In every presentation skills class, at least one participant asks how to get around their tendency to use filler words. Also known as “crutches” and “disfluencies”, they are words  like “umm”, “you know,” “like”, “ I think”, and “right?”. While there is nothing wrong...

Friends, "it's not about disappearing in the ocean, but of becoming the ocean." This is the key, right? It can be so hard to let go of something - an expectation, an idea or opinion, a way of living or even a person. Often, the overriding fear is that we will lose...

Would you ever choose to watch a bad movie twice? Probably not. Yet when it comes to something we dread or even something painful that happened in the past, we replay it repeatedly. Every time you play the movie in your mind, the picture gets brighter, and the sounds...

The trend among many of the top MBA degrees in the world is that they are now including sales training as part of their programme. I believe that the chasm between on-the-ground entrepreneurial experience and the academic curricular of many of the top entrepreneurial...

Regular blog posts can be a crucial part of any digital marketing strategy, especially when it comes to improving your website’s ranking in search engines. Here are a few reasons why posting regular blog posts are essential for your site’s ranking: Fresh content:...

Happy new year to you! For the last ten years my most-quickly-broken resolution has been to spend less time on social media. But I have recently come to appreciate that, while I probably do spend too much time on Instagram and Twitter, reading people’s posts gives me...

You have two kinds of people: someone who says that they have twenty years of experience or someone who has repeated the same year twenty times. You don't learn from your experience; you learn from reflecting on your experience and this time of year is a golden...

Hi friends, Have you ever had a burning desire, an almost 'other worldly' nudge to get something out into the world? The right people seem to cross your path and inspiration appears out of nowhere? Well, that's what the past year has been like for me. It began when I...

Over the past 20 years, Raizcorp CEO Allon Raiz has learned many tough lessons and overcome many entrepreneurial challenges. He has also had the privilege of learning from the journeys of over 13 000 entrepreneurs who have passed through Raizcorp. In this series of...

It is 4:30 in the morning. I am sitting in my study and thinking about my client who asked me to evaluate his social media marketing strategy. My mind wonders back to my meeting. Martin, my client, calls in Peter to join the conversation about Facebook. “How many...