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Archive for November 2009

Talent can be found for a T-shirt

Kerrin Black is a wonderful lady. She's made me another unbelievable three-way offer. And she's also the person behind Faces of Hope.

Kerrin Black of Talentfinders.com

But this post isn't about that.

It's about Talent... and finding it.

Talentfinders is the web-based database for the entertainment industry. It's the place on the internet to be listed if you are an artist, model, sports start, musician or any other kind of entertainer. If you want exposure to the whole wide world, this is the www you want to be on.

And Kerrin has offered not one, but TWO year long listings on Talentfinders for just one of my T-shirts.

So if you're a professional entertainer, or even an amateur one new to the industry, this is your chance to be listed on the site for a year, and to get your friend listed. And you don't have to have an agent. But if you do, that is ok too- you and your agent can get listed for just one T-shirt. Agents – you can also be listed on the site, and then list one of your talents too, just for one T-shirt.

So this offer is open to anyone who is:

  • an agent of talent
  • talented

And the kind of talent that is found here is:

  • models
  • public speakers
  • artists
  • sports people
  • musicians
  • stand up comedians
  • dancers
  • presenters
  • voice over artists
  • master of ceremonies
  • fire poi dancers
  • graffiti artists ;)
  • ventriloquist
  • etc

So for Talent out there, this is an offer to market yourself as well as get exposure to a very valuable database for clients.

And this offer is going to go fast- so it'll be to the first person who PHONES ME on 0837302979 to be part of this 3-way Trade.

This 3-way Trade is for:

  • You to get 2 listings on the talenfinders.com website
  • Kerrin to get one T-shirt
  • Me to trade on another of my T-shirts

I chatted with the Ice God and the Chosen One

Mongezi hooked me up with Chuma Kave. Chuma sounds like a rock star- his passion is daydreaming and daring- what an awesome combination. He also believes he is the CHOSEN ONE- seriously! So I look forward to meeting him in person one day, then I can say I've met the Chosen One, Chuma Kave himself.

But seriously, I'd like to meet him one day and chat more, because Chuma's also into helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses and uplifting rural communities through technology- subjects I'm into too. He's also created the Kave Foundation which focuses on empowering the youth through education, and is going to be involved with the Global Entrepreneurship Week in 2010.

Anyway, so Chuma phoned me up early on Tuesday 10th November for my interview on Radio 2000's super fantastic 'Super Fantastic Breakfast Show', which he produces. I went on air with Just-Ice Ramohlola. He's known as the "Ice God", so I think that's why Chuma and Just-Ice make a good team: The Ice God and the Chosen One on the same team can only be a hit!

It was a great chat with Just-Ice, and you'll hear at the end of the interview he talks about there being a "growing number of these people, philantropreneurs". He mentions that, because just a few weeks before he had interviewed my friend Adin who's doing a 'NO MONEY REQUIRED' experiment for 5 years.

And to now add to this list, there is also another South African, Sonja Kruse, choosing to live without money and show how Ubuntu is alive in our country, and she started her journey just 22 days ago with R100 in her pocket.

So with all these philantropreneuers, as Just-Ice calls us, popping up, have a listen to my chat with the Ice God himself on Radio 2000 by clicking here.

Enjoy!
Later
T

Another evening with the 'matchstick girl and the cashless dude

I'm off to Cape Town on Tuesday- It's going to be a packed week in the Mother city, and I hope to get some quiet time on the beach and to also catch up with some special friends, and make some new ones.

If you'd like to meet up then get in touch! You can come and meet Adin van Ryneveld - the No Money Man- and I on Thursday night at the Primi Piatti, Cavendish for the onematchstick movie première, where Adin will be the guest speaker, and Mongezi the MC. Join the event on facebook here.

It's going to be a fun evening if the Joburg première is anything to go by, so do come along and say hi, and be one of the first to see the onematchstick movie.

Adin, Rod and Telana having lunch before the Johannesburg Premiere

Otherwise you'll see me at the Silicon Cape event on Tuesday night, or the Netweb Event on Wednesday, and at some point I hope to have a yummy milkshake at Fire and Ice. I've got no plans yet for the weekend, before I fly back up to Joburg on Sunday, other than to spend some time with my niece and family.

