Business Start-up Guide

The logistics industry of South Africa plays a pivotal role in moving goods and keeping the economy active. Up to 80% of goods in South Africa are moved using heavy-duty trucks.

Are you ready to start your business with a bang? Building a successful business is an intentional process involving many facets. There are many elements to consider, such as your marketing plan, [...]

There are certain funding fails that start-up businesses tend to make – here is a list of perhaps the five top most commonly-made mistakes; but there are certain ways in which to avoid these in [...]

Riding a tough economy is no easy feat, and making a profit could prove to be really difficult. Doubling or even tripling a profit during difficult times could prove to be quite a challenge. This [...]

For those keen to make a success of your start-up, you need money and to make money, you need to know how to successfully sell. The whole point of running a business is not to save money, but to [...]

How productive you are each day all depends on how well you organise your time – preferably into manageable segments. It is important to organise each new day by locating a specific space for the [...]

Because we all only have 24 hours in a day, seven days a week, it is important to manage time well otherwise one’s to-do list starts reading like a bad novel. There is no time like the present to [...]

As a start-up enterprise it is imperative to have a watertight budget in place and to stick to it every step of the way. Control your destiny by sticking to a plan is the best way to steer your [...]

Small and medium enterprises make up the life-blood of our economy. Although this sector of the economy is largely ignored by both the media and the general public as well as receiving little [...]

It is common for entrepreneurs to be consumed by a shiny plan for expansion and to lose their vision of their day to day operations of their profitable business that they are already enjoying. It [...]