BusinessWarriors  South Africa
 

South Africa's Leading Online Business Owner Community

We've been answering your tough questions since 2004

We're Five Years Old March 4, 2009

Business Warriors started on March 4, 2004, as Crashproof your Business.

The site initially held just the CrashProof strategies and a Forum. The first concept was to reach people that had not been through a CrashProof Seminar.  Peter Carruthers was tired of the rising costs and frustrations - all of which took most of the fun out of the training process.

Within the first week 400 people joined the community. Each person had already attended the CrashProof seminar. Some of them twice! They seemed more interested in the concept of an online group for sharing, since most had already acted on the ideas and were pretty impregnable.

Five years later the group consists of more than 1000 members. Many of the original members remain, with more than 80% of the community having been in the group for more than 2 years.

The site has grown to offer a lot more material, and the Forum now contains more than 17,000 threads (themes) with more than 142,000 posts (individual responses).

 

 

 

Pring And Conditions for Business Warriors

Over the past four years, of being a Business Warrior, I found myself referring back to the Warrior forum whenever I needed help or advice on basically anything. Whether it is about what kind of cellphone to buy or how to go about applying for a homeloan. The best thing I learnt though was how to crashproof our business. We had an overdraft of  R500K as well as a short term business loan of the same amount and signed sureties for it at the bank. The bank made a huge amount of profit through incredible interests whilst holding us ransom through the sureties. We have since gotten rid of this debt as well as the sureties involved. In these trying economic times we have Business Warriors and Peter Carruthers to thank for it.


Johann Joubert has been a Warrior since August 2005 and can be found at johann@booksaonline.com


Business Warriors is the perfect platform, and resource centre to any entrepreneur in SA


Nigel Hamilton has been a Warrior since July 2005 and can be found at www.home911.co.za


Boy, did business warriors answer all the questions I had about running a small business.

All I can say is thank you to Peter Carruthers and all the business warriors who have helped me grow my business.  Without them I would not have succeeded.


Michael Cowen has been a Warrior since March 2008 and can be found at www.contextbranding.co.za


I wish I had read Cash Proof ten years ago. I would be a lot less stressed and a good deal wealthier. Never the less I am inspired by your comments and writing. Keep up the good work.

 


Graeme Keshwar has been a Warrior since October 2009 and can be found at www.pkvending.co.za