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Online Business Directory With A Difference

Published: 26 July 2016

Online Business Directory With A Difference

ZaCart Online Business Directory an online directory and classifieds website with social network features and inbuilt SEO System will optimize the business submissions and will post information to directories and search engines. Again a service which is valuable to both the business(es) and to the members as their names become more prominent online.      

Pretoria, South Africa -- The Business Directory and classifieds website was launched on 06th October 2015 and will provide information about small, medium and big business(es)to all visitors. The site designed and developed by ZaCart Online Media, a digital marketing company based in Pretoria, has a large public offering, many pages for non-members and members only with dashboards, one for each type of member. Members will be encouraged to use the site to keep up to date with trending posted listings , to make professional contacts, to showcase their products and services to the visitors and to improve their interactions with potential visitor customers.      

ZaCart Online Business Directory is a newly and uniquely formed business directory and classifieds' platform site representing the interests of people working in and with promoting their businesses or their profiles online. The aims of the platform are to develop a social network integrated ino the business community which thereafter makes the all experience very interesting and attractive, educate business owners about the benefits of using our site to promote the interests of members and their businesses.    

The development team at ZaCart brought together skills from the core disciplines of Business -Social Networking with integrated User-Visitor Online Chat, 24/7 Online Live Support System, Digital Marketing, Listings & PPC Banner Advertising SEO Company. With the work following on from a commission to undertake market research and develop a brand identity.    

Membership is unlimited - anyone any business is welcome to use the site. ZaCart will develop a community business(es) and social lites, will encourage the sharing of information, will work hard to develop a profile for individual members and will help members to achieve their commercial goals.

The dashboards enable different member types to have a different experience when interacting with the site, one which is tailored to their needs. For example members and suppliers can post job vacancies, services, products, business profiles, test and buy premium services, promote their products/services/business(es) or One's Self. Members will also be very privileged to make and take use of the sites powerful SEO Feature where YouTube video URL, Meta Tittles, Meta Descriptions, Meta Keywords and Meta Tags will be Filled in to better their Search results ranking in search Engines.    

ZaCart team is being retained to publicize the information members submit to the site in the form of Ad Listings, Ad Banners, blogs, news items and Business Profiles. This in turn will help to promote the platform and will enable members to convert visitors into leads and sales. ZaCart will optimize the submissions and will post information to search engines and directories. Again a service which is valuable to both the platform and to the members as their names become more prominent online. 

Contact

To learn more about this ZaCartOnline, please contact: Misael Cruise Mutege

Office: +2-712-140-0617
Cell: +2-778-641-1181
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https://zacart.co.za

A Teacher Changed My Life - NEW BOOK

Published: 01 October 2014

Darren August takes us through a few of the experiences and relationships with his own teachers, growing up, which changed his life. He retells the stories of others too, and will surely awaken your school memories. As an experienced motivator, the book leaves not only teachers encouraged to inspire others, but everyone else will feel inspired to reach their potential and live their calling too. 

This book offers a few giggles as we see things from the perspective of a child, but is mostly introspective of the role we play in the way in which children perceive themselves. Teachers and parents will find it particularly motivating – with practical ways you could change young lives, for good. 

This book is a great resource. It’s a celebration of teachers, as instrumental parts of society – it will definitely have you thinking of the teachers that have impacted your life. Scheduled for release in October 2014 – this book is set to motivate every South African reader to once again restore the dignity of ‘The Noblest Profession”. 

About the Author 

Darren August is the Founder and CEO of Dazz Consulting – A dynamic training organisation committed to seeing people thrive and succeed.He is a Corporate Trainer, Motivational Speaker, Life Coach, Entrepreneur, Radio Host & former Lecturer.He is passionate about Life; People and Education and together with his wife – Arlene, they believe in maximizing every opportunity to impact the lives of others. 

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Somerset West’s Own Indie Game Studio

Published: 17 June 2014

Indie games are fast becoming a trend in South Africa, catching on from the overseas markets. These days, children and adults alike are playing mobile games as never before. People are always hungry for something different, which is where indie games – or ‘independent’ games – come in, providing players with something other than the mass-produced mainstream products.

