Tag Archives: South African Entrepreneur
Five Tips For Entrepreneurs To Survive The Holidays
The holidays should be a time to sit back, relax, and enjoy life… But for many small business owners, holidays seem to represent nothing more than lost sales and extra stress. It is true that public and religious holidays can have a serious impact on small businesses. Low productivity and difficult staffing issues are just [...]
Seda Small Business Stars: Western Cape Provincial Winners Announced
A media company that has pioneered the concept of simultaneous syndicated programming to a network of small community radio stations, thus opening up a whole new marketing channel to advertisers, is the provincial winner for the Western Cape in the Seda Small Business Stars entrepreneur competition.
More than 5,500 business ideas, start-ups and existing small businesses [...]
How To Become An Entrepreneur
It says a lot about the enhanced status of the entrepreneur that one of the best-selling books of 2011 was the biography of the recently deceased Steve Jobs. This success was, of course, partly due to the huge popularity of iPods, iPads, iPhones and other products made by Apple, the company Jobs came to embody. [...]
Turning Your Business Into A Triumphant Success With Jannie Mouton
One of SA’s greatest success stories, Jannie Mouton built his business from scratch after getting fired at age 48. Today, the investment giant PSG is one of the Top 40 on the JSE, and the companies he is involved in have a market cap of R61 billion.
Jannie Mouton heads up PSG, one of the country’s [...]
Skills every entrepreneur needs
Entrepreneurship is a very appealing alternative to employment and one that many people dream of. However, it’s a difficult thing to pull off and many people who attempt it fall short. Here are some vital skills that you will need if you intend to follow the entrepreneur’s path.
Organisational skills and time management
Entrepreneurs are required to [...]
Exploit Yourself, Online Entrepreneur Reality Show
Exploit Yourself, a new social media-based reality show, will be hitting online screens on 01 June 2011. As the title suggests, 10 chosen entrepreneurs will push themselves – and their businesses – to the limit in a battle for the Grand Prize and title of Top Entrepreneur.
The concept was created by Cape Town communications company, [...]
Economic Growth = Growing Entrepreneurship
If South Africa’s economy is to continue to see healthy growth, we need more people actively involved as employers, and not just employees. Creating employment is one, if not THE most important challenge for South Africa, and if we are going to tackle it effectively, a change in perspective is required on several fronts.
1.Unemployment
The first [...]
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 [...]
1 Min. with a Superhero: David Dugmore from Pass Matric
This morning, we’re chatting to the founder of Passmatric.co.za and Tee2Pin.co.za, David Dugmore, who has become an Internet Entrepreneur. We ask him more about his two companies and working in the online business sphere.
David, please tell us about the two businesses you’ve started online.
The first, www.tee2pin.co.za, is a site which markets discounted golf membership. We offer a “no-frills” [...]
2011 and Entrepreneurship in South Africa
Ok, I am going to stick my neck out and do some predictions for this year. South Africa is on the brink of some very exciting developments and this could push us into a great economic development phase of our country. With this and the other factors that we have been following, I have distilled [...]
