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Win A Stay At Grootbos And Help Track A Leopard

Win A Stay At Grootbos And Help Track A Leopard

Ideate has written before about Grootbos and the entrepreneurial eco-success story unfolding in the Overberg. Last week, something significant happened in this world-famous private nature reserve. Just days after a camera trap was planted on the grounds, one of the rarest creatures to see in the wild, a leopard, was photographed within the reserve. This [...]

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Four Young SA Entrepreneurs Given Head Start Thanks To Business Plan Entries

Four Young SA Entrepreneurs Given Head Start Thanks To Business Plan Entries

Four young KwaZulu-Natal entrepreneurs will be given a healthy head start in their businesses in November thanks to the SA Breweries Limited (SAB) KickStart Entrepreneurial Development Programme. About R380 000 in grants, mentorship and training is up for grabs in the KZN contest while nationally the amount tops the R3 million mark. According to SAB, [...]

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Designers: the 6th annual Makhulu Polane t-shirt design competition is open for entries

Designers: the 6th annual Makhulu Polane t-shirt design competition is open for entries

Big Blue’s 6th annual Makhulu Polane design competition is open for entries. Over the years Ideate has supported the annual Makhulu Polane (Big Idea) t-shirt design competition and watched it grow from strength to strength. The initiative aims to find the best design talent in SA. What is it? Makhulu Polane started in 2006 and [...]

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Post Your Brand Narrative On Twitter (Competition)

Post Your Brand Narrative On Twitter (Competition)

Journalist and marketing maven Seth Godin, contends that, in an age when consumers are motivated by irrational wants instead of objective needs and “there is almost no connection between what is actually there and what we believe.” Instead, marketers should tell “great stories” about their products that pander to consumers’ self-regard and worldview. The brand [...]

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Celebrate Short Story Day South on 21 June 2011

Celebrate Short Story Day South on 21 June 2011

At Ideate we consider the creative arts a form of entrepreneurship too. In light of that, we’re excited to report about Short Story Day South – a celebration of short stories in southern Africa (21 June 2011). It will create a platform for writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers, and school children to come together to [...]

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Exclus1ves are still celebrating their 1st Birthday with the Power of 1!

Exclus1ves are still celebrating their 1st Birthday with the Power of 1!

Online commerce site Exclus1ves.co.za is celebrating is still 1st birthday this month. Digital marketing agency World Wide Creative is working together with Exclus1ves to launch their Birthday campaign called the Power Of 1. Following the extraordinary success of last year’s FlashMob FireSale campaign we excited to see what Exclusives will pull out of the hat [...]

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Empowering Entrepreneurs Competition

Empowering Entrepreneurs Competition

Small businesses drive South Africa’s economy. In South Africa, 97.5% of all businesses are self-started small and medium enterprises. These entrepreneurs contribute 35% of the country’s GDP, employ 55% of all private sector employees and pay 43% of all wages and salaries. Clearly, starting a business is a lucrative and attractive prospect. Men and women [...]

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Win a Luxury Weekend Away with Cape Realty International

Win a Luxury Weekend Away with Cape Realty International

What drove you to become an entrepreneur? Was it the dream of fame and fortune one day? Becoming a celebrity? Whatever it was that motivated you to take that leap and risk it all, you’ll love this: Every entrepreneur needs a break every now and then so why not take some time off and live [...]

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Ideate announces prize winners: Choc Chip and Kilarney Race Giveaways

Ideate announces prize winners: Choc Chip and Kilarney Race Giveaways

We’ve had some brilliant competitions and prizes the past 2 weeks and now it’s time to announce the winners for the 2 VIP Tickets to the Kilarney Race and the Choc Chip Designer Laptop Bags! Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi [...]

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Big Blue’s annual Makhulu Polane t-shirt design competition

Big Blue’s annual Makhulu Polane t-shirt design competition

We got a hold of this late (it’s officially closing tomorrow), but we’re under good authority that if you send your entries over the next few days the organisers will be a little more lenient than in previous years. Big Blue’s annual Makhulu Polane t-shirt design competition is open via www.bigblue.co.za. Makhulu Polane (Big Idea) [...]

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