business by attending industry related seminars. It is better to be a well informed service provider and a manager. A growing manager will grow his organisation.

If you need a logo for your business; design and layout of marketing material; t-shirt and caps printing; banner printing and mobile billboard / trailer advertising – do not hesitate to contact us. At Tau and Associates we have diversified approaches to advertising and branding. Our details are here ==> http://taa.co.za

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To your success,

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau

Visionary Entrepreneur

skype:  basi.tau

http://taa.co.za

Kiyosaki: The Law of Compensation Don’t quit at the top.

HI Friends,

I would like to share with you an article written by Robert Kiyosaki for Success online magazine. Read below, enjoy…

By Robert  Kiyosaki August 9, 2010

Most of us have heard the saying Winners never quit and quitters never win. Yet, few of us have heard of the law of compensation.

I explain the law of compensation like this: Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time. I’ll use two personal examples to further illustrate.

The first example is health. It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

During those years, I would make a resolution to get healthy, and begin working out and eating less. By the following week, however, I’d lost no weight, and I was hungry and ached all over—so I quit because I’d put in a lot of effort for very little return.

Finally, after realizing I needed help, I hired a coach to get through the initial period of maximum effort and minimal returns. After two years, the law of compensation kicked in. My health and strength returned, and I could exercise less, still gain strength, and eat and drink what I wanted.

Unfortunately, I went on a two-month vacation, kept eating and drinking, stopped exercising and gained 20 pounds back. I’m currently with the same coach, once again going through a period of maximum effort for low returns.

My second example of the law of compensation has to do with wealth. In 1978, I lost my first major business, which shot up like a rocket—and came down like a rock. I struggled to regain my momentum, and lost another business two years later. I was down for about four years, working hard for very little return. But by 1994, I retired financially free at the age of 47.

In 1996, my wife, Kim, and I launched our financial education board game, CASHFLOW 101. I wrote Rich Dad Poor Dad in 1997 and self-published it after every publisher turned it down, and for three years Kim and I worked hard explaining the game and promoting the book. In 2000, Rich Dad Poor Dad made The New York Times Best-Seller List. In 2000, I appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the rest is history.

Today, when it comes to health, I’m paying the price for disobeying the law of compensation. I’m glad I caught myself at 20 pounds rather than 50 pounds. When it comes to wealth, I am reaping the benefits of following the law of compensation. Today, with very little effort, my returns on my years of investment are phenomenal—even in a bad economy.

I write this article for those of you who are struggling with success. Press on even though your returns on investment are small. If you quit, like I did with my health program, you’ll have to go through the same crummy period of maximum effort with minimal gains again.

Remember that winners never quit. Success is not a stop sign. Obey the law of compensation.

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This article has been taken from ==> http://www.successmagazine.com/kiyosaki-the-law-of-compensation/PARAMS/article/1151/channel/22

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Compiled for you, by

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau

Visionary Entrepreneur

Skype: basi.tau

Email: tau@taa.co.za