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Lessons from a muddy island during Brexit troubles

Sep 27, 2019 10:44:03 AM / by Pavlo Phitidis posted in Business Success, SME, Competition, Economy, Building your business

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Having recently returned from a trip to the UK, I reflected on the comments leading up to it, from people that I was scheduled to meet. “Don’t come now, rather delay to November or next year,” they said.
“Why?” I asked.
“Because the Pound has been pounded and our politicians are making a real mess of things and our country is socially divided and our business confidence indexes are at an all time low,” they said.
“That’s everyday life in South Africa,” I responded “and, in that environment, our clients enjoyed an average annual revenue growth of 28.9%.”
After a brief pause… “Come they said, come and let’s understand how to grow a business in choppy waters.”

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Aurik launches fund to back SA businesses

Aug 5, 2019 10:52:48 AM / by Pavlo Phitidis posted in Business Growth, Scale, Asset of Value, Business Owner, Pricing, SME, Competition

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Pavlo Phitidis announced the launch of Aurik Capital, a S12J Fund to back the growth of established businesses with annual revenues between R15m to R150m.

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Building a pricing strategy to grow your business

Aug 5, 2019 7:28:08 AM / by Pavlo Phitidis posted in Business Growth, Scale, Asset of Value, Business Owner, Pricing, SME, Competition

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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 below?

This is a Twitter message from a listener “The pricing game is emotional…Suppliers raise prices and you are forced to decide:
1. Do you segment and risk alienating the very people you want to be serving or,
2. Run at a loss until economies of scale kick-in and you can negotiate better bulk cost price. HELP”

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