Now, Somerset West can boast with its very own game studio that started turning its cogs in February this year. For its first month of existence, the studio was run out of the founder’s mother’s basement – typical indie game studio protocol, if history is anything to go by. Now, running from a house close to De Hoop Primary School, the studio focuses on creating mobile games (such as their recently released Afrikaans game, Fanie de Beer) and has oodles of style, creativity, skill and initiative.

While the Apmil Game Studio has only been up and running for a few months, the people who daily put their shoulders to its wheels have been building up relationships for the last three-and-a-half years. Even though the studio officially started up in February, the idea of an indie game studio had been brewing in the mind of Studio Head, Pierre Bezuidenhout, since 2011. Pierre started lecturing in the Animation Department of Cape Town’s City Varsity in 2011 – and this is where he met the three students who would later join him in this grand venture.

Pierre, as leader of the team, is Apmil’s Programmer and Technical Director. He has previously worked in advertising and animation for Wicked Pixels in Woodstock and held the position of lecturer at Concept Interactive as well as at City Varsity. His impressive skill set includes a sharp eye for detail as well as design flair and programming aptitude in different digital languages and platforms – he is also quite the people-person. Altus Barry is the Technical Lead, taking charge of rigs, renders and other related tasks. Mabet van Zijl did her major in 3D Narrative and, as Generalist, leads Apmil’s marketing and writing in between her usual workload. Louren Hattingh takes the roles of Lead Animator and Concept Artist. While each person has their area to lead, the workflow runs with a ‘rock-paper-scissors’-style in which one falls under the delegation of another while dealing with respective area-specific tasks. Sitting around a whiteboard, each armed with a marker, they discuss character design, story line, player motivation, level arrangement, time constraints and load division before jumping in with the actual development.

The first released game, Fanie de Beer, is a 100% physics-driven, full 3D, indie puzzle game with a distinct South African flavour. Playing as Fanie de Beer, a 12-year-old farm-boy, the player utilizes simple little rocks by tapping once on the screen to clear best friend Jaco Kriel’s fields of strategically placed, ancient landmines. Built in Unity, the game takes place in a single day – with the story starting early in the morning and ending in the evening – transporting the player through a dynamic day/night cycle and colourful, saturated farm fields as they progress through the 84 levels, meeting new mine types and increasingly difficult challenges as they go along. Written and designed in Afrikaans, then carefully translated into true farm-style English, this game is unique, fun and proudly South African. The demo is available for download from the Google Play Store, while the full game can be purchased on Samsung Apps and Amazon.

The next game in the pipeline is different from Fanie de Beer in virtually every way. Where Fanie is a very colourful 3D puzzle game with just enough back-story to set the player up for the context and flavour of the game, the current project is a heavily story-driven platform-game that takes place in a fictional world made up of parallaxing silhouettes and strange characters.

Apmil Game Studio has not only been created as a platform to build games, but also as a springboard for fellow animators, developers, designers and illustrators. It’s a breeding ground for collaboration, ideas, innovation and learning. Each person hones their skills while doing fun and challenging work through creating games and stories as well as fulfilling the creative needs of small to medium-sized businesses in the Western Cape and Gauteng.

Apmil Game Studio services include animation, app creation, game creation, rendering/stills, asset creation, video editing and UX. The creative division of Apmil, led by artist Janet Botes and writer Michelle Albinson, offers logo design, graphic design, online/web design, interactive design, writing, editing, proofreading and illustration.

Apmil prides itself on being different: Fresh ideas, innovative applications, strange and wonderful games – they are all things that receive the studio’s love and attention to detail. To find out more or to get involved, contact Pierre Bezuidenhout at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call him on 082 499 3133

Studio ingredients:[A]ltus makes the bus and [P]ierre drives the bus; [M]abet takes the bus t[i]ckets and [L]ouren makes the bus move. Thus, [apmil].

Free demo: Google Play – bit.ly/fanie_demo 
Full version: Samsung Apps – bit.ly/fanie
Official Trailer: Youtube – bit.ly/fanie_trailer 
Apmil page: Apmil/Fanie – apmil.co.za/fanie-de-beer 

Qui Media launch a new online advertising medium as a South African industry first.

Published: 04 August 2008
{pp}Qui Media launch Page Skins on WHAT2NIGHT.CO.ZA offering marketers a more creative and effective online advertising vehicle than ever before.