ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF AFRICA

Kwikstore allows African Entrepreneurs to create their own online stores & sell online from their Smartphone!

KwikStore is a free ecommerce storefront solution that allows any African business owner, merchant, social vendor entrepreneurs and SMEs to create their own online stores

By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa

Kwikstore, an Easy-To-Use E-Commerce solution to help African Merchants sell online from their Smartphone has hit the continent with a big bang.

KwikStore is a free ecommerce storefront solution that allows any African business owner, merchant, social vendor entrepreneurs and SMEs to create their own online stores/

Kwik Delivery is expanding its offer of digital services with the launch of KwikStore –  adding yet another exciting service to the already sensational offer it brings to African business owners and
social vendors.

KwikStore is a free ecommerce storefront solution that allows any African business owner, merchant, social vendor entrepreneurs and SMEs to create their own online stores literally in 5 minutes without any technical knowledge and to run his or her business directly from a
smartphone.

HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT?

Social vendors can link their KwikStores to their social media accounts, automating the sale, fulfilment, inventory management and delivery process, giving them the possibility to focus on sales and marketing, explains the group.

Furthermore, KwikStore is a free-to-use feature of the Kwik Delivery app and requires no down payment nor service charge apart from standard payment gateway fees.

Merchants can fully customize their KwikStore to their brand. Once an order is approved by the merchant, payment is processed automatically through payment partners and a Kwik rider is automatically dispatched to the pickup location; or the order can be picked up directly by the
customer.

KwikStore requires a Kwik account but can be used independently of the Kwik Delivery platform, allowing merchants to use the delivery solution of their choice or to sell anywhere in Africa, in areas not yet covered by the Kwik Delivery platform.

“KwikStore is a milestone in establishing Kwik as the one-stop-shop for African merchants to run and grow their business from their smartphone” declared Romain Poirot-Lellig, Founder & CEO of Kwik.

“We will continue to expand our offer of innovative digital services focused on enabling African merchants to grow their business with all the benefits that technology brings.”

“We are very proud to have developed KwikStore in Nigeria with our growing software development team” declares Olivier Decrock, Cofounder & CTO of Kwik.

“Kwik is strongly committed to build its development capacity in the country.”Kwik was founded in 2018 to provide groundbreaking online services to African merchants in the fields of delivery, fulfilment, and payment.

 

Creator of Tomorrow

Pamela Is One Of South Africa’s Hottest Beauty And Fashion Influencers

September 12, 2022

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(Last Updated On: September 12, 2022)

PHOTO; Pamela Mtanga

By THANDISIZWE MGUDLWA

Pamela Mtanga, is the only South African who is part of ‘Creators of Tomorrow’, a new campaign that celebrates emerging talents from around the world who are inspiring a new movement of creative content online, Meta announced the launch of campaign this week.

The 26-year-old public relations graduate is one of SA’s hottest beauty and fashion influencers.

Pamela was named top personality and influencer at the Top 16 Youth-Owned Brands Awards hosted by Pat on Brands.

Pamela is also a Social Media influencer and personality who is very active on YouTube and Twitter.

Pamela started as a video vixen before she started posting posted posts about makeup and other beauty advice on Twitter.

She gained a huge following which she monetize through endorsements for companies willing to reach her huge audience.

Pamela has got a BA (Media, Communication and Culture) degree from Nelson Mandela University.

Pamela has served as an ambassador for Standard Bank, Vodacom NXT LVL and Nedbank Unlocked Challenge through Student Village, where she discovered her talent for MC’ing.

She was born in Port Elizabeth, now known as Gqebera.

Pamela is the new host of Channel O’s music show Massive Music. This is her second stint on the small screen since Honey TV’s  Will He Say Yes? in 2021.

Speaking to TshisaLIVE Pamela commented: “Friday nights have always been instrumental in the music industry when artists showcase their music. Now I become a part of that really rich history in SA music. When the year started I said I wanted to do music, entertainment and fashion-based show and that’s what happened,”

Pamela recently launched her foundation Beyond Human Nature, discovered her love for broadcasting when doing Madibaz Radio at Nelson Mandela University in 2015.

“I host a lot of corporate gigs, which is quite daunting, especially now having to step out of that corporate gig space and going into a very entertainment lively and musical space. I just have to harness that part of me that’s very outgoing.”

In an interview on SowetanLIVE Pamela explained: “My life’s purpose is to make people happy. Not to please, but to make people happy. Whether it be through fashion, broadcasting, philanthropy or an encounter outside of my work.

She added: “What drives me is believing that my success is inevitable, and that takes an immense amount of faith and hard work.”

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The reasons why project management is highly important in organizations

written by Thandisizwe Mgudlwa 3 years ago 

 

Project management is highly important in organizations. It is also a very necessary tool to develop products or services, projects are becoming a form of strategic work useful to survive in the environment we live today.

Before you start planning a project, you have to know about project management, know what phases make it up and what benefits this management brings. Whether you are getting started in the world of project management or if you have already gained experience, this article is sure to be useful. 

The objective that is pursued when project management is carried out, is that an original product be made and that a specific customer need is met. It is usually much more complicated than with the way of marketing the standard, in which a customer buys a product to meet a need.

Project management can be used to generate new services and products, be they development, reorganization or any other type of projects, their management by performing different methodologies aligned with the organizational strategy translates into many advantages for the organization. In addition, it is necessary to serve to manage the change in the company. The software for project management provides different benefits in terms of cost or efficient management of resources, quality or, for example, project compliance, also helps to improve the business itself. Within the context, the use of specific software is the best option for implementing projects efficiently. In many cases, a time management software is needed.

In a basic way, in the same way that a Project manager helps in the design and control of all projects, programs and applications are also a key business management tool for an effective application in the organization.

An adapted software design

Designing a software for project management will be more or less suitable depending on the different characteristics of the project. The development philosophy can obey different basic models, such as:

    Waterfall model
    Prototype model
    Formal development by stages

They can also be iterative, such as incremental or spiral development. The choice of one or the other is carried out according to the project, in addition the different circumstances and the type of companies in which it should be developed, that is, available time, budgets, customer requirements or objectives that are wanted, must be considered get. A hybrid methodology is also usually chosen if it really adapts to the specific case. Although a priority there is no better option than another, at the time of establishing the software development life cycle each project opts for an approach according to the needs. Compared to traditional solutions, they are associated to the waterfall model, being an agile methodology that is oriented to establish and offer value early. This is a new project management approach that allows changes to be added at any time, in addition to continuous improvement, with the possibility of sticking to time scales and a fixed budget.

Advantages of project managers

The daily work of the project managers makes it necessary that it be carried out optimally, especially when working as a team and that it is necessary that each of the different projects that an organization carries out is controlled. Not surprisingly, meeting all established objectives and efficient project management are essential things to complete them successfully. The application of the appropriate methodology, planning and control will be much simpler through software solutions for project management.

Today, it can be affirmed that project management software is a key element during integral control, effectively and comfortably. The entity covers from the area of ​​planning, development, production and relationship with customers until the coordination of the different projects of the organization is carried out.