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Success Snap Shot of 2018

As we begin the journey into another year, we are prepping our team and tools to be ready and ahead of the game plan to bring you the necessary coaching and leadership you would expect from your business strategic coaching partner.

So what does 2018 look like? Your guess is as good as anyone else’s, but there are a few indicators that we are looking at to help understand the trends for the next 12 months. We will be keeping a close eye on these to watch for new developments in each area.

We will unpack some of these during this next week, but here is a short summary of some of them:

Health – We will see a huge leap forward on gene editing and anti-ageing moving into human trials. Also, polio and Diabetes type 1 will see new vaccines.

Space – If all goes well, we will see three countries get to the moon, asteroid exploration and two deep space missions launched to Mars and Mercury

Electric Cars – We will see the commercial rollout of new brands and mass production of electric cars

Fintech – Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will keep us entertained but watch out for AI as it drives investment management: good or bad, we will have to see

Environment – Icebergs, water, climate change and the debate will continue. The deep drilling through the earth’s crust will start once a safe location is chosen from three proposed sites

More on these in later posts.

We have also developed a new formula for success for 2018. This based on research and the above trends and developments. This formula we will be using to unpack our tools over the next quarter for both ourselves and our clients.

So here it is 2018 success = RI2

Welcome to the new year. We trust that it will be a success as we work together.

By |2018-01-02T09:32:24+02:00January 2nd, 2018|Entrepreneurship, Innovation|0 Comments

Business Growth Strategy Part 1

October is here and with only 3 months until 2018 we are embarking on a final 2017 strategy sprint to help us all get to those items on the list that we planned to get done in January.

This month we are going to take a trip through some of the Business Growth Strategies that we use to coach our clients. So please join us over the next four weeks as we go under the covers a bit and unpack the secrets of business growth.

The first item we need to define and unpack is STRATEGY. Strategy is a word we throw around a lot in our business: we use it in marketing, coaching and a lot when doing talks. But what is strategy? What does it imply or contain? Let’s unpack for a bit.

Strategy is a means to an end: it defines the process of getting from here to there. But it assumes that you know where here and there are and that there is where you want to be. Got it?

So first we must assess where we are, in all aspects of our business. Then we must discover and understand where it is that we must or want to be. This second destination is determined based on available resources, market-driven indicators and a desire to change.

Now, with an understanding of here and there: we can employ our strategy to reverse engineer the process and then drive it forward from today into the future. But just having an ideal of a future destination is not enough: this needs to be developed with a plan. The plan has actions, accountability levels with resources, a critical path and defined outcomes. This is a strategy.

Join us this week on our Weekly Wednesday Webinar as we unpack the elements of a growth strategy and create a framework for the next 90 days in your business.

By |2017-10-02T12:02:19+02:00October 2nd, 2017|90 Day Sprint, Strategy|0 Comments

Social Media and beyond for effective Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are often great at the technical things and getting the detail done well. But when it comes to developing that all important online social media brand footprints for both themselves and the developed products…. well let’s just say it needs some work.

We understand Entrepreneur and the issues we face. We also understand Social Media and marketing and how important it is to build a business. So over the next 5 weeks, we will unpack some of the mysteries of the social media platforms and share some secrets that will help automate, improve and deliver awesome content that matters and help you get the right things done right.

The weeks will be split into lessons pertaining to the different platforms. So save the following dates and follow the links to book your spots on the social media webinars and workshops and get yourself added to the mailing list to get the regular blogs on this subject.

30 Aug – Social media introduction – BOOK HERE

6 Sept – LinkedIn – BOOK HERE

13 Sept – Blogging – BOOK HERE

20 Sept – FaceBook – BOOK HERE

27 Sept – YouTube – BOOK HERE

By the end of September, you could have all this social media stuff for you and your business sorted, mostly automated and geared up to start building your business.

By |2017-08-25T11:15:25+02:00August 25th, 2017|Marketing, Social Media|0 Comments

Narrative Business Strategies – telling your story

Over the last 2 months, we have dissected and digested the methodology of storytelling in a business. Through this process, we have created a deck of story cards that are used in our workshops and can be used together with our workbooks and business strategy worksheets to develop a fully functional and sustainable business plan.

We also unpacked the joy of telling marketing stories and making what is traditionally boring stories come to life and invoke emotion and intrigue leading to better referrals and a wider online footprint for your business.

