Ten tips for increasing diversity in your workplace

When businesses start up, they are often small, tightly-knit groups of pioneers that come from the same background, even from the same family. This works very well in the early survival stages of a venture, but as soon as the business reaches a more stable post-survival growth phase, the founders have the opportunity to look […]

Fostering creativity through entrepreneurship

A successful entrepreneurial journey begins with a gap in the market, some creativity and passion, and ensuring that you are equipped with the right team and resources. This is according to Nicolette Tilley, owner of Wild and Free (Pty) LTD, and entrant in the 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year® competition sponsored by Sanlam and BUSINESS/PARTNERS, […]

Finding the start-up sweet spot

Entrepreneurial lessons from generations of entrepreneurs Picturing a typical entrepreneur – the chances are you visualize a young, mission-driven techie with a mind-blowing idea that will make him or her the African version of Mark Zuckerberg.  While the fast, digitized millennial entrepreneur’s approach to business is highly beneficial for future success; there’s a lot to […]

Ten tips for managing the lifeblood of your business

By Byron Jeacocks Regional General Manager, BUSINESS/PARTNERS Nothing is as important to the financial health of a growing small business as the constant, predictable flow of cash, because if the cash dries up, the business will die. Cash is to a business what oxygen is to a body – it simply cannot survive without it, […]

New Year, new flow

Cash flow management key to steering a clear course of business in 2018 A typical new year’s cliché is the commitment to resolutions – whether they be to start new healthy habits or break bad ones – something that is usually accompanied by the setting of new priorities for the year ahead. As much as […]

Ten financial tips for business owners in hard times

By Veroshen Naidoo Area manager at BUSINESS/PARTNERS Financial management naturally tends to slip down the list of priorities for business owners when the economy is booming, finance is cheap and clients are plentiful. But when the tide turns, your ability to control your finances, especially your cash flow, becomes probably the most important survival tool […]

Local entrepreneurs’ ability to save is a catch-22

Navigating saving methods for your business and personal finances By Christo Botes Executive Director, Business Partners Limited South Africans have always been scrutinised for their ability to save, and with July marking National Savings Month – an initiative by the South African Savings Institute (SASI) which encourages all South Africans to embrace the idea and […]

Ten ways to hook investors onto your big idea

A great many excellent business ideas never get past the spreadsheet stage and into the real world simply because entrepreneurs fail to connect to the people with enough money and risk appetite to help them implement them. Finding the right investors and pitching your idea effectively is a business skill that can be worked on, […]

Ten financial tips for business owners in hard times

Financial management naturally tends to slip down the list of priorities for business owners when the economy is booming, finance is cheap and clients are plentiful. But when the tide turns, your ability to control your finances, especially your cash flow, becomes probably the most important survival tool available to the entrepreneur. Veroshen Naidoo, area […]

Ten ways to hook investors onto your big idea

A great many excellent business ideas never get past the spreadsheet stage and into the real world simply because entrepreneurs fail to connect to the people with enough money and risk appetite to help them implement them. Finding the right investors and pitching your idea effectively is a business skill that can be worked on, […]