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Best of Hello Smart Blog 2017 • The Video

December 7, 2017
OFS Smart Repair • Happy Holidays

You’ll miss the BEST things if you keep your eyes shut • Dr. Seuss At the end of our first year on the blog, we commissioned our kick butt design team at Urban Java to create a super cool video showcasing the BEST of Hello Smart Blog. You see, we had so much fun on the blog during that first year that we wanted to celebrate with a special memento to remember not only where we started, but also where our adventures had taken us during that year. It was a very special year and 2017 was no different – we had…

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Things to look forward to on Hello Smart Blog in 2017

January 20, 2017
What's next on Hello Smart Blog

Say it with us: 2017 is going to be great! Welcome back to Hello Smart Blog. It’s time to get back into action on the blog and boy, do we have some pretty cool posts planned for 2017! Style, food, fashion, travel, business… we’ve got it all this year. So, as we welcome a fresh new year, here are couple of things to look forward to on Hello Smart Blog in 2017: #1 Style Want to know which fashion trends and it items you cannot live without in 2017? We’ve got you covered! We’ll be featuring the hottest street styles,…

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Music by Magpie • Is local music lekke enough?

August 9, 2016
Local South African Music

Earlier this year local broadcaster, the SABC made a somewhat radical decision (or rather one of many) to enforce a quota system across their  +/- 18 Radio Stations, this would involve these local station’s having to play 90% local content each and every single day. The question is do we have enough really good local music? 90% local content would mean 21.6 hours of a possible 24, taking into consideration talking and adverts, let’s say there would be about 16 hours to fill (that’s about 960min), the average song is about 4min long at most, so that’s on average 240…

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Smartlife

Rio Olympics 2016 • 5 Epic Events to look forward to

August 5, 2016
Rio Olympics 2016

With 42 sports and over 10,000 athletes the Rio Olympics 2016 kicks off in Rio de Janeiro on the 5th August in true Brazilian style. Get ready for 16 days of non-stop, nail-biting, world class action! Here are 5 Epic Events to look forward to at the Rio Olympics 2016: #1 The Greatness that is Mr. Lightning Bolt Rio will be Usain Bolt’s last Olympics, and he will be trying to win the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4×100-meter relay for the third consecutive time – which has NEVER been done before in the history of the Olympic Games. Usain…

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Brainy Business

How to be a Great Mentor

August 2, 2016
Be a Great Mentor

Mentoring is a brain to pick. An ear to listen and a push in the right direction – John C Crosby Take a minute to think about the best mentor you’ve ever had. Was it a manager? A colleague? Maybe a parent, friend or a coach? What made them stand out to you? Did they give good advice? Did they lead by example? Maybe they gave you that push in the right direction when you needed it. Early in our careers, many of us are eager to find a mentor to encourage, support and guide us. Then, at a certain age, many…

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Style

Tiffany’s Tips • Beat the winter blues

July 22, 2016
Tiffany's Tips • Beat the winter blues

For those of you out there who are Game of Throner’s – it’s official – the white raven has come to let us know: Winter is here! And it brings along with it the dreaded winter blues cold feet, runny noses, food cravings and a need to stay in bed and hibernate. But Winter has it’s upside too: cozy fireplaces, hot chocolate and those crisp, sunny winter mornings. See… Not all bad. There are many other ways to lighten up dreary winter days, here are 5 helpful beauty tips to beat the winter blues: 1. A full body massage Even…

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Bright Sparks

Jill Nowers • Jack and Jill Food co.

June 24, 2016
Jill Nowers

Meet Jill Nowers. Colourful, vivacious and superbly creative. Jill is the culinary mastermind behind Jack and Jill Food co. We love her delicious, fresh, tasty food. We love her cool, edgy, funky spunk. Here’s a very special peek into the vibrant mind that is Mrs. Jill Nowers. Name: Jill Surname: Nowers Age: 40 (Yikes!!) Profession/Life’s work: Food glorious food…!! So, what’s your story? Where were you born? Port Elizabeth Where did you go to school? Mostly Pretoria… Where and what did you study? Ooh… Wasn’t very successful at tertiary education…  Some time spent at Tuks and then we moved and I went…

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Smartlife

Baking with Johanna • The Fondant Artisan

June 17, 2016
Johanna

Meet #smartgirl Johanna. Affectionately known around the OFS Smart Repair office as the ‘Queen of the Jacket’, she is one chic and stylish lady. A proper perfectionist, Johanna has been a true stalwart in our creditors department for many years. But as of 2010 she has garnered another formidable reputation – that of a master artisan cake baker.  A woman of many talents and the creator of the custom OFS Smart Repair Birthday Cake featured earlier this year on Hello Smart Blog, Johanna is The Fondant Artisan. Tell us your story…how did your fondant journey start? When we moved from Port Elizabeth…

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Tiffany’s Tips • Coffee is good for you

June 15, 2016
Coffee is good

I don’t know about you, but I’m not really me until I’ve had my first cup of coffee in the morning. Now with winter upon us I often feel I might be over-indulging in my favorite coffee a bit too much. I felt a bit better though after reading that the world consumes a staggering 1.6 billion cups of coffee a day! No wonder that, after petroleum, coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world. But nonetheless, coffee has a bit of a reputation and I decided to investigate to see if it’s really all that bad?? It…

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Brainy Business

Would you do business with your business?

June 14, 2016
Would you do business with your business

This is one of the most important questions a business owner can ever ask themselves. When was the last time, if ever, that you experienced what your customer or prospective customer experiences when they attempt to do business with your company? At OFS Smart Repair we are very serious about service and know that if we do not keep tabs on our customers’ experience, we will lose the plot very quickly. Therefore if you don’t know what kind of experience your customers are having, maybe it’s time to re-think, re-view and re-new. Here a couple of questions to consider: What happens when…

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