Please review the last of these webinars (just 28 minutes) in the video below and follow the links to the other webinars on our community page in the series if you missed them:

Narrative business strategy workshops are run at our venue in Woodstock, Cape Town or online via Skype or Expertise. We deal with helping business owners develop a narrative approach to their business development and planning as well as create well defined functional sales funnel and marketing strategy. Through this process, we work through our business development roadmap and identify gaps, assumptions and develop a risk mitigation strategy as we go.

If you are interested in starting or growing a business then please give us a call or complete the form HERE and we will be in contact with you.

By |2017-08-24T12:33:55+02:00August 24th, 2017|Bruce on Business, Business Resources, Innovation, Marketing|0 Comments

Entrepreneurship may not be sexy, but girls dig it

We have been dealing with new-starts, slow-starts, and non-starts in business for a number of years now and one thing we have seen amongst all our clients is that women love business more than men.

Now I am not sure why and have no scientific proof of my assumptions, but let me share what I have observed: Men mostly start a business out of necessity for money. This puts them in a stress mode from day zero. It often becomes the main thing and the main thing is the main focus. When coaching men we talk more about money, profits and cash flow than any other topic. Men do not enjoy marketing, logo design and the soft things of business. This often leads to lower sales and more stress over cash flow.

Women are generally looking to expand their horizons, add value to the world or just play when it comes to business. This makes it more fun focused from the start. Sessions with women are more focused on planning, campaign building and looking at ways to be more client-centric and add social impact measurements.

Men think like well men: one thing at a time. We focus, do, complete then move on to the next item on the list. Women are able to think multidimensionally with a number of ideas, thoughts, and outcomes simultaneously. This makes women better at problem-solving and creative thinking resulting in a better-balanced outcome.

Women are just better at being Entrepreneurs, but we still seem to have this gender identity issue of the men having to be the innovators in the world and the ones who come up with the solutions to problems to save the day. This is not true and should not be the case. I look forward to the day when we can celebrate not just women’s month but all things women and welcome a mixed approach to innovation and problem-solving in all sectors that involve women and men equally. Dig it?

Note: I have made some gender assumptions in this article, so if you feel hard done by from what I have written, then you are the exceptions to my general observations after over 13 years of business coaching, so my apologies and congratulations for being unique.

By |2017-08-18T09:18:13+02:00August 18th, 2017|Entrepreneurship|0 Comments

Additions to our Team

On behalf of Entrepreneur and Management Solutions, we would like to welcome our latest staff members Elisha Kasambakuwa and Amanda Dube.

Elisha, 33  is married, with one beautiful daughter. He has 13 years of accounting and bookkeeping experience and enjoys soccer, rugby and motor racing. He has joined us from Sport and Traffic Technologies, where he was doing monthly Management Accounting.

Amanda Dube is 25 years of age. She will be joining the Marketing and Administration Department as an Intern. In her free time, Amanda enjoys hiking and moonlight strolls on the beach. Her friends would describe her as easy going and passionate about growing businesses. She will be joining us from the New Start Living Health Shop, where she was the Shop Manager.

This opens a new chapter in our business as we expand our offering and service levels to our clients. We are all very excited about the future and welcome any business, no matter what the level of development to stop by and see how we can assist you in achieving your goals.

By |2017-08-16T16:35:59+02:00August 16th, 2017|General|0 Comments

What is your Story?

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We all seem to have a story to tell. It may not be the next best seller or award winning movie, but each day when our feet hit the floor we start another chapter of our life story. What does yours say?

Tragedy? Comedy of errors? Adventure Quest? Raiders of the Lost Ark? If you had time to share your story, the story of your business, how would it begin? Who would be the main characters? Who would die? Would there be a car chase with a climatic end as you close the big deal and emerge as the hero?

Business Narrative strategies is something we have been working on for a few months now and we now offer businesses the service of developing your own story board that translates into a full business plan, internal processes and a marketing strategy. And it is fun.

Knowing who your Hero is, what the Princess is and identify the Villains is our start: we then add the supporting characters and develop your story plot and structure. All stories have imagination; in business, we call these assumptions. We assess these assumptions with a risk mitigation process and develop a management tool to keep them in check. Then as the story unfolds and is told in different ways, the marketing campaigns come to light and identify new heroes and different plots. These we translate into blogs, videos, posts and memes to tell the story to customers and future prospects.

If you are struggling to get your business focused, realigned for the new economy or maybe just starting out: then join us each month on our Business Narrative Strategy workshop where we will help unpack your story and develop sustainable strategies for your business.

