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Are you making far less money than you originally intended
When you leave your plush corporate job with the intention on driving a Bugatti Veyron in a couple of short years after setting up your own dream business, it can be rather disheartening to still be struggling to afford the petrol in your ageing Toyota well into the innings of your entrepreneurial adventure. Does it [...]
Gary Busey’s small business tips
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIYzlaTw5P0[/youtube]
Struggling for a fresh small business idea? Perhaps Hollywood legend Gary Busey can help spark something inside you. Not too sure about this one about a new entrepreneurial startup idea, but there has to be some inspiration in this series of short clips on business.
See: Gary Busey on Business – YouTube
Jon Cherry is the founder [...]
Can money be made from the global fuel crisis?
The days of affordable petrol are over. Clever people with lots of letters behind their names are predicting that the local petrol price will be over R16 per litre by the end of this year. Yikes.
So, if the &*^% is about to really hit the fan, why then does it feel like there is a [...]
Free business idea: I’ll have a double meatless cheese burger
Mmmm – meat is yum, but not all human beings think that putting the stuff in their mouths and chewing it is such a great idea.
Yip – they’ve been labeled ‘vegetarian’ and probably due to horrific crimes they committed in a previous life, these people are directed to the dreadfully bland soy burger section of [...]
Free business idea: A user-friendly garage
Put it this way, if you care enough to answer the phone properly and return your calls – you’re already on the right track in a country where service standards come second to the 10h15 tea break.
But, if you really want to rock the local business landscape – take an industry notorious for crappy service [...]
In Ireland, entrepreneurs rank second only to rock stars!
Huh? Entreprenuers are regarded nearly as sexy, elusive, bad ass and wild as Fender slinging, Jack Daniel’s swigging, Marlboro smoking gods of rock?
Are the Irish really as nuts as we’re lead to believe, or does their society see pure potential in the lunatics that ditches a secure 9-5, in favour of cashflow worries and a [...]
Road trip social networking
South Africa is home to a rather unique form of outdoor social networking. You’re well aware of the custom, but perhaps don’t think about it too carefully, as the practice has now become second nature to travellers of our open roads.
Yes – the courteous, open road, yellow line pullover for the faster moving BMW driver [...]
Top 6 South African small business opportunities for 2008….Part 3
Design your own: Once again, thanks to the nimbleness of running a small, non-massproducing company – you can really take huge advantage of one of the biggest global trends of 2007, which we predict will pick up radical speed in South Africa in ‘08.
Allowing your customers to hijack your brand and take complete control by [...]
Top 6 South African small business opportunities for 2008….Part 2
Following on from last week’s first part of what we see as the biggest opportunities for South African entrepreneurs in Two Oh Oh Ate – here’s part 2:
Bite-sized: South African’s are too busy; electing new presidents, argueing about rugby coaches and generally carrying on with life to sit through 5-day cricket games, 3-hour movies and [...]
Top 6 South African small business opportunities for 2008….Part 1
We’re feeling particularly light on our feet right now.
This year is finally feeling like calling final rounds and the open, freshly mown lawn on the banks to the brand new, 2008 small business highway look so inviting and full of the promise of speed.
So, what are the top 6 small business opportunities, which we think [...]
