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  • The following are some strategic questions that you as a business owner should be asking on a regular basis.
  • Customer segmentation is the practice of dividing a customer base into groups of individuals that are similar in specific ways relevant to marketing. One could use age, occupation, gender, academic background, volume of business or many other criteria. This allows you to get to know your clients’ needs better.

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  • This is the first of five short workshops on marketing for your business. Find the others within this resource page under the Marketing search function. Knowing the difference between your products features and benefits are key to effective marketing in your business.

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This book isn't about cover letters or resumes. Instead, you will learn the best practices of Silicon Valley start-ups, and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career.

The purpose of the South African EV Industry Road Map is to promote the establishment of a domestic EV industry leading to increased investments, job opportunities and human capacity building.

The Shanduka Blackpages on line education portal is provided by Shanduka Black Umbrellas. The aim of the education portal is to provide Shanduka Blackpages members with practical learning opportunities to help enhance the knowledge required in running their business effectively and efficiently as well as enhancing their abilities to access procurement and finance opportunities.
In response to Sheryl's 2010 TEDTalk on the ways women are held back--and the way we hold ourselves back--viewers around the world shared their own stories of struggle and success. This overwhelming response inspired Sheryl to write this book.

The Quarterly Labour Force Survey was  first conducted in January 2008, specifically designed to measure the dynamics of the South African labour market, producing indicators such as employment, unemployment and inactivity. It measures a variety of issues related to the labour market, including the official unemployment rate.

In this book by Stephen R. Covey and Jennifer Colosimo you will find the secrets to getting and keeping the job you want.

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project is an annual assessment of the entrepreneurial activity, aspirations and attitudes of individuals across a wide range of countries. Initiated in 1999 as a partnership between London Business School and Babson College, the first study covered 10 countries; since then nearly 100 'National Teams' from every corner of the globe have participated in the project, which continues to grow annually - in 2011, the project had an estimated global budget of nearly USD $9 million. 
How in the world do you achieve a high level of business success? The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs gives you the answer. This highly acclaimed and much anticipated book gives you the answers in a practical and accessible way, emphasizing the need to develop how you think.
 
Author Kevin D. Johnson, who is founder of multimillion-dollar company Johnson Media Inc., reveals the keys to thinking like the elite entrepreneurs of our time. As the CEO of Matlock Advertising and Public Relations Kent Matlock says, this book is "the next best how-to handbook on starting, building, and sustaining your own business."

To wrap up Library Week 2013 Cape Town Activa is giving away two books. 

Create clear BD targets - This goes without saying, but it is worth repeating.  Without clear targets, a BD team will aimlessly chase deals and in the worst case have a distracting effect on the rest of the organization by creating deals that are not core to the company but take up valuable executive, product, and engineering resources.  Ideally, BD targets are a subset of the overall company goals (e.g. grow the user base, expand internationally, outsource a critical technology etc.) but they could also be outside the core company goals, like exploring alternative business opportunities, seeking M&A opportunities etc.

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