Rural Business

  One thing I have been experiencing in my business is failure . This has been very difficult and as we know that most start ups fail in the first 5 years. However with all these adversities I am still consistent is everything I am doing. This year so far has been a complete failure.  I am learning that a business is like a baby. you carry it for months, feed it, dress it, teach it  to crawl and walk . Then you have to take baby steps with it.  It is not over until the fat lady sings. Innovate and add Value

  I hope you have evaluated yourself on why you are doing the things you are doing. I assume that you have decided that you are doing what you are doing in order to build a sustainable business.  We all know what a business is, one offers a product or a service at a price. This is however not the side I am looking at this week. I want to look at the structures behind the transactions. Out of the 5 business structures we have in South Africa I am specifically looking at a company ( Pty Ltd).  This has ownership and management. Owners are the founders, and directors  and it is required that there should be a board where decisions and other matters are discussed. Then we have management(CEO,Managers) these are the people that manage the daily operations of the company.  We have to understand that you can own and not manage a company.  So when you start a business you need to decide on what you intent to do in the company. You can be owner or the manager. Howev...

  Business or Money In the past month we were talking prayer and how we need it to centre ourselves and find direction for our businesses. For venogeoup there is alot that has changed, there is new clientele, new feel and a clear spirit of what one is supposed to do. I hope that we continue praying and meditating. This week I would like to talk about Why we are selling what we are selling. I am touched by this topic because I have a situation in my business where my profit  has decreased, this is due to external factors like increases in prices and others.  During a particular consultation I brought up the issue and I had an idea to discontinue the course of selling the product. But I was smacked by this question " Are you doing it for money or for building a business?" At that moment I really couldn't answer the question. So I did some thinking.  We all know that businesses fail in the first 5 Years and this is because in this time we are not making any profit, what...

 This month we were looking at Prayer and how it can help us navigate business. So as I have been praying, I have been experiencing a change of direction and more power to run the business.  I have also noticed how some people have two hours of prayer on Friday.  If you have been to Marabastad  on a Friday after 12:00 you might have noticed that 90% of the shops are closed. Now this shows how one should never compromise on prayer and after the prayer you just feel a change of spirit and atmosphere.  As we wrap up the month and also in Easter season  I hope we can make prayer a habit. Pray, Innovate and Add Value.

  Prayer is a way to quiet oneself and communicate with the infinite intelligence. With prayer we move from the physical realm to a dimension no mind can fathom. We connect with the greater source of life.You ask how is this relevant to business. It is very much relevant in a sense that what our spirit communicates with the source is  so profound and has an impact on our daily lives. What I am saying basically is that  we ought to pray about and for our businesses. We have to draw strength, wisdom and power to run our everyday operations from the source. You might be having problems with credit, suppliers, employees or criminals. The source will give intelligence on how to go about dealing with such. Prayer is vital and should be something we do prior opening our doors for business everyday. Take note that this has nothing to do with religion. It's about quieting our mere flesh and drawing from that which made everything we can feast our eyes upon. It's more like meditati...

 Appealing to the target market. In the past week I have took it upon myself to understand my target market. I reached out to them and talked to them about how they would want to buy my products and to my surprise I got  answers I was not even thinking about. Then I realised that we entrepreneurs have a fancy way of saying who our targets are and how we will reach them but these ways are not really appealing to our targets. We have these strategies we want to implement but not appealing to the market. So I thought that I had it all figured out as to how I will market my business only to find that it doesn't work. So I had to reset, rethink and restructure everything. And again I have to constantly communicate with my targets if how I am doing suites their preference.  So for this week I challenge you to REALLY look at your target and if your strategies are working. Innovate and add value.

Sundays Have you noticed how Sundays are chilled and how everybody wants to relax. People want fun, food and entertainment. In my business I have noticed that I make more cash flow than other days. I think entrepreneurs should explore this opportunity. Have specials on Sundays, have discounts, have entertainment, have something that will bring and make people happy.  On Sundays innovate and add value.

So here is something I noticed, people want to be millionaires, others want their businesses to grow and expand, they want to be making a turn over of Millions. The problem is that they are not putting million's worth of efforts. I am one who believe that you get what you put in. We want more, we want everything but we are doing less. Entrepreneurs must give their everything, they must sweat blood and not sleep. This is war and we need all the guns and weapons we can get our hands on. Even generally individuals have to put in efforts that are worth what they want. Innovate and Add Value

Welcome back to our blog. we firstly want to apologise for the inconsistency. In business there are a lot of challenges and one has to take a break and center themselves then start again. We are happy to announce that we are back full force with more. Thank you for your support. Innovate and Add value