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Contents
- Business plan preparation
- Business plan creation
- Business plan confidentiality agreement
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Understand why the “Law of Attraction” is not working too well! Put money into its rightful perspective and place in your life. Understand why your income stays within a certain range and learn how to increase it. Learn to start sharing and exchanging your skills and talents without putting money inbetween. Free yourself from judging people and yourself by how much money one does or does not have; and get to know who a person really is beyond the money story.Contents
- Introduction
- We are the money-makers
- We trade money for our energy and input
- A brief history of money
- How long can current financial systems be sustained?
- How to eliminate money as a barrier to doing business
- Resetting a financial barometer
- Powerful money mug exercise
- Reprogramme your sub-conscious money story
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What will be the cost to you if you are going down one road and should be going down another? This module helps you to be crystal clear about what you want to achieve by having your own business and what you want to get out of it. Enables you to understand the crucial driving role and impact your belief systems have on your life and how they impact on business success or lack thereof. Teaches you have to dismantle thought, beliefs and attitudes which do not serve your best interests and how to replace them with conscious positive affirmations and actions. Helps you to identify which personality traits are going to be your greatest business assets and which type of people you need to surround yourself with to give you support in the areas which are not your greatest strengths but which will be required by the business (e.g. attention to detail). Helps you to identify which personality traits are going to be your greatest business assets and which type of people you need to surround yourself with to give you support in the areas which are not your greatest strengths but which will be required by the business (e.g. attention to detail). Gets you thinking about what types of other businesses might be more suitable for you or about how you might modify yours so that it works better for you. Helps you to address costs in detail, fine-tune where you are spending money unnecessarily and prepare budgets for income and expenditure which are accurate, practical and manageable.Contents
- Starting out points to explore
- Analysing your motivation and and driving forces
- Understanding limiting beliefs
- Identifying your own limiting beliefs
- How to dismantle limiting beliefs
- Empowering your own self-talk
- Your personality traits and how they can influence business success
- Exploring the characteristics of entrepreneurs
- New buisnesses that can be run on a small budget
- How to work out costs of starting and keeping going for a year
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You want a successful business but what is your definition of what success looks like and means for you? This module will help you to imagine the end result in fine detail so that you have a clear vision of your goal. The clearer your vision, the more likely you are make it a reality. Now that you know exactly where you are going (and why), you can identify the steps (actions) you need to take to get there. Your vision and mission may change as different opportunities present themselves but they serve as guiding frameworks which everything your business does, should take into account. Your company policy is the “personality of your business” and it goes hand-in-hand with your vision and mission.Contents
- Introduction
- Unpacking the purpose and benefits, potential and pitfalls of your new business, product or service
- Creation and/or revision of your Vision and Mission Statements
- Creation and/or revision of your Corporate Identity Policy
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Here you get to understand why it is so important that you choose the correct name for your business and the different product / services you offer. A name can make or break a business - and image, expectation and delivery go hand-in-hand! You will learn how to create an image across all platforms that is consistent with the nature of your business and it starts with your logo being congruent with the name. You are creating valuable intellectual property so you need to find out how you can protect it. To do this, we refer you to the module covering South Africa's laws and regulations.Contents
- Understanding the three main types of business
- What to take into consideration when you buy an existing business or franchise
- Naming a business, product or service
- Creating your business or product logo
- Creating your slogan / Unique Selling Point (USP) to go with your logo
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Contents- Factors you need to take into consideration regarding where your business operates from
- Important considerations concerning lease agreements
- Unpacking the benefits and responsibilities of working from home and getting the support of those who live with you
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Without people, there is no business. Your staff are your most important asset and they are also going to help to make or break your business so the more you can equip yourself on the subject, the better. People grow and change, get to face different personal challenges, and also become tired or bored. When last did you take a good look at every single position and person occupying that position, to see if a person was still the best fit for a particular job? When last did check that everything that needs to be done on an on-going basis, has been allocated and allocated to the person best qualified to handle it? World-wide, regulations governing the treatment of staff and handling of staff issues and disputes, carry serious repercussions and penalties for those who do not comply. The Module South Africa: Laws And Regulations will help you with this. You will also be guided to address hard and soft skill requirements and be able to put plans in action to identify what type of training needs to be given and for which staff. One cannot hold an employee accountable for something which has not been defined and agreed to. It is highly recommended that you take this opportunity here to review every employment contract and make the appropriate changes to contracts, systems, procedures and measures of accountability that will best serve the objects of the business and the people involved.Contents
- Positions and key responsibilities
- Organizational chart
- Taking a fresh look at your existing staff and their positions
- Employer and employee responsibilities and obligations
- Important considerations concerning payroll
- Why you need to issue an employee with a letter of employment
- Identifying staff training requirements (hard skills and soft skills)
- How to master the recruitment process
- Workplace hazards – 23 considerations regarding the risk of a fire breaking out
- How to prepare for medical emergencies
- See Module: South Africa Laws And Regulations for quick links to labour rules and regulations
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Simple changes could save you thousands! This module will help you to identify those who take initiative or pass the buck and how to get the most out of your greatest asset - your staff! It will help you to indentify poor performers and bring them up to par. It will also help you to recognise and reward top achievers. Even if you only have one person performing a certain type of duty or even just 2 people in the business, you still need to work as a team to achieve business objectives. This module will help you to get to know individual players individually and how they function as a team. You will learn to identify strengths and weaknesses and to maximize skills and opportunities. The questions help you to address vital issues in practical solution-driven ways.Contents
