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Introduction
Needs
Approach
Expertise
Community and Small Business
Focus on Centurion
Subcontractors and Partners

SuproNet was established to provide smaller organisations with a one-stop service regarding development, hosting, maintenance, updating and marketing of their Websites and Internet presence. At the same time they receive advice on how to best utilise the Internet.

Needs

We created this service since our close involvement with smaller businesses through organisations such as the Centurion Business Forum and Cenbis made us aware of a need. Smaller businesses experience (amongst others) the following problems regarding Websites:

They are sometimes unaware of the advantages that the Internet holds for them.
Some want to utilise the Internet but are unsure how to go about it and are confused by all the different service providers and alternatives available. They are also bombarded by doomsayers implying that they will go out of business if they do not use the Internet but do not know how to use it effectively and efficiently.
Sometimes it seems as if it can be expensive to have a Website developed and maintained.
They sometimes have to use a number of different service providers and find it difficult to integrate these services.
Some service providers ignore smaller businesses as potential clients since they do not see them as “worth their while”.
Some smaller service providers sometimes deliver work of unacceptable quality.

SuproNet believes that smaller business can be served best by providing a one-stop service of high quality at competitive prices. We believe that even a simple, affordable Website should still be professional and of high quality. The content and functionality of the Website must be designed to suit the nature and circiumstances of the particular business and its target market.

Approach

The service SuproNet delivers is based on an understanding of the needs and restrictions of the smaller business and an indepth knowledge of the Internet. Although we get excited about new technology, we do not use it just because we can. We believe technology should be used to satisfy a need or to solve a problem and we do not look for problems to suit the technology (“solution”).

We are serious about quality. Although we would like to use subcontractors, we would rather do the work ourselves than to deliver low quality to our customers.




	*Author and Co-Author of several Reports and Articles about the Internet and e-Commerce*

	We are knowledgable about e-commerce and convinced that it has advantages but we do not believe that all businesses need to sell via the Internet in order to survive. On the contrary: e-commerce may bring about more cost and problems for many small busineses than it is worth. Our initial standard product range therefore does not include a specific e-commerce solution but it can be provided on request and we do intend to investigate methods to provide practical and affordable e-commerce solutions to our clients who want to utilse e-commerce.

Expertise

SuproNet is a division of SUPROKON Management Services, establshed in 1990, and involved in the IT industry since 1994. Since 1996 Anton Heÿdenrÿch (co-owner and consultant) has been actively involved in marketing research and consulting in the areas of Internet and electronic commerce in South Africa. As analyst he had been involved in many studies and reports about the Internet and e-commerce and also acts as speaker on these subjects.

Anton has an engineering background and has extensive experience in project management. His formal business schooling includes a MBL (cum laude) obtained in 1988.

SUPROKON was developed out of nothing and has achieved a compound annual growth rate of 60% in turnover over aperiod of six years. We therefore understand the problems facing a new business and the small business environment.

Although we have not actively marketed our services as Website designers before 2001 we have nevertheless developed a few sites on request. Examples of Websites (under the SuproGraphics name) can be seen at Centurion Business Forum and Highveld Thatchers . Our first SuproNet client was Alternative Structures while SA Thatchers, developed under the SuproGraphics umbrella, is now also hosted under the SuproNet brand.




	*Anton Heÿdenrÿch*

Community and Small Business




*Honourary Member of the Centurion Business Forum*

Through our parent company, SUPROKON Management Services, SuproNet is actively involved in small business and the community of Centurion. This involvement includes seven years as member of the management committee of the Centurion Business Forum (also as chairperson) and founding member and (former) director of Cenbis, the Centurion Business Support Centre. SUPROKON has been supporting and sponsoring the Website of the Centurion Business Forum for several years.

In October 2002 we were chosen as Centurion Business Forum’s Image Builder of the Year, mainly due to the work we have been doing through CenturioNet, BusinessCenturion and the web site of the business forum. See photographs of the event here.

Focus on Centurion

As residents of Centurion and business within the boundaries of Centurion our initial focus is on the environment we know and understand the best, and to which it will be easier to deliver a personal service. This is accomplished by dedicated Websites about Centurion (CenturioNet) and its businesses (BusinessCenturion).

Subcontractors and Partners

SuproNet would like to use subcontractors but we demand exceptional quality. Graphic designers, copywriters, webdesigners, programmers and salespeople are welcome to contact us and to market their services to us. We are particularly interested in small businesses in the Centurion region who can demonstrate a portfolio of excellent products. If you want to make us aware of your work, please complete the form.

We would also like to partner with other organisations and businesses who provide related or supplementary services. We invite potential partners to discuss the possibilities with us (see Contact Information.

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