As an entrepreneur how would you rate your health? You may be thinking that as an entrepreneur you do not have time to care for your health and truth be told maybe you haven’t even stopped long enough to examine your health. According to the World Health Organisation, health is not just the absence
How easy is it for you to say NO? You would be surprised by how many people battle to say NO in their business and in their personal lives. Come for a drink after work. Please give me a lift to the shops. I need the delivery by 6am tomorrow. I am assigning you
We are always looking out for more customers and networking is a way of finding the right people. We do need to remember that people do business with people they know, like and trust and unfortunately all of those take time. We cannot phone up and order trust. Instead, we have to invest time
We have all experienced bad customer service. When I worked with retail students they would put on hilarious plays to show the meaning of bad customer service. How does bad customer service make you feel? If we all know what bad customer service is and we have been on the receiving end of that
You may be at the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey or maybe you started a while back. How is it going? Those working in corporate or working for other people often look across at the life of the entrepreneur and envy what an entrepreneur has. The idea of being your own boss and not
I remember watching the owner of a business walk into the office and give his employees an instruction. One hour later, his mom who was helping out, walked into the business and issued an instruction totally opposite to the initial instruction given by her son. This left the employees in a predicament because whose
I have seen so many people steer away from profit almost as though it is a dirty word. Let’s look at profit. We get gross profit and net profit. Sales, Income or turnover less cost of sales gives us gross profit. You buy a product and re-sell it which means the price you sell
Being an entrepreneur and running a company is not for the faint-hearted and it certainly isn’t a sprint. You need seconds if you are going to run the entrepreneur marathon successfully. We spend an inordinate amount of time with the people we work with and often we do not have social lives while we
“Ka-Ching” is the sound that many people hear on their cell phones on the 25th, 27th or 30th of every month. It is the notification that their salary has been paid into their bank account. They may do a dance and think, “YAY pay day” and then not give another thought to that payment.
Become an entrepreneur is something you will have heard often. People often forget that being an entrepreneur requires skills, knowledge, experience and an appetite for risk. This series of articles draws on my experience of working in corporate for 22 years, leaving corporate to open my own business and subsequently working with my clients
