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By 2B Business Founder and Editor, Ann Williams. It’s unfortunate that in the first of what will become weekly editorial columns I will be looking exclusively at the goverment’s handling of various business issues, particularly the aftermath of the soccer tournament and the proposed Protection of Information Bill. Paying the FIFA bill The... [Read more of this review]

Companies

Ann Williams interviews Marthie Mare of Face Profile SA. Marthie Mare can read people like a book; well she can read faces like a book cover… with seemingly extraordinary accuracy. This isn’t some magician’s stage show though, it’s the now well-researched field of face profiling or physiognomy. “Anyone wanting to sell something to you should... [Read more of this review]

Red Balloon Event Administration Solutions (based in Gauteng, South Africa) offers a comprehensive event administrative service to those organisations and individuals tasked with managing events such as conferences, launches, tours, incentive trips, golf days, gala dinners. Red Balloon uses web-based software that is custom designed to suit the requirements... [Read more of this review]

After some prompting by my personal coach I took a well-deserved break and attended a two-day course in glass bead making. As a result I have met the owners of a lovely small business, Glass & Fire. Why I was impressed with what they have done since they opened in February 2008 is because they have followed some very basic tennets of marketing... [Read more of this review]

Community

Any purchase, after 1 September 2010, of a new vehicle with a carbon dioxide emission of more than 120g/km, will see the buyer paying an extra carbon emissions tax. A charge of R75 per gram for each gram over the 120g/km limit will be levied. Larger vehicles such as SUVs can emit anywhere between 300g/km and 500g/km and could be taxed between R13 000... [Read more of this review]

The Run Home to Read programme encourages parents and caregivers to read to children at home to develop their early literacy skills. The materials provided are specifically designed to assist the children with improving their reading, writing and cognitive skills and because the books are provided in the child’s first language it is easier for... [Read more of this review]

The Internet Service Providers’ Association of South Africa (ISPA) has put out the following press release about the feasibility of Internet Service Providers being able to comply with the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (Rica). For this week’s Talking Point, we’d be interested to hear your views on whether the RICA legislation... [Read more of this review]

Resources

A delightful TED speech by Cameron Herold about how to raise youngsters with an entrepreneurial mindset. He looks at all the ways in which his own father got him thinking creatively and with good business sense, and then gives some ideas as to how any parent can assist their children to grow up with business savvy.  Read More →

There are eight videos making up this excellent webinar that gives a practical overview of what you are really writing a business plan for and how to go about it. The videos are presented by business planning expert Tim Berry and was co-sponsored by the Small Business Administration and Palo Alto Software.  Read More →