Business Tips

About the Book

1. In South Africa today when you speak of starting or expanding a business you would probably be buying a stake in a multi-million rand business as a B.E.E. (Black Economic Empowerment) partner where esoteric communication is used to put the deals together. The survivalist and smaller enterprises operate in many overtraded environments (often retail) where failure is the order of the day; maybe because they had no access to practical experience such as provided here by Business Tips.

2. Business Tips speaks in simple language. It is not a work for academics but they will find it interesting. Medium-sized organizations including NGOs (non-Governmental Organisations) should also find the message credible and the tips applicable. The author illustrates by practical experience.

3. The book differs from many by spelling out the relationships clearly between stakeholders in a business. These are the customers and staff, the environments of the industry and the community. This then gives the framework of relationships on which to build a Constitution for every business or organisation.

4. I have excellent credentials to write this book, having spent half my life employing myself and many others, surmounting the odds of apartheid repressive laws which curtailed business activity by blacks.

5.Business Tips coversÊ227 pages.ÊThere are 13 chapters, including 12 functional tables, 2 interesting case studies, and 60 informative multiple-choice questions and an Index.

6. People intending to start up on their own as well as practicing businesspeople must read this book first before their next move. It may be a South African book but its message is without borders.

For more information, please visit www.businesstips.co.za, or email the author at info@businesstips.co.za.

About the Author

Stan Mkhabele is a South African who started a small business at the height of apartheid.

Although he had qualified as a Medical Microbiology Laboratory Technologist at the S.A.I.M.R. (South African Institute for Medical Research), he nevertheless trained to be a hairdresser and also started an afro-hair-care salon. He established Dr Fingertips Beauty and Health early in the 1980s in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. He is known in this industry as a perfectionist and a professional.

His formal business management was honed at Damelin Management School. He also expanded his knowledge into the world of hands-on manufacture and distribution of hair-care and hygiene products. He founded Restore plus hair-care products which are now internationally known and owned by a Multi National Corporation.

For half of his life as a self-employed person, Stan has also delved into businesses involving a coffee shop, funeral insurance, trading equities and forex. He is currently a business consultant.

Stan is married to Busi and they have been blessed with two sons: Muzi and Sizwe.