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Prepare For The Worst

The stronger your business is, the more you stand to lose. Here’s how to spot hidden weaknesses within your operation and steel yourself for unexpected battles.

Start Planning Today For Future Wealth

Q&A Budgeting is by far the biggest threat to wealth planning, says wealth coach Nelisiwe Masango. If you’re part of the majority of people who don’t have a monthly budget or who have one, but don’t adjust it regularly, you could be hindering your financial progress.

Beyond Banal Business Travel

Twenty-five-year-old South African automotive drivetrain repair company Rex Diff and Gearbox found a perfect match for its business travel needs when it joined kulula work’s client base, and never looked back. Dennis McLachlan of RDG’s Consumer Affairs and Marketing division explains why.

The Next Level Beckons

Rudolf Goosen is an ex-professional rugby player, entrepreneur, author, TV presenter and motivational speaker. Entrepreneur recently spoke to him about his new book, Taking Your Life to the Next Level.

Diversity Drives Board Performance

The composition of your board of directors can help you drive your company value and increase shareholder and other stakeholder returns.

Invest And Save 100% Of Your Tax Payable To SARS

Section 12J funds were created in response to the South African Government offering tax incentives for private investors to support funds that support SME growth in South Africa. Three experts unpack the benefits of investing in 12J funds — particularly for high net worth individuals.

Following Your Dreams? Nailed It!

Sorbet franchisee Kate Holahan went from corporate employee in 2015 to owning two franchise locations in just over two years. By September 2017, she had launched a new location, acquired new clients and was learning something new every day. It took a few learning curves and partnering with the right bank to lead her to successfully running her Sorbet and Sorbet Man stores at Benmore Shopping Centre in Sandton.

How To Build A Community Around Your Brand

There’s a way to build your market without spending a fortune on advertising and marketing — and it’s called community building. Here’s why this should be the cornerstone of your growth strategy.

Sealing The Deal

If you want to close more sales, you need to understand the three phases of the customer buying cycle.

No Limits

When Offlimit Communications faced its first downturn after ten profitable years in business, its leadership team didn’t even question that they would turn things around and make them better. With resilience and determination, they analysed the business, made some tough choices and took action. Within six months they took the business from massive losses back to profitability, and a year later doubled their pre-losses turnover — all in the middle of a recession.Here’s how Lisa Cohen, Jerome Cohen and Garon Bloom took lemons and made lemonade, building a R130-million sustainable business in the process.

High-growth Frameworks

Brett Dawson took Dimension Data from a $2 billion to $8 billion business over the course of 12 years. He’s now focusing on making an impact in the business landscape through investments. These are his five lessons on building a high-growth business.

Looking For Funding? First, Understand What Funders Look For

Are investors interested in ideas? Traction? The team? The founders? They’re interested in all that and more, say VCs Keet van Zyl and Clive Butkow.

The 9 Obsessions You Need To Have To Become A Self-made Millionaire

Becoming a successful entrepreneur and achieving millionaire status isn’t easy. Most people give up along the way, becoming disenchanted when their business flatlines or disillusioned when they feel they have failed. Here’s how to stay focused on your millionaire goals.

Bad Debt, Bad Business

Manage your debt, increase your cash flow and build a healthy, growing business with these three key steps.

I Started A Sock Company... Seriously

Many entrepreneurs dream about making their first million, followed by their first R100 million. The reality is that business is tough, and if you don’t follow your passion, you’ll never be happy. More importantly, passion is infectious. If you want people to love your brand, to buy from you, support you and even invest in you, you need to love what you do.

4 Actions You Must Take To Find Your Opportunity

There is exactly as much opportunity in the world as you’re willing to work for.

Disruptive Strategies

Instead of following the bigger players in the banking industry, Sasfin is creating its own path, based largely on the mindset that bigger isn’t always better. Michael Sassoon unpacks the thinking behind staying agile as well as building products and offering solutions that meet customer needs.

Live Like A Hero

Often strengths become weaknesses as we progress through our business journey. If you want to remain the hero, you need to focus on growth.

Attracting Success

Once you discover your who, you automatically discover your why, which in turn allows you to lead with your heart rather than your head. Discover that energy source, and the world is your oyster.

Growth Through Access To Markets

If your goal is to scale your business, you need to increase your sales and access to markets. We found the best way to do that was through key strategic partners whose existing clients were our target market.

Smart Legal Foundations For Your Start-Up

The legal background to a start-up might not be the most exciting area for an entrepreneur, but it’s your foundation for growth. Are you aware of everything you need to have in place?

Will You Make The Right Decision?

Our lives are an accumulation of the decisions we make, both big and small. Improve your decisionmaking process, and you’ll improve every aspect of your life and business.

A Future-Proof You

Fostering a growth mindset is critical if you want to be irreplaceable in the future.

The Art Of Exponential Growth: Survive Your Start-up Years, Know Your Worth & Live Your Values

Marco Ferreira, Renate Albrecht and Dillon Warren launched Brand Cartel because they wanted to go to work each day with people they liked and trusted in a workspace that mirrored their values. It’s taken five years, but they’ve built a through-the-line agency that delivers exactly what they wanted — and has grown exponentially as a result.

The Visionary

As a poor township kid, Tim Hogins watched kids pile into buses heading to Sun City every weekend, knowing he couldn’t afford to join them. He was a youngster, but he made a promise to himself. One day he would build parks that anyone could visit — especially underprivileged kids like himself.It’s taken almost 30 years to achieve that dream. Starting out as a security guard before moving into IT and then getting retrenched, Tim has built a business from nothing. But he had a dream, and he never let it waver. This is his story.

Looking For Funding? Try Manufacturing

There are over 200 national incentives for the industrialisation of South Africa. Can you tap into grant funding to grow your business?

Why Purpose Drives Profits

Gone are the days of simply advertising your products and watching the cash roll in. Today’s consumers have more access to a wider variety of products, solutions and information than ever before — and they’re choosing who to do business with, often based on whether the brand’s values align with their own. If you want to succeed, it’s time to start engaging where it matters.

4 Ways To Build Your Personal Brand Online

Trust is the foundation of businesses that people want to buy from. Building a personal online brand allows you to share your values and business with your customers.

Becoming The Ultimate Entrepreneur

What does the ultimate entrepreneur look like? The truth is that although we aspire to many of our role models, success is personal. Here are five ways to find your own ‘ultimate’ success.

Firing Up The East

Q&A Carlos Duarte has been part of the Nando’s brand since inception. When his brother Fernando co-founded the flamed grilled chicken brand in 1987, Carlos soon participated in its success and today owns four highly successful franchises in Johannesburg — three in the east and one in the south. Here’s how it all began.