Growth isn’t just about getting more customers. It’s also about making sure the systems connecting your business to those customers actually work. We spend a lot of time talking about how businesses grow. More customers. More sales. More products. More branches. More distributors. But there is another side of growth that doesn’t get nearly as
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Artificial intelligence has changed the way we work. Today, a business owner can ask ChatGPT to develop a marketing plan, draft a proposal, create a project budget, suggest a ticket price, prepare a communication strategy or even estimate what it might cost to put an event together. And, to be fair, AI can do a
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What is happening on our roads? Can’t a day just pass without an accident being reported where lives are lost? Worse still, many more have to cope with the effects of injury and thus become part of the huge group of people affected by road carnage. Am I the only person who seems bothered? In the
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How time flies. Just the other day, I did a post ‘ONE YEAR OLDER’ and shared some photos I came across when I went down memory lane. 12 months later I am back at it again. 2013 has been one hell of a year and on November 13; I add a plus one to (x).
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When you start a business, you will only be able to make your margins if you keep your customers keep coming and are happy. The more customers you have, the more the returns. To get more customers coming, advertising is the way to go. Using electronic, print, audio or visual media will get the word
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It is encouraged that since right, left and centre everyone is just saying how there are no job opportunities and give the fact that we all need a few coins to go through a day, if one has tried and not succeeded to get employment they should start a business. The business will be more
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A time has come when you cannot afford to go into business and ignore the internet. The internet has done so much for businesses in the past and the same will continue in the future. The so much cuts across the board, the internet has build businesses, it has also destroyed business. If done right,
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As I was growing up, I would often be asked ‘who is your mentor?’ I did not know what to say. The criteria my friends and peers used to select mentors was unknown to me. I would just pick a random name of a known figure and say it. That got me thinking, what is
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It is said what has a beginning has an end, what was manufactures has a shell life and most will have an expiry date. A time comes when engaging in a certain business will be profitable but a time will come later when it is best of you exit. I used an example of simu
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The other day I was accused on social media for calling everything ‘copy paste’ the said person went ahead and told me that I should not be afraid of competition and hide in the terms copy paste’ that got me thinking. First, to educate those who regardless of the free primary education are not able
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