Rural Business

I have been seeing posts about how to start a business. The first step is to register  the Company, get a tax number, register on the government database and have a website and other do things .   Every time I see such posts being shared I burst into laughter. You can have all these things but not a viable product/service or there being a zero market for it. People you can't thumb suck business  without patience, sacrifice and suffering. You need to be plugged into some energy and not give up. Starting a business is hard work, it's not some registration on  paper, website or any of those mentioned.   My advice is before doing the admin, take the business into the streets, do it practically, check if people are vibing with your offering.  You can alsodalso something related to what you want to do.   For example if you want to be in property get a shack somewhere and rent it out, see how this works, use the rent money to get another then another. Th...

I have realised that time is such an important factor in business. The availability of your product/service is very critical. Customers want to always get what they want whenever they want.  How do you then meet such demand? Well you open an hour before your competitors and close an hour after they closed. There are also other ways one can  explore to always avail their offerings. We also have to mind lead time, imagine someone waiting an hour for a kota? This is just crazy. But what about value? Should value be compromised because of time.? Of course no! Quality and value addition is what drives a business.  We have to teach our employees to always add value at a fast pace. But then again how do we do that? We just have to do and find ways that suite our businesses. Rather have more employees than have customers wait for long. Value is more important in this era. More value results to more clientele. Time is all we have, time is money.Literally!. Innovate and add value.

As a start up of anything. We  lack funds and there is no one who is willing to just fund you, no matter how much you need.  Now one has to marry the idea of having to do what one must do in order to do what one wants to do. Now this is not easy, this could be taking a part time Job, selling in the streets, any other  side hustle you can do, do it.   Always keep your eyes on the goal even if sometimes  it means derailing for some time just to make some cash. Innovate and add value.

Here is something I found Interesting and innovative. No more hassle of going up and down for days trying to register your business. The First National Bank( FNB) has partnered with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)for your convenience. You can now register your company and open a business account with FNB at the same time. This is great right? Here is the link where you can register at your finger tips  https://www.fnb.co.za/cipc/#/form/startcipc Innovate and Add value.

It has been such a long time not posting in the blog.  The past few months have been hectic.  Entrepreneurship is hectic itself . Operating under the lockdown restrictions has been challenging and one had to mind one's health. It has been nothing but hustle, day in and day out. But we fight,we move and we innovate.  Now we will be operating in level 3, we are hoping for better and innovative ways of doing business. Innovate and add value

Change is something we want but fear and right now change is inevitable. Since the lockdown a lot has changed, how we work, how we eat, how we relate to people. Actually everything has changed.  This we know. I now find it very wrong to be waiting for the lockdown to end then go back to how things were, the thing is that things are definitely not going back to how they were. Personally I think we need to be on our toes  finding great things to do online because that's there only platform we can roam around and minding the law and regulations governing the lockdown. We shouldn't be just on survival mode but we need to find life and adjust to this change. Is it now that we have to embrace the present because we don't know what tomorrow holds.  We don't know if President Ramaohosa will extent the lockdown by another two weeks or months, we really don't know. Amid all difficulties let's find life and embrace it.

We are proud  to announce that we now have Podcasts available for streaming.  We saw it fit to have these Podcasts since we are in lockdown and by this time we were supposed to be having business talks.  The business talks will be delivered through podcasts and we will take it from there.  https://anchor.fm/venogroup is the official website for the podcasts. The podcasts are also available in other platforms: Spotify-  -https://open.spotify.com/show/755pLSupaUZMyVKUT7ikIT Breaker -https://www.breaker.audio/new-podcast-1  RadioPublic - https://radiopublic.com/new-podcast-Wxba77 Venogroup is looking forward to your views and engagements. Innovate and add value