Kings of the Jingle
- Business Basics, Business Workshop, Chats at The Hive, Entrepreneurship, How To Start, Music, The Hive Network Conversations
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business basics, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, How To Start, innovation, Jingles, Music, Musician, musicproduction, Sound, SoundDesign, startup
- November 26, 2020
A Hive Member Spotlight As a creator, it’s easy to get so focused on one side of “the industry” that you lose sight of other business models or opportunities. This month’s Member Business Spotlight looks at a group of musicians who chose to operate in a rather uncommon part of the music industry. Lindani, Sipho and Mpumelelo provide ‘sound design’ …
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Let’s talk about advertising on ‘The Facebook’
- Business Basics, Business Workshop, Chats at The Hive, Entrepreneurship, How To Start, Marketing, Skillshare
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#BuildYourHive, business, Creatives, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, SA Creatives, Start Ups, success, Workshop
- November 12, 2020
A Hive Network Knowledge Session Whether it’s “sponsored” posts or pages suggested for you, a lot of content we never sign up for has a way of ending up on our timelines. Some of this content may go as far as telling us which of our “friends” have already liked the brand or product being promoted. Photo by cottonbro from …
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Vukawanele!
- blog, Business Basics, Business Workshop, Chats at The Hive, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, The Hive Network Conversations
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#BuildYourHive, #collaboration, business, Creatives, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, SA Creatives, Start Ups, Women In Entrepreneurship, Workshop
- November 2, 2020
A Hive Member Spotlight. As one of the platforms that managed to stay active throughout lockdown, we have an idea of how agonizing it would be to read another ‘Business during COVID’ article. That being said, our latest member spotlight focuses on a business that managed to survive and even grow while entire industries were sinking. “ We help our …
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Smart Business in the time of eCommerce
- Business Basics, Chats at The Hive, Entrepreneurship, How To Start, Marketing, The Hive Network Conversations
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#BuildYourHive, #collaboration, #NeverStop, business, community, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Johannesburg, Start Ups, success, Workshop
- October 22, 2020
A Hive Member Spotlight SmartSentials offers you everyday essential items and food products that promote healthy living. “There’s a lot of money in the streets.” – Lebohang Likhojane, Founder SmartSentials began as a Fresh Produce stall aside a busy road somewhere in the Free State. Using some of his savings, Lebo Likhojane established the business with a group of friends. While wrapping …
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Your Mother’s House:
A Hive Creative Entrepreneur Spotlight Contrary to what you may have heard; life is literally a group project. The environment we live in, the air we breathe and so many aspects of human life depend on the collective responsibility we have to each other and future generations. Environmental issues like the litter that decorates our cities, don’t just “add to …
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5 Marketing Points in 5 minutes
- Business Basics, Business Workshop, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, The Hive Network Conversations
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business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Start Ups, Women In Entrepreneurship, Workshop
- October 1, 2020
Besides business tools and bottom lines, the other Baader-Meinhof themes within our content have probably been marketing and branding. With so many modern consumers having access to so much media, the modern brand is so vain that every word, every look & each nuance has to be crafted and packaged as part of the brand’s “experience”. In our ‘Marketing & …
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A love letter to accountants everywhere
- Business Basics, Business Workshop, Chats at The Hive, Entrepreneurship, The Hive Network Conversations
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business, community, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, SA Creatives, Start Ups, success, Women In Entrepreneurship, Workshop
- September 16, 2020
Sonke we love money, plus we all understand how important making money is to our sense of value and overall well being (ever heard of “net worth”?). In business especially, our finances essentially define our company’s performance over any given period. “ When it comes to our financials; we shouldn’t be putting out fires. Ideally, our books should help us …
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Running Things
- Business Basics, Business Workshop, Chats at The Hive, The Hive Network Conversations
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#collaboration, business, community, Creatives, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, SA Creatives, Start Ups
- September 1, 2020
from starting with a purpose to startup success As much as successful businesses focus on how they sound and look to the outside world, they have to make sure their internal systems are always working & moving in the right direction. We joined Sibongile’s latest Knowledge Exchange Session to hear more about some of the things it takes to run …
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Short Cuts w/ Grace Letsoalo
- Chats at The Hive, Culture, design, Entrepreneurship
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#collaboration, Artist, Creatives, Culture, design, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Meet The Artists, SA Creatives, Women In Entrepreneurship
- August 7, 2020
A Hive Creative Entrepreneur Spotlight “2020 was looking so good… but, it is what it is…” – Kgotso Selomah A few days ago, this is what pre-to-post production duo Kombonation had to say about adapting to the lockdown. For this week’s short piece, we had a quick chat with creative stylist, designer and entrepreneur – Grace Makopa Letsoalo – to …
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Breached Terms (2/2)
The first part of this 2-piece series, we covered 3 principles that can help any business begin navigating their legal activities: Begin by clearly stating the purpose of the legal activity. Prepare and share any relevant documents/ communication. Proceed with agreed terms/ Take legal action (if necessary). In this second installment, we look at 3 examples of how that legal …
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