SMME's

Due to the fact that we are paid by government grants we are in a unique position to assist all SMME’s to develop their businesses. Between 80% and 100% of all our services and products are paid by these grants, they are called “interventions” when the grants are applicable.

The following interventions are conducted by us:

Technical Interventions

Our technical support interventions will assist you make certain assumptions about the future of your business. This includes conducting a structured and systematic research of all the necessary facts and data, compiling the required legal documentation and assessing the risks associated with running your business – successfully. The following tools are used:

• Feasibility study: an evaluation of the potential of your idea from a market, financial, technical and managerial perspective
• Due diligence: examining the business opportunity and/or historical financial statements to help determine future trends in order to make an informed decision
• Product-testing and development: the process of defining, designing, developing, testing and delivering products that will satisfy the needs of the market
• Business valuation: the process of gathering all the information necessary for the buyer of an existing business to make an informed decision with regard to the price to be paid
• ISO Accreditation: concerned with the implementation of an internationally approved system for quality management, self-assessment and third party assessment of a manufacturer.

Marketing Interventions

We have tailored a number of Marketing Support interventions that will help you devise effective methods to reach your markets.

• Marketing plan: a plan that incorporates all aspects of the product or service and its benefits and features, how it will be promoted and distributed
• Market research: conducting research and analysing the findings and recommendations for future activities
• Sales implementation plan: assisting the entrepreneur to draft a customer focused plan and increase sales for the business
• Customer service plan: a plan to keep customers satisfied and delighted with your business at all times using carefully thought out processes and procedures

Planning Interventions

We have a number of Planning Support interventions to help you formulate guidelines for managing your business and to recognise weaknesses that might require action. These guidelines include:

• Business plan: all those activities associated with identifying the particular needs of the target market and then going about satisfying those customers' needs better than competitors
• Productivity plan and Research plan: techniques and tools to best research the market using the most appropriate method
• Expansion plan: identifying communication channels, formulating the message to be conveyed and documenting these into a practical implementation plan
• Business Turnaround Plan: planning to maximise income received for goods and services over a given period of time

Financial Management Interventions

Our Financial Management Support programme will assist you the entrepreneur to manage your business finances efficiently, using the following tailored:

• Accounting system: setting up a system of accounting and to understand the elements of a financial statement
• Preparation of budgets: defining sales targets and expenses to achieve the product sales
• Setting up a debtors/creditors system: correct information in terms of clients who owe the business and what the business owes
• Setting up a stock control system: buying more stock than required is not productive and having insufficient stock will lead to losing orders for the business
• Costing: knowing how much it costs to manufacture a product or provide a service helps determine direct and indirect costs and how to price for profit
• Cash flow management: the process of managing the inflows and outflows of cash in a business

Due to our desire to help SMME´s we have implemented a loyalty program whereby every person who refers a company to us and we successfully do an intervention for that company will receive a commission of up to R500.00 from us on completion of the project.