Archive for 'Fun Stuff'
New Restaurant Booking Site Launched In Cape Town
The launch of ‘Come Dine’, an online restaurant booking website, was announced in Cape Town this week. The site aims to give Capetonians access to +450 restaurants all at a click of a button. The website gives visitors the chance to browse all options available to them, as well as the ability to book a [...]
Who’s The Best Salesperson In South Africa?
Sales, despite being a key part of an organisation, is often not celebrated for this fact. In order to highlight the hard work done by those in sales positions, Groupon South Africa and 2oceansvibe are hosting the Sales Master 2012 awards. The awards will give young salesmen and women the chance to audition and demonstrate [...]
Celebrate South Africa: Jeremy Loops
We have some pretty insane skills in South Africa. One such example is the supremely talented Jeremy Loops, musician, songwriter, performer and singer. Loops would be annoying if he weren’t so good. His music seems so effortlessly catchy and uplifting that you can’t help feeling a little jealous of his abilities.
Check out his video for the song [...]
How To Build An Engaged Online Community
To end off 2011, digital marketing agency World Wide Creative is running it’s last Heavy Chef Session of the 2011 in Cape Town. The event features two of Cape Town’s favourite speakers, Dave Duarte and Fred Roed, focusing on one of marketing’s hottest topics: building an online community.
Dave Duarte is one of South Africa’s best [...]
How To Get Unstuck: A Guide For Entrepreneurs
This time of year many creatives are tired, worn out and often suffering from just stuckness. It has been a long year to ride, often with little or no break and we long for the leave that we know we will not take but desperately need.
We entrepreneurs expect of ourselves to just push through [...]
The 13 ‘P’s Of Growing Your Business
This post, although profound is not perfect or anything to do with Mr. Poppins Penguins. It is filled with propaganda issues pertaining to profit and procurement in your small business. So without further pause, here are the 13 P’s, in no specific order, you should be peering at when leading a business – proactively of [...]
Boom! Richard Branson Selects Eight Of South Africa’s Best And Brightest Entrepreneurs
This week, coinciding with Global Entrepreneur Week, the Branson Centre For Entrepreneurship selected eight of their brightest and finest to travel to Tech City, the world famous entrepreneur hub in the East End of London.
The eight delegates dubbed themselves the Boom!Crew, and chose the strapline ‘a force for good’ inspired by Virgin Unite’s focus [...]
SA Blog Awards Public Voting Phase Open: Vote For Ideate!
The public vote phase went live on Monday night with South African bloggers receiving their vote badges. The SA Blog Awards website saw an astonishing 900 votes within the first three hours of this phase. By midday on Tuesday more than 6000 votes had been cast.
The next ten days will see the readers of [...]
SA Entrepreneurs Bro Team Challenges YOU To Make MOney For Charity
It is not often that men get to play with their bodies in public and then ask for people to donate money for their efforts. But once a year Movember comes along and men, and even some women, the world over have 30 days to prove, mostly to themselves, that they can grow facial hair. [...]
The 5 Types Of Clients That Freelancers Face
It’s occurred to me more than once that 98% of my work stress as a freelance copywriter comes from 2% of my clients. The majority is utterly divine: easy to work for, easy to work with, more or less aware of what I do and my industry, happy to be guided by me, and able [...]
