Party @ Fourways

Events / Party Photographer
T: 073 232 6865

E: tau@taa.co.za

Mr & Mrs Matji’s Wedding

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To our success,

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Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau

Entrepreneur. Photographer

tel.+2773 232 6865

e-mail. tau@taa.co.za

skype: basi.tau

Mother and Daughter Photo Shoot @ the park

Bonding Session

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____________________

Baleseng ‘Basi‘ Tau

Entrepreneur. Photographer

tel.+2773 232 6865

e-mail. tau@taa.co.za

skype: basi.tau

Innocent Walk

I captured this woman walking in the morning. I liked the way she walked. I saw innocent and the wall with clean straight line finished what I was seeing. She looked very frail and i loved the way she hang her jersey over her shoulders.

An innocent walk in the morning. This is one of the artworks that speaks with me very dearly. I really love old women in my photographs. They are like babies. I see innocence in their faces. They are cute.

She is a sister/mother/aunt/wife and granny to someone.

““Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect”

To our success,

Baleseng  ‘Basi’ Tau

Visionary Entrepreneur (Johannesburg)

Email: tau@taa.co.za

Skype: basi.tau

 

I Feel Inspired

I feel inspired lately and it has been long since I felt like this. I have a drive to do my art, specifically photography. This picture I took while I visited another artist at his studio. The afternoon light captured my eye and I just found it appealing. I didn’t waste much time and froze the moment with my Sony A700. I am exuberantly joyful that I am back doing my art. To me art helps me to relax, rewind and recharge my batteries.

As an entrepreneur, I really need to have something that soothes my stress and energises my spirit. Art to me does that perfectly well. I have incorporated my art into business. Photography is one of my services that I render to clients – companies, people getting married, bridal showers and private parties. I am enjoying the feeling that one gets after every photographic shoot. No shoot is the same. Some are stressfull and some is just laughter from the start to finish.

I feel very inspired. I am inspired and very creative. It would be a great pleasure to come and capture wonderful memories at your event. Get in touch with me.

To our success,

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau

Visionary Entrepreneur (Johannesburg)

Email: tau@taa.co.za

Skype: basi.tau

BBM: 30FEA00D

Entrepreneurship in art institutions

Entrepreneurship for artists is a must and not a privilege.

I am concerned that our art institutions do not incorporate entrepreneurship to the courses / workshops that they offer to aspiring artists. There is no use to produce a good dancer or painter who expects to be employed. These artists end up doing odd jobs here and there for the sake of surviving and as time goes they loose the sense of being artist.

The very same art institutions that teaches them how to dance, should also teach them how to write proposals for funding. Proposal writing should be facilitated by fund raising managers – so there is no excuse that there is NO BUDGET (famous excuse that NGO’s utter – sic). Our country needs more entrepreneurs and more self sustaining artists. Entrepreneurial artists will be able to create jobs by employing 2 or more people in their art projects and some can even open their own training institutions.

As part of their curriculum, entrepreneuship / busisess management should be incorporate in the curriculum. In a case where someone is attending photography classes or dances classes for a year or 2 years, business management workshops should be incorporated somewhere. These business management skills will make a difference in the lives of the trained photographer or a dancer. Most of these art institutions are NGO’s (profesional begging organisations) run and managed by skilled people. Why these people dont share with the artists how to write proposals and starting their own NGO’s too?

Some of these organisation they produce artists who end up working for these organisations and not even exploring their talent out there and challenge the issues with their art.  Very few of these art institutions produce self sustaining artists. It is sad and they kill our art for their greediness. My view is that they do not want to teach the artists to be self sustaining so that they can be able to exploit and exploit them. In johannesburg, newtown – there are a good example of such organisations. If you can go to them and ask to look at their programme offering, very few offer business management or how to start and run a successfull NGO.

