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Creating a Profitable Website for your Company: Step One: Define Your Objectives
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 [...]
Creating a Profitable Website for your Company
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. [...]
1 Min. with a Superhero: CEO of Fruit & Veg, Brian Coppin
Fruit & Veg City is an iconic brand within the SA shopping landscape and we are very excited and honoured to talk to co-founder Brian Coppin. Brian is one of South Africa’s leading businessmen and is also a very successful entrepreneur. A classic story, Brian started his career in the retail industry as a cashier [...]
SA Tourism asks you to ‘Share Your 2010 Story’ on new website
Were you the perfect host to a bunch of Brazilians during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™? Or did you invite a few international soccer fans to a braai at your house? Maybe you just made a tourist feel welcome at the local pub. Whatever your experience… South African Tourism wants to know about it.
The tourism [...]
Win tickets to Mobile Web Africa Competition on Ideate
Okay we’ve got another competition running right here on Ideate. The second annual Mobile Web Africa conference is running in September and there are tickets up for grabs. If you haven’t heard about the conference before, it’s pretty cool (with speakers from Google, Opera and AdMob amongst others). If you have any interest in mobile [...]
Enter the Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year competition
It’s not too surprising so many South Africans shy away from starting their own business. Statistics show that more than seven out of ten new business ventures will fail within the first two years of starting up. Still – with the right information, and some much-needed encouragement through competitions like the Sanlam/Business Partners 2010 Entrepreneur [...]
What The F**k is Social Media Now?
This slideshow has been doing the rounds for some time now, but it appears the author has just updated it. With many, many views of the previous iteration (“What the F**k is Social Media”) it appears this one will be just as popular. A nice, no-frills approach to the topic of social media. Check it [...]
Springleap competition, quick!
One of our favourite entrepreneurial ventures in South Africa, Springleap, are being uber-crafty again by asking its community to find 4 cups relating to the Soccer World Cup semifinals starting tonight. Check this out:
1.COLLECT
4 cups will be posted all over the internet (including somewhere on this site, as well as on my own personal blog). [...]
Friday Giveaway: Hamper of E-Marketing Books
To have the entrepreneur characteristics and qualities you require in order to succeed, you need to continually upskill yourself. This week we’ve been alerted by our sister site, The Heavy Chef Project, of a little initiative they’ve got going on to name the little fella on the right here.
Yep, that’s right folks. This portly chef [...]
Let’s teach our kids to be entrepreneurs (Video)
Here at Ideate HQ, we love TED (“TED” stands for Technology, Education and Design).
This video was referred to me twice today by two different people. To me, this means that it was written in the stars that I was meant to watch it, and I’m glad I did. It is a talk by Canadian entrepreneur [...]
