Marnus Broodryk is a rockstar entrepreneur. He was a self-made millionaire by 24, he is a Shark on SA’s Sharktank TV show, he owns an accounting firm, he helps other entrepreneurs through SME.Africa and he also has a podcast to share the stories of other successful South African entrepreneurs.Â
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Companies spend a lot of time and money developing their websites. After that, they invest hugely in SEO to drive traffic to their websites. Surely visitors come. But what happens when visitors land on your website is the difference between success and failure. This is wh...
Last week was the Connect Summit 2019 which was held in Joburg on Tuesday and again in Cape Town on Thursday. The speaker line up included speakers from Shopify, PayFast, Insaka, Bid or Buy and more…Â
Following the event, we’ve engaged with many of the attendees to find out their best take away les...
To know how to dropship in South Africa we first need a clear understanding of what drop shipping is. The process of dropshipping is to sell inventory, which is owned by your supplier, and to have the supplier deliver directly to your customer.
 
Graphic: Dropship Business Model [Oberlo]
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An Abandoned Cart is when a customer adds something to their shopping cart and goes through the check out process but doesn’t complete the purchase.Â
It’s natural for your website to have a certain portion of abandoned carts but what can you do to get more people to convert to become buying custome...
After Warrick received a question from one of our students asking if it is prohibited to sell CBD oil online in South Africa he set off to find out exactly what can and can’t be sold online in SA. The list of prohibited products includes a lot of the obvious ones but there’s also a few on the list w...
We get asked a lot about how funnels can be used in eCommerce to grow sales. Can you use sales funnels with landing pages and opt-ins or is it better to use a marketing funnel to help bring traffic to your site and then increase your sales?
Well now you can watch this 12 minute video below which ex...
Last week Standard Bank accounced their new eCommerce platform called SimplyBlu. As this announcement caught the attention of the eCommerce community we set off on a mission to find out more about it.
In this article, we review our pros and cons of the platform, the fee structure and give you some ...
With 6 weeks left before the Connect eCommerce Summit, our followers have been offered a 17% discount off ticket prices if you buy your tickets before midnight this Friday (June 7th).Â
The Connect eCommerce Summit is happening on July 16th in Johannesburg and July 18th in Cape Town. This event is s...
In this super valuable free training session, Warrick points out a pricing mistake that so many South African eCommerce sellers are making.Â
He goes on to explain what your pricing strategy should be depending on if you’re in a competitive market or the exclusive seller in SA.Â
He wraps up with a ...
We hear this far too often so today Warrick shot a video on how much it really costs to start an online business (it’s not as much as you thought!)and he goes through his top tips on how to get your eCommerce business up and running without spending much at all!
Watch the video below for some advic...
There are so many people that we speak to who would love to start their own online business but they’re not sure if they would have enough time to build it and then run the business. But how much time does it take? Can you set up an eCommerce site and run it while working full time? What’s the most ...