How can an institution make an artist an administrator? Why can they hire professional administrators and let the artist develop and hone their art skills further? Are these institutions taking advantage of desperate and hungry artists? If someone does not make noise about this, then we will have few artists who succeed and create their own names in the industry. Our country deserve to have more creative people who are very entrepreneurial.  It does not mean if they teach me photography, printmaking, music or dance I will be able to sell my art to the outside market. The very same institutions makes us artists to feel vulnerable and go back to them and work for them. This strategy enriches them, hence they will give a better excuse why they will not teach business management as part of the programme. We dont just need good dancers or photographers or printmakers, we need good dancers who can create employment and open more and more of art training institutions.

Art institutions should stop being greedy and exploiting artists, they MUST help artists to grow and be themselves. Strategies of starting and running a successful art institutions must be departed to those who complete art programmes.

To our success,

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau

Entrepreneur, Graphic Designer, Photographer, Speaker

E-mail: tau@taa.co.za

Skype: basi.tau

Make A Difference

The most people who will make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credential, the most money or the most awards and recognition. They are the ones who care.  It is small,  and yet it makes a significant difference. It is important to recognise the difference makers in your life. pay more attention and look within your circle of friends.

There are two or more people who are contributing in your growth and well-being because they care, not because of what you have achieved or how much you have in your pockets. Notice how are they doing things and they never boast about it. Yet we never say ‘Thank You’ to them, and we focus on those who have most credentials and most money even if they do not contribute nothing in our lives.

This brings me to an important lesson i learned from a gentleman who always manicures our lawn where i stay. This gentle old man said to me, if you want people to love you and treat you well, you have to love and treat you well. People will sense and see that you are lovable and you deserve to be treated well because you are already treating yourself with love and self-respect. People treat us in a certain way because we teach them how to treat us, directly or indirectly.

As a South Afrikan Youth in business, it is my duty to encourage and inspire other youth in business to treat themselves with love and proper manner, so that their customers can see it from them.   those who have a passion in what they do in business, will clearly be seen in their faces and heard from their voices when making sales presentations.

Those who are and/or who will make a difference with love are those we tend to undermine and term a low class. Do you know the name of the lady that makes tea or cleans at your office or where you work?

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To Your Wonderful  Success

Life Plan

Life plan is important just as in business, we need a business plan. This is a guide that helps leaders to operate and run businesses effectively and efficiently. On a personal level one needs a life plan. This is not as hectic as a business plan, but it contains a structure of your life from today and in the future. It answers the following questions:-

Questions To Guide Your Life Plan

1. Where will you be in 3 – 5 years time from now?
2. How will you get there?
3. What strategies are you currently implementing to get there?
4. Who will help and guide you in getting there?

Answering these basic questions will assist you in developing your life plan. You can apply it in your work situation by mapping how you plan to achieve work related goals. Most of the leaders who plan using this strategy are able to achieve most of their personal and business goals. You do not need an accountant to check the financials in your life plan. It is a living document that can be changed and modified as time goes – as long as you stick to the main goal.

As things do not go well as they sometimes will, you life plan will come in handy. You will go back to it and review your strategies and also you can change them for the better.

Design Your Life Plan

‘If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much..’ This is a time to reflect and design your own life plan and make it a personal guide in your life. The beauty about life plans is that you do not have to take it to banks for approvals, not even your spouse. You are the Leader and CEO of your life, be in charge or someone will be in charge of your life.

Be bold in life and create a plan that will enhance you and most importantly guide you in achieving personal goals. There more you stick to it you will be seen as an achiever and as an authority in your life. You will be respected by those who are around you. If asked what is your reciepe for success? You may simply answer by saying – I have a life plan

As a leader in your life do you have a life plan, like a business plan for your business? Do you know where are you going in life?

Why Multi-Level / Network Marketing Business?

Multilevel or Network Marketing industry is a billion dollar industry that has produced most individual millionaires in comparison to other industries. This industry is growing and developing rapidly on a daily basis. There are so many products that are being moved within the MLM industry. These products and services include health and nutrition supplements; pots; beauty products; water purifiers; clothes; insurance; telecommunications and so many other valuable products.

