Tips for maintaining your WordPress business site

[Charles Mburugu] Here are some of the ways you can maintain your WordPress business site to ensure optimal performance...

Hustling from builder to entrepreneur, one brick at a time

[Shan Radcliffe] Founding director of Hustlenomics, Nhlanhla Ndlovu tells us how growing up in a small house with a backyard shack was the inspiration and foundation upon which his dreams for bigger and better things were built...

There will always be someone who rains on your parade

[Aki Kalliatakis] We live in a very critical world and the worst of them can be the very people we try to serve. Here, Aki Kalliatakis from Leadership LaunchPad compares his friend George to customers who readily criticise and pick on the smallest details...

Chatbots as part of an integrated customer service strategy

[Wynand Smit] You can have all your communication channels lined up and ready to go, your agents trained to help via phone, email, SMS, web chat and via social media, but you could be missing a trick...

Keeping fintech and investment simple

[Nicci Botha] You need to understand that when I was growing up, email didn't even exist...

Is Airbnb really a threat to the hotel industry?

[Danny Bryer] We read all the time about how the sharing economy - a new form of doing business that puts the supplier and the customer together digitally, leaving out the intermediary - threatens the sustainability of existing businesses...

Jessica Bonin: Master blender of tea, passion and success

[Lauren Hartzenberg] Jessica Bonin carved a career out of her passion for tea and sharing the art of tea-drinking with the world...

#Newsmaker: On the Wild side with Avatar's newly-appointed ECD

[Jessica Tennant] Brett Wild was appointed Avatar's executive creative director “just the other day” and just in time as the integrated agency eyes further expansion...

Hot leads: What you need to know about responsive lead generation

[Leigh Andrews] Businesses are slowly but surely switching their big data outlook from one of fear to one of appreciation of its usefulness. Gareth Mountain, Olico executive, explains how you can use responsive lead generation to effectively turn your marketing into a profit centre...

Educating through a whole new print medium

[Shan Radcliffe] In order to encourage young disadvantaged learners to read and gain a better grasp of the language more quickly, this group of UCT Upstarts developed an innovative solution, using cheap and readily available printing systems, to produce relevant stories and news...

#AfricaMonth: Creating our own entrepreneurial opportunities in Africa

[Juanita Pienaar] Entrepreneur, Abiot Mahlatse Ledwaba talks about the hustle and how he used his skills to create opportunities that helped him strengthen his brand and start his own business...

Why you need design systems for social media

[Ernst Lass] With the majority of modern brand content now residing on social media channels, how do you create social media advertising that stands out? More importantly, how do you do this on a consistent basis within a quick turnaround timeframe?

#OnTheBigScreen: Pirates, Rock and Roll and Unrequited Love

[Daniel Dercksen] Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, Song to Song, Unforgettable and Twelfth Night open at local cinemas this weekend.

#AfricaMonth: Hein Kaiser in the media and marketing mix

[Leigh Andrews] Hein Kaiser wears many professional hats in the media and marketing space. While his day job is head of communications for fastjet across the continent, Kaiser is also the host of Mix 93.8 FM's Media & Marketing show. He explains why you're only ever as good as the last 15 minutes, and more...

#AfricaMonth: The Crazy Store takes on Botswana

[Lauren Hartzenberg] South African discount retail chain, The Crazy Store, has expanded its footprint into neighbouring Botswana...

How streets can help bridge social and spatial divides

[Ilse Burger] I recently had a very inspiring conversation with Marcela Guerrero Casas, co-founder and MD of Open Streets Cape Town about the power of streets and its ability to bridge social and spatial divides...