From mixing product formulas manually in her kitchen, to the My Abby Range™ becoming an international, award-winning holistic beauty product using Abyssinian oil for hair, skin and nails beauty range - Jaco chats to Robyn Kramer. They explore her journey of 18 years in the wellness industry, and seven years developing her passion for a natural organic solution to finding a holy grail for simple and pure beauty products. Robyn’s journey to develop her own brand started with the humble beginnings of retail, repping, sales and hard work... to formulating a winning beauty range with gorgeous branding and packaging, and plans to add baby products soon. Brought to you by Catalytic.
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Gareth talks about an article written by Terence Corrigan that mentions the Pope, who describes small and medium businesses as essential parts of the communities they operate in. He reacts to the patronising statements made in this article about small businesses not being profitable, but rather the backbone of small communities and owners alike.
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Technology is how small businesses become medium and large businesses. Can you imagine the positive economic impact if every SME in SA recruits one or two extra staff members? The fundamentals of business do not change, but the importance of educating yourself as an SME and embracing technology to avoid stagnating is key. Do not try to be resilient to the point of fatigue. Grow beyond the numbers and statistics. We need to engage SMEs and remember that support is more than just buying local. Jaco Voigt chats to Viresh Harduth from Sage about the backbone of our economy – small and medium businesses. Maintain focus on your passion and allow solutions from companies like Sage to guide you with automation, bank recons, APIs, compliance, cashflow and business management. Brought to you by Catalytic.
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A techie B2B application that matches individual skills to form teams or just gets that tech stuff done. Andre from MyTechie SA has a tsunami of skills with a distributed workforce to help tackle the jobless growth conundrum. Much of what they do is community and village based, with a pay-off line of 'We give you the edge because we live there'. Training and skills development is a core focus. To join this techie team you are qualified via a 22 question “oil refinery” process, along with passion and a keen sense of service delivery. You are rated by the customer at every job done – so your last performance is an ongoing scoreboard. Brought to you by Catalytic.
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Ivor Price and Kobus Louwrens, Co-founders and Editor-In-Chief of Food for Mzansi and Farmer's Inside Track, unpack the intersection between media, technology and agriculture.
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Cathy Goddard-Edward, CEO of Fyrefem Fund Managers - a South African women owned fund manager with a fix and build strategy - unpacks fixing, building and investing in existing businesses.
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Linda Jangulo, Co-founder and Partner of Miss Salon London and Cosmetics, talks pivoting a business in the beauty industry.
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Founder and Head Designer Thula Sindi shares insights on the business of fashion, impact and interventions under the new normal.
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Stefan Steyn, senior business rescue practitioner from Business Rescue Partner, unpacks business rescue and the options available for SMEs.
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Kgomotso Ndungane, Founder and CEO of Oak Celebrations and Lelapa Brand unpacks rebuilding and pivoting a non-essential business.
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