The common complaint of business owners and Entrepreneurs seems to be TIME. Time flies by so fast, our lives a fuller than ever before and just when we think the work is done, another 100 emails IMs, tweets and posts call out for our attention, not to mention actual meetings, proposals and running a business.

Time Management for Entrepreneurs can never rely on traditional programmes and courses taught in corporate. It is just ridicules to expect any Entrepreneur to comply to a set of rules. Rather build a framework of guidelines that facilitate the management of time around yourself and find the best way to mold your time around you.

If you are a 3 am person, like me, or a late riser and midnight oil burner, then why should you ever want to be squeezed into a 9 – 5 box.

There are a number of easy to adopt tools and rules that we offer in our Time Management for Entrepreneurs course, will not only make you more productive, but less stressed and more happy.

This link will give you a free access to do the course. Please feel free to share this with your friends and colleagues. This link will be active for a limited time so get in while you can. Offer expires on 28^th Feb. Go for it, Enjoy.

Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) is an economic policy which has been established by the South African government to grow the economy by accelerating the participation of black South Africans into the economy. The proper implementation of BBBEE is expected to result in job creation, skilled labour, sustainable businesses, empowered communities and increased black participation in ownership and management.

The key drivers behind BBBEE are government’s procurement policy and the preferential procurement element. Given that the BBBEE status equals 10 – 20% of the total score for government tenders, an inferior BBBEE status may be the reason for losing a tender.  Similarly, private owned businesses are placing emphasis on purchasing from suppliers with superior BBBEE ratings.

Significantly, a business with a superior level of BBBEE compliance has a competitive advantage over competitors with inferior levels of compliance.
Broad-Based Solutions (Pty) Ltd has been formed to educate and assist businesses to empower their employees, value chain and communities through meaningful and sustainable initiatives. We believe in true empowerment and our approach to consulting is based on this principle. For this reason, we are able to assist our clients to obtain a superior BBBEE rating and gain a competitive advantage over competitors, whilst achieving true empowerment.

The founder, Rafiek Allie, is an admitted attorney with six years BBBEE advisory experience. Through his knowledge of the BBBEE Codes and related legislation, he has successfully assisted clients of all sizes and within all sectors.

Broad-Based Solutions is located within Cape Town but we are able to render services throughout South Africa using Skype as a means of communicating with our clients outside of the Western Cape. You can contact us for advice or services on 082 9215 234 or rafiek@broadbasedsolutions.co.za

Developing a business plan for your business has become a critical part of any business success criteria. Without a plan your business will stumble along, and may very well survive but getting to a prescribed destination by a required time will always require a plan.

So what do we mean by a business plan? I was for many years very anti business plans. They seemed to take a bunch of time to write up and never seemed to serve any purpose. This was mainly due to the fact that the plans I encountered were crap and not worth the paper they were printed on.

So we embarked on a journey to discover the ‘perfect business plan’. Lots of input from banks and organisations and experts later, we now have a business plan template that is kick ass and has proved itself time and time again. Many competitions have been won and money raised using this plan template. We use it to teach, coach and mentor emerging businesses to greatness and sustainability.

How do you get hold of this template you ask? Well it could just be a few clicks away, if you are willing to take the step to change the future of your business.

Go here for more information and to check out links to the eBooks and videos that will help you gain insight into our way of planning for your business.

Have you ever considered what makes you do what you do and whats you not do the things you do not do. We explore these questions over a number of videos that will be posted here over the next few weeks. Here is the introduction:

Reading newspapers or scanning the whole web for the right filtered information has become a hassle and a waste of time. So we have made it a little easier for you. Each week we will post a new edition of Entrepreneur Weekly here for you to link to and read. It will contain all the relevant posts, articles, blogs, videos and tweets that are related to Entrepreneurship.
so never miss out on an opportunity again, just go to this link, subscribe and you will be emailed a newspaper each Wednesday morning. Cool hey, isn’t technology great. We love it.