 

MLM or Network Marketing business has evolved in such a way that products or services can be bought on the internet and delivered to your doorstep using a courier company services. People are now starting to build their wealth / fortune part time using Multilevel Marketing businesses. It is a fact, fortunes are not build in a day, just like any other businesses. Effort and commitment are part of the recipe in building your fortune part time.

 

Network Marketing is misunderstood by most people and in some instances being compared to pyramid schemes. People have been robbed and misled by pyramid scheme people, that is why most are skeptical about the real MLM businesses. Pyramid schemes benefit those who are at the top. MLM businesses offer individuals opportunities to grow and make more money than the people who have sponsored them. In most cases, pyramid schemes do not have a tangible product or service that people who join will be able to see or sell it. Founders of pyramid schemes always hide their identities and their physical addresses. When pyramids collapse, those who are at the bottom end up losers. MLM businesses with proper compensation plans benefit everyone, those who are at the top and those who are at the bottom.

 

In MLM businesses an independent business owner can make his fortune by sponsoring people in his business and also by sharing (retailing) the benefits of the products / services. This business can be build with 5 or 6 serious, dedicated and commited people. This business involves a lot of Teaching, Sponsoring and Sharing. You sponsor people, teach them how to sponsor and help them to maintain their independent businesses, also encouraging them to use the products that they are retailing as it will be easy to share the benefits with the products.

 

Most people do not want to join MLM business opportunities because they think they will have to be door to door sales representatives. Years before door to door strategies have worked. Today, things are being done differently. Products are now being moved by SHARING the benefits with family members, relatives, friends and friends of friends. To illustrate this further, in most cases we often share the experiences (benefits) we had at a particular restaurant with people we know and we will even refer them. We do the marketing for the restaurant and yet we do not get paid. In Network Marketing we refer (share the benefits) and get paid all the way. Payments do not stop as long as we Sponsor, Teach and Share.

 

I used to sell a lot in a company that I am representing, now I share the benefits and the results are phenomenal. I am now sharing my experiences and I am telling you that, joining a Network Marketing does not mean you have to be a door to door salesperson. You can set your own targets and achieve them at your own time. The more you share the benefits of the products, some people will even see you as an expert of those products and will ask you how to join your business –  Sponsoring will happen automatically. People will ask you to join your business – See! No door to door sales.

 

I am a visionary entrepreneur within the Multi Level Marketing / Network Marketing industry. I am passionate about helping people to become better leaders and start working on their fortune part time while making a living full time.

 

To your success,

 

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau

Visionary Entrepreneur

E-mail: tau@taa.co.za

Skype: basi.tau

What makes a Leader a LEADER

Leader

‘The day people stop bringing you their problems, is the day you have stopped leading them’ Colin Powell. This is an interesting quote I found in one of the public speaking books at our library in Mogale City. It sparked a conversation with myself about leadership. I asked myself ‘What is it that makes a leader a leader?

Here are the few pointers I gathered regarding what makes a leader a leader. These can be applied in NETWORK MARKETING too

• UP-LINES / Team Leaders work with and through people (Down-lines) and groups to  accomplish organizational goals.

• Leadership is influencing human behaviour, regardless of the goal.

• Leading through a positive example and one that is worth emulating is probably one of  the more tried-and-tested leadership styles.  Up-lines provide support to your team members

• Establish A Clear Vision. The team leader and team members know the strategic focus of the organisation and how to articulate it clearly and simply to anyone.

• Assist Your Down-lines / Team Members. As the leader, you need to help your Team Members see how their position relates to organisation’s strategic focus, and tell them how  important they are to the organisation.

• Recognise Good Work. If you catch your employees doing something right,  praise them for it. Recognition goes a long way towards building a loyal workforce.

• Communicate Widely And Regularly. Communicