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 | LEIGH ANDREWS My favourite session of Cape Town Startup Week 2019 was the Raw series workshop featuring SA entrepreneurs Siya Beyile and Vincent Manzini, AKA 'Sir Vincent' on the power of personal branding for entrepreneurs. Here's what you missed...read |
|  | | Mr. Delivery was born in 1992, when ordering was done via the phone from printed menus on the fridge. After a technology-led transformation, the analogue Mr Delivery became Mr D Food...read |
|  | LEIGH ANDREWS HelloFCB+ and the City of Cape Town's "Boys do what men teach them" campaign tied in with this year's global #16daysofactivism campaign, standing out for taking an educational tactic set to inspire behaviour change rather than just raise awareness of the serious gender-based violence (GBV) issue...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM As the old odd year 2019 draws to a close and we look forward to a nice big round number in 2020, we at Biz take this opportunity to thank you for your support and to wish you all the Best of Biz this festive season!... Read |
| Advertising |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Jessica Tennant interviews Graham Cruikshanks, director for Africa operations at TBWA\ Johannesburg on his involvement in the recent #TBWAAfricaConference, with the objective of re-emphasising TBWA\'s core disruption principles while fostering an "attitude of disruption", which he tells us more about here... Read |
| Branding |
 | PAULA SARTINI How can your customers trust you if you don't take precautions to protect their personal information?... Read |
| CRM, CX, UX |
 | PAUL MCINTYRE As business heads into 2020, the way customer experience is managed will irrevocably change. Ushering in this new era will be technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) which have already impacted how companies engage with their end-users... Read |
| Design |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Bold, unconventional and rooted in SePulana culture, the work of young South African fashion designer Katekani Moreku has caught the eye of the local fashion community... Read |
| Digital |
 | TERENCE T CHINYANGARE How do you harness this consumerism to market and sell your products or services? One of the best ways to achieve this in a modern era is through online or digital marketing. Read |
| Media |
 | JULIA RAPHAELY Julia Raphaely, CEO of Associated Media Publishing shares highlights of the 2019 FIPP World Media Congress, held in Las Vegas last month... Read |
| Mobile |
 | REBEKAH FUNK Cracked mobile phones, leaking batteries, broken kitchen appliances, obsolete televisions...the twisted cords of toxic electronic waste are strangling South Africans. Seeing the danger, a North West entrepreneur has taken matters into his own hands... Read |
| Online Media |
 | A website for a business is crucial. But it's not enough just to create it... Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Ryan O' Connor, who's been on Kfm 94.5 for 11 years has decided to move away from the microphone to grow his new business, The Yellow Room - a digital agency he launched earlier this month in partnership with Hamiltons Advertising... Read |
| Recruitment |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA Sanlam has announced that they will be one of the breakaway sponsors at the 2020 Future of HR Summit & Awards... Read |
| Research |
 | MARILYN NEL, CLEIDE TINGA AND KHATHU MUSINGADI, ISSUED BY BMI RESEARCH Innovation, and an increasingly creative response to pressing social, health and environmental issues are driving major consumer trends in South Africa's alcohol beverage sector... Read |
| Social Media |
 | DORIN BAMBUS, ISSUED BY GORILLA Unilever, in conjunction with Facebook, has awarded Gorilla's work for Axe with a Grand Prix in their Blue Awards... Read |
| Sponsorship |
 | ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA Business and Arts South Africa (BASA), in partnership with the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) and the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), is demolishing long standing assumptions about the 'starving artist', with the DAC Debut Programme... Read |
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 | LOUISE BURGERS Journalists need to be taught how to be entrepreneurs so they can contribute to the survival of the media industry, said Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, chairman of the APO Group... Read |
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 | If you consider how 4IR has disrupted education, business and industry sectors worldwide, we can safely assume that South Africa will also need to make provisions to do the same, but what will the future employment landscape look like...? Read |
 | We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views... Read |
 | We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views... Read |
 | We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views... Read |
 | KATIE CUNNINGHAM Katie Cunningham shares some of the experiences that are common among women entrepreneurs in a funny, relatable, and cathartic way... Read |
 | JANE NJOKU What's the point of setting goals if you can't achieve them? Read |
 | MARIAN SALZMAN In the knowledge economy, every glimpse of the probable future carries monetary value... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Dr Tana Joseph heads up AstroComms, a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) consulting and communications company with the aim to assist STEM practitioners, institutions and policymakers... Read |
 | MAIYO FEBI Setting goals for the New Year may be the last thing you feel like doing now that the festive season has kicked in, but the buzz will eventually fade and it will be back to 'business-as-usual'. This is where setting goals becomes important... Read |
 | ATHABILE JOJO Athabile Jojo, CEO of Diversity Empowerment, shares what the 2019 downturn taught him and his hopes for growth in 2020... Read |
 | KEVIN DHERMAN It is no secret that the manufacturing sector is critically important for both developed and emerging economies. From producing necessities like food for a nation to creating much-needed jobs... Read |
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