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The only South African blog written for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs.
This blog is about entrepreneurs thinking BIG. We try to keep the tone light and fresh, current and sometimes controversial. We like to give things away. If you’d like to advertise on this blog, or give stuff away, please email us at info[at] ideate.co.za and we’ll send you a sheet with some ideas on how to get on the map using Ideate’s 2000 or so readers per day. Meet our authors:
Fred Roed
Fred is the marketing guy in the Ideate team. Fred likes talking about online branding, The Simpsons and old Christopher Walken movies. Fred has watched True Romance around 30 times, and can recite the ‘watch scene’ from Pulp Fiction verbatim. Fred is responsible for sales and marketing at World Wide Creative South Africa. Fred also blogs at The Heavy Chef, a blog dedicated to testing recipes for Internet Profitability.
Email fred[at]worldwidecreative.co.za or follow Fred on Twitter here: @Fred_Roed
Mike Perk
Mike is both the Managing Director and Web Marketing Director at digital marketing agency World Wide Creative. Mike co-founded The Heavy Chef Project. He loves anything to do with Spurs and co-hosts the popular football video blog: Free-Kick.tv. Mike is a huge fan of Johnny Cash and Puerto Rican music with a claim to fame that he wore Gordon Gekko shirts before Gordon Gekko. Mike also happens to know a fair amount about web marketing, creating profitable websites, presenting on SEO, usability and analytics at digital conferences and marketing courses in the UK and Africa
Email mike[at]worldwidecreative.co.za or follow Mike on Twitter here: @MikePerk
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi is nuts about anything on 4 wheels. Besides being the Heavy Chef girl at World Wide Creative, Yolandi runs Autofemme, a blog about cars, as a business on the side.
Email yolandi[at]ideate.co.za or follow Yolandi on Twitter here: @Yolandi_JvR
Bruce Wade
Bruce Wade is a Business Coach working out of Cape Town, South Africa. He’s a coach working out of Cape Town’s many coffee shops and restaurants in Cape Town. A free thinker, as well as a free-thinking coffee nut, Bruce likes to use the world as his office. Bruce also happens to be the founder of EI, a business consultancy firm.
Email bruce[at]hep.co.za or follow Bruce on Twitter here: @bruce_Wade
Mike Saunders
Mike is our social media guy. He writes about social media and any thing else he thinks might interest the incredible people who read Ideate. He runs his own internet marketing consultancy in Durban. Mike also writes for his internet marketing blog and uses his twitter profile to track social media in South Africa.
Email mike.a.saunders[at]gmail.com or follow Mike on Twitter here: @MikeaSaunders
Gareth Cotten
Gareth is an entrepreneurial jack of all trades, and master of a few. Having started his first company, Chariot Limousines, at the age of 19, he’s been involved in a number of different businesses. Gareth is also our financial coach here at Ideate. You’ll find him advising and coaching others on theirs, through his consultancy, Good Advice. Gareth is also the course convener for the University of Cape Town (Law@Work) Start and Manage a Small Business course.
Email limohire[at]chariotgroup.co.za
Kim Barty
Kim works in change and transformation, and her own transformation has encouraged her expedition away from the communications industry, where she has worked for the last 25 years. 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.
Email kim[at]trojanhorse.co.za
Rob and Diana Rankin
Rob and Diana own HRadvice.co.za, Hiring to Firing and All the Good Stuff in Between. Rob loves straight talk and finding solutions and Diana specialises in recruitment and behavioural workshops and assessments that assist in placing staff. Be warned…Rob loves to hug!
Email Rob]at]hradvice.co.za and Diana[at]hradvice
Adam Mitchell
Adam Mitchell is a lover of all things online. He has a passion for social networks and engaging with people in the digital space. Adam writes for a casual blog of his own and he’ll be focusing on Social Media and Marketing. Adam is also an enthusiastic campaign manager at Traffic Brand, a company providing online marketing services.
Email adam[at]trafficbrand.com or follow Adam on Twitter here: @AdsMitchell
Henre Rossouw
Henre is the digital marketing specialist and media liaison for Rocketseed SA, an everyday email marketing and advertising software provider. Henre is responsible for writing material that explains how Rocketseed works with a business’ everyday email to add value to their marketing and advertising ventures.
Email henre.rossouw[at]rocketseed.com or follow Henre on Twitter here: @Henre
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