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  bizsmarts news
What's the Hubbub about Online Business Hubs?
So you have a small business. You've taken the bright idea you had one morning while waiting in yet another mile-long traffic jam and you've made it into a working proposition. You've been through good times and bad times but you are finally over that initial three year hump that dashes so many entrepreneurs' hopes and looking forward to doing even better in the future.
More BizSmarts News:
• New Opportunities Arise for Women Entrepreneurs in South Africa
• Why Networking is Key to Business Success
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Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a self-financing, national Development Finance Institution (DFI). It was established in 1940 to promote economic growth and industrial development in South Africa. Our mandate includes the rest of the Africa , and we operate in a broad spectrum of industries. With our specialized knowledge and experience, can offer financial assistance to a wide variety of individuals and companies. We maintain financial independence and apply sound business principles to everything we do. As a self-financing, state-owned national DFI, the IDC provides financing to entrepreneurs engaged in competitive industries. Web: www.idc.co.za, E-mail: callcentre@idc.co.za, Tel: 086 069 3888.
technology
Raise Profits Through Understanding Searcher Behaviour
Google has recently launched a tool to help advertisers and marketers understand searcher behaviour better.

Can a Pigeon Deliver Data Quicker than ADSL?
Those in the know say a pigeon named Winston, right here in South Africa, beat Telkom's ADSL in delivering data recently. Here's how it happened…

A Tech Boost for Smallest Companies in Tough Times
The recent release of Microsoft's ultra-low cost server platform could be just the medicine that small businesses need to take their operations to the next level.
Issue 84 17 September 2009
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who are we
Warwick Smith-Chandler [ Editor ]
Warwick Smith-Chandler has motivated and inspired entrepreneurs ever since he launched South Africa's first entrepreneurial magazine, ‘Your Own Business'. A pioneer in internet publishing, he launched Bizassist.co.za in 1998, which has become South Africa's most widely-read SME business portal.
 

Toby Bennett  [ Author ]
Toby has a wealth of writing experience in various fields. With a degree in philosophy, a keen interest in IT and the experience of having setup and managed a small design company, Toby is able to draw on extensive experience in business and technology and pass it onto the reader. The author of four books to date, Toby manages to merge equal measures of wit and insight to produce articles that both inform and entertain.