By |2017-08-02T09:07:34+02:00August 2nd, 2017|Business Resources|0 Comments

#TeenBoss 2017 a Huge Success

Wow!  What an experience!  #TeenBoss 2017 was absolutely HIT from start to finish!

The group of young learners was geared to take away as much as they could about entrepreneurship from the event from Day 1, and they certainly all brought their ‘A-Game’!  Their business ideas ranged from innovative modes of transport for schools to novel tuition techniques to make studying easy and enjoyable for matriculants, to new and fresh ideas for child care services, plus much more.

The judges did not have an easy time adjudicating; all the entries were well thought-through and presented, but at the end of the three-day boot camp, the winning team, whose business idea was centred on the creation of leadership and development camps to tackle boredom during the school holidays, was Goodwood College.71d1e7af-9b2a-4f95-a665-888bb0e04298

We wish to extend our congratulations to Goodwood College (aka Teen Transformers), as well as all the other participating teams, i.e. Oude Molen Academy of Science & Technology (aka Learners with Attitude), EE Van Projects (aka J.A.C.K – which happens to be the first letters of the group members’ names), two teams from Atlantis Schools (aka #Boss Tomorrow and #Red Devils), two teams from Bonga Cycling Academy (aka The Stars of Tomorrow and Le Pelleton), and Isilimela Comprehensive High School (aka Young Minds).  To us, you are all winners!

An ‘extra’ big thank you also to our sponsors and partners – Praesidium Capital Management/IBuild, Shoprite, the Sage Foundation, The River Club, Over the Rainbow, Entrepreneur & Management Solutions, and The Agency – without whom #TeenBoss 2017 would not have been possible.

The Deputy Minister of Tourism, Ms Elizabeth Thabethe, paid us a surprise visit on Day 1 to encourage our young participants on their entrepreneurial journeys.  Thank you, Deputy Minister Thabethe, for spending the morning with us!

Our social media channels were abuzz with activity, thanks to The Agency and all our partners who participated in promoting the event on digital media.  We’d say in excess of 200 000 impressions for the 3-day period is not too shabby!

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By |2017-08-01T13:17:20+02:00August 1st, 2017|Entrepreneurship|0 Comments

Bruce scoops Expertise prize

Bruce Wade was officially announced as the winner of the Expertise.tv global challenge last week after a gruelling competition that saw over 50 Coaches and Entrepreneurs battle it out over the 5 stages of competition.

This event attracted new users to the Expertise.tv platform from countries across the globe. Each day after a brief education video, participants were set challenges and tasks to gain confidence on the platform and to build their respective accounts in line with best practices and learnt lessons. The leader board was first posted on Wednesday showing to score for each participant and as the tasks were delivered and deadlines reached the top spots were diminishing until just 10 were left sharing the 1st place.

The final goal was set and with just 3 days to achieve high results, Bruce was able to secure his position as the overall leader and claim the prize.

For his efforts, Bruce and his business Entrepreneur and Management Solutions will be awarded a fully funded FaceBook campaign sponsored and run by Expertise.tv as well as additional features to add to his account.

Entrepreneur and Management Solutions already run a weekly webinar on Wednesday’s dealing with innovative business and marketing strategy. Join this group of Learning Legends by registering here and receive regular updates and invites to webinars and programmes to enhance both yourself and your business.

By |2017-05-22T14:48:21+02:00May 22nd, 2017|Bruce on Business, Entrepreneurship, Social Media|1 Comment

Marketing Strategies Give a business the Unfair Advantage

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For any business operating in today’s world of cut budgets, time constraints and failing economies, it becomes harder and harder to penetrate new markets. But with a clear marketing strategy that includes relationship building techniques and tools together with a focus on experiential and convenience as primary factors, these businesses are continuing to see growth in double digits.

So what are you doing? Do you have a clear vision and mission for your business? Do you have monthly marketing strategies and goals? Does your business plan to stay ahead or become a victim of the current economy.

Join us on Wednesday 17th May at noon to learn what makes up a strategic marketing plan and what your business needs to do to keep up with other growing organisations. Register below and make a difference to your future.

REGISTER HERE

https://expertise.tv/webinar/developing-a-marketing-strategy/landing/5330

By |2017-05-16T13:58:21+02:00May 16th, 2017|Business Resources, Entrepreneurship|0 Comments
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