October is Mental Health Awareness month. But why do we have this? Mental health is a health issue just like physical health. Yet there has always been a stigma attached to it, we don’t talk about it, we even make jokes about it. Perhaps we just don’t understand it. Just like we did not understand …
Like us on Facebook, click here to subscribe to our channel – the social media space feels needy, crowded and confusing. A few years back you had Facebook and Twitter and many companies found great success using these for business, to promote or sell. But now there are so many options it has become difficult …
August is Women’s Month in South Africa, an opportunity to reflect on the role of women in our society. As a business owned and run by women, we want to narrow this focus and take a look at women in business. Not the Fortune 500 CEOs and the like, just women in business in general. …
To call the business landscape tough right now is an understatement. We are experiencing a perfect storm of hectic loadshedding, record fuel prices, the highest inflation rate in about forty years, supply chain problems, civil unrest, massive unemployment and political uncertainty. The last time things were so dire was the financial crisis of ‘08/09. Then …
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Winter can make you sad. That is SAD, as in Seasonal Affective Disorder and it is a real thing. You know that feeling when you leave home in the dark and return after dark? SAD is caused by a lack of sunlight which could stop the part of the brain called the hypothalamus from working …
Black Friday will be on 26 November this year, so you will have to start training now to make sure you are retail combat fit. But why is it a thing? To understand Black Friday, you have to understand Thanksgiving, a day observed in different ways and on different days around the world to celebrate …
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Spring has sprung as it does every year. Unlike every other year, this spring feels different. It follows a difficult winter. Wet, windy, lots of storms, flooding, as cold and many can remember. There was also the economic winter of the Covid wave and subsequent lockdown. The unrest upcountry did not help either. But now …
In South Africa we celebrate Women’s Day and Women’s month in August, whereas the rest of the world does so in March. The significance of 9 August dates back to the Women’s March on that day in 1956, when 20 000 women of all races and from all over South Africa marched to the Union Buildings …
Three weeks of lockdown done, one more to go. If you are in a situation where it does not matter, good for you. If things are just hanging at the moment, use the time to do what you normally don’t have time for. Look at your website, for example. Why? How old is your website? …
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POPIA or the Protection of personal information act comes into effect on 1 July. Eek! What is it and what must I do about it? Like most regulations, it is a pain in the part you sit on, and at the same time, not as bad as it sounds. Why does it exist? We live …
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