So it'll be great to meet up if you're in Cape Town: Get in touch!

Web hosting for T-shirts

So I got another 3-way Trade offer at the Johanneburg Premiere. Haroun has offered the following for some t-shirts- and his offer is just awesome, as he'll be giving away the T-shirts and auctioning one off! Check out his offer:

Hey Telana

This is to confirm that I offer website hosting worth, R1200 at R100
p/m for a full year. This includes installation of a WordPress blog if
the person so decides :)

This is for 7 Springleap.com T-Shirts, 6 of which I'll give out as prizes
and 1 I'll auction to the highest bidder, with the proceeds going to
you and Adin, to creatively share.

Later
Haroun Kola
http://harounkola.com/

Contact me or Haroun to find out if this is the deal for you!

If you are interested, CALL ME! 083 730 2970 and let's do a Three-Way Trade:
  • You get a website and hosting for a year
  • Haroun gets 7 Tshirts to give away and auction
  • and I get to trade 7 more T-shirts
Get in touch!

:)

Johannesburg Premiere of the onematchstick Movie

What a fun evening we had premiering the onematchstick movie! Now nearly 50 people have seen the movie.

A scene from the onematchstick movie
(That's me on TV!!)

Mongezi was our MC and he did a strip show, revealing the onematchstick official T-shirt.

Adin wowed people with his ambitious goal of giving away all his money over the next 5 years- he's now officially a public speaker, after this being his second time as being the guest speaker at an event.

I got to hang out with my youngest fan- Ashley and my biggest fan- my Mom.

Ashley and Telana

Craig took plenty of photos, while Lantz made us laugh with this T-shirt:

Lantz and Telana

Haroun spread some of his rainbow magic, and has offered an AMAZING 3-way trade deal (watch this space for details) and Honky d African Soul mesmerised up with a tune he entitled onematchstick, after seeing my graffiti.

Tu made an appearance after attending TEDx all day, and got to meet Andy of bidorbuy.co.za, who is organising to get his prize to him for winning the Springleap.com official onematchstick T-shirt design competition.

I got to meet new friends and fans, and chat to my long time wonderful friends!

The movie was well received, and many commented on how well it was put together (that's thanks to Jarred of Missing Link) and got the onematchstick story across.

Thank you to all who came and made this such a memorable and fun-filled evening!

Now I'm off to Cape Town next week to the Cape Town Premiere on the 26th November. I managed to barter my flight down to Cape Town, so all is sweeeet!

The onematchstick movie will be released after the Cape Town Premiere!

onematchstick pose!!

Three-Way Trades for T-shirts

So I still have 285 T-shirts to trade in order to complete my tenth trade. I'm being called to think very, very creatively about how to find the 285 people to trade with.

Nikki contacted me and said she wanted one of my T-shirts and would trade for it for a place on her small business startup workshop.

That got me thinking.

So I put the word out and within a day Chris had found Michelle who was starting her business and wanted to do Nikki's course, and for her it was a bargain to "pay" Nikki with a T-shirt and at the same time make that T-shirt count as a trade with me.

So we traded:
Nikki got her T-shirt.
Michelle got to go to the workshop.
I got one less T-shirt to trade.

An awesome Three-Way Trade!

That has sparked off three more offers for T-shirts that involved Three-Way Trading (is there something about the number 3 right now?)

  • David has offered 4 private Pilates classes for three T-shirts (Johannesburg only)
  • Tuesday as offered her beautiful artwork for two T-shirts (Global)
  • KK Diaz has offered his audio payroll workshop for one T-shirt. (South Africa)
So- below are the details and if you want to be a part of my big tenth trade and the onematchstick story, but you're not that into T-shirts, then let me know if you want to trade for Pilates, Artwork or Payroll training and we'll make a Three-Way Deal. Ok?

PILATES:

David du Plessis has been offering Pilates classes for many years, and – being my Pilates instructor- I can vouch that he knows his stuff and gets results. He combines Pilates with Gyrotonics and Kettlebell training, and is uber-cool.

