SimplyBiz® helping you get connected after lockdown
There is much gloom and doom out there, but we want to focus on the can-do’s, not the can’t-do’s.
∙ Suddenly in need of a spare laptop or collaborative software?
∙ Share what your business is doing to survive Covid-19 and “distance hustling”.
∙ Share your ideas and positive experiences and stand a chance to WIN!
Covid-19 is a game-changer and going forward, digitisation and connectivity will become a necessity, not a luxury. That’s why we are giving you a chance to work remotely and stay in touch with your customers with these incredible prizes:
Enter now to be in a weekly draw for one of 20 X R5 000 Incredible Connection Vouchers.
∙ First Draw - 27 March 2020 (Closed)
∙ Second Draw - 6 April 2020
HOW TO ENTER
✅ Share your tips and positive experiences in the comments below
✅ Register on SimplyBiz® https://www.simplybiz.co.za/register
✅ (If you’re already registered, you’re an entrepreneur destined to overcome!)
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My name is Andile Siwahla, I am the founder of AAS IT Support and Enlighteners, a small company in Cape Town, Nyanga township. operating from a RDP house/office. We are an Outsourced IT Support service Provider focused in schools, small and medium sized businesses. from high schools i saw a business gap i thought we could fill. We founded the business in 2015 with the aim to assist schools, in access control as well as IT Solutions. We Currently install CCTV, school intercom system, alarm system, desktop and laptop service & repairs in schools and homes as well as churches, hopefully the business can be lucky enough to get something from this SimplyBiz competition, to find out more about us you can go to this site http://aasit.business.site or https://www.facebook.com/AASITSupport/
AAS IT Support and Enlighteners during this lockdown is currently assisting clients through whatsapp messanger as we as teamviewer, to find out more about us check this site http://aasit.business.site or https://www.facebook.com/AASITSupport/
RA Electrical Projects wishing all South African
citizens to stay safe during this lockdown
period
Please be wise sanitize
RA Electrical Projects
Firstly thanks to all customers for there loyal support and understanding.
I would like to use this opportunity to wish all our customers and all South African citizens the very best and to stay safe during this difficult times.
As we all know that COVID19 caught us as small businesses/customers off guard totally therefore we need to work together as a team to minimize spreading of the virus.
I wish and believe that we all see each other on the other side off all.
RA Electrical Projects see forward and will continue to provide a honest and great service to their clients
All the best
This has been a very hard time for me as a small business owner because everything is at a stand still, my suppliers are closed and this has caused my business to come to a stand still. I manufacturer handbags and this are indeed difficult times. Now more than ever I choose to show the world what it means to be truly South African. By rallying together with our government I have been complying with the lockdown and sharing as much as i can with my clients in the fight against the spread of COVID-19.
As much as it’s not easy, I believe we will get through this together as a nation.
As a non-essential service provider I will be following all government directives to temporarily stop selling but this has given me the drive to take the time to set new goals and improve as a business owner.
My safety, the safety of my clients, and the health of our country continues to be my top priority. So I am hard at work from home doing my research and looking forward to coming back stronger.
My team & I have had countless, yet appropriately distanced, meetings in trying to come up with ways to beat coronavirus. And beat here, we refer to abstain from contracting it and maintaing such a status quo. We've adopted a, " Prepare and Prevent, instead of Repair and Repent" strategy. Hand washing intervals have increased to every 30 minutes, and this is done under minisupervision. Every team member carries at least 2 miniature hand sanitizers in his/her pockets. Water is always on standby. If any one of us suspects having surrounded a person who showed symptoms, a drink of water ensures if the "virus" is there, then it gets a merry trip down to the stomach for an acid bath.
Congratulations to our incredibly lucky winners of the ‘Get Connected’ competition, who have each won a R5000 Incredible Connection voucher.
To all those who entered. You touched our hearts and inspired us with your bravery, kindness and resilience.
As a collaborative of Executives, clients and SMME's, we are doing a 21 Day Lockdown Challenge - Real People, Real Leaders. Daily at 4pm, we have someone sharing free coaching, wellness, fitness, advice, connect and so much more. The focus is to uplift people during this time that it's tough for all of us, but especially those who run small businesses. We post daily and would love more people to join us daily as well as contribute. Follow the LadyBugz pages on FB, LinkedIn and other social media platforms, as well as myself in who is up next. Adding value to people in this time has really helped me, and those who join us daily!
At Meter Mate we are an essential service so must keep the lights on for all the tenants that have our meters in their properties. Our staff have had to split - half are working from home for essential support while the other half are at home with their families. In order to keep the team spirit up we have a whatsapp group with all staff on it where we encouarge engagement. We have an assigned buddy that we need to check in with daily as well as a buddy pair that is chosen to give us a daily exercise at 4pm.
We are a family at Meter Mate and we are in this together whether we are the ones working or the ones who are not able to work. We know that this will hold us together and create a stronger bond between us.
