Category Archives: Business

Why Being a Business Owner Is Unlike the Board Game Monopoly—and How to Win in Real Life

Being a business owner is far from the simplicity and predictability of a board game [...]

The Journey of Resilience

Owning a small business is often portrayed as the ultimate path to freedom and financial [...]

Ease the Cash Flow Strain of Tax Payments : Small Business

For small business owners, tax payments can be a significant source of cash flow strain. [...]

Tips for Cash Flow Management: A Guide to Long-Term Profitability

At Primorial, we understand that managing cash flow is one of the most critical aspects [...]

Cash is King for Business Sustainability

For any business, especially small ones, maintaining a positive cash balance is not just a [...]

Breaking Barriers: The Role of Advisory Services in Supporting Female-Led Startups

Women’s Month in South Africa is a time to celebrate the achievements of women and [...]

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Building Sustainable Businesses through Strategic Financial Planning

As we celebrate Women’s Month in South Africa, we honour the strength, resilience, and contributions [...]

Youth and Women Empowerment: Preparing the Next Generation of Female Leaders

As we celebrate Women’s Month in South Africa, it’s essential to focus on empowering the [...]

Financial Literacy for Women: A Key to Economic Empowerment

As we celebrate Women’s Month in South Africa, it’s essential to focus on the economic [...]

Navigating Compliance: A Guide for New Entrepreneurs in South Africa

Starting a new business is an exciting journey filled with opportunities and challenges. As a [...]

Use This SARS Incentive to Bring Young People into Your Business

“The employment tax incentive is aimed at encouraging employers to hire young and less experienced [...]

How to Implement Effective Leadership Development in your Business

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” (John F. Kennedy) The world of work [...]

Quick Tips for Preventing Time Fraud

“Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent” (John Andreas Widtsoe, [...]

Employers: Your COIDA Return of Earnings Deadline is 30 June 2024

“The Compensation Fund is mandated to provide social security to the injured-on-duty employees and those [...]

How and When to Save a Struggling Start-Up

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”- (Henry Ford, founder of [...]

Five Things You Need to do After the CIPC Hack

“The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common [...]

Have Your Own Budget Shortfall? Here’s What to Do…

“The cold, harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.” (Michael Bloomberg, former [...]

Price Your Products for Profit with these Psychological Strategies

“Find the right price for an irresistible offer, which, by the way, isn’t necessarily the [...]

Freelancer vs Employee: How to Decide

“People are not your most important asset. The right people are.” (Jim Collins, author, speaker and [...]

Budget 2024: How It Affects You and Your Business

“Our bigger challenge… is that our pie is not growing fast enough and this limits [...]

Budget 2024: Your Tax Tables and Tax Calculator

Budget 2024 effectively brought an increase in personal income tax by not adjusting the tables [...]

Things to Look for When Buying a Small Business

“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair [...]

The Five Skills Your Business Needs to Cultivate in 2024

“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training [...]

These Invoicing Tips Could Save Your Business

“Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it’s the lifeblood of business” (Sir [...]

Build Your Team Stronger This Year

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team [...]

Adapt or Die: How to Develop a Digital Transformation Strategy

“At least 40% of all businesses will die in the next 10 years… if they [...]

2024: Best Year Yet for Your Business?

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” (Peter Drucker) Facing what may [...]

How to Survive Ongoing High Interest Rates in 2024

“Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities [...]

Why January is the Perfect Time to Start a Business

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” (Walt Disney) Whether [...]

Corporate Gifting: How to Boost Your Business This Festive Season

“A real gift comes attached with ribbons, not strings.” (Raymond C Nolan) Most clients, suppliers [...]

How to Write a One-Page Business Plan

“If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.” [...]

Employee Incentives That Really Work for Small Businesses

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” (Stephen [...]

The Hidden Costs of Starting a Business

“There are only two things in a business that make money – innovation and marketing, [...]

Tips for Pacing Business Growth for Sustainability

“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together” – [...]

Why the Four-Day Working Week Just Might Happen

“We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to-do’ [...]

Don’t Fall Prey to the Most Common Cybercrimes!

“The bottom line is that cyber risks sit right alongside rising systemic risks, and is [...]

Using a “Risk Matrix” to Risk-Proof Your Business

“Don’t be fearful of risks. Understand them, and manage and minimize them to an acceptable [...]

Quiet Quitting and How to Prevent It

“Quiet quitting” isn’t laziness…When they don’t feel cared about, people eventually stop caring. If you [...]

The True Cost of an Employee

“The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and [...]

Tips for Getting out of Business Debt

“Borrowing isn’t inherently bad; it depends a lot on what the debt is financing” (Stephen [...]

Ten Often-Overlooked Ways Your Accountant Can Help Your Business

“If you talk to a top accountant about his field of expertise, it’s mind-boggling.” (Vincent [...]

How to Prepare for a Possible Electricity Blackout

“Eskom plays a critical role in the life of South Africa, and life of South [...]

How to Use AI to Improve Your Small Business

“The amount of work we can automate with AI is vastly larger than before. As [...]

When to Say No to an Opportunity (or a “Barnacle”)

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say [...]

Affordable Ways to Reap the Benefits of Engaged Employees

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” (Stephen [...]

Setting Up Your Finances in a New Business

“A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, [...]

Why (and How) to Submit Skills Development Reports by 30 April

“We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.” [...]

5 Business Plan Mistakes to Avoid

“Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all [...]

UDZ Tax Incentive Extended: Could Your Business Benefit?

“…governments internationally have increasingly used tax measures to support efforts aimed at regenerating urban areas.” [...]

