Tag Archives: South Africa
The South African national anthem demystified
South Africa is quite possibly one of the few nations in the world whose population largely don’t know how to sing and pronounce their own national anthem. With 2010 coming up, I was delighted to see that some cleaver person (unknown to us) has demystified the anthem and made it really easy to get to [...]
8 Reasons Why It’s Great to Be South African
1. We are resourceful
We make it happen, despite the odds. Forget stories about wind-up radios or the CT Scan (which are pretty cool in their own right), this picture says it all…
2. We have aliens living amongst us
Here’s to District 9 being the first of many more movies that will clean up at the Box [...]
We like Allan Gray advertising
South Africa has a rich heritage of great advertising, from the BMW “Mouse / Power Steering” ad in the 90’s to FoxP2’s Mweb campaign work recently, there’s some lekker stuff out there.
We particularly enjoy the Allan Gray work by King James. The commercial, ‘Legend’, asks us to consider the possibilities of a legend like James [...]
1 min. with a Superhero: Marcel Oudejans, Magician and Infotainer
Today, we’re chatting to Marcel Oudejans, one of the busiest and most entertaining corporate infotainment and presentation specialists in Southern Africa. He has been performing professionally for over 10 years and has recently published his first book “The Serious Business Owners Guide to Creating Customers for Life”.
Marcel, most of us know you as a [...]
1 min. with a Superhero: Jeremy Barty of MyCube
This morning we’re chatting to Jeremy Barty from MyCube, a change management process that provides business people with a unique tool to facilitate lasting change. Jeremy, please tell us a little about your product and what it’s meant to achieve?
MyCube is a product designed to help people deal with change – when change is happening, [...]
New design, new direction for Ideate!
Today is a big day for us. Shane, Andrew and I (the three main protagonists behind Ideate) are stoked to launch the first redesign for Ideate in two years. It’s kinda sad too, since the old design has been featured on pretty much every cool design gallery around the globe, and had more than just [...]
How Fundamo became the world’s no.1 mobile financial services provider
On Wednesday night, I attended the final session of the entrepreneurial mentorship initiative, the MyMentor program, with which I was supremely fortunate to be involved (along with some super cool entrepreneurs from top SA companies). The Cape Venture Partners team introduced a very special guest, Hannes van Rensburg, the CEO of South Africa’s very own [...]
1 min. with a Superhero: Charles Bryant of Ecopreneur
This week, we chat to Charles Bryant from Ecopreneur who happens to be focusing on something many of Ideate’s readers are very interested in: environmentally conscious business. Through our various channels, we get one to two enquiries a week on ‘green business ideas in South Africa’ – so Charles seems to be on a winning [...]
Buy a party bus for your business
We like Gareth Cotton. He’s young, smart and represents one of the growing breed of SA entrepreneurs with that ‘world-domination’ look in his eyes. He’s also a Brand Hooligan.
One of Gareth’s ventures is Chariot Limousines, and a spin off of this business is a party bus that he’s trying to flog. Gareth asked us to [...]
Catch the digital marketing bus – before its too late!
My colleagues at The Heavy Chef Project remind me that the Heavy Chef “Creating Profitable Websites” Course is only weeks away (Aug 12-14), and that seats are limited.
Some reasons why you should be taking this seriously:
1. Digital marketing is the fastest growing segment in marketing
2. Your competitors are getting on the bus (if not already [...]
