Rural Business

  Under the umbrella of Venogroup we are driven by innovation and value addition.It dawned on me when I had a certain business dealing that most of the time we do not get much value for our money.  There are two things I would like to look at. First is the cash value, this is the actual paper money we have. Secondly is the use value, this is the value you get for using  a certain product/service. In a transaction there is usually these two, we pay for a service or a product.  But how often do you get value from using a certain product/service, and as entrepreneurs what value are we giving?As entrepreneurs we need to focus on the Use value.   How is your product/service adding value to your customers? I would like to take a kota for example, in a time where we  are health conscious and obesity is a disease that lurkes amongst us. What value in the contents of the  kota does one get? Is our health considered? Or rather what other options are there f...

  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 ...

  It has been a while not engaging with you on this platform however I trust that you are still pushing and adding value in every transaction.  I have recently come across some obstacles and what I have deduced is that my thinking is flawed. Think and grow rich states that our   thoughts or impulses can be transmuted into their physical counterpart. We are what we let dominate our mind. I learned that we are not having  right thoughts, we think something else but habitually we do another. Our actions and thoughts must be in line, this will help assist in building great and big businesses. I have also learned the art of waking up at 5Am, meditating and contemplating how I am going to run my business.   As entrepreneurs there is so much internal work that we have to do prior focusing on our craft. We need to live our craft, when people use our products they should feel and find our energy, that is the kind of focus we need, it shouldn’t be about profits or hig...

    I was reading this book about being world class and how we can use our genuis to our outmost benefit and I came across a statement that said “A man said he wanted to first lose weight before he could start running”. I found this so hilarious and it made me think about how many of us have business ideas but we wont start until we get funding, just think about it, it is the same thing. It is always best to just start with whatever you have, work on your craft and strive.  Lets not let funding get the best of us, lets innovate and add value.

  Resilience is the back bone of business. If you lack this bone you won’t be able to stand. It is being able to recover quickly after a difficulty. As a start-up or rather any business there is usually an abundance of difficulties, you lack this, need that, can’t have that or whatever. But with all these adversities resilience should be your number one strength. I was reflecting on how now one can do anything just with the use of an App, this is really amazing if you think about it. Now this also indicates how quickly the market and the economy fluctuate and just how fast you have to change and adapt, imagine now if you were taking forever to recover? How can you then survive in this fast paced economy? Just after a long time of being silent I am reporting back that the fight is still far from being over, we innovate, we add value, we move.

 Women! A specie that was made with a bone, this specie of the human race is able to conquer and uphold nations. In the past centuries women were subjected to household chores but that has drastically changed, we have women doctors, lawyers, engineers, you name them. In business we also have female CEOs, CFOs, founders and entrepreneurs. Women are doing great things in the corporate.  Big Ups to women.! Innovate and add Value

                Women in small business and  entrepreneurship In the past four decades we have seen women rise from all sorts of exclusion, we have and still are seeing more women engage or rather take leadership positions. They are taking up careers that were dominated by men. There has also been an increase in the number of ownership in small business by women; this is a result of the increase inclusion of women in the education and training, policies like the BEE and other women empowerment programs. At Veno group we are happy to be celebrating women’s month with you.   We will therefore be sharing some insights on how we women rock business. I however have to state how disappointed I am in the number of young women who own their businesses where I reside. I wanted to feature them on the blog but I tried engaging some and the response was negative. I still urge more women to start their own businesses. Innovate and add val...