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Business Profile
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We start by gathering the information needed to register and build your new business. During this process you also get to reflect on the finer details of your business idea before the real action starts.
We take all the information we have gathered including aspects of your personal background, profile, what problems you solve for whom, how, where and why – throw it into a hat and conceptualize a re-defined and viable business idea that is future-orientated, profitable and scalable.
Having an effective and unique business name that stands out from the crowd is sometimes hard to define. Your name should tell your customers exactly what you do and how you do it. Other important aspects to consider is name availability during company registration, website URL’s, Social Media Usernames and search Engine Optimization.
We will help you formulate an effective business description to let customers and investors know who you are, what problems you solve, for whom, how, where and why – all for you 30 seconds business pitch.
Apart from your business name, a great slogan or tag line should become your companies trademark that will be remembered as part of your brand.
This forms part of your Business Profile needed for applying for new accounts and information requested by customers and investors.
To outwit your competitors, you should have a unique approach, product or service that you can offer to your clients. We will help you define a unique value proposition that your customers cannot resist.
You need to make sure that you have a big enough market share in your industry to secure big profits and future growth.
Many STARTUPS sometimes struggle to define their real target market. Our experts will provide you with a defined breakdown of your target market.
Clearly re-define and list your Products and Services professionally and effectively.
Let us help you price your products and services according to industry relevance, customer’s needs and your brand identity.
This specifies your company’s colour scheme, look and feel, level of professionalism and everything else that makes up your brand.
Company
Registration
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Before you can register your new company, you have to reserve your new business name at the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission. Our experts will help you to secure your desired business name and avoid getting an appointed name that will haunt you for the rest of your life.
No more standing in queues for days or filling out forms while dealing with unfriendly and incompetent agents to get your company registered. Our team of experts will take care of all the processes swiftly and hassle-free.
Registering a new company requires the issuing of a shares certificate to indicate the shareholders of the company and the amount of shares issued per shareholder.
Tax Registration is compulsory for any new business as stipulated by the country’s financial revenue services.
A Tax Clearance Certificate is often required by customers, businesses and governmental institutions that need verification of your tax affairs before entering into contracts, grants, quotes or licenses.
To have your company VAT registered is completely voluntary until you reach a certain threshold of monthly turnover. Depending on your industry and type of customers- being VAT registered is recommended and even required. Being VAT registered also provides credibility in the size of your company and you will also be able to claim back VAT from most of your operational expenses.
For a business with a turnover of less than R10 million, a B-BBEE certification is not required however you will still have to provide an affidavit to customers, companies and governmental departments requesting verification of your B-BBEE status when applying for funding and tenders and issuing of quotations.
When you start hiring people it is recommended to register the company and your employees with the Unemployment Insurance Fund as recommended by the local Labor Law (South Africa). When employees leaves your company due to incapacity or dismissal, they can claim a monthly retainer from the fund for a limited number of months.
Pay-as-you-earn tax (PAYE) is a withholding tax on income payments to employees. At Employment you are required to register your employees for PAYE with the local financial revenue services (SARS – South Africa)
Skill Development Levey (SDL) is a levy imposed to encourage learning and development in South Africa and is determined by an employer’s salary bill. The funds are to be used to develop and improve skills of employees. If you register your employees for SDL you are able to deduct 1% of their salary towards SDL and then claim back some of the training costs through your registered SETA.
No need to waste time or stand in queues to open your business account. Our team will take care of opening your account on your behalf – securely and privately.
Be ready for that first tender, loan or investment by having a professional letter of good standing prepared by our team of experts.
Once your business is completely developed we will provide you with the key to your business as a professional document with all the URLs, usernames and passwords to your Websites, Social Media, Accounts and more.
Ultimate
Branding
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We provide you with three versions of your stunning company logo (Square | Landscape | Icon) that will appeal to your industry, client base and showcase a professional and modern brand.
Your Website favicon is the small tiny logo that appears next to your website URL. Make sure you make a good impression when your customers have your website tab open in their browser.
Your brand appearance on your social media platforms needs to be as strong and powerful as your website and other areas where you showcase your new business. Our team of experts will design a stunning background image for each social platform that unifies your brand and will look great on any device.
