Making the Most of Your Talents and Opportunities “Chance favors the prepared mind.”– Louis Pasteur You are most likely to succeed in life if you use your talents to their fullest extent. Similarly, you’ll suffer fewer problems if you know what your weaknesses are and if you manage these weaknesses so that they don’t matterContinue reading “Personal SWOT Analysis”
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Why Brand Names Are So Important, According To Science
Coca-Cola. Kleenex. Netflix. Google. Brand names surround us, often to the point that they become a natural part of our everyday speech. As any successful entrepreneur can tell you, there are countless components to creating a successful brand – the most important of which, of course, is providing a good product or service. Still, however, the brandContinue reading “Why Brand Names Are So Important, According To Science”
Getting to know your own business: How an internal inventory can help reduce project costs
Missed requirements cost money, so before engaging with vendors startup companies should know their own business. Often the knowledge of how you do what you do is scattered among departments, company documents, and people. Having an inventory of your company’s inner workings in one central place before engaging with your software vendor is a vitalContinue reading “Getting to know your own business: How an internal inventory can help reduce project costs”
Differentiation Strategy: How to Gain Competitive Advantage Through Product Leadership
There are many options for differentiating a brand, depending on the company’s internal capabilities and competitive environment. In this post, I will talk about how to gain a competitive advantage through product differentiation. Differentiation Strategy: 3 Important Questions Before developing the differentiation strategy marketers should have the answer to these questions: • Is my brand theContinue reading “Differentiation Strategy: How to Gain Competitive Advantage Through Product Leadership”
Brand Positioning
Is it possible to influence how people feel about your brand? Yes, actually. With brand positioning. Wait a minute. The first question should actually be: “How do people feel about your brand right now?” Do you even know? If you do know, and you’d like to change or strengthen that feeling, you need brand positioning.Continue reading “Brand Positioning”
Stop Stopping Yourself
Do you ever find yourself wanting something to happen in your life but it’s just not coming to you? You think you are doing all of the right things, but for reasons that you can’t understand, it’s just not materializing the way you hoped it would? You are trying to manifest the hell out ofContinue reading “Stop Stopping Yourself”
What’s the Difference Between Bookkeeping and Accounting?
Bookkeeping is all about recording and organising financial data while accountants take that data to prepare reports and get them ready for SARS. This blog will outline the difference between bookkeeping and accounting in more detail so you can easily tell them apart. What the Dictionaries Say Bookkeeping The dictionary definition of bookkeeping is definedContinue reading “What’s the Difference Between Bookkeeping and Accounting?”
How to Answer ‘Why Do You Want This Job?’
What’s the best answer for this interview question? Prepping for an interview may lead you to one of the top job interview questions: “Why do you want this job?” Most employers ask this question (even if not using those exact words), and candidates spend a lot of time strategizing to have the right answer. There are severalContinue reading “How to Answer ‘Why Do You Want This Job?’”
Why did I become a mentor
Why did I become a startup mentor? I often hear the reasons people give for not becoming a mentor. “I don’t have time.” “I don’t have the right skills.” “My personality isn’t suitable.” For the most part, these are excuses, not reasons. We all have more time, skills, and insight than we think, and, withContinue reading “Why did I become a mentor”
Strategies for Building the Relationships You Need to Succeed in Business
Some people who believe they were born to build a business only focus on the product. Unfortunately, people who are great at inventing things, and have high creativity, often don’t have strong interpersonal skills or interests. As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I see a high level of frustration from people in this category who have personally developedContinue reading “Strategies for Building the Relationships You Need to Succeed in Business”
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