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Strategy on formulating an approach to the price quoting stage
The quoting process needs to be afforded a psychological strategy and continuous training. It should not be as easy as hiring someone, giving them cubicle, phone, email address and a chair. Its one thing when people see your company’s awesome and attractive advertisement, and when they do call in to enquire. Sit down with the…
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Using your passion to kill procrastination
Hard work is procrastinated but fun work is done now. Finding the passion I take it you are determined in whatever field you are in and also aspire to achieve a certain career goal. And we are all passionate about something. But we can agree that procrastination hits us when we try to action our…
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Lies told to kids about education
I recently posted a tweet saying “education does not create jobs”. Yho; the lambasting I got was of a bull’s rage”. I wonder what wrong I uttered. I say it again “education does not create jobs; or rather our education”. Having a formal education and being an entrepreneur are separate cases. Yes a doctor can…
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South Africa today greatly challenged outside Apartheid
Thanks to our struggle heroes, today we can utter ‘us’ in reference to black, white, coloured, Indian and the other races that make South Africa. Apartheid has done disfavour to the progress of South Africans, more especially to blacks. Undeniably, apartheid was about economics, favouring one race and brutalising others. Post 1994, we have worked…
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Cry beloved black business, wake up, and move forward into progress
A quick browse in the townships, you will notice a lot of small businesses i.e. spaza-shops, driving schools, internet/printing cafes, pharmacies. Their state of branding
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8 tips on building sharp musicians for the world to consume
1. Absolute product. Make your music. The music has to be a consumable product. A product has to represent value; hence you want someone (consumer) to exchange their money for it. I remember in my DJing days; the vinyl days. Buying a record wasn’t an easy task; at least for me. They cost between R80…
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Mandela did not sell out; De Klerk and company were pulling
I’m sure most of you saw an article on Mandela’s birthday; titled “Mandela sold blacks out” via News24. I could feel the pain the fella was spilling into the post. Either you sympathized with it; were disgusted by it or felt neutral. Nonetheless it pointed out real points that have a fundamental bearing on the…
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Surprise surprise – the cure to unemployment
Whenever we talk of unemployment, we tend to miss what primarily runs economies and employs people: commercial products by those people called entrepreneurs. These products then employ human skills. So therefore, for more unemployed human capital to be utilized in the economy, we need more and new entrepreneurs to introduce their product ideas. Economic products…
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What maybe government officials don’t know
What makes a country go round and bigger or smaller. The government is those folks that get to spend what citizen pay as tax: call it VAT, payee, company tax etc. They spend what we voluntarily or rather involuntarily pay. Sometimes they take it from your employers; sometimes when you buy something at the shops.…
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Kanye “made in America” is some gospel; no swearing dude
I finally decide to listen to Watch The Throne; Jay Z and Kanye West’s collaboration album. I come across this song “made in America” which features Frank Ocean on the hook. OH LORD this is an amazing record. The chorus terribly hooks me; it goes like “Sweet King Martin, sweet Queen Coretta, Sweet Brother, Malcolm,…
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Great brand components
It all starts with an idea to create a product; then making the product. The second stage is selling that product (sales and marketing). This is where most businesses have it hard. It is a very important and crucial stage; a stage at which you have an opportunity to connect your product with society. Here…
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The attitude that let apartheid persist still prevails
17 years into the so called democracy; a lot has been done but more is still not done. Poverty and unemployment are scourges that still thug our society. Of recent was the successful economic freedom march which travelled from Johannesburg CBD, to Sandton then finally Pretoria. A distance of approximately 60km travelled over 24 hours…