Stop for a minute and ask yourself if you and your time management system are out of control. Here are a few questions to assess your current situation;

1. Did you spend 10 minutes first thing this morning planning your day and diary?
2. Do you have control over your time in your day that may be dictated by things that other people deem urgent?
3. Do you have no more than 10 emails (read or unread) in your inbox?
4. Do you no outstanding messages on your phones?
5. Do you have scheduled time planned for yourse...

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This week the world’s population is set to reach 7 billion! It seems like just yesterday when we celebrated the 6 billion mark the birth of Adnan Mević, the first son of Fatima Helać and Jasminko Mević, in Bosnia. It took only 50 years for the world’s population to double and only 12 years to grow from 6 to 7 billion.   

It has become the regions less able to support themselves that have always produced the highest population growth rate. Then the reverse happens in the modern develop...

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As a small business owner it has become all important to begin planning as early as possible to survive the pending holiday season. Already we have seen shops and centers redecorating in green trees, holly and sparkly stars. They have also started playing carols at airports and the waterfront.

How do we plan to cope with this commercial invasion into our lives and still hope to continue to do business and bring in an income during the next few months? Here are some tips;

Plan your Diary �...

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Just in case you wondered why we live where we do. This is Cape Town. The Design Capital 2014, World Cup venue for Rugby, Cricket and Soccer. We have 2 oceans, a flat topped mountain, 25 different languages, best wine and coffee and those little cake things and the prettiest girls in the world. And Silicon Cape, Helen and Patricia, UCT and me.
Greg Lumley took this pic yesterday of our city.
Why would we live any where else? 
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Having your own business coach is great, you get to lean on someone else’s experience and wisdom, but as all things good, we come at a price. Now I am not saying us coaches are not worth paying for, but often people just do not have the funds or the time to spend on coaching. We often get people dropping by this website looking for tools and tips that they can use right off the bat to help them get through a specific issue or hump in the road.

We have heard your cry and done something abo...

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Social media is the new conversation platform and is paperless , virtual and accessible at every street corner. But so many of us know so very little about it. Sure we use it to try tell our invisible friends what we are doing, hoping that they will listen and click us a like or follow. But not many people I know have any idea of how to use it to your advantage.

Launched today is a new set of four Social Media magazines. Kind of backwards making magazines for social media, but these are not ...

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Innovation is what has and always will drive the ground swell of a countries economy. It has shown that those who can think and live ahead of the curve have always emerged as the winners in life. Just look at IBM, Apple and Sony. The minds behind these businesses, kept deep in buildings with lead windows and concrete walls, are often ignored and never recognized.

But this is all about to change. If you are or have someone locked in your basement who is an inventor of note, then it is time to...

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Another Business Plan competition; Seems to be the season for winning money for the perfect business idea.

This one run by the DA Youth as a way of promoting business ideas amongst the younger generations in our country. So if you are between 18 and 30 years old, a SA citizen with a great business idea then get to www.dayouth.org.za and enter before 25 November 2011.

 If you have an idea and need some support and advise on how to get it to a point of being able to enter this or any other c...

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We attended the launch road show of the SEDA Stars competition this morning. This is just one of many business plan competitions that run each year but it does have the advantage of being very well run and supported. The team responsible for this programme span the length of the country and we should be getting a huge amount of attention from this one.

If you have an idea for a business or currently run a business and are a SA citizen and over the age of 18, then get going on this and regist...

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A while ago I hired a Writing Mentor to help me with the process of getting my book together and hopefully published one day. I met with him over a few weeks and proudly presented him with a copy of my work in progress. This had included almost 6 months of work and many hours of thought and slog at the keyboard. 

He returned my work during our scheduled meeting and I awaited his praise. The manuscript had almost doubled in weight due to his addition of ink scribbles and corrections. This I c...

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The old saying of “Where there is a will there is a way’ rings too true in small business. We are often faced with obstacles that seem impossible to overcome but through a determined will and dedicated persistence we have the ability to persevere.

The opposite is often used “Where there is a way there is a will”. This is often used by our clients, who ask to be shown a way to do things and then they will conjure up the enthusiasm to get the job done. This is unfortunately never true...

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Here is something you can do today to improve your business network. And it will only cost you a few minutes.

A new community website has launched this week and it is all about people empowering people with Pros meeting up with Peers and delivering Programmes for Progress.

If you are doing business in or around Cape Town and offer some sort of service or product that could be of assistance to others who are trying to make their lives a little better then click here and join Motivate Cape To...

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Cape Town Entrepreneur Week got going today with the first of a number of satellite events, this one in Gugulethu at the Sports Complex hall. A handful of enthusiastic entrepreneurs from the local community arrived looking for assistance and guidance in taking their businesses to the next level.

Caro Vicci from the City opened the day with a welcome speech and then handed over to Bruce Wade from the Entrepreneur Incubator. Bruce shared the six big issues that hinder business growth and then...

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A few years ago the business community was abuzz with the new Promotion to Access Information Act (PAIA). All businesses small and large had to comply with this act and submit a manual to some government department in Pretoria to remain legal and compliant.

Carrie-Anne from Cents and Accountability has reminded us again of this and if you own or run a small business in South Africa and have not yet written up and submitted your PAIA manual, please get it done. It is a once off process and sh...

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This article on Entrepreneurship Africa by Davison Mudzingwa

 CAPE TOWN, OCT 11, 2011- “Where is the fun in your business idea?,” entrepreneur coach Bruce Wade quizzes, each time a group of teenagers take to podium presenting their business idea in Cape Town, South Africa. Wade insists that a business should stand out from its competitors.

The young people attending this week-long workshop seem to be grasping the concept. One group takes to the podium with a car wash business idea. The deli...

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Entrepreneur Incubator and Academy has formed an association with eC@ps. Electronic Compass Aligned Performance System offers their clients a simple to use strategy application that once used offers a one page strategy document with a huge amount of accountability and communication tools.

Brian Howe and Bruce Wade met this week to discuss how the association would work and we have decided to offer eC@ps as a part of the Incubator membership for clients on the Growth and Leadership programmes...

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We have been hearing a lot about how the world of non-profits are coming to an end. The days of setting up an easy way to make money for self through other people’s tragedy and sad stories is not being bought by corporate and public alike. We have become immune to pictures of famous people holding hungry kids asking for donations. Most of these funds never get to serve any purpose to alleviate the pain of why they were raised. The money seems to line the pockets of those who make a living o...

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The Teen Entrepreneur Spring Academy kicked off today in Cape Town. A group of enthusiastic teenagers gathered at the Belmont conference centre in Rondebosch to start a 5 day journey towards learning what it takes to develop a sustainable business.

We were treated to a series of talks by Samantha Obery and Peter Greenwall and myself. The teens walked away a little shell shocked today after getting to grips with what it takes to be an entrepreneur, generating ideas through innovation and then...

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