Aliboats Manufacture Boat For Export
June 2010 sees Aliboats complete their most recent boat - just over 18 meters and more than 11 tons of aluminum. The boat is ready for a trip to Kasane for trials and then onto Lake Kariba. Aliboats is Maun's main manufacturer - much of which goes for export.
Maun Industrial Garden of Eden
Business is too often considered to be noisy and pollution creating. Here we have an example of green industry activities. Driving into Maun on the Francistown Road you will pass Maun Industrial Park. A garden has been created on the outside wall. You can consider stopping and having a picnic, before continuing into town. For more information click on the above link.
Maun Business
Photos, videos and stories about business in Maun, Botswana. Maun is often referred to as 'the gateway to the Okavango Delta.' Tourism is number one although there is a growing manufacturing and services sector. Maun Business will introduce you to many of the key players.
Botswana Quality Baskets
The home of Thitaku Kushonya - Botswana's Master Basket Weaver. Visit the Botswana Quality Baskets website and find out more about the source of the best baskets made in Botswana.
If you are on FaceBook click here - Botswana Quality Baskets - become a FAN and stay in touch.
Business Transactions
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June 2009 Newsletter |
Making Successful Business Transactions
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Email Marketing Campaigns
Attracting new guests to your lodge/hotel or safari trips is a costly marketing activity. Get the most benefits out of your marketing dollars by making it easy and enjoyable for previous guests to stay in contact with you. Annually, or twice a year, send a professional newsletter about what is happening with your business and special event that are coming up soon. |
Mining Guests Who Have Already Experienced Your Services
Let your quests relive the best of their visits with you and encourage them to share that experience with like-minded friends. Make it easy for them to share with their family members, best friends and work associates. Give them the opportunity to stay in touch with your latest developments, current news and future plans.
Stay In The Mind Of Your Guests
Email Marketing allows you to send customized messages, photos and videos to specific segments of your market. It allows you to do split testing on a small portion of your list and send winning emails to the rest of your list. Email Marketing gives you detailed statistics and reporting - email open reports, link click tracking, email bounce and unsubscribe reporting.
Stay in the mind of guests who have used your facilities and services. Give them the opportunity to expand your future sales growth. Stay in contact with guests who are happy to hear from you on a periodic basis.
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Email Newsletter Marketing - Key Points
- Quality Newsletter guaranteed - you approve all Newsletters
- Confidentiality guaranteed - your list will never be sold or shared
- All statistics and reports reviewed with you
- Attracting new customers can be up to 6 X's more expensive
- Returning Guests allow for increased cross-selling of related services
- Leverage what you have already done
- Mine proven reserves
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Copyright 2009, Business Transactions
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Providing consulting services, business services and marketing services to local businesses.
Business Audit Introduction
The Business Audit is a comprehensive 5 days evaluation of a business. Every business can benefit from the service. The Business Audit is confidential and takes place at the Clients place of business. The Business Audit is similar to the medical check-up of an individual – we will do a detailed business check-up and report on your company’s strengths and weaknesses.
During the Business Audit we will review and evaluate the following:
· Financial records, trends, measures of productivity;
· Quality of the operational planning and reporting systems;
· Organization of the business and use of staff;
· Plans/goals to compete in the future.
In doing the Business Audit, we will review up to five years of financial records, survey all staff members and have interviews with key staff. We will prepare a Management Report and review it in detail when we make our Business Audit Presentation. The Management Report will include a summary of all information collected, indicating what we consider to be strengths and weaknesses. We will also make specific recommendations to management regarding future actions to be taken.
Every business can benefit from a detailed, comprehensive Business Audit. It is not an expense to the business – it is an investment in the future of your company. Prepare today – to be better tomorrow. Your business health and success is our focus. Be more competitive for the future. We can help you on the road to continuous improvement and increased profitability.
Construction Videos:
Staff at Maun Industrial Park welcome new 85 Ton Excavator
Working 24 x 7 a Dumper this size can move plenty of material in a day.
IT Links Services Maun
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| IT Links with their HP 500 PS+ |
IT Links is servicing key technological gaps in the Maun marketplace. Two technologists - Lapologang Tsamaloba and Keneetswe Habano drive the services side and Sebopelo takes care of administration. They provide services in data recovery, virus protection, web page design and network solutions.
IT Links has the biggest jet printer in Northern Botswana - a HP 500 PS+ Jet Printer. They print from A3 to A0 sizes. Their maximum poster size is 110cm x 80cm, quite spectacular to look at. IT Links also does embroidery of logos or designs for t-shirts or caps. Need their services - give them a call at 680-0064 and tell them the Maun Business sent you. They are located at the Pumpkin Patch, on the way towards Sedia Riverside Hotel.
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Discovery Metals – An Investors Dream
It’s Sunday morning in early November, I have been visiting some friends nearby the DML camp, and we are talking about the pre-feasibility drilling program that is underway. Having bought some of their shares about 6 months age, this site visit is like a dream come true an opportunity to see what you have invested in.
The Exploration Lesson
One of the geologists explains that there are 2 types of drilling that are currently in progress. The diamond drilling produces the core samples that are stored in racks by the camp headquarters. The second kind of drilling is called RC (Reverse Circulation) drilling. It uses compaction to make the rocks dust and pipes with inner pipes. High-pressure air is used to drive the dust up the inner pipe. RC drilling is a cheaper way to get to the deposit, where the diamond drilling takes over. Some of the drill holes are up to 100 metres deep.
Safety First
While we did not talk safety, I could see a health and safety approach everywhere I visited. I used to have organizational safety responsibilities as part of my job, so it tends to stick out. HIV training sessions are planned, hard hats not in use hang on hooks, a stretcher was readily available, fire extinguishers are plentiful and an assembly point in case of fire clearly marked. I was not allowed to get closer than 60 metres from the RC drilling site – I didn’t have safety boots, goggles, hardhat or dust mask.
Being Put To Sleep
Geologists are much like politicians. They are very hard to pin down. Investors are interested in knowing if exploration will turn into mining. You may as well ask the rocks around the surrounding Kgwebe Hills.
An Investors Dream
The ride back to Maun is hot and bumpy. The road to Toteng has some heavy corrugation. After a shower and early supper I retire for the evening. Although I sleep well, I end up dreaming about my visit to DML.
Currently, there are just over 30 people working at the site. If mining goes ahead this number could rise to 100 people. If mining and exploration go ahead at the same time, then 150 or more people working at the site are possible. Raw materials would probably be transported to Walvis Bay, Namibia and shipped by boat for processing. Before that happens they have to build a road to the highway and improve on the long-term staff facilities. Dreaming can be a wonderful experience. I can even see a swimming pool in the plans, for the workers to relax at the end of the day. At the end I am dreaming about the pre-feasibility results. Just as they are flashing into my dream a rooster crows and I awake.
Let’s see how much of the dream becomes reality.
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