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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE With over 10 years in PR and marketing communications, Marisa Calvert, an award-winning communications professional, launched Marisa Calvert Communications... read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Bizcommunity, in partnership with South Africa's leading business trend consultants Flux Trends, invites you to join BizTrends2021 - Towards New North and New Narratives on Thursday, 28 January 2021... Read |
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| |  | JOHANNA MCDOWELL As preparations get underway for the fourth Agency Scope study to begin in May 2021, Johanna McDowell, Scopen partner and director for the UK and South Africa notes that some of the trends seen in the global research will be a barometer for the pressures, proficiencies and pandemic recovery in South Africa... Read |
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| Entrepreneurship |
 | ISSUED BY HEINEKEN SOUTH AFRICA With Global Entrepreneurship Week (#GEW2020) having been recognised last week, Heineken South Africa celebrated the success of the small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) that the organisation has supported and partnered with through Heineken's ongoing partnerships and mentorship programmes... Read |
| #StartupStory |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE iTorho Technologies is a free platform that enables entrepreneurs to list their offerings, manage bookings and client information, as well as receive payments was created with the mission of catalysing broader economic inclusion for SMMEs... Read |
| Awards |
 | SmartWage has won the VivaTech AfricArena competition, earning the company a trip to VivaTech Paris in 2021, one of Europe's biggest startup and tech events... Read |
 | The Western Cape Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards (WCERA) took place as a hybrid virtual event at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), during which twelve inspiring entrepreneurs were recognised for their hard-work and resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
| Community |
 | In 2021, the University of Stellenbosch Business School's Small Business Academy (SBA) Development Programme will be available for the first time to small business owners in Stellenbosch... Read |
 | AfricArena held this year's annual Summit as a hybrid event; both in person at Workshop 17 in Cape Town and virtually via their web based AfricArena Air platform... Read |
| Funding |
 | ISSUED BY GREENCAPE Tine Fisker-Henriksen, the Innovative Finance Lead for Bertha Centre for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, and a member of the Green Outcomes Fund Advisory Committee, shares details of the Green Outcomes Fund, what it means to be a green business and how green SMMEs can apply for funding... Read |
 | LocumBase brings medical practices and locum practitioners together through a locum booking process... Read |
| HR |
 | CHRIS OGDEN Wellness is not a dirty word. It's also not a trend that's showing any signs of slowing down in the workplace, either. In fact, workplace wellness trends are evolving at a rate that's almost as rapid as technology... Read |
 | MICHELLE COETZEE, ISSUED BY ERSBIO Whilst an economic recession might mean cutting costs and reducing prices to some; others are taking the opportunity to compete with established enterprises... Read |
| Marketing & Media |
 | EARLE HOLMES, ISSUED BY AFDA The annual Afda Graduation Festival will take on a hybrid format in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth from the 3-15 December 2020... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE At a time when many PR agencies have retrenched, or worse, closed, Cape Town-based Irvine Partners is celebrating its 10th birthday... Read |
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 | KHATHUTSHELO MUFAMADI Over the past seven months, we have seen the South African economy suffer a major contraction. The Covid-19 pandemic put further pressure on an economy that was already ailing... Read |
| Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
 | TAAREK HINEDI This year's holiday season is going to be far from ordinary. Since e-commerce will play a larger role in holiday shopping than ever before, companies are rethinking their online shopping experience in anticipation of significant peak sales... Read |
 | ALLON RAIZ In the startup years, the adage "the customer is king" remains fresh and deliberate in your mind. You have probably convinced your customers (and yourself) that by using your company they will receive much better service than from the "big guys."... Read |
 | Marketing guru, Philip Kotler, said that the customer is king, but has this been the case during the Covid-19 pandemic? Read |
 | With a slow improvement of consumer confidence and spending, the South African small to medium business (SME) sector remains hopeful that the upcoming festive season trading will give them the desperately needed boost... Read |
 | The South African Informal Traders Alliance has highlighted its acute unhappiness about being excluded from critical policy decisions, laws and planning... Read |
| Social Entrepreneurship |
 | According to CSI consultancy Trialogue, South African companies spent an estimated R10.7bn on corporate social investment (CSI) in the 2020 financial year... Read |
 | Telkom is looking for 15 budding entrepreneurs who are based in Soweto and using technology to solve a problem in their communities... Read |
| Starting Up |
 | ISSUED BY RECRUITMYMOM Any entrepreneur's dream is to take a business from startup to scale-up. Yet the reality is, it takes visionary leadership, an inspired strategy, flawless execution and loads of cash to achieve the dream... Read |
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 | Tine Fisker-Henriksen, the Innovative Finance Lead for Bertha Centre for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, and a member of the Green Outcomes Fund Advisory Committee, shares details of the Green Outcomes Fund, what it means to be a green business and how green SMMEs can apply for funding. View |
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 | ANNA COLLARD Africa offers a wealth of chances for startups and innovators looking to address cybersecurity risk across the increasingly digitised continent... Read |
 | Realness Institute's Episodic Lab will be looking for screenwriters from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa with authentic and original stories of all genres... Read |
 | The MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) is set to make a comeback in 2021, when it will be held virtually, in partnership with Uganda, on 20 February 2021... Read |
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 | DAVID TAYLOR There's some great news for motorists as we go into the final month of 2020. The price of petrol will be coming down... Read |
 | The number of new shoppers introduced to e-commerce over lockdown boosted Black Friday weekend total online transaction volumes by 50%, compared to 2019... Read |
 | While the country has made some strides on the diversity and inclusion front, a lot of progress still needs to be made, particularly when it comes to disabled South Africans... Read |
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