A pleasant day to all!Just Sharing the concept of L88  - Entrepreneurship Development Centre.The International Associates; a highly successful international business marketing group, created in early 2000, SE Asia to address the unemployment situation in SE Asia and to promote home businesses.....21st Century...Many more are expected to be trapped in an...

You might have had a facebook account for some time and have made several friends as well as contacts. You keep on liking interesting posts made by your friends and some times they like your posts as well, you post comments and enjoy being on-line. Does this sound like you?...

Thinking of buying a franchise? Why not? Many people have the urge to start and run their own business. I am involved in career counselling and meet people who express this desire very frequently. The most common barrier that is raised is that people do not quite know what exactly...

It can be very difficult for first-time job seekers to find employment. Most often, this is because school leavers, and even university graduates, simply don’t have any real-world, practical experience that they can offer to their potential employers. In addition, it can be a struggle for workers in low-income manual jobs...

Choices we make   Choice consists of the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and just selecting one of them. There is not an hour that goes by where we do not have to choose;  red or blue, black or cream … lets face it every aspect of...

Information Regarding Potential Franchises   By becoming a part of the franchise market you’ll be taking your first steps towards sound financial success. In this rather unstable economic environment, franchises offer consumers with low risk stakes while still providing budding businessman with the opportunity to run their own trade. Rather than...

Our secrets of success are the following: Only sell a good product. In fact sell the best product or a better one than your opposition. Make sure the product has passed the quality test.  Sell at the same price or preferably than your opposition. Remember quality can never be comprised no...

  For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own...

 

“I keep six honest serving men (they’ve taught me all I knew)

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who….  Rudyard Kipling

Athletes on the track win by a split second...canoeists by an oar stroke…horses by a nose…football teams by one creative pass. The winners have just a slight edge over the rest of the field and this we call The Leader’s Edge. In business it’s also the all-important difference between leading the field and being one of the “also-rans”.

Responsible Tourism, one of those phrases often heard and thrown about, but seldom understood and effectively practiced in a South African context. What is responsible tourism? The South African White Paper on Development and Promotion of Tourism describes responsible tourism as: "Tourism that promotes responsibility to the environment through its sustainable...

I'd like to to tell you about how I became a Professional Architectural Draughtsman.
A dream once, a desire, to be significant in my way, and to fulfill the need to feel
stimulated in the word I do, and that's to create. I wanted to create a world where
I create lifestyles for people, and alter their homes or design new dwellings.

    Best Practice Financial Management Principles of SMEs in South Africa The evolution of market dynamics accentuated the focus of large corporate enterprises towards the emerging world in search of growth and competitive advantage (Miller & Shamsie, 1996). Globalization and Information Communication Technology (ICT) development are at the forefront of...

I recently attended a seminar on Business Rescue – part of the New Companies Act (Did you know there was a new Companies Act?). It enables companies to remain in business when things are not looking good. Effectively, it suspends all creditors claims (including SARS although SARS may not agree)...

A snippet from my new group on Facebook: Entrepreneurs United.  Please join me if you want to stay up to date on similar self-help articles: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Entrepreneurs-United/303075119784673 Outcome: The goal of this series of articles is to find the quickest, simplest and easiest method to create a clear over-all understanding of...

What most people in business don’t realise is that you can try to drive the staff or push the staff but cannot do that if his goals of your staff are misaligned with your corporate/company goal. Without understanding the habits and behaviours, and what drives your employees and yourself it will...

Bookkeeping is a skill that is sadly overlooked in many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, because business owners try to minimise expenditure on “extras”. However, bad financial management – both on the large and small scales – leads to the closure of over half of all new business venture. In this...