If you’ve been in business more than a week, you’ve made your share of mistakes. What counts isn’t avoiding errors, but never committing the same mistake twice. That’s why, in last week’s column, I offered a list of 50 business bloopers commonly made by entrepreneurs — in the hopes that naming specific errors will help [...]
South Africa could play a key role in helping Africa to live up to its potential and attract the foreign direct investment (FDI) it needs to accelerate growth and development, said Michael Lalor, director of Ernst & Young’s Africa Business Centre, at a press briefing in Cape Town last week. “South Africa is uniquely well [...]
Today the Sunday Times launches the Each One Hire One campaign to create jobs. In the next four weeks, various experts will share their ideas on how South Africa can meet this challenge we face as a young democracy. In this instalment, Bobby Godsell looks at how we can use the human potential of our [...]
South African companies should learn to adapt to the different business cultures in the rest of the continent, says Nigerian-born entrepreneur Nissi Ekpott. “The market out in Africa is so much different than South Africa – the structure and how things work. Many times people fail just because of the differences in business culture. Some [...]
Writing for the Age of Energy: The Green Economy series, Sir Richard Branson explains why “doing good is good for business”. When entrepreneurs ask me if I have a single message which will help them, I say: doing good can help improve your prospects, your pro?ts and your business – and can change the world. [...]
Though there’s place for idle talk about movies, the weather and general skinder, we would probably improve our job prospects if we talked more about job opportunities in our daily interactions on social media. “Talking and networking has never been so easy as it is today with social media as additional communication tools,” says Natalie [...]
A limited number of green business opportunities exist in the Water Rhapsody franchise to run a business helping others conserve water. This exciting business employs a range of Water Rhapsody products to harvest rainwater, and from the storage thereof, use this water in the home reducing the need for municipal water use. Other water conservation [...]
TECHNOLOGY group Google, cellphone company Vodacom and the Department of Trade and Industry have joined forces in a project aimed at placing 10000 small and medium businesses on the internet for free. The initiative, launched in Pretoria yesterday, provides a boost to the government’s efforts to reduce unemployment by encouraging entrepreneurs to start new businesses, [...]
