Franchises in Africa are not only food businesses. They reveal how land access, rights, ecommerce, white labelling, dropshipping, branding, and digital systems can help African entrepreneurs build scalable wealth.
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Informality, Spatial Design, and the Politics of “Clean Cities”: Rethinking Economic Participation in South Africa
This piece is a reflection on some of the ongoing tensions shaping South Africa’s cities and the way they are beginning to disrupt local economies. In recent years, protests have resurfaced across multiple cities with a kind of predictability. As election cycles...
Bad Economic Cycles and Politicians Can’t Make Your Business Fail
One of the first battles any entrepreneur must fight is the one in the mind — the battle against fear, doubt, negative myths, economic cycles, and politicians.
One myth, in particular, is deeply rooted:
The belief that bad politicians and economic cycles destroy businesses.
Personal Stories in Marketing: Bootstrapping Your Success
The Internet has revolutionized business, offering unparalleled access to markets and opportunities for bootstrapping your success. The concept of bootstrapping comes from pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. This idea is believed to have been popularized by...
Rethinking Admiration in Business: How to Stay Visible and Viable with Caution!
In the world of business, staying visible and viable takes some effort and mastery. People’s admiration is a valuable asset for growth. However, our complexities as social beings create conflicting desires. Therefore, it's possible to admire someone for a particular...
Gary Vaynerchuck Wants Business Owners to Work Harder than Employees
One of the business thought leaders I admire a lot is Gary Vaynerchuk. And for a while now, he has been teaching about this idea of working harder than your employees. It makes sense. Because owning a business is a selfish decision and joining a business is also a...
The AI Disaster Impedes Creativity and Originality, which are Bedrocks of Human Connection.
As a copywriter, I have had such a beautiful experience of using AI to brainstorm and learn. I used ChatGPT to optimize my content for search and sometimes to create a skeleton for social media campaigns. If you are in a creative block, you could get a kickstart with...
Legacy: What 3 of the World’s Rich and Famous Men Know that You Don’t
Jeff Bezos, Gary Vee, and Elon Musk may not seem like they are all on the same level of rich or famous. Maybe there are slight differences but we all want to have businesses that reach some level of rich and famous. That's why sometimes we become dissatisfied with the...
The biggest lesson of COVID19 is that small people don’t exist
One of the things I see many middle-aged African men struggling to appreciate is the collaborative process involved in wealth accumulation or plain old survival.
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