We as Iviwez Portion sent helpful information to our clients about the corona virus and comforting messages to keep them calm and productive during this time.
We also bought for our employees more protective products like gloves, musks and sanitizers to ensure that they feel secured and work at ease.
We are also making use of Zoom App for our meetings and discussions. We keep on going during this difficult time to ensure that people have something to eat to keep alive and positive for a brighter future. For there is light at the end of the tunnel, therefore let's not loose hope this too shall pass and will leave us more powerful, productive and successful than it found us.
Us at Reaoleboga holdings we are stuck, not doing a single thing during this lockdown. We are a paper recycling company so we get our paper from schools so since the schools are closed we can't do anything. We have two employees for now so we always advice them to wash their hands frequently, we provided them with hand sanitizers to take home and if finished they call us so we can organize more for them also we are also planning to provide them with food parcels as from April so they can feed their families. We will struggle with them even if we were not well off as a company, I as the owner of the business I take money out of my salary so all this can happen.
At LS Squeaky Clean, our business is closed down during the covid-19 pandemic but we have made sure our customers are well taken care of as in teaching how to prevent virus and staying at home during lock-down. In this 2 days, we have made arrangements with transporters to do joint venture in logistics business our business is venturing in. We have made bookings at the mine for transporters to transport their coal, as soon as lock-down is over, work is going to commence and we are very happy. And also, I have given myself time to study the financial stock market and preparing myself to buy at-least 5 shares in Sasol Limited, I mean stick market is on sale and we better take advantage of that but mot forget to study the market and companies we are investing in. Thank you!
I am a very young business owner, and only started my business, a nightclub , last year in april. i have been in management of night clubs and restaurants for 16years. and owning my own was a dream for me. unfortuantely, due to the corona virus, i have had to shut my doors, indefinitely. and i dont think i will be able to cover the loss i make in the forth coming months. its a tough call, i had to make it. and with lockdown, i guess everyone is feeling it. we all have to do our bi for humanity, for me , that lets me rest , uneasily at night! i have come out of this with so much debt, its unbelievable . Dreams shattered, but, ill just need to rebuild myself once again when the lockdown is over. good luck to all business owners during this uncertain time. this too shall pass
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MILK+SUGAR is helping our clients to continue to tell their stories even in lockdown.
We're able to Livestream or pre-record this remotely. All they need is a laptop with a webcam and built in mic. They must use Chrome as their browser and importantly have a pretty solid internet connection.
If they want to record content on their phones, or laptops themselves, we are able to use that too.
We do the rest including integrating their graphics, social feeds and other assets into their content.
The focus of my business is kids entertainment.since gatherings are not allowed, my business has shut down until such time when all is back to normal.
Hi...as Blackheart Entertainment...we have taken our stand up comedy online...doing stand up comedy across all our social media platforms getting our fans to pay subscription to our content...because we no longer doing venue gigs while on lockdown...
The pandemic is very stressful for everyone. For big and small businesses it is a big challenge! So this is how we surviving the COVID-19 at our business and their clients. Before we could even offer our services, we were educating if not giving tips to our clients abount this virus, how it starts, the symptom and the recovery phase. But most importantly they need to know the generousness of the virus.
But as for during the lockdown, our business is doing most of its services online and our customers are making use on online payments such as FET, Paypal, Payfast, OSD and direct bank transfer. Our offices is closed and we making use of NCH Business Suite software to track sales and delegate tasks to relevant employees as much as communicating emergency matters and reporting.
We trained our customers to be calm and always wash their hands at home, at work, in the mall, and they must avoid touching their face at all times. If they suspect having made a phyisical contact with someone who is having the symptoms they must run to the doctor.
And yes it is very difficult time of us. The sales is going low, slow network connections and most customers dont know if they should make use of our products and services but we try and convince them into doing business with us
We at Gingerlykids seeing that we a very small team and we can not operate during the lock down as we are a kids boutique store.
So in this time that we can basically not do any business we trying to stay relevant by advertising on most social media networks this is very important for our survival after the lockdown.
We also post positive ways to keep kids in informed and busy during the lockdown. We encourage parents to not grow tired having they kids around but create fun activities , dress up parties and keeping them safe.
We check in on all our customers that we have they contact details making sure they safe and taking care during this pandemic.
At Nvirogreen we do Pest Control & Hygiene, the majority of our work comes from the schools be it Public or Private, we also have service agreements with restaurants, we have applied for an essential service permit and we received it, in the event we do get called upon to provide product or service, the Carona Virus Covid 19 has caused us to send our staff home only my wife and I are on standby, to date we haven't had any response from any sector yet but we are hopeful that there will be a turnaround, we managed to cover salaries for the month of March, as far as April, May & June is concerned we do not have provision for these months, as a small business we also have a social responsibility to the community we live in. we have however moved around our local supermarkets and shops and communities as they go about their business to assist we can with the limited recourses we have at our disposal to provide and supply gloves and sanitizers to the aged and less privileged, we are not able to help everyone but we call on local businesses to provide the masks and sanitizer to those in the community who are not able to source or afford this protective equipment.
