Tag Archives: Business Lingo
Finance Tip of the Week: Investing Lingo
Short-selling. A term you may hear thrown around a fair amount is ‘short-selling’ or ‘shorting’.
Gareth Cotten is one of the growing breed of SA entrepreneurs with that ‘world-domination’ look in his eyes. Gareth runs the coaching and consulting practice ‘Good Advice’. Gareth is also the ‘course convener’ for the University of Cape Town (Law@Work) [...]
Business Lingo Explained – The Elevator Pitch
An elevator pitch is a crucial step when presenting your product, service, project or yourself to an audience for the first time. It’s an entrepreneur’s one minute explanation of his/her business model. It can take place over email, in a one-to-one conversation in a corridor or in a scheduled meeting. The term actually comes from [...]
Business Lingo Explained – VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP is a way of taking analog audio signals and converting them into digital data that can be transmitted over the Internet – much like an online telephone. So, it’s the delivery of voice communications over IP networks. VoIP is getting quite popular among businesses, big and small.
Yolandi Janse van [...]
Business Lingo Explained – ORM
Online reputation management, or ORM, has recently become quite a topic of conversation. It can easily be defined as the process of “measuring, monitoring and shaping conversations about your brand”, online. Quirk eMarketing explains this really good which involves a three step process:
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, [...]
