Author: Noura Ibrahim

5 Compelling Reasons for Starting a Business Even Though Most Businesses Fail

5 Compelling Reasons for Starting a Business Even Though Most Businesses Fail. Entrepreneurship is an adventure and true adventure requires hardship. Recent research shows that 75 percent of all startups ultimately fail, many of those within the first year of their existence. Nobody likes failure, obviously, even as we recognize that there are many lessons to be learned from […]

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Choose A Job You Love, And You Will Never Have To Work A Day In Your Life

Vital Stats Joining fee: R125 000 Monthly management fee: 6% of turnover Monthly marketing fee: 2% of turnover Total investment: approx. R2.5m to R4.2m (turnkey) Size: 140m2 to 350m2 Unencumbered cash (before loan): 50% of total investment (Above figures exclude VAT)  “Owning your own restaurant is like owning your own future.” – Dominic Dempers, Franchisee Durbanville, Belvedere & Meadowridge Cape […]

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300 Business Ideas To Inspire You Into Entrepreneurship

You can’t start a business without an idea, instead of spending weeks and months trying to come up with something we’ve compiled 300 business ideas to help you hit the ground running. Starting a business is tough, it’s a challenging marathon and statistically, not many make it to sustainability. But trying to achieve sustainability and […]

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What to Do When Your Facebook Account Gets Hacked

It’s a common event on social media these days, the equivalent of adding #JK to a post that may or may not be … an actual joke. Here’s how it goes. Someone publishes something strange and uncharacteristic. It might be a naughty comment, inappropriate video, or controversial opinion. Their next post absolves them of ‘their’ […]

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Google: Changing Image URLs Will Affect Rankings in Image Search

Google’s John Mueller cautions site owners that a change to image URLs will affect how they rank in image search results. This is particularly relevant to sites that get a lot of traffic from Google Images. Changing an image URL, even though it’s the same image appearing on the same page, will result in Google […]

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