Category: Business Talk
Strategy 101: When to open new branches of your business
Opening a new business branch is about understanding your level of business demand, the capital available, the systems processes and culture , and the level of planning that is put in place. Without the right planning a new business branch can easily fail.
If it’s raining, sell an umbrella
Today was raining buckets of rain and everyone was running up and down for cover. Some were cursing the rain because their latest hair do [more…]
5 Principles of Accounting which cost Nigeria and Zimbabwe billions of dollars
There are principles of accounting which when neglected can cost you billions. 10 cents is made up of the same substance as 1 billion dollars. [more…]
Borrowing Dangote’s Billionaire mind for a day, the 5 things you would think differently
Dangote is valued at 16 billion dollars give or take a few estimates by Forbes making him the richest man in Africa. Like any Billionaire [more…]
Why company culture eats company strategy for breakfast
No matter how good your strategy is, it makes no sense until the culture changes in such a way that it supports the strategy in [more…]
5 Things we Learn from Strive Masiyiwa about success
Strive Masiyiwa is a multimillionaire business man who has emerged into a powerful telecommunications player in Africa over the past ten years. His sustained success [more…]
7 Things you need to do to build a business empire
Not every business will become a MacDonalds, BP, Microsoft, Dell, KFC or the number of international giants that exist. It takes a number of things [more…]
Watching for the Capital Trap in Business
When a business receives an investor’s funds it normally falls into what we are calling the capital trap. This a trap in which business fails [more…]
Success Tips for starting a business website
Starting a business can be an exciting or daunting task which can get complicated when it is time to decide the best website to do [more…]
How to start a business with 50 dollars today
Are you waiting to receive 10,000 dollars as capital for your business or more before you start a business? That may never happen and you [more…]