One of the biggest fears that small business owners carry with him is that of the dreaded taxman. Taxes are seen as evil, something that gets taken from us without getting anything in return. SARS is just doing a job that it has been mandated to do. Yasmeen Alli takes a look at how you can keep on the right side of SARS and optimise your tax processes. Lesedi Seforo, Project Manager for Tax at SAICA talks about becoming tax compliant and taking advantage of rebates and provisions that are available to tax paying businesses.

What most small businesses need whether at start-up level or in the early phases is sales. Not just sales but profitable sales and how do we make sure that this happens? Yasmeen Alli of Raizcorp takes us through a couple of steps to follow and get some advice from Michael Lee, Marketing Manager at Clorox Africa (Pty) Ltd. on some winning strategies to make your business more profitable

The topic of this week’s edition of Small Biz MBA will probably make many of you very uncomfortable but the simple fact of the matter is that we cannot grow in our comfort zones. We're going to talk about disclosing financial information - specifically your budget and the tracking of your budget to your employees. Yasmeen Alli speaks to Nikki Viljoen from Viljoen Consulting to see why it is important to open your budget information to your employees and how this has worked in an extremely tough environment.

This week on Small Biz MBA, Yasmeen Alli takes a look at the tasks that take up the majority of an entrepreneur's time and one of the tasks that comes up most often as something that should be delegated but it's something that takes up a lot of the entrepreneurs time is preparing quotes.George Diab, SAICA registered accountant and MD of Tailor Me joins in studio to discuss the financial mandated requirements for your quotations

In the second season of Small Biz MBA, Yasmeen Alli, Raizcorp's Academy Manager takes us through the fundamentals of selling. She is later joined by Nhlakanipho Shange, Managing Director at AD.IT Solutions about the importance of understanding the basics of selling

In this episode of Small Biz MBA, Raizcorp's Academy Manager, Yasmeen Alli continues the discussion around our sales journey with a look at how to effectively prepare for sales calls. Leandi Streeter, Small Business Expert takes us through what a sales script is and how it is performed.

Yasmeen Ali takes a look at what it is to have financial control over your business. Later she is joined by Ann Ligman, founder of P@wBack (Pty) Ltd. who has a passion for helping businesses - big and small - create and implement financial policies that work for them

“It not what you know, but who you know.” Or so I have heard. That is the truth about networking. It is a vital tool for starting a business, keeping it running and helping it grow. Yasmeen Alli provides some useful definitions and tips for using networking in a way that will best benefit your business.

Yasmeen Alli takes a look at an area where most entrepreneurs feel like they have more control – the creditors control account. Samantha Weldon joins Yasmeen again, to help formulate sound creditors' guidelines.

Today is the digital age and your business website could make or break you so getting it right is essential. Yasmeen Alli, academy manager at Raizcorp, shares everything you need to know about a business website, from the definition, to how to make yours perfect.