How Insaka eCommerce Academy Aims To Grow The South African eCommerce Industry
How Insaka eCommerce Academy Aims To Grow The South African eCommerce Industry. The Insaka eCommerce Academy is dedicated to helping South Africans start and grow their own online businesses. The academy offers a wide range of online learning courses suited to people starting out for the first time and also online business owners who’re very experienced and looking for ways to grow their traffic, improve user experience, increase conversion and to ultimately make their business more profitable.
Insaka is built by South African online business owners for South African online business owners. The goal is to make their knowledge and experience more easily accessible so that more people can be successful in their own online businesses.
Insaka also created the Insaka eCom Impis which is a Mastermind Group for South African online business owners. This is a unique place where everyone in the industry can help one anther by sharing their own experience and then also to seek help when you need to tap into someone else’s expertise. This group is focused on building eCommerce overall in the country by helping one another in the spirit of ubuntu.
In 2010, being a serial entrepreneur at heart, Warrick Kernes founded the award-winning online store, Action Gear and went on to grow and scale the business to doing over R20 million in annual revenue. He later found himself with a deep desire to grow the South African eCommerce industry and help entrepreneurs achieve more success through selling online. This led him to sell his shares in his flourishing business, Action Gear and pursue his newfound mission of helping others to start, launch and grow their very own online stores to achieve more income and freedom in their lives.
Warrick then founded The Insaka eCommerce Academy in 2017 which has helped thousands of online sellers and is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs with the best eCommerce training that South Africa has to offer. To further serve South African online sellers, Warrick launched his podcast, eCommerce Explained in 2020 where he unpacks how to get your online store started, how to grow your online sales with the best digital marketing methods, and how to scale your business to bring about more success through selling online.
The word “Insaka” is an African word for an open sided thatch located in the center of a village where wise community leaders come together to discuss business. The Insaka eCommerce Academy is a place of learning and a place of collaboration where South African online entrepreneurs come to learn more about selling online & to join the Insaka Community where the members work together to help one another achieve success online.
Although Insaka offers training across multiple eCommerce website platforms, it is very pleased that it has been recognized as the first Shopify Education Partner in Africa (and one of only 18 worldwide) for its flagship program “Your Online Store”. Insaka is also proud to have been awarded Shopify’s Top Education Partner for 2021.
