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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Many entrepreneurs dream of building their businesses to the point where they need to expand their businesses into other territories or regions.  Franchising, if correctly done, provides a very effective form of leverage to expand into other regions. However, many [...]

So you want to put your business on autopilot and finally take an unplugged vacation where you can safely step away from your laptop, phone and other devices, do you? Then you need business systems and they need to be [...]

When you’re in the army, the lines of power are set in stone. Your commanding officer is your superior in all ways. Bad behaviour is punished swiftly and severely, and through an atmosphere of bureaucratic fear, recruits quickly learn to [...]

Regularly assessing your business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats is a vital component of managing your business effectively. Every enterprise is limited, to a lesser or greater degree, by its resources, so it is unlikely you will be able to [...]

It’s tough out there. There are new ventures popping up on a daily basis, fighting for a piece of the same pie as their competitors. If you’re hoping to get ahead of the pack and challenge your innovative mind, you [...]

If the first few names that spring to mind when you think ‘innovative businesswomen’ are the Oprah Winfreys, Marissa Mayers and Martha Stewarts of the world, you obviously haven’t been keeping an eye on what’s happening closer to home.From big [...]

A sense of belonging goes a long way among a team. For more and more employees, feeling like they fill a significant space within a team is a strong motivating factor, and this often reaches beyond their normal daily duties. [...]

ActionCOACH discusses the benefits upskilling your employees can have on business success, but why it needs to be strategically handled. It’s a commonly held belief that improving the skillset of your employees ultimately results in a loss for the employer, [...]

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” is an adage that most people are so familiar with, it seems to have lost its meaning. But it remains a truth that HR departments deal with on a daily [...]

Accountability does not simply mean taking the blame when something doesn’t go according to plan. At the end of the day, it’s not a blame game; it’s a function to help grow a passionate and engaged workforce. Holding someone accountable [...]

So you’ve started a business and need help moving in the right direction, but what would work best for you – a business incubator or a business coach? While incubators and coaching may seem similar on the surface, they are [...]

Many would-be entrepreneurs have not done their homework and base their business idea on what they think people should buy, rather than what people really want or actually do buy. Testing the market thoroughly could mean the difference between a [...]