Year in Review: 2024
Last year was the first time I ever did a review of the past year and set some goals for 2024. I will now do it again, review how I did in 2024, and set some new goals for 2025. If you would like to check out last year’s
Eugene Scheepers
The customer is always right, sometimes..
Remember, the customer is always right
One of the first things anyone who thinks they know something about business tells you is: “Remember, the customer is always right.”
I am here today to call bullshit on this. It is true sometimes, but not always.
I’ve been running ecommerce businesses
Stop focusing on the competition
A common pitfall of running a business, is focusing on the competition. Why is this? Well, it is probably the easiest place to get inspiration, ideas, and learn what not to do.
It’s tempting to focus on the competition
When I started out, I did this much more than
The Entrepreneur's Dilemma
All the time in the world, but what to do with it?
My reason for becoming an entrepreneur has never been to make money. It’s also not about the status. I don’t even like telling people I am an entrepreneur. After almost 4 years of not being employed,
Finding your passion and other lies
Find your passion and you’ll never work a day in your life.
How many times have you heard the statement above? The problem is, it’s easy to say it but much harder to actually do.
The Unrealistic Expectations
The point in time when we’re supposed to find
How hiring an assistant has been the best thing i've done in 2024 so far
At first you do everything
When I started The Daily Wine, I went from wearing one hat as a Mechanical Engineer to wearing multiple hats at the same time:
* Customer Support
* Placing Orders
* Processing Invoices
* Finances
* Marketing
* Planning
* Coding
When you start a business, it’s not necessarily that you
Never ask for friends & family discount
Picture this..
You have an idea and you’ve spent a few years dreaming about starting your business. The simple act of making the decision to pursue your dreams is much harder than most people think. Which is why the average person never does it.
If you are lucky, you
Call your parents
My parents visit
Recently we had the privilege of my parents coming to visit us from Namibia. We stay in Cape Town, about 1200km’s from them and we don’t get to see them very often.
We had a lovely time, laughed ourselves into tears, drank too much beer
Optimise for joy
Something to consider..
What is one thing in your life, which if it did not exists, would result in significantly more joy?
Here’s my example:
We moved into our current house ± 5 years ago. In our back yard, we have a Bougainvillea (yes that’s how you spell it,
Sharpening my coding axe
I believe it’s important to continually work on yourself and improve. The more time I spend building my own companies, I see opportunities all around me, especially in the online/web space. Some of these require coding skills and some of them don’t.
Ecommerce has a low barrier