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SA Blog Awards: Ideate for Best Business Blog

by Yolandi on 02/09/10 at 7:53 am | No comments

We are proud to announce that we have made it to the Top 10 Best Business Blog category for the SA Blog Awards! Thanks to everyone who’s nominated us and now the real voting starts!
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi is [...]

How does Entrepreneurship and Leadership relate to each other?

by Marc Rogatschnig on 01/09/10 at 8:07 am | No comments

Many people do not consider themselves leaders, let alone experts on leadership, yet in the main from the very early years of our lives we are exposed to and devour (or reject) many expressions and experiences of Leadership. Whether is was on the sports field, in the classroom, along the family hierarchy, through the media [...]

Entrepreneur Qualities and Characteristics: Focus

by Bruce Wade on 31/08/10 at 8:40 am | No comments

Focus is the opposite of blurred, and in my life blurred is never good, especially for entrepreneurs. The loss of focus will always lead to tumble weed existence, back and forth with no progress. Simply put focus for any entrepreneur is a result of three things; finding clarity, removing clutter and building energy.
Bruce Wade is [...]

Creating a Profitable Website for your Company: Step One: Define Your Objectives

by Fred on 30/08/10 at 8:45 am | No comments

This seems obvious, right? Like so many other areas in business, the fundamental basics are often forgotten, and this is no exception.
Fred Roed is the marketing guy in the Ideate crew. He runs a web marketing company called World Wide Creative and loves writing about people out there doing marketing right. View more articles [...]

Friday Giveaway: Live your dream and start a business!

by Yolandi on 27/08/10 at 6:17 am | No comments

UCT and GetSmarter online training company are giving away one place on the University of Cape Town (Law@Work) Start and Manage a Small Business course, which is due to start on the 27 September 2010. One lucky Ideate reader will be able to win this course worth R6, 600!

Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about [...]

Entrepreneur Qualities and Characteristics: Passion

by Bruce Wade on 26/08/10 at 10:38 am | No comments

When we speak of passion all a guy will think of is hot steamy….. well you know. Ok! Focus: stop that movie in your head, here we are talking about the passion for life; the energy that gets us up in the morning with anticipation of a serendipitous adventure ahead. Passion for an entrepreneur is [...]

Creating a Profitable Website for your Company

by Fred on 25/08/10 at 12:47 pm | 1 comment

The penny dropped about 7 years ago when I was talking to a crowd of business owners. I asked the question “How many of you have a company website?” Every single member in the audience put their hand up. I then asked “How many of you see value in your website?” Not one person moved. [...]

Do you want to be an Entrepreneur?

by Anthony on 25/08/10 at 9:00 am | No comments

An Ideate reader asked the question “I want to start my own business, but am anxious about leaving my job. What do I have to do to be an entrepreneur?” There are many employees with aspirations to be a successful entrepreneur but afraid to take the first step. I would say 3R’s apply here: Research, [...]

Durban’s Sardine Run is a lesson in Entrepreneurship

by Kim on 23/08/10 at 8:00 am | No comments

Durban’s Sardine Run is called ‘the greatest shoal on earth’.  One journalist calls it ‘total madness’, I thought it was a lesson in entrepreneurship.
Kim’s the founding partner of Trojan Horse, a company that creatively accesses people, places and spaces and is the holding company for MyCube4Change, a change and transformation tool. View more articles by [...]