Tips for Generating Customer Trust as a Start Up

“Consumers don’t just buy products and services anymore; they buy experiences. This demands a new [...]

Budget 2023: How It Affects You and Your Business

“This is not an austerity budget. It is a budget that makes tough trade-offs in [...]

How To Prepare a Reliable Disaster Recovery Plan

“The time to prepare for disasters is before they happen” (Stephen Matheson, Vice President of [...]

Five Essential Bookkeeping Tips for Small Businesses

“Making good judgements when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership – [...]

Ignoring an Online Review Could be Catastrophic for Your Business!

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning” (Bill Gates) If you have [...]

Loadshedding: Survival Tips for Small Businesses

“We want to assure business that by the time you get back to work in [...]

Start 2023 Strong with the “Fresh Start Effect”

“We change our tools and then our tools change us.” (Jeff Bezos) Every January, individuals [...]

The Financial Steps You Need to Take Before You Open Your New Business

“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets planning,” – Thomas Edison You have your [...]

How to Know if You Need an Office for Your Business (and How to Make the Most of a Lease if You Do)

“In business, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate,” Chester Karrass, [...]

The Why and the How of Annual Price Increases

“Pricing power is important in business. You want your business to have the ability to [...]

Simple Communication Tips to Boost Your Profitability

“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. [...]

What is the Metaverse and How Will It Impact Your Business?

“Metaverse isn’t a thing a company builds. It’s the next chapter of the internet overall” [...]

Selling Your Business – Plan Well, with a Tax Benefit When You Retire

“A diligent buyer will want up to five years’ worth of profit and loss statements, [...]

Business Loan or a Credit Facility – Which Is Right for Your Business?

“I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than [...]

Don’t Let Fraud Infect and Damage Your Company

“In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism [...]

Is Your Pricing Model Killing Your Business?

“The moment you make a mistake in pricing, you’re eating into your reputation or your [...]

9 Key Metrics Every Business Should Track

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” (Peter Drucker) Metrics are defined as a [...]

How The Gig Economy Is Changing Traditional Businesses

“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to [...]

Recession on the Horizon: Here’s How to Survive

“During recession greed dies, frugality survives.” (Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words)  With yet another return [...]

Are You Ready for a COIDA Employer Site Visit and Audit?

“The main objective… is to provide compensation for disablement caused by occupational injuries or diseases [...]

How To Avoid Bad Customers

 “Happy customers are your biggest advocates and can become your most successful sales team.” (Lisa [...]

Top Ten Tips for Maintaining a Strong Cash Flow

“Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it’s the lifeblood of business.” (Sir [...]

The Importance of a Good Credit Score

 “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” (Abraham Lincoln) A good [...]

Choosing Accounting Software for Your Small Business

“Creativity is great – but not in accounting.” (Charles Scott, Former governor of Kentucky) Being [...]

Keep Your Business Simple!

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking [...]

Learning The Essential Art of Delegation

“The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, [...]

How to Prepare for and Manage a Business Crisis

“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger [...]

Five Financial Reports for Informed Decision-Making

“What gets measured, gets managed.” (Peter Drucker) Financial reports, such as a balance sheet, income [...]

The 7 Signs It’s Time to Move Your Business Out of The Garage

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, [...]

When, Why and Whose Jobs You Should Be Outsourcing

“If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out [...]

A Guide to Accessing Funds That Can Help Your Small Business

“All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard [...]

Budget 2022: Your Share of Billions in Tax Relief and Business Support

“Now is not the time to increase taxes and put the recovery at risk! Accordingly, [...]

Financial Year End Reporting: Challenges to Manage, Opportunities for Benefit

“Any remedy is going to depend on having financial statements that are reliable” (Tom Foley) [...]

Six Tips for Creating a Distraction-Free Home Office

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies [...]

Small Businesses That Survived 2021 – How They Made It

“At the heart of the strategy is a strong belief…that systemic problems require systemic solutions” (MIT Sloan [...]

Interest Rate Hikes: How to Buffer Your Business in 2022 and Beyond

“The implied policy rate path of the Quarterly Projection Model indicates an increase of 25 [...]

Five Tips for Improving Your Workforce Management

“It is equally important to know if we have a happy and engaged workforce as [...]

SMEs – Why You Should Consider Employee Benefit Packages

“Human resources isn’t a thing we do, it’s the thing that runs our business” (American real estate developer, [...]

The Hybrid Workforce Debate: What SMEs Need to Know

“Success in a hybrid work environment requires employers to move beyond viewing remote or hybrid [...]

What To Do When Preparing to Sell Your Business

“As much as you might love running your business, you must have an end-goal in [...]

Boost Your Business Plan – Build an Effective Website with These 6 Tips

“Almost overnight the internet has gone from a technical wonder to a business must” (Bill [...]

Cloud Computing Offers Small Businesses New Age Solutions for Less

“Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing” (Author and former [...]

Small Businesses: Reap the Benefits of Cashless Transactions

“Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time [...]

How to Build Your Business with Freelancers

“The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their [...]

Business Combinations: A Path to Exponential Growth and Profitability?

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself” (Henry Ford) Initiating, [...]

The Top 5 Leadership Skills Every Entrepreneur Needs

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts [...]

SMEs and Microinsurance: Benefits and Risks

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the [...]

6 Tips on Surviving the Failure of a Big Client

“Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy” (Bret Stephens) [...]

Alternative Funding for Your Small Business

“When looking for funding, don’t just look for cash. Look for the right people” (American [...]

How 67 Minutes on Mandela Day Can Change Our World and Benefit Your Business

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is [...]

4 Ways to Measure Your Company’s Performance, Beyond Profit

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just [...]