Open Source Content Management 
Global Survey reveals that 51% of South African companies are using social networks, blogs, micro blogs and forums to win new business. Having your website or usinginternet marketing services is no longer a matter of choice but an essential need for any business regardless of its size.
Who are the Buyers?
Buyers buy businesses for many of the same reasons that sellers sell businesses. It is important that the buyer is as serious as the seller when it comes time to purchase a business. If the buyer is not serious, the sale will never close. Here are just a few of the reasons that buyers buy businesses:
The second question you have to consider is: "Do you really want to sell this business?" If you're really serious and have a solid reason (or reasons) why you want to sell, it will most likely happen. You can increase your chances of selling if you can answer yes to the second part of this question: "Do you have reasonable expectations?" A yes answer to these two questions means you are serious about selling.
Following, in the next couple of articles, are some of the most common topics and questions frequently brought up by sellers. If you have any questions that we have not covered, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Is it time to sell? Selling your business is a major decision! You have devoted your time, money, and energy into building, running, and operating your business. It may well represent your life's work. If you have already decided that now is the right time to sell, you want the very best professional guidance you can get.
Yes customers are hard to find and those you have even harder to keep. Then how to you grow and keep the customer base you have? My tip to all SMME businesses striving to maintain their customer base is: Identify three basic things/principals/policies/procedures that you have to get right all the time. Make sure you get those right all the time and every time, until it becomes a norm.
So you have the contacts, networking and financing for a great business and want to get going on your new venture but how are you going to come up with a marketing plan? So many business owners and entrepreneurs make the mistake of believing that because their business ideas are great, they won’t have any problems selling their product or service.
Firstly I would like to introduce myself, my name is Paul John Gioio and I am the SEO strategist and operations manager at Beyond Design. I decided to write this article to lend some insight on SEO and how you should approach your SEO strategy for driving traffic to your website. Although the terms used in SEO can be confusing at times, I've decided to keep them as simple as possible so that even entry level online marketeers can understand and use the information to formulate a simple SEO strategy for their website or websites. So before I get started I would just like to say thank you for taking the time to read and I hope that you can gain something that can used in your SEO strategy.
A penny saved is a penny earned. The scenarios:
So many entrepreneurs believe that the mere ingenuity of their idea is what will sell it. Most of the right are right, but most of them also do not give any thought to how they are going to get that idea across to their target market. So many business owners think that the brilliancy of the idea alone will attract customers.
There’s free and there’s low cost. When you spend a bit of money your capacity to make an impact goes up; it’s something of an investment in your target audience. Here are some easy and cost-effective ways to get your brand out there.
Corporate gifts - unique and free
Branding promotional goods that are unique and eye-catching is a great way to ensure you stay front of mind. The trick is to make them unique and useful.
