5 Ways to prepare your business for festive season sales
The festive season is synonymous with an increase in shopping behaviour and the best way to leverage on all the activity is to be prepared. Even with specials and promotions from other businesses creating tough competition, you can give your business an edge...
read more
The SME Guide to Managing Business Finances over the Festive Season
The latest guide in our Business High Five series, The SME Guide to Managing Business Finances over the Festive Season, is an overview of how seasonal businesses can improve their business finance operations over the festive season. Download our complete...
The SME Guide to Understanding Your Financial Health
The latest guide in our Business High Five series, The SME Guide to Understanding your Financial Health, is an overview of how you can improve your business finance operations. Download our complete guide to Understanding Your Financial Health In...
Understanding the benefits of Bridging Finance
Bridging finance can be used by business owners for a range of purposes. Particularly when they need a quick cash flow injection. It’s a form of business finance that works as a cash advance and helps to bridge that gap in your cash flow. With bridging finance...
5 Reasons why access to business funding is important
Running a business is a long game that requires flexibility, adaptability and money. To keep it running in the right direction and meeting your growth trajectories is an ongoing commitment. Just as you’ve gathered the funds to get started or your profit is looking...
The value of debt for business growth
Regardless of the size of your company or how great your product may be, at some point, every business will need more finance than they have immediately available. When this happens, accessing additional funding will help to give your company the fuel it needs to...
As an accountant, how do you support your business customers’ working capital needs?
The owner of MS Catarino&Co, Sergio Catarino, has been a tax advisory accountant for over 18 years and recently faced this question. He was looking for a way to assist one of his clients with accessing working capital when he came across Lulalend’s...
4 Ways to Optimize your Digital Marketing
If you want to make the most of your digital marketing efforts, you have to make all your tools and platforms work for you. This is why it's important to understand how to optimize your digital platforms. Here are our 4 ways you can optimize your digital platform to...
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...
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...
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...