- Understanding the different “bones”(e.g. a person who is a Lazybone or Crazybone) in your business and how they be transformed into the Backbones or your organization
- Characteristics of poorly performing, average and winning teams
- Team leaders - how to maximize team performance
- Powerful questions out of key learning points to stretch you and your team
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How much will it cost you in lost business if you do not know the profiles of your customers? How much business will you loose to your competitors if you do not know where you stand in relation to what they offer? How much money will you waste by choosing the wrong communication platforms which do not optimize your reach to your target market? How can you forecast earnings potential if you do not know the size and location of your target market? What amount of time and resources will you waste if you do not handle your market research and surveys correctly - and ask the right questions! Do you really know what your customers want from you and how will you know they are happy with all levels of what you supply them (product, price, customer service, delivery etc.) if you do not ask? How can you increase your product offering and encourage a customer to buy from you more than once? Customer and competitor research are often areas which a business just touches the surface of - there is a well of information and earnings potential laying below the surface for you to tap into. By the end of this module you will have a very clear picture of who potential customers might be. This will enable you to spend money wisely in your marketing and advertising objectives by choosing the platforms your audience engages with and by creating content that speaks their language and addresses their needs.Contents
- Introduction
- How to maximize value for your customers
- Primary and secondary market research
- The value of doing market research
- Understanding demographic research
- Understanding psychographic research
- Examination of customer profiles and niche markets
- How to estimate the size of your target market
- Why it is important to know what your competitors are doing and how you can find out
- How to collect data
- Guidelines for creating your own questionnaire
- The different question types you can use in your survey and how they evoke different answers
- How you can avoid getting dishonest/inaccurate answers
- Analysing and working with the results of your survey
- Creating your own questionnaire
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There are dozens of ways to reach people - but which have the most impact and will be the most cost-effective for your business? If your website does not work for you, you are wasting huge opportunities for increasing sales and levels of customer service. How about your message - are you using the right message on the right platform? What small incentives could you offer that could turn a “maybe” to “yes, and I want it now?”Contents
- 30 Platforms you can use to reach your target market
- Branding tips
- Apps
- Printing - useful tips
- Social media
- Learn and apply these teachings to build a successful website
- Call-To-Action : why it is important and how it can be used to attract higher response rates
- Introduction to active view metrics
- How to optimize the money you spend on social media platforms
- - A/B testing explained
- - Multivariate testing explained
- - How to conduct cross-browser and cross-device tests
- - How to increase page load time
- - Important things you should know about keywords
- - How to switch off Google personalization
- How to create the keyword phrases that lead people to your website
- - Pay per click advertising
- - How to make Wordpress sidebar widgets “sticky” & float with webpages
- How to test how effective your website is
- Explanation of some common internet terms
- Your messages to your niche markets
- The incentives you can offer to drive sales
- Email etiquette
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Be clever - work with others whose business compliments yours - save costs and increase your exposure (they have databases too!) What about the staff who answer calls and turn customers away before they reach the sales department? If your body language is not congruent with what you are saying, customers get mixed messages - how can you ensure everyone on your team communicates effectively? Without sales, you do not have a business. Without profits, you will not sustain it or grow it. Even if you are the “sales team” everything you can learn and apply in the important area is invaluable and will help you to achieve the success you dream of. How much extra money will you make with that single extra customer today - and over time!!! Contents- Introduction
- Fundamental considerations for the sales department
- How to be authentic and credible
- Customer relationship management
- Joint ventures
- Creating your “Elevator Pitch”
- Expanding your database
- The importance of networking and how to go about it
- Mastering “Cold-Calling”
- Overcoming objections and obstacles to closing a sale
- What to do immediately after a customer has bought your product/service
- How to keep your customers
- How talkers help you
- Customer communication tips
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Without a sound understanding of financial terminology, profitability ratios and simple debits and credits you will struggle to have an accurate picture of how your business is really performing in terms of income and expenses. You will also not be able to tell if those who you entrust your financial affairs to, are doing a good job or robbing you blind. You could end up paying more than you have to in terms of fees and interest charges when you borrow money. Give yourself a sound foundation and take control of your financial affairs. Create professional financial reports, invoices, statements, receipts and so on. This module will help you to save money, improve efficiency and increase revenue! We also refer you to Module: South Africa Laws And Regulations if you who conduct business in South AfricaContents
- 5 year expense, income and gross profit estimation
- Pricing your product/service/process
- Important financial concepts and terminology explained
- Important financial ratios and formulas (supplied) to calculate business health
- Why financial statements are important
- Understanding debits and credits
- Understanding Cash Flow Statements (with free excel template : Appendix 2)
- Understanding Statements of Comprehensive Income (with free excel template : Appendix 3)
- Understanding Statements of Financial Position (with free excel template : Appendix 4)
- Understanding Statements of Changes in Equity (with free excel template : Appendix 5)
- Limitations of financial statements
- Where is the money going to come from to finance your business requirements? (Options)
- - Planning for unexpected events (covered in more detail in Module 12 as well)
- - Why it is important to pay yourself
- - Personal funding
- - Private loans
- - Private equity investments/Buy-Ins
- - Bank loans
- - Crowd funding
- Ways to save money, improve efficiency and increase revenue
- A customer’s perception of value
- Changing the way you receive payment and adding more payment options for your customers
- Good record and control practices
- Orders and deliveries
- How to choose your financial advisor
- Module 11 completion form
- Appendix 1 : Expense List Template
- Appendix 2 : Cash Flow Statement Template
- Appendix 3 : Statement Of Comprehensive Income Template
- Appendix 4 : Statement Of Financial Position Template
- Appendix 5 : Statement Of Changes In Equity Template
- Appendix 6 : Quotation/Purchase Order Template
- Appendix 7 : Invoice Template
- Appendix 8 : Statement Template
- Appendix 9 : Receipt Template
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