Clients will always be your cheapest source of funding, but a critical challenge for all entrepreneurs is how to scale up their marketing to attract these clients. A regular question we are asked is whether you can get funding / finance for a marketing campaign.
Some examples of marketing activities that might require short-term finance but…
Graeme Wilson, founder of award-winning legal firm 'Whipping The Cat', sees law differently. Starting his career pacing the hallways of large corporates, working for multi-national firms. In Part 1 he spoke about 'New Law' and how the legal profession is changing.
In Part 2, Graeme talks about the bare bones basics of what entrepreneurs need…
Allon Raiz is regarded as one of South Africas leading minds when it comes to entrepreneurship and small business and regularly speaks both locally and internationally around the development of the small business ecosystem.
He has recently released a series of entrepreneurship related podcasts - Raizor's Edge - which assist entrepreneurs in tackling key issues in…
By: Anke Schaffranek, York Zucchi and Marc Ashton
The SME ecosystem in Emerging Markets is broken and it is having a detrimental effect on economic growth in these regions.
While both the public and private sector in South Africa wax lyrical about the importance of small businesses, there is not even an agreement on how many registered small businesses…
“Everyone fails. Anyone you see succeeding is only succeeding at the things you’re paying attention to—I guarantee they are also failing at lots of other things. The people I respect most are those who fail well. I respect them even more than those who succeed.” – Ray Dalio, Bridgewater
2018 – what the hell was that?!
This…
HAD A TOUGH 2018? DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT OUR 2018 FAILURE RECOVERY GUIDE
Go up to almost anybody and ask them “What do you do?” and they will tell you that they are a “lawyer” or an “accountant” or they “design websites” – rightly or wrongly they define their purpose by the work…
HAD A TOUGH 2018? DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT OUR 2018 FAILURE RECOVERY GUIDE
Having been involved in the world of financial media for the last 15 years, I have been privileged enough to get to interview a significant number of entrepreneurs during that time. The one thing that I have learnt over that…
South Africa is now very much a part of the global economy and it's critical for entrepreneurs that they compare their activities to those of global peers. Are you following industry best practice? Could you compete against a global peer if they came into your market? Could you move into an international market?
Author and…
“Entrepreneurship” is often perceived as a case of an entrepreneur coming up with an idea and then executing it in flawless fashion. In this fantasy, the “detail” or the admin is left up to the support team…. I would argue that this is as far from the truth as they come and you need to…
SIMODISA has done some great work in trying to assist early-stage businesses to build some traction in the local economy.
SIMODISA has partnered with CEX Lab founder, Shaheema Adams, to bring entrepreneurs a series on Customer Experience for their small business. Shaheema unpacks Customer Experience and tries to help entrepreneurs understand how to tackle the…
In conjunction with our network partners, we are hosting a variety of workshops and webinars that might be of interest to our community of entrepreneurs and business owners:
Webinars:
From this week Wednesday we are going to be kicking off a series of webinars looking at:
Small Business Funding (10 October)
Marketing and Media (17 October)…
A key part of our approach to networking is to constantly invest in our community and try and use the power of our relationships to secure commercial benefits that can assist entrepreneurs in South Africa.
The Leaderex event is coming up on 4 September 2018 and we have secured 2 benefits that might be of interest…