After 19 years in business, Water Rhapsody know exactly what they’re doing. With a range of systems designed to save water, Water Rhapsody are encouraging potential ecopreneurs around South Africa to help the country conserve water and save them a good few bucks. Learn more about their products and how they work on their website [...]

Is buying a franchise a better option for you? Think about it, instead of starting up your own business, you’re joining an already successful one where you can get all kinds of assistance and reduced risk. So what is a royalty fee? What are company-owned units? Here are some “franchising” terms and definitions to help [...]

Water Rhapsody has been in existence for 17 years through the sole proprietorship of the founder and inventor Jeremy Taylor. Some 3000 installations around Cape Town and centering in Pinelands, Water Rhapsody carved a name as a superior and reliable water conservation business. The business has as its core, water conservation products that enable homes and [...]

Why buy a franchise? Why not just go out on your own? Find out why you should buy a franchise rather than start up your own company… 1)      Initiating a business – So you have that key entrepreneurial drive and you want to run your own business but you haven’t yet been able to successfully [...]

In this developing world, companies are going green or questioning going green all over the show.  Why should you own a green business and how do you get there? Why go green? Obviously the primary reason to go green is to help save the environment! These days even the world’s third largest public corporation, Wal-Mart sells organic [...]

It is known that successful business owners have certain traits in common. Do you have the qualities to become a booming entrepreneur? Here are 10 characteristics to work on that may help your business ethic. 1. Be disciplined: Focus on making your business work and achieving your goals and don’t let yourself get distracted. Plan [...]

Johannesburg – IBM South Africa says that its Global Entrepreneur Programme will for the first time, be extended to next generation entrepreneurs in South Africa. Start-ups that are privately held, have been in business for five years or less and are actively engaged in developing a software based product or service, are being called on [...]

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 [...]