702 Nedbank Business Accelerator 2014

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John chats to Pavlo Phitides, Head of Aurik Incubator and Ashley Mulligan, owner of Kushesh Express

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#NedbankBusinessAccelerator with Isisa Health Care (home-based nursing+healthcare) by Primedia Broadcasting

The trouble with being a small business is that far too often, you find yourself running around madly, putting out fires. Unless you happen to be MeyCom, whose owner John Meyer has essentially built his business model on doing just that. John says that since around 80% of all fire detection systems are not fully operational at any time, he came up with the idea of providing a service to monitor and manage the repair of faults on a real-time, 24/7 basis. He says that MeyCom has developed a solution called Guardian Manager, which is an extremely cost effective monitoring system that utilises cell phone, Web and Internet technology to meet this requirement. He adds that as far as he can ascertain, this is a world first, and there is no other building monitoring service of this nature available anywhere. Moreover, Guardian Manager is completely scalable and is easy to install and use. Most crucially, adds John, the service can be extended beyond merely monitoring fire detection systems, as any equipment or system that provides an alarm signal or output can be monitored by Guardian. He says that his next goal is to begin securing corporate deals, while also improving the company’s marketing strategy. He has been helped by the shift towards improving life safety systems that is being driven by both companies and government. A long term goal is to establish a structure of distributors and resellers and also expand into the UK, Europe and Australia. In the near future, he indicates that 2014 will see the release of major new features for the Guardian solution, which will make his ultimate goal of establishing both a national and African footprint that much easier. By doing this, he adds that he will create additional business opportunities for contractors installing Guardian, thereby positively impacting on job creation Pavlo chats to John Meyer from MeyCom to find out how things have been since we last spoke.

About Melex Electrovehicles Established in 1995, originally as Columbia Cars, in the Western Cape Melex Golf Cars (PTY) Ltd have been supporting the golfing fraternity, agricultural sector, game farms/resorts and hospitality industry offering reliable support and service on all makes of golf cars and light electric utility vehicles. Electro-car SA (Pty) Ltd was recently incorporated with Melex to enable a complete offering of quality light electric vehicles to a broad spectrum of Industry and consumer. Melex now offers solutions for: Golf and Leisure, Estates, Agriculture, Hospitality, Industrial, Impaired Mobility, Campus and Security, and Eco-friendly commuting. Originally the first golf car seen in South Africa was a Melex to service both the golf industry as well as factories with a reputation for their long range and sturdy steel chassis, and further developed to be used on farms and in the hospitality industry as a cost effective and low maintenance utility transport replacing quad bikes and petrol driven shuttles. Today our quality ranges of electrovehicles we offer continue in this tradition of reliability and value for money incorporating the latest designs and technology. As part of our customer service offering we are able to provide custom built options according to the industry and specific customer application needs.

Business Accounting Network (BAN) is a network of professional accountants, chartered accountants and qualified bookkeepers all over the Cape in a unique franchised structure. We ensure that our small and medium business clients are financially up to date, their wealth is properly managed and that they are 100% compliant, giving business owners what they need to run what they do well. BAN’s reputation has been built on professionalism, big firm expertise at small firm rates and outstanding levels of personal client service. BAN franchisees share one common objective that is to ensure absolute client satisfaction. BAN is neither a corporate entity nor partnership. BAN’s unique concept offers major benefits to both clients and franchisees alike in terms of its professional and well organised structure.