Business Funding: Is Equipment Finance Right for Your SME?
Looking for equipment finance to grow your business? Equipment finance is one of the most common types of business funding. And if you’re in the market for this form of business funding, you have a few options available to you. The best type of equipment finance for...
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Open For Business Campaign – SMME Support
A new countrywide SME support campaign will offer small businesses free marketing exposure, financial management tools, and support to digitally transform their business as they attempt to re-open following the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. As a growing number of small...
Business Funding: An overview of how SME’s can access funding in SA
Searching for business funding for your SME can be a complicated journey. But it doesn’t need to be. In this post, you’ll learn more about the most common ways you can get business funding in South Africa. Jump to the section to learn more about: How to find COVID-19...
COVID-19 SME Support: Business Brightspot Listing
Small businesses owners are often wearing so many hats that they don't have enough time to take on big, strategic thinking. In the current climate we have seen some incredible transformations done either on-the-go or through a complete pivot. In this edition of the...
COVID-19 SME Support: Business Brightspot Listing
Small businesses have inspiring stories to share, even during the most difficult times. In this edition of the Business Brighspot blog, we’re covering three South African SMEs that moved fast to respond during COVID-19. Kallie Mamba About your business We manufacture...
COVID-19 SME Support Guide: How to Grow During a Crisis
Are you unsure about how to run your business during COVID-19? You aren’t alone. Business owners tell us they’re feeling uncertain about the future. That’s why we partnered with the National Small Business Chamber (NSBC) to create this Back to Business guide for South...
This Young Entrepreneur Will Inspire You to Take the Leap
Back in primary school, as her classmates jostled all around her on the playground, Boitumelo Moroe was getting ready to start her first business. “From a young age, I fully understood the value of money and profit. I was that school girl always finding something to...
COVID-19 SME Support: List Your Small Business for Free Today
These are difficult times for small business owners. South African SMEs have taken a knock as the COVID-19 pandemic forced entire industries to shut down. Now, we’ve always been huge supporters of the SME community. Small business is important for our economy, and...
SA Business to Provide 1 Million Face Masks to Schoolchildren and Teachers
A South African SME is on a mission to get one million face shields to pupils and teachers across the country to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the nation’s schools. This week, Cape Town-based online printing store, Webprinter Online Printing, distributed 15 000 face...
COVID-19 SME Support: R4 billion Business Funding Gap
South African SMEs asked government’s COVID-19 support scheme for over R4 billion to keep their doors open. However, the Department of Small Business Development could only afford to award R513 million in the first round of its coronavirus SME support package. Now,...
5 Simple Ways to Generate PR for Your Small Business
PR is an ideal way to spread the word about your small business. That's why we're giving a R10 000 PR package to the winner of this year's SANTAM Women of the Future Awards. We've partnered with CN&CO to offer the prize. Below, CN&CO's Colin Ford writes about...
