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...
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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...
The SME Guide to Conducting a Business Review
The latest guide in our Business High Five series, The SME Guide to Conducting a Business Review, takes an in-depth look at how you can assess & improve the operation of your business at any given time. Download our complete guide to Conducting a Business...
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 Basics of Reviewing your Business Model
Your business model is your business’s plan to make a profit. It’s an outline of how your business plans to make money which allows you to identify your target market and their needs, the expenses you should anticipate as well as the products and services your...
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...
Tips to boost your eCommerce sales on Cyber Monday
If your business is gearing up for Cyber Monday then you already know that your deals should be too good to resist. Whether you have a physical store or sell your products exclusively online, setting up for a Cyber Monday special is a crucial part of driving sales...
Get ahead of your Black Friday Marketing
Anyone who is in the retail business or has previously owned a retail store of any kind will tell you that Black Friday - and the festive season as a whole - is the best time to grow your sales. And the numbers certainly don’t lie. A Geopoll survey showed that over...
How to write the perfect business plan
Guest blog by Govchain Simply put, a business plan is a document that explains what your business is all about. It sets out what the business is planning to do, how it’s going to do it, and over what sort of timeline it’s planning to do it over. A good business plan...
It’s time for a business funding repayment holiday
As part of our continued commitment to support small businesses across South Africa, we’re doing everything we can to help you end off the year on a high note while also setting up your business for growth in 2021. Just as major bank payment holidays are coming to an...
