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Reflection back on the past is considered by many to be the final process after completing a task, as a way of understanding and learning fr...

A few months back we had a meeting with venture capitalists from Belgium that went really well for us. They enjoyed our presentation and lik...

Its a new week and the general feeling after our final board meeting with our directors is to close the business and divide the remaining st...

Time is drawing to a close, but this does mean it is the end.  The decision of what happens to ORA after this year is now the question on th...

During a recent board meeting with some directors, it was mentioned that we only focused on one product during the Genesis year.  A few time...

Supply and demand of a product is what determines the price of a product.  This applies to almost every form of item, from fuel to that of v...

With the recent hindrances that we have faced regarding the local retail market in Cape Town, we decided to look abroad to the neighboring c...

Determining what type of product is thought to be difficult, yes, granted it is the main part of the equation, but we came to realise that c...

After the news from the SABS we contacted Pick n Pay and explained our situation and wanted to set up a meeting to discuss any future possib...

The SABS have surprisingly gotten back to us quite quickly but unfortunately they do not have a standard for disposable toilet seat covers. ...

We visited the SABS offices in an attempt to get our product certified and approved so that the public knows that it is safe to use. This wo...

One of our group members recruited his mother as an affiliate to sell some covers to people at her work. She managed to sell all the product...

Failures tend to disappear from educational agendas mostly because information about business failures is often scarce or ignored completel...

From what I have gathered this year entrepreneurship is about making mistakes. The biggest mistake I think we made this was not developing d...

This is a group that feel that they have a responsibility for a child that was born after 1994, a child born into the new South Africa, bor...

To a certain extent ORA Hygiene Covers is an innovation to a big African issues of public toilet hygiene which is a big issue all across the...

Mac is, in his twenties and a spaza shop owner of Liesbeek cafe in Rondebosch Cape Town. The shop which he opened in 2015 (selling basic foo...

Sales affiliates incentive schemes: Strategy for convenience seeker market at the University of Cape Town at the different residences. ...

General lessons that were learnt from the two members from Seven Stars was that the retail environment in South Africa is extremely compet...

This morning we met with Warren and Clive from Seven Stars at the Clicks offices here in Cape Town.  They were kind enough to let us talk to...

The meeting with Clive and Warren from Seven Stars Retail didn't go the way ORA Hygiene expected  things to go. Seven Stars Retail, unfo...

ORA Hygiene will be meeting with Seven Stars Retail tommorow, which is a company based in Johannesburg to discuss a possible wholesale trans...

Throughout this year, we have all learnt a lot about ourselves, working within a group and what we have learnt in business.. Musa Madal...

August is know as woman's month, but why only August.  A marketing project that we are currently trying to do, is extending Woman's ...

In a way to try and increase our sales reach, we have decided that it would be beneficial to try and employ sales affiliates but on a commis...

With the product now made and various sales venues open, it is now time that a proper sales pipeline is brought into place.  The pipeline th...

We now have a LIVE website.  This is an amazing benefit that we now have available to us.  This not only explains our product to potential c...

So now that we are trying to get the product into the different residences in and around campus, we are looking an doing a survey to try and...

A result from the Expo was we got to speak to Mrs. Ackerman from PnP, and she seemed to show an interest in the product.  This being said, i...

Finally had a chance to review the sales outcome from the exhibition.  We started out with the expectation of selling approximately 400 unit...

So we had the Genesis Exhibition yesterday...such good fun!  It is amazing how quickly everything can be set up if you are organised.  The e...

EXPO finally took place and although we did not sell as much as we wanted we learnt a lot today, and we also came out a proud bunch since...

We have set up our stall, our products are nicely packaged and we have overcome all the hurdles that we faced while preparing for expo and ...

We spent the whole of today trying to get things right with the designing of different posters for our stall and printing them in different...

The voice acting for the animation video took place today and I am quite confident about the end result that will come out, and I am sure t...

The expo committee has been paid all the monies due to them, and each team members has popped out the required R300 needed for expo so now ...

Our Facebook page is looking good with the new content that has been uploaded on to it and people who have liked the page are loving it. Ou...

After assessing the total costs we would need to cover for expo we agreed as a team that we would each need to loan the business R300 in or...

We are trying as a team to push as hard as we can. We have seen some progress today, since our professional photoshoot for our pictures tha...

Expo is a week away and as a team we are still far from getting everything in place. Our product packaging is not appealing at all, our ban...

We finally collected our stock but we were not happy with the final results of the packets since the products left a lot of space in the pa...

After attending the directors meeting the team spirits where quite low, since the directors expressed their disappointments at us for not h...

We dedicated this day to putting our expo ducks in a row, we had to write down a plan on expo priorities that need to be achieved. List...