Why do businesses join Chambers of Commerce?
To gain credibility and status and to enhance their own image.
To network and connect with other businesses
for mutual growth and profit.
To get assistance and information that will allow them
to achieve their full potential.
To survive difficult times and to thrive in good times.

ZA Group has an offer that will do all of the above, plus:
Show your members how to generate demand for their offerings — even in tough times.
Generate income for your Chamber.
Ensure continued support for, and membership to, your Chamber.

Interested?

• Learn how to get their message to a particular target audience in a way that will make them sit up, pay attention and take action — regardless of whether the medium carrying the message is a corrugated board on the side of the road, direct mail letters or television advertising.
• Learn how to identify their most lucrative target audience ...
• Gain an intimate understanding of why their audiences would want what they have to offer ... along with an ability to persuade them to take action towards acquiring it ...
• Find out what makes the difference between advertising that pays for itself ... and advertising that does little more than drain financial resources ...
• Get the tools needed to create — or direct the creation of — highly effective advertising, guaranteed to generate business ...
• Find out where to place their advertising for maximum impact and results ...
• Learn how to test if their advertising is working ...
• Experience an unprecedented opportunity for meaningful networking ... and much, much more.

Our iron-clad money-back guarantee:

If any delegate feels that he / she is not receiving benefit from the workshop, we will refund 100% of the registration fee — if claimed by mid-day on the day of the workshop.

• 50% of the workshop profits — that is after travel, accommodation and the cost of printing all manuals for the venture have been deducted.
• A social responsibility opportunity: We will teach the same workshop at no additional cost to struggling businesses in your community — on the day following the paid workshop. These delegates do not have to be Chamber members, but we respectfully request that you give historically disadvantaged business owners at least 50% of available seats.
• An opportunity to enroll new members by tying this promotion to a membership drive. We will write and design all the tools you will need to run the promotion:
  • An email campaign consisting of three electronic advertisements to be sent by the Chamber.
  • A registration form in PDF format for print or email delivery.
  • 50 printed DL-sized brochures with a loose registration form insert.
  • A PDF ad for print publication – for placement by the Chamber.
  • A PDF flyer to be printed by the Chamber.
  • A PDF poster to be printed by the Chamber.
  • Templates for follow-up communication, e.g. acknowledgement of receipt of payment, booking confirmation, etc. if required.

• Get together a group of a minimum of 20 (and no more than 40) delegates for each day’s workshop.
• Supply — and cover the costs of — a venue and catering for each workshop.

• 50% of the profits.
• An extra workshop, free of charge, for local businesses that cannot afford to pay.
• Creative writing and graphic design of the materials you need to run a membership drive.
• A day of free one-on-one consultations with delegates from each workshop — ensuring that the information is understood and put to use.

About Therésa Müller

Therésa Müller is the CEO of ZA Group pty ltd — her third business in a marketing and publishing career spanning two continents and three countries.

Therésa is also the founder, CEO and Chief Editor of ZA Difference — a national, non-profit magazine for diverse opinions, interesting dialogue and practical solutions towards a better South Africa. The magazine aims to bridge the divide between mainstream and marginalised South Africans. More ...

Therésa is a practicing marketer with a finger on the pulse of current marketing trends. She is also a pro-active, concerned onlooker with many practical suggestions for the role of business in alleviating social ills resulting from poverty. She has talked or lectured on various aspects of marketing, advertising, mass communication and corporate and individual social responsibility through organisations as diverse as:

She has authored:

About Ndaba Msalili

Ndaba Msalili is ZA Group's General Manager. He is a Commercial Design and Marketing Management graduate, a final year MBA student, a talented multi-media designer, businessman and public speaker. Ndaba ran his own successful multi-media design business for four years before becoming a shareholder in and director at ZA Group.

Ndaba has been the main presenter of the advertising workshop at the Roodepoort Chamber of Commerce SMME programme for the past three years.