Covid-19 has brought together 7 elements that Pavlo Phitidis says create the perfect opportunity for mid-size South African businesses to take advantage of, to service markets beyond our borders. Listen to his discussion about this on The Money Show on 702 & CapeTalk: Resilience We have a resilience in South Africa that comes from years…
Remote work and its dependence on digital engagement have changed the way we communicate with customers and with our teams. Add to this the sheer hours we now spend in online meetings, the stress of living through a pandemic, and the stress of living, working and schooling from one place – we need to give…
Covid has certainly fundamentally changed the environment we live and operate in, but before and beyond Covid there are three major trends that remain relevant. As a business owner you need to understand these, and develop an approach to your business that is likely to position it as relevant to the future. The noise…
When a hurricane hits an island it hits with its most violent force, and everyone has to literally baton the hatches: lock yourself inside and board up the doors and windows. You then have very few options but to hope and pray it will pass so that you can go out again. Once the hurricane…
One of the most difficult parts of a business to manage through Covid-19 or any crisis, is your team, and the human relationships you have with your network including clients and suppliers. Pavlo Phitidis hosted 2 webinars to offer practical insights on how to work with the human beings around you, who are also feeling…
Pricing sensitivity has driven innovation for years. Because the economy is a massive, complex ecosystem, everything in it is linked and poor growth drives pricing pressures on us all. Yet, the fundamentals of pricing are static. How then do you deal with pricing in this economy when you face the challenges stated in the message…
Effectively growing your business revenue needs a lot more than just a regular sales effort. Developing and implementing sales channels is a key strategy to get to the next level, and build your business into an Asset of Value. But, before you begin utilising specific sales channels, consider how effective they will be for building…
Things will not go back to the way that they were, even after the lockdown ends. For businesses operating in this new reality, it’s no longer a choice, you have to digitise. Pavlo Phitidis hosted a 60 minute webinar in which he unpacked practical, actionable insights to understand: What the future looks like for your…
Humans are, by nature, tactile beings, and our brains receive, store and compute millions of signals in any engagement with other people. Some we are aware of to some degree – for example body language, or the degree to which someone makes eye contact. But there are loads of other signals we know very little…
Whatever you did to achieve success pre-Corona is not going to be the same as the things you need to do to achieve success in a Corona world. Our whole way of interacting with the physical world, and with each other, has changed and will stay that way for a long time yet. Our priorities…
