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Rainy days

 

How do you navigate bad weather conditions?

 As in rural areas our shacks or our buildings are not in such great conditions. We struggle to operate when the weather is not favourable but then how do we deal with such? 

How do we still provide standard service/product?

The thing is no matter the weather we still  have to open and as much as not every client will come but some will come. And it is in such conditions that we win our client's heart.

Either way we have make it through, we have to think, we have to create, we have to  improvise, we have to will, we have to do it.

But what I also struggle with is that  on rainy days we so struggle to work but come sunny days, we forget we ever struggled to work due to bad weather, like we do nothing about it until it happens again and again. 

Also how often do you clean your place when it is raining?. Do you know how not nice it is to be served at a unclean place regardless of the weather? There is nothing that people value like a clean place, this encourages them that they are getting more value for their time and money. These are the minor things that prevent us from growing because we are focused on today and care less about yesterday and never imagine the future.

Again it breaks my heart that when weather conditions are bad we have non- South African Business owners going about their daily routine of business and there is us who want to go home drink coffee and sleep.  No matter the weather these people are up and about money.

Let's re-think our business.

Innovate and add value.

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