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Find the business that's ideal for you
In today's world, it makes good business sense for aspiring entrepreneurs to choose a business idea that takes an individualistic approach and that keeps them interested. Make sure the type of business you have in mind fits your own particular background and basic set of skills and practical experience. Because once you get bored with what you are doing--even if the business is profitable--your lack of enthusiasm to sustain the business will be the death knell for whatever hopes you have of succeeding. Also, avoid the three demons that can cripple your best efforts to make it in the world of business: (1) lack of working capital. (2) Lack of experience. (3) Failure to plan properly. While it is important that new entrepreneurs be thoroughly skilled in all aspects of running a business before launching the enterprise--including management, marketing, bookkeeping, and dealing with people, to name but a few--most aspirant business owners can easily acquire a thorough working knowledge of these critical skills through formal training or self-study. The Biz Culture e-book KING OF YOUR CASTLE One Step At A Time is available on order at R300; implementing each step will bring you steadily closer to your goal.
Mastering
the New Freelance Economy
Tara Gentile was working in what she calls a "dead-end retail job"
at Borders, earning $28,000 a year as a store manager, when she decided
she'd be better off launching her own business as an entrepreneur
coach. Aside from more money, she also wanted the freedom
to spend more time at home with her daughter, who was then six months old.
Now, just over a year and a half later, Gentile, 28, works mostly from her
home office in Reading, Pa., earns about $150,000 a year, and spends much
of her time teaching other people how they can do the same.
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Path
to economic growth
South Africa needs innovative entrepreneurs to generate new business ventures,
and to create self-employment and more job opportunities for ordinary people.
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Self-employment
High & Growing
Shortage of jobs in the formal sector means that the incidence
of self-employment, particularly among secondary school-leavers and young
people, is high and growing.
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Comprehensive
Business Toolkit
A self-study business toolkit (electronic
format) titled KING OF YOUR CASTLE One Step At A Time, compiled by Theresa
Lütge-Smith, also includes 8 individual self-study courses:
- Professional Selling
- Persuasion
- Public Speaking
- Money Savvy
- Advertising & Promotion
- Public Relations & Publicity
- Guerilla ‘low-cost’ Marketing Techniques
Customize
your Business Plan
The Biz Culture Toolkit includes templates to write a business
plan that the entrepreneur must customise according to his or her business
venture, to submit with an application for financial support or simply
to serve as a blue print to grow a profitable enterprise.
Self-employment
in South Africa increasing
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South Africans are working for themselves with one in six now self-employed.
While there are currently an estimated 2.1 million businesses in South
Africa, only 600,000 are operating within the formal sector. The biggest
challenge is to bring entrepreneurs from the informal sector into the
formal sector, which will have far-reaching benefits for the national
economy. The Biz Culture Toolkit lists all major financial institutions
countrywide and a diverse range of funding programs on offer.
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Now!
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Theresa. An Invoice will be submitted to facilitate payment.