Archive for 'Business Admin'
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 [...]
8 Reasons Why People Start Their Own Businesses
We all know someone who’s gone into business for themselves – a family member, a friend or an ex-colleague. The amazing thing is that every one of them has their own story about why they did it! Some fell into it, some had no choice, others were hit by a bolt of inspiration. While there [...]
Business Tip of the Week: Strategy
Know where you make your money. All too often, business owners simply run their ventures from month to month, without ever doing an analysis of what parts are performing best. As long as they’re covering costs, and making a small profit, they never stop to examine which parts of their business make money, and which [...]
Finance Tip of the week: Gambling
Sports betting. With the Soccer World Cup having recently wrapped up, there’s been a lot of debate about, and coverage of, all the different forms of sports betting around. As with any form of gambling, there are always plenty of people lamenting their losses, so I thought it useful to have a quick look at [...]
Friday Giveaway: Win a short Finance Course at the University of Cape Town!
We have a really big Friday Giveaway this week! Our super Finance coach, Gareth Cotten along with Get Smarter has organised that one of our lucky Ideate winners can attend a course on financial management in a business context for free!
The University of Cape Town Financial Management for Non-Financial People Course is a part-time online [...]
“How to draft a recycling business plan? Is recycling business sustainable and profitable?”
This question came to us at Ideate and we thought it worthy of a response. Not because it is a hot topic or the next best thing, but because it is typical of the many questions and queries we get: how do we start a business, and is it profitable?
Bruce Wade is a survivor of [...]
Business Tip of the Week: Cost control/Finances
Everything is negotiable. It’s very rare that a business becomes a successful one if it lets its costs spiral out of control, and the leanest ones out there watch their expenses like a hawk.
Gareth Cotten is one of the growing breed of SA entrepreneurs with that ‘world-domination’ look in his eyes. Gareth runs the [...]
Business Development – Questions to ask 5
The fifth question to ask about a business is: Is this business Sustainable?
Bruce Wade is a survivor of the corporate and NGO world, author, speaker, business owner and entrepreneur, Bruce now runs the Entrepreneur Incubator; a member based organisation dedicated to serving those in the trenches of business through coaching, mentoring and leadership education. View [...]
Finance tip of the week: Utilities
Keeping warm as energy-efficiently as possible. With it being the coldest part of the year here in the southern hemisphere, one is constantly reminded of the many appliances that people use to warm their homes and offices.
Gareth Cotten is one of the growing breed of SA entrepreneurs with that ‘world-domination’ look in his eyes. [...]
Business Development – Questions to ask 4
The forth first question to ask about a business is: Is this business Achievable?
Bruce Wade is a survivor of the corporate and NGO world, author, speaker, business owner and entrepreneur, Bruce now runs the Entrepreneur Incubator; a member based organisation dedicated to serving those in the trenches of business through coaching, mentoring and leadership education. [...]
