Over the last three months, the Democratic Alliance (DA) Youth has run a national competition to challenge young entrepreneurs to develop business plans for small enterprises.National Youth Director, Aimee Franklin says: “We believe that by encouraging young South Africans to take control of their futures and become job creators, that we are making a positive contribution to addressing the escalating youth unemployment crisis.”The competition itself forms part of a broader campaign being ...

We made a trend prediction for 2012 on Cape Talk this morning, which is more of a ‘holding thumbs’ prediction than one based on any kind of analysis. The hope is – that as South African consumers, we become less seduced by big brands and their ...

This week we will take a short journey through a series of exercises that we use to cement the leanings from the past year and prepare for the quantum leap into 2012.

The final part to this planning exercise is to make a list from your outstanding issues that needs and can be addressed in the remaining time this year. So many of us just write off December as down time and spend far too much time playing Angry Birds and not getting the small items off the list.

Take your list from Part 2 of ...

Want to do something different these holidays and get to learn to earn some extra moola? The Entrepreneur Incubator is offering a series of workshops that will teach you a skill that you can utilize to make a number of items to sell or use as gifts.

Designed especially for Teens and Adults these workshops are part craft, part business skill.

Seed Bead Critters, these are the small beads that are woven together to make a number of unique designer animals, people and sea creatures. These can ...

This week we will take a short journey through a series of exercises that we use to cement the leanings from the past year and prepare for the quantum leap into 2012.

Today we will begin to look ahead to 2012 and put pen to paper on what your BHAGs and WIGs are. Let’s start with goal setting, this is preached at every business and personal development and time management seminar you will ever go to and for good reason. Setting Goals do actually work. Simply by writing out your goals and sh...

Last week we, Entrepreneur Incubator and Motivate Cape Town put together our first Teenage Animation School programme. Advertising through the Home Schooled network and Teen Entrepreneur we were able to gather a good bunch of keen young entrepreneurs into our training room.

Our first lesson consisted of the basics of marketing, Sales Cycle and how video can play a role in this for small businesses. We then did a once over of GoAnimate software in preparation of the homework assignment. We d...

This week we will take a short journey through a series of exercises that we use to cement the leanings from the past year and prepare for the quantum leap into 2012.

The next exercise is to rid yourself of any guilt that you may carry into the festive season and holidays. Make a list of all outstanding issues, programmes and not yet done tasks that you have been well meaning to get to this year. This could include simple things, such as replacing the kettle to your new website or office ren...

This week we will take a short journey through a series of exercises that we use to cement the leanings from the past year and prepare for the quantum leap into 2012.

The first exercise is a simple one but so many people neglect to do this each year let alone each day. Take time to pause and reflect on your achievements. Make a list of all the highlights that both you and your team have achieved throughout the year. Go through each month, pull out old notes or your diary and make a celebrati...