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Solving South Africa’s Unemployment Rate
Unemployment in our country is a cancer that is growing and spreading unchecked. South Africa's unemployment rate hit another record high reaching 35.3% – which means 7.9 million people are currently jobless. The billions being spent on Supplier and Enterprise...
The 4 Steps to Wealth Creation
The stats read that only 6% of South Africans are able to retire financially free. This is a scary statistic that sends shivers down my spine. What is financial freedom I hear you ask? Financial freedom means you have enough money saved and / or invested that...
How Discounting Can Harm A Business
Some salespeople have a tendency to think that giving a discount is the easiest, quickest way to make a sale. Of course, they may be right, but what about the profit they’re giving away? If a product has a profit margin of 30% and salespeople give a 10% discount to...
Team Meetings Will Buy Your Freedom
One of the most valuable systems you can implement in an organisation is a steady rhythm. This creates the pulse that your team works to, which in turn creates the steady pulse your organisation needs to thrive. How do you create this? One way to do this is to...
Crafting a Successful Business That Buys You Freedom
As we find ourselves in the month of Freedom, it is only apt that we reflect on what Freedom means for us in our businesses. To start with, a reminder that ActionCOACH's definition of a successful business is: “A Commercial Profitable Enterprise that runs without...
10 Ways to Manage Your Cash Flow and Grow Your Profit
In business, it’s not uncommon to have millions of Rands worth of turnover without generating adequate cash flow to support business growth. It’s a well-known fact that growth in any type of business consumes cash which according to Verne Harnish is the first law of...
Tweede Nuwejaar (Second New Year)
If your year is anything like ours it’s started with a bang. All of a sudden the floods gates seem to have opened and everyone wants to now do everything. Whilst it’s also only the start of March, you may already be looking forward to a break, a holiday or maybe just...
The Importance of EveryONE EmployONE
Have you heard about the EveryONE EmployONE movement? It was launched by ActionCOACH Southern Africa last year in response to the extremely high and increasing unemployment rate in South Africa. What exactly is the EveryONE EmployONE Movement? Early last year when...
Solving Unemployment by Climbing a Ladder?
Entrepreneurship, and owning your own business, is an exciting concept – some people dabble in it, some master it, and some avoid it like the plague. Not only is owning your own business the fastest route to building real wealth, but the added benefit is also that you...