Anyone can slap down a logo and contact details on a letterhead. Why not WOW your clients when sending them a formal letter that shouts unique, clean and professional.
Your email footer will showcase a professional look and feel of your brand customized for each of your employees including your email terms and conditions.
Avoid being labeled as average when you hand out your business card. Our industry specialisits will make sure you have business card that is unique and professional that will WOW your customers and to bve remembered.
Your A5 digital flier will give you a head start to promote your new business online or as a printed marketing tool.
Your pull-up banner is highly mobile and usefull for your first expo or demonstration that is location based. Our experts will make sure that your banner design attracts attention and provides a clear message to your audience.
Your newsletter email send to your customers needs to reflect a true version of your brand. Avoid your emails being send to the trash before they are read – Our email template designs are clean, professional and effective.
Make sure you get the correct representation of your brand every time you need to create new material for your business. We will provide you with your color brand compilation for prints and production.
Our team will provide you with three great Written Referreals that you can feature on your website to build credability. After all – we know how awesome business you have…
Our team will provide you with three great referral videos to be used on your site or social media to add to the credibility of your business.
CONVERSION
Website
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Do you want to sell courses, workshops or training online? We will setup your entire LMS platform where you can setup and manage your own courses, assessment structures and certification.
Does your business sell products online? We will help you setup your online shopping cart with access to add and manage your own products, customers, sales and more…
Do you need and invoicing system for your customers? No worries – we will provide you with a professional online invoicing system that keeps track of all your client payments, sends out automated invoices and notifications and allow your customers to view and pay their invoices online.
Want your customers to pay via Instant EFT, Credit card or Paypal? We will assist in setting up the best recommended payment gateway that will integrate with your LMS, Shopping cart or invoicing system.
Do you have different payment options for your customers on offer? We will help you neatly display your products and services in a modern pricing table optimized for all devices.
With each package we provide a free one-year hosting and maintenance contract. We take care of your website security and make sure your site is up and running 24/7.
Securing the best URL for your website is key for customers to find your business when searching for related products and services. We ill help you register the best possible available local URL that will yield the best search results.
It is important to register and securing a suitable .com domain during the registration of your business for future expanding of your business internationally. If you have a local business we will point the .com domain to your local business website till you are ready to go big.
We pride ourselves as the authority of Website Integrity. Clean design and simple navigation is key but we belief that your site should be used for no other reason than to convert your leads into profits. Huge clumsy information websites are a thing of the past – Your customers either needs to sign-up, book, click, contact or buy on your site.
Many companies will build your website and leave it up to you to add your own content. Unfortunately more than 80% of business owners writing their own content focus on themselves, their products and services and trying to sell themselves instead of focusing on the product of the product and what it is in for the client. Copy writing is an art and if done incorrectly can chase away your clients rather than invite them to do business with you.
You have the option to create an unlimited number of email accounts for your business. We ill start by setting up the most important emails addresses for your site and employees.
Your website contact form is one of the places where your customers will make contact with you. Did you know that more than 50% of potential customers are lost due to poorly setup website contact form fields and layout? Let you customers know where to find you by integrating a Google Maps API into your contact form.
Social Media
Setup
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We will help you to create your social media accounts and setup your stunning brand pages from where you will start your marketing campaigns.
From your website, we will help you create your social media back links so people can easily click and follow you on your social media.
Some of the social media platforms requires you to verify your Website before you can start your marketing campaigns and to get better results as a verified user. We will integrate and verify your website in a jiffy.
Our Team will be the first to like your social media pages and so you can claim your brand pages username.
Don’t send your customers an unverified and long social media username. Let us help you claim your username that you can use as hashtag when you build your unique business brand. www.facebook.com/yourname
List all your testimonial, brand and product review videos on your own YouTube Channel and link them to your site. Pictures speaks a 1000 words – Videos…
Marketing Infrastructure
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Google and other search engines associate your business with keywords that is integrated in your website URL, text, adverts, etc. relevant to your customers search results. With the help of specialized tools our specialists will help you to define the best keywords related to your business that will lead to customers finding your business and services more easily.
