Finding a constant flow of leads for your business is the one thing no one would say no to, we always want more clients; on the other hand, when needing someone to come and do repairs at your house, be it a plumber or electrician, maybe you want some new service, like finding DSTV installers, or you need an accountant... how would you know which providers are good or right for the job?

On the website, www.breadandbutter.co.za solving this has just become so much easier; a lead exchange for small businesses. There is two options available, you can sign up to only be a client (adding your leads - this is free) and find providers to work with, or sign up to be a provider (selling your service or product - fixed monthly fee), and you will be put in touch with the relevant parties. A really great place to keep it central and all providers are rated by the members that they have worked with, so you get a clear indication of how good they are by reading about the experience other clients had with this provider and the rating they gave.

For providers this means you will get a constant flow of leads, by subscribing to the areas you operate in (to get leads from those areas) and the relevant categories (a vast list) that fit your skill or service type.

Visit the website, www.breadandbutter.co.za, and check out the frequently asked questions to find out more.

Kastim Booking, our booking system for salons and boutiques successfully completed it's free month trial at a client and they are extremely happy with everything it offers! We are working on even more new features for it, but are now ready to go live with this product and will soon start seeing many more clients to offer them this product.

The product has grown quite a bit, and we have extended it for sms reminders to be sent to clients and bar code scanners to select stock when adding stock to a booking, check out the features. Kastim Booking comes with a built-in stock management system, agent management (with days off reflected on the calendar), and also does extensive reporting on sales you've made, the agents working for you, booking types and stock levels. Anyone that is interested in this product, even to sell it, has the opportunity to earn passive income as we have a commission structure in place for the first year's rental fee from the client. So feel free to contact us.

Over the last few weeks, we have dedicated a lot of time to make sure this website offers it's visitors a fresh new look. Gay share consists of three areas Live, Work and Play and the Live section allows you to find many different types of accommodation; flat sharing, property rentals, holiday lets and property sales.

The Work section offers a national directory listing, a job category and all listings are free of charge! An entertainment and night life category under Play will list all the bars, clubs and more in your area and again you can list your establishment for free here too. 

A social calendar is added to follow events happening that you dare not miss, you can add your event too, or just browse the photo galleries and see everyone attending different events. A community category will list establishments for charity and support located in your area.

Check out the website by visiting www.gayshare.co.za
 

Last night we attended the launch for the new 501®.

We were greeted with some cocktails and entertained by many different video montage's of how this brand evolved over the years. On the Levi's® website you can view the new campaign, which shows some outdoor ads and TV commercials.

Visit the advertising section directly from here and look for the 501® Live Unbuttoned Campaign.

Snacks and drinks were also served all night and it was great to see and meet everyone involved in the brand from SA. One of the nice things was the good bag when you left :)

So now you will see most of us wearing the new 501® as we were spoiled to a voucher for a fresh pair!

The latest project for Levi's® is almost complete. The site will allow everyone to view products available for the upcoming season and browse their ranges by gender, category and sub category or just by collection.

Currently the construction page is still there, but we are roughly a week away from going live.

The website can be found here: http://www.levi.co.za/product

Preview of the future product website:

We have gone live with the new Levi's® websites. It's been a lot of work and we are happy to say that tonight we had the sites moved from the staging environment to the production environment.

The sites are the Levi's® brand site, Levi's® Loop and Levi's® Rage for Life.

Brand website - http://www.levi.co.za

Loop website - http://www.levi.co.za/loop

Red for Life website - http://www.levi.co.za/rfl

After a great visit to Turkey we are back in Cape Town. We travelled via Dubai and I can say, it is not fun. You have an 8 hour stop-over there and yes you do get seriously bored. The airport is not great, you can shop and eat a serious amount, which leaves you either with a headache from all the money you spent or a stomach ache from all the food you ate :)

The trip in Turkey was great, we met some great people and made some really good connections. A future trip is definitely on the cards and we look forward to having more dealings with the companies there. For now it's back to getting some projects completed and I'm happy to say that all of them remain on schedule. We will post some updates to these closer to their launch dates, so check back soon...

Our first meeting in Turkey went really well. We met with Holographus, a design and development company, about future opportunities for system development, web design and flash development. We showcased some of our systems we developed and the flash development we have done for many clients.

A topic that made us feel right at home with Holographus was that both of our companies approach the market in a similar manner and the way we run our companies. This allowed us to see the immediate potential and opportunities between both companies and the areas we can definitely compliment each other. We are looking forward to a great relationship between our two companies.

Our latest projects for Levi's® has been deployed into there staging environments and we are really happy with the progress. Soon we will be able to make these sites live to the world, which will be closer to the end of June.

Currently we are working on finishes all the little detail and making sure that the experience for everyone will be a great experience and that the Levi's® brand is carried across exactly as they intend. We have been working really hard on these projects to make the deadlines and so far everything is going as planned.

Stay tuned for more information on go live dates.

Google maps is a great way to add events, businesses and properties onto a map. We are currently working on building an integrated module that can allow different "pins" be placed on the map according to the location you click on and then complete the details for that spot. Having lots of fun playing with the Google Maps API ...

You can filter the items to be displayed on the map in many ways, we have added drop downs and radio buttons:

When adding a new item, you can click anywhere on the map and a pin is placed in the area, with a balloon displaying the coordinates which will be saved for your new item:

Recently we have made contact with two companies in Turkey that is interested in seeing what Kastim is all about, so we heading out there to test the water. We will be spending two weeks in Izmir, Turkey, presenting our services and solutions and who knows, we might just start widening our service delivery.

At the same time, we will visit the country side and being the opposite season there, the weather should be warmer there than in Cape Town, so the sun and warmer water will be much appreciated.

• Limited edition sales & merchandise
• Exclusive competitions & discounts
• VIP status at parties & music events
  

The LoveOrHate project is finally taking shape, we are still developing, but here is a peek at what we currently have to show you.

Our new website is live!

Feel free to let us know what you think of it!

www.kastim.com