Masetshire Lebona
I-Manage Consulting Services manages a number of portfolio including "Management Consulting, Brand & Marketing and Property Management & Development. Our core services focuses on SMME's business advisory (governance & compliance). During the 21 days lockdown our focus has been to improve our visibility and as such, we are using the downtime to ultimately set our website and other business marketing tools that will grow our business and benefit our clients. We have been postponing the website setup for a while. In other areas, I-Manage applied for the essential services certificates from CIPC for all medical facilities as well as completed Form C permission for essential workers to ensure that these facilities do not experience any interruptions as they remain operational during lockdown. In line with government safety precautions to be taken during this period, our facilities experienced a shortage of essential goods for their daily operations. Due to the high demand and shortage of the essential goods from big wholesalers and retailers, we had to look at alternative ways of sourcing and supplying those goods for our facilities. This led to the establishment of a relationship with a local Biotech laboratory, Global Health Biotech (GHB), based at Innovation Hub and headed by a black female scientist and professor from TUT t supply us with sanitizers. GHB manufactures hand and surface sanitizers at their laboratories and delivers them directly to clients. This relationship created an opportunity to support locally manufactured goods, an opportunity which could have been missed has it not been for the lockdown and shortage of supplies. We have also started to make use of the online platforms to place orders for the supply of other essential goods required. For the SMME's we manage, we had to be proactive and inform their customers via emails about that COVID-19 and its implications on their businesses. We also looking to assist our SMME clients who have been financially affected by the lockdown, with application process to access relief funds. We are trying our best to be proactive and keep our clients motivated and operational.
At Mpubane Muti Solution, We hiring Mobile equipment such as (Chemical mobile Toilets and Mobile Cold rooms , Manufacturing Ice cubes and Planting and selling vegetables and we based in rural area. unfortunately since the lock down due to Corona Virus the business is slow. Most of our customers are local Pubs, Taverns, Bottles stores, restaurants etc, and they are all closed due to the virus. on the side of hiring, all the event are cancelled and some are postponed. we now only relying on members of the community around who are just buying vegetables straight from our garden on daily basis. in summary it is indeed very difficult for the company to operate at the moment.
Kuyanda Chemicals, being a cleaning detergents manufacture means we are classified as an essential services provider. We are closed off for walk in customers and work with skeletal team to continue production of essential products. We are working hard to keep supplying our clientele which include Clinics, Laboratories, Correctional Centers, private doctors and etc with essentials like Anti-bac Hand Soaps, Bleach, Hand and Surface Sanitizes.
Intlalo is a consulting company that focuses on business training and organisational development. SMME's have taken a strain during this lockdown and we've been offering support and guidance to keep our clients' businesses sustainable. Online presence has been a key factor in stimulating business growth and we've developed their website and social media platforms for maximum exposure.
At Sizanimavoko Enterprise we are affected by this virus but we have advantage of working at home that makes things easier for us. We making sure that we wash our hands before sewing , and before the lockdown we prepared ourselves by making sure that we purchase fabrics in rolls now we just sewing without going up and down looking for fabrics.
Working as a Management Assistant and part of an International Network we are the driving force and often the unsung heroes to ensure our MD's, CEO's and Management
are allowed to focus on business whilst we take care of the non business related matters such as sorting diaries, managing meetings, conferences, travel and personal matters.
Amidst this COVID-19 pandemic the Management Assistants in all the sectors affected had to overnight adapt to working remotely and often have to take the lead and step in to ensure
our Management have the support to focus on Business.
At Snow White and Seven Dresses, we've been hard hit by Covid-19 as our brides cannot access our walk-in store nor can we courier our stock however we have an online store on our website and we are offering our customers big discounts for purchases to be delivered after lockdown. They can also pre-order stock in the coming weeks ,which we have not yet received due to the pandemic, and we'll reserve it just for them. We are all about customer satisfaction!
At Shoop Sharp Construction Services, we are all about company culture and relationships, and this indeed exceeds our goals. I ensure that all of my team are highly engaged, during this time, strategyzing, planning, for the road ahead using Skype and Zoom. Our company's success is reliant on that we work together as a team. If the team is solid so is our results. We are all about relationships as no matter what business you are in people buy from people, so it is important that your company culture is embarrassed by all staff from cleaner, to site foreman to admin staff to the GM. When your company culture is in alignment with your business goals, employees are able to connect to your mission and they are motivated to exceed their goals. Not to mention that they are more creative in solving problems and committed to developing a long-term career at our organization. These are all behaviors that is key to the business success.
HAPPY CULTURES=EXCEPTIONAL TALENT RETENTION