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Start-Up: A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting and Growing your own Small Business

Start Up is a tried and tested entrepreneurship promotion and learning resource. The Step-by-Step Guidelines unpack the steps described in the comic story, provide in-depth information about each step, and guide learners through the processes of developing their own Business Plan.

Content: Step-by-Step Guidelines

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Chapter 1: Awukho umsebenzi!
- What makes an entrepreneur
- Why are you thinking of starting your own business?

Chapter 2: Ideas! Ideas! Ideas!
- Feasibility Study: Is the Business idea a good one?
- Now take a closer look at your ideas
- Do any of your ideas pass the feasibility test?

Chapter 3: "We have to crawl before we run"
- Planning your business: Preparing a Business Plan
- Making a profit

Chapter 4: Financial Planning: Making sure you're going to make a profit
- Working Backwards
- How much do you need to sell to make a profit?
- Start-up Capital: How much do you need to start your business?
- Keeping your business pumping (Cash Flow/Budget)
- Keeping control of your money
- Keeping control of your stock

Chapter 5: Promoting your business
- "Let me help you" - Customer relations
- Supplier relations
- Increasing your profit

Chapter 6: You and your bank
- Getting a loan

Chapter 7: My own Business Plan
- Part 1: Business Overview
- Part 2: Margin per Product/ Service
- Part 3: Margin Prediction
- Part 4: Start-up Capital
- Part 5: Cash Flow Prediction (Budget)

Review

From the July 1999 issue of OLTDE (open learning through distance education) published by the SA Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE).