BusinessMasters

Introduce yourself, and your business here, not only to fellow BusinessMASTERS, but to the world. Get your signature in place first! Google and other search engines will find you here.

Here is the place for the uninitiated to see what the fuss is all about, and for the regular members to demonstrate what lies within the gates.

This forum deals with aspects of doing business in South Africa using a company as a vehicle. The pitfalls, the opportunities, the limits and the strengths - all with a spattering of political hyperbole and subjective dogma.

When you've had your whine, and need some wine, join us here for some education in the finer things of life, or need to learn something about digital manipulation, or even want to advertise second hand goods for sale: You'll find it in here.

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Please only use this forum to post issues with the BusinessMASTERS forum, all other posts will be deleted without response.

Okay, so this is where you start each morning, coffee in hand, or where you come to when you need a break, or where you will really entertain the rest of us with too much wine in your system.

No other place to put your topic? Start here. But please take care, and do not create more work for the moderators to move your stuff to the right place.

Here we can tell one another of methods and practices which improve our business lives.

Doing business in Africa is perceived to be risky. This forum gives you the opportunity to explore this assertion

The best opportunities for the savvy business owner, and how to exploit them. Or how to head off the threat and deal with an ignorant customer.

Always a new threat for the small business person – the more things change, the more will be required to change.

Legislation is going to make this a hot topic for anybody holding the private information of clients, but there is the management and security of other digital and hard information that needs to be secured.

From the latest toys available, to how things work or even brainstorming ideas for solving a mechanical, electrical, electronic, chemical or seemingly supernatural problem.

Unfolding world events.

The electricity, the water, the sewers, potholes & rusty railways. Municipalities, policemen and prosecutors.

Necessary? An evil? A necessary evil? Or is it a legitimate business or personal wager - you in a three way tussle with fate and the owners of everything around you?

So let’s see how big this sector can really become.

Let’s be different in the way we run our businesses and run our lives. Let’s get out of the mainstream and tell the rest how here.

Your cautions on things that stink, hopefully in time to save members from misfortune. Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin

Your business is running into trouble? Seek solace and limit the damage. Perhaps you’ll be prompted to move in a way to avoid the crash all together.

Complaints aplenty, no doubt. But they’re good for financing some projects as well.

Property - Public, private, big, small, but definitely fixed. As an investment, a millstone or a proposition.

Treat your business as a vehicle to greater things – another product in a higher league. Make it attractive and competitive for when you finally sell it.

Working with the law and working the law.

For the bean counters and those who need their help.

Asset management and maintenance.

Human resources questions and solutions. Street wise methods of dealing with your “greatest asset”.

Safety valves, backstops and safe houses.

What books have you read, or what books have you read about? Give us your honest opinion, even if it goes against the grain of conventional reviews.

When a BusinessMASTER does something to seriously impress you, let the rest of us know.