Author: Stuff Business

In today’s digital age, effective communication and customer engagement can make or break a business. WhatsApp Business, the new(ish) business-oriented service from the makers of everyone’s favourite instant messaging app, offers a number of features that can make a huge positive difference to your business operations. To arm you with the information you need to use WhatsApp to enhance your business operations, we will explore the top five WhatsApp Business features that can help your business, enabling you to provide excellent customer service, streamline operations, drive growth, and more. Verified Business Profile Establishing trust and credibility with customers is crucial.…

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Communication is the lifeblood of every organisation in the world. Without staff being able to meet virtually, talk to each other via video and text, share documents, and collaborate with one another on various tasks using just their laptops/smartphones and an internet connection, businesses will simply fall over. So in the unlikely event that business owners haven’t already made their selection (we did have a global pandemic recently that literally forced people to choose), we’ve put together a list of the five most popular business communication apps/platforms our Google-fu could unearth to help South African business owners decide which one…

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This will be quick: good laptops under R5,000 don’t exist. Don’t buy them. Consumers need to let manufacturers know that laptops at this price point are unacceptable by voting with their wallets. Why are they so bad? Let’s take a look. Generally, these laptops will have: Low-resolution screens 1366 x 768 is a common display resolution in this category. It makes everything you look at, look terrible: not sharp, too big, ugly. Avoid. Celeron processors These are among Intel’s very worst-performing processors, and they are all too common in laptops at the sub-R5k level. The problem is that they are…

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