Tag Archives: Business/Finance
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Lessons from a Rock Concert
Having gone to the Masters of Rock concert at GrandWest Casino last Tuesday night – featuring Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep, and Deep Purple (all big in the 60’s and 70’s) – I couldn’t help but be reminded of a few pertinent business lessons:
Gareth Cotten is one of the growing breed of SA entrepreneurs with that [...]
Finance Tip of the Week: Savings/Investments
Always know what costs you’re paying. With pretty much any savings or investment product, there are going to be costs involved. They could be called admin fees, management fees, monthly fees, performance fees, or just about anything.
Gareth Cotten is one of the growing breed of SA entrepreneurs with that ‘world-domination’ look in his eyes. Gareth [...]
Business Tip of the Week: Finances
Budgeting. Along the same lines as last week’s Finance tip, take time at the beginning of the tax year to prepare a budget for the coming 12 months. This budget should include your projected income and expenses, as well as your cash-flow, and is an excellent planning and management tool.
Gareth Cotten is one of [...]
Tip for the Week From The Finance Coach
Finance tip: Estate planning
Draw up, or update, your will. Having recently gone into a new tax year here at home, and with the tax changes in the annual Budget having been announced, it reminded me that it’s a good time to have a look at your will. For too many people, this is something they [...]