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is key if you want to rank top of search results. SEO is not just one quick fix and includes many processes and fine-tuning based on the latest algorithms set by search engines.
If your site is not optimized for mobile search engines will penalize you. This also include overall appearance, layout (spacing and alignment), look and feel, navigation, and factors that many businesses neglect by just looking at their site’s desktop version.
To maximize your site’s integrity and search results you need to integrate and submit a site map of your website to Google and other search engines.
To authorize and optimize your site, install API’s Google Maps and more you will need to register a Google Webmaster account for your site where you will be able to check for any broken links and check the integrity of your site
Our Experts will install and integrate any website applications code that requires Google authorization for SEO optimization. This includes Google Maps, Authorization links etc.
Google Adds or Pay Per Click (PPC) is an effective marketing tool to get listed on Google search results. Our Team of experts will help you setup your first Google adds to get your business out there from the start.
Google Analytics is an effective marketing effectiveness tracking tool that you integrate with your site and landing pages to view page visits and other reports that will help you to optimize your lead conversions.
If you have a physical business then you should be properly listed on Google Places. This will create huge credibility for your online visibility and professional appearance.
Email still plays a huge roll in reaching out to your exiting and new customers whether it is for the use of product updates, promotions and other action driven emails. Don’t spam and loose potential customers by letting is help you integrate an online newsletter component that you can integrate and manage from the backend of your site.
Legal Matters
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The shareholders agreement is setup during the company registration process. If you have one or more partners you need to clearly define the roles and responsibilities of the shareholders.
The Memorandum of Incorporation is a document that sets out the rights, duties and responsibilities of shareholders, directors and others within a company and is setup during the company registration process.
The Memorandum of Incorporation is a document that sets out the rights, duties and responsibilities of shareholders, directors and others within a company and is setup during the company registration process. Custom changes can be requested to the MOI if you have one and more shareholders in your company.
Every business needs to have a company terms and conditions that sets our the standard procedures and conditions to your customers and staff relevant to your business operations and requirements.
The Protection of Personal Information Act, No 4 of 2013 promotes the protection of personal information by public and private bodies. It is compulsory for any South African business to have a Privacy policy in place that can be viewed by anyone at any time. Avoid high legal fees or being closed down by not being compliant.
The company code of conduct is a company reference document in line with the labor law act of South Africa that indicates the different types and level of offences committed by your employees and the recommended action to be taken whether it be a written warning, Final Written warning, hearing or dismissal. Be prepared and avoid unnecessary CCMA cases, money and frustration.
Templates
& Forms
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A Health and Safety File is compulsory for any business operating from a physical location. Our Team will provide you with a custom Health and Safety File document to keep your business save and compliant and to avoid hefty fines and potential legal action.
When you appoint a new staff member at your business you need to set the level of operational and how you take care of business by providing them with a professionally laid out appointment letter stipulating the key aspects you want your new employee to know.
Need to write a warning or prepare for a hearing? These are unfortunate processes that happen in any business at some stage of the business lifespan. The correct format and wording in a legal document can make or break your case at the CCMA or court that can lead to costly costs and frustration. Our team will provide you with the right letter and forms for the right offense, saving your costs, time and frustration.
Need to start employing staff? Our team of experts will formulate you a custom full time and a contract-based employment contract form for your business that is in line with the South African Labor act. Avoid costly mistakes by using free employment contract templates that is not written professionally for your business.
Need to implement training for your staff and claim back training fees (SDL) from your SETA? You will need to keep track and store of all the training hours in the correct format. Our team will make sure that you have the correct forms from the word go!
There is nothing as frustrated from your employees not receiving their monthly salary slip in time. Let us help you setup your customized salary slips saving you time and frustration.
There is nothing as frustrated from your employees not receiving their monthly salary slip in time. Let us help you setup your customized salary slips saving you time and frustration.
There is nothing as frustrated looking for your company documents and forms all over your server, desktop or computer drive when you need it now. Our team will create a neat folder structure for your business and copy all your business documents; templates and forms on your new businesses own Google Drive.
