Rules of survival for your e-commerce start-up

Have you seen the movie that starts with a group of terrified soldiers in a bobbing boat, being tossed onto a blood red beach erupting in sand and bodies? By Howard Rybko, CEO of Syncrony None of those soldiers can be sure they will survive. Neither can you, if you...

On-demand delivery on the rise

On-demand delivery is gaining a lot of popularity as a result of the current business and economic challenges and many businesses are expanding their operations by jumping on the digital bandwagon. By Antonio Bruni, CEO of Picup To expand their business reach,...

Gain and maintain public trust for your online business

Covid-19 has propelled businesses across all sectors to not only focus on being the best in the world, but on being the best for the world. This means that they must maintain their “social licenses to operate”–with public trust as their currency....

Click & collect an essential part of the new normal

2020 was a rollercoaster of a year filled with twists, turns, ups and lock-downs, which threw any semblance of normality out the window. But, despite this uncertainty, last year made one thing clear for retailers and consumers alike — ecommerce is the future,...

Small businesses could become the lifeblood of e-commerce

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent a staggering 98% of business in South Africa today. The fact that SMES also employ between 50 and 60% of the country’s workforce and are responsible for a quarter of the job growth in the private sector,...

Reasons for quickly implementing a B2B e-commerce solution

The global pandemic forced many businesses to change. Companies and employees who had resisted digital innovation suddenly had no choice. By Andre Adendorff, director of presales at Seidor Africa The demand for online sales began to grow as populations were locked...