4 Ways to manage the low season
With winter just around the corner, many businesses will be going into the low season. This means fewer customers, therefore, less revenue. The trick to not just surviving this period, but making it work to your advantage, is to have a plan for managing your cash flow...
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365 Days of Covid-19: The year that’s been
27 March 2021 marked one year since the introduction of the five-tiered Alert Level system and South Africa’s move to Alert Level 5. Like many people, we're reflecting on the year that's been. One year later and many businesses are still feeling the effects of...
Practical cost-saving tips for your business
Reducing the cost of supplies, inventory, or business operations is common practice amongst many small business owners. Not preserving enough cash could land your business in deep waters, leaving you with a desperate call for a lifeline. Curbing your expenditure is a...
The SME Guide to Cash Flow Management
The latest guide in our Business High Five series, The SME Guide to Cash Flow Management offers practical guidance on building and maintaining a healthy cash flow. Download our complete guide to Cash Flow Management here. Some of the important questions...
The rise of eCommerce
There has been a permanent change in the way that people shop and, in turn, the way that businesses need to operate. In the absence of brick-and-mortar stores being open during the lockdown, as well as a general fear of crowded malls when things were able to re-open,...
The SME Guide to Business Funding
Many business owners believe the most crucial factor in success is sales. While it is obviously true that without sufficient sales a business will fail, maintaining liquidity, or having access to sufficient cash is equally important. Even the most successful...
Lessons learnt in the pandemic are key to SMEs’ survival
South African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the engine-room of our economy and the country cannot afford for this to collapse because millions of livelihoods depend on them. For many small business owners, medium- and long-term planning is not a part...
Customer Testimonial: Risk X Data Assurance
With every business funding application we receive, our Funding Specialists (supported by our AI-driven technology) work tirelessly to thoroughly vet, approve and then disburse the required funds in the quickest time possible. We do this so that businesses can take up...
What is Employee Experience?
For several years ‘customer experience’ has been the driving force behind many business strategies that bring about product development, marketing, and all-around business culture. However, recently, there has been a shift in focus to what many are calling ‘the age of...
How to increase your business resilience
There’s a very good chance that you’ve been talking about resilience in and around your business and there is a good reason why. In a 2016 survey, Control Risks explained business resilience as “an organization being able to identify, analyze, and implement planning...
5 Growth areas for your business in 2021
We all understand that growth is essential for any business. With that said, we also know that growth isn’t easy and many organizations struggle to find growth areas that work for them. If you’re currently struggling to grow your business or are looking for new...
