BIZEMPIRE
(South Africa)

Helping you start and build your small business empire

Running a small business requires a wide range of skills and services. The business manager or owner is seldom capable of providing everything the company needs. On this page we list companies and people who are able to provide some of these services. We will always try to list companies that specialise in small business matters rather than companies that may focus on individuals or corporates.

If you believe that you have a product or service that is specifically useful for small business owners in South Africa and would like it listed on this website, then please visit our suppliers page for more information.

Accountants and book keepers
IT and computer services
Property brokers and rental agents
Insurance
Banking
Consultants
Stationery supplies
Internet services
Medical aids and advisors
Employer associations
Venture capitalists (investors) / business finance
Education
Security
Employer services
Recruitment
Non-local information sites
General

Accountants and book keepers. If you need someone to do your small business book keeping or if you need your accounts to be audited, then start by looking here.

Ratio Corporate Consultants - Gauteng based operation offering book keeping, accounting, payroll and other financial services to small businesses.
Snijder and Associates - auditing, payroll, business advice and other financial services based in Gauteng.
RB Business Services - Gauteng based company offering accounting and financial services for small businesses.

Full list of accounting services

IT and computer services. If you need computer equipment, software or someone to fix your small business computer problems, then this is a good place to start looking.

PC International – wide range of computer products
Nerds on site – providing support for when you PC doesn’t work.
ComX computers
Communication in Action – software training in Microsoft products

Property brokers and rental agents

The business centre - why buy expensive property or enter 10 year leases when you can rent office space with all the required services as and when you need it.
Habitaz - use office space, equipment and services as and when you require.
Propertyspecials.co.za
Bizpremises.co.za
Pace Properties

Full list of property service listings.

Insurance

Liberty Life – life assurance and investment products
Sanlam – life assurance and investment products

Banking

ABSA Bank
FNB
Nedbank
Standard Bank

Consultants

Business Warriors - a fantastic forum for small business owners where they provide advice for each other. Also contains articles on protecting your personal assets in case of business failure.
Business management and office services - business plans, BEE deals, turnaround plans, financial analysis.
Incorporex - registering your cc for you , quick and easy.
Grandstone - accounting, payroll and tax services
 

Stationery supplies

Waltons

Internet services

Mweb – well known and reliable South African Internet Service Provider with several products
Hetzner – South African and German Internet Service Provider
Megaserve – local internet service provider
Host4Africa - local internet service provider
Webonline - local internet service provider

Medical aids and advisors

Discovery Health – well known medical aid
Oxygen – medical aid run by Old Mutual

Employer associations

National Employers Association
Employer assist
Seifsa

Venture capitalists (investors) / business finance

HBD venture capital - providing start up funds for mainly IT type companies with excellent prospects.
Business Partners - providing start up, expansion and buy out capital for a wide variety of industries provided they have very good profitability prospects.
GoBigNetwork.com - US based sit where you can post your idea and hope that an “angel investor” becomes interested. If you have a good idea, this could well be worth a try.
Fundman - have not been able to try this site out, but perhaps worth a look.

Full list of business finance links

Education

Intec - correspondence course in small business management
Damelin - offers a short course in small business management.
CBM Training - a wide variety of courses and seminars aimed at managers of businesses.

Security

ADT security
Chubb security
Stallion security

Employer services

Labournet - provide services for all types of labour related problems such as skills development, wage negotiations, payroll services, emploee benefits, industrial relations, etc.
Sepane.com - provides services such as labour contracts, disciplinary codes and procedures - basically a large portion of your human resources department. Probably for the bigger section of small companies.

Recruitment

Equity solutions - if you are looking for staff this is a good place to start. A good wide variety of prospective skills available.

Non-local information sites

Total business .com - a US based website providing entrepreneurs and business owners with the information they need in order to successfully start, manage, grow and sell their businesses.

General

Hellopeter.com - An excellent site to review any potential supplier you are considering using. Check out complaints against and praise for them and also some of their replies. You can also send your own reviews.

The subject matter dealt with on this site is of a general nature only. It is always advisable to consult a professional for your specific situation. All information provided on this site has been carefully chosen and is to the best of our knowledge correct and current. If however you find errors, broken links or disagree with facts provided, please contact us at webmaster@bizempire.co.za so that we can make the correction and provide South African business owners with relevant and error free factual information. If you believe there is relevant content missing and you wish to add this value to the site, then you can contact us at the same address

The subject matter dealt with on this site is of a general nature only. It is always advisable to consult a professional for your specific situation. All information provided on this site has been carefully chosen and is to the best of our knowledge correct and current. If however you find errors, broken links or disagree with facts provided, please contact us at webmaster@bizempire.co.za so that we can make the correction and provide South African business owners with relevant and error free factual information. If you believe there is relevant content missing and you wish to add this value to the site, then you can contact us at the same address