ActionCOACH Team Articles

The franchise market is an attractive growth strategy for business owners. And while the local market is thriving with an estimated turnover of R587 billion, it’s no guarantee that it will be easy to succeed. That said, if you are [...]

From experience, I thought I’d share a summary of what we see as being critical success factors across our team of business coaches and their entrepreneurial clients. To get these ‘secrets’ to work best for you try this – read, nod, take action and repeat!

John D Rockefeller, a man who commanded incredible amounts of money, once said: “Those who have leisure time to spend pursuing their passions and dreams experience the real wealth in life.” Knowing how to spend time is a more valuable [...]

The key reason to start a business should be to sell it one day, and the way to become truly wealthy is by buying, building and selling businesses. Generally speaking, you won’t achieve great wealth by owning just one company, [...]

Weekends are usually days of rest but for workaholics the day of rest never comes. There is always unfinished work; one more email to read and one more phone call to make that simply can’t wait until Monday. Ask yourself [...]

There are certain things you might have heard that are putting you off buying a franchise. There may also be some exaggerated facts that try to seduce you into buying a franchise without thinking. Whatever you may have heard, we [...]

As the year begins, businesses all over the world have renewed (or established) the goals that they are aiming to achieve. Whether you want to increase yearly profits by 20%, open a new location, hire an additional person, or even [...]

Over the last 11 years I have worked with and experienced the highs and lows of several franchise relationships and have come realize that all franchise partners experience the same journey—some more so than others—but they all go through the [...]

If you’re like most entrepreneurs you simply live out the till.  When the till has more money in it you live a little better and when the till has nothing … well you get the picture. As a business owner [...]

Many entrepreneurs start their own businesses and focus on all the “logical” issues required to be successful in business, such as a Business Plan, a good product or service, getting the right pricing strategy, attracting the right target market, setting [...]

Getting a new business off the ground can be daunting. The first step to creating your new business is to set up an efficient business plan. Such a document not only allows outsiders to get a better idea of your [...]

The motor industry, like many other industries is being confronted by many changes and many of these changes will in fact cause complete disruption in the car market. These changes are being driven by changing consumer expectations as well as [...]