His studio is in Fourways, Johannesburg, at the centre where I have my temporary office (temporary until I get my onematchstick office).

He is offering four private Pilates classes that could be used one a week for a month, or all four in four days- you decide- in exchange for three of my Springleap T-shirts.

So if you are keen to try out Pilates in the Fourways area, or get back into it, and get super fit and strong and have a laugh while you work out, plus get the four private session at a discounted rate- CALL ME!!!


ARTWORK:

"Tuesday Houston is a contemporary South African artist making a significant impact on the local art market."

She's been arty since – well forever! She's even dabbled in welding metal into gorgeous jewellery and is very into fashion and stuff like that, especially fashion for kids.

She's offered me TWO limited edition lino prints (about A4 in size) which are very popular, and unframed go for R900 in a Gallery.

'Dancing Girl' by Tuesday Houston 'Hula' by Tuesday Houston

All she wants is two T-shirts in return for one of the prints, and we can post the print to you! What a sweet deal!
So if you want one of Tuesday's limited edition lino prints- CALL ME!


PAYROLL TRAINING:

I met KK Diaz at this months Netweb event, and he's an entrepreneur. He runs Rekopane Payroll Services and develop a nifty payroll audio support programme called 'Payroll With A Voice'. It's South Africa's first payroll workshop in audio and workbook format, so you can learn in your own time, even sitting in your undies at home if you like. ;)

When he's not helping people demistify payroll for good, he's working on his record label dedicated to assisting indi artists, called Liber8. He's also just a man looking to play his part on this beautiful planet.

And his part in the onematchstick story is he's offered his audio payroll workshop for ONE of my Springleap T-shirts. It's worth R399.99, he's running a special right now for R279.99, but YOU can get it for R219.00 if you do a Three-Way Trade with KK and me. If you want this audio payroll workshop – CALL ME!


So it's as easy as 1 – 2 – 3 for a three-way trade with me.

CALL ME! 083 730 2979

Invitation to Premiere of onematchstick the movie

onematchstick the movie

The onematchstick Movie is ready to be released, and you're invited to come see it before anyone else does- at the onematchstick Movie Premiere. And Adin is in Jozi- so you'll get to meet him too!

If you've been wondering what 'onematchstick' is all about, this is your chance to find out from me in person! And you'll get to brag how you were the first to see the onematchstick movie.

Adin Van Ryneveld

My new friend Adin Van Ryneveld from Cape Town is on a mission too- he's living without cash for 5 years! You'll get to hear from him what his NO MONEY REQUIRED experiment is all about. And believe me, you'll want to hear all about it, from the horse's mouth!

Also you'll get a chance too to share about anything crazy that you're up to.

It's going to be so much fun!

So join Adin and I for a few drinks and a bite to eat. Get to mingle with some fab people. And be one of the first to see the onematchstick movie, not at cinema's near you!

Date: Sunday 15 November
Time: 17:00 to 20:00
Venue: Primi Piatti , The Zone, Oxford Street, Rosebank
RSVP: onematchstick@gmail.com or on facebook or twtvite


PS-Fans have been asking for a Premiere in Cape Town too- so I'm organising one. Watch this space for details, and keep the 25th November open!

I didn't do this…

The White washed bus stop on Jan Smuts

But I did do this:

Our latest masterpiece!


Because my timing sucked and our last attempt at graffiti got painted over within 24 hours, I decided to give it another bash, with the help of Richard and Carol... and on the way there we passed this white bus stop on Jan Smuts, just near the Zoo...

The White Bus Stop

I have no idea why someone has whitewashed the trees and grass around this bus stop, and the actual bus stop, but it made for a fun playground for a few photos!

Carol and Telana

Now I am looking for 285 people- I've trade 90 T-shirts so far, and am ready to trade with another 285 people for any of these Springleap T-shirts (use coupon code onematchstick to track your trade with me!). So contact me on 0837302979 to find out how to become part of the onematchstick story!

Carol, Richard and Telana

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