No-fluff, practical guides for South African business owners — selling on Takealot, working out your real profit, getting found by AI search, and choosing the right tools. Written by the team that builds this stuff for a living.
Success fee, fulfilment, storage, the lot. A plain-English breakdown of every fee Takealot charges sellers in 2026 — and the ones that quietly eat your margin.
"Selling price minus cost" is not your profit. Here's the actual formula — fees, VAT, returns and storage included — plus a worked example on a R299 product.
When customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for a recommendation, does your business come up? Here's how GEO and AEO actually work — and how to start.
Payment gateways, real monthly costs in rands, hosting, scaling. A side-by-side comparison built for the SA market — not a generic US listicle.
A beautiful site that nobody visits is a brochure in a drawer. The real reasons traffic stays flat — and why AI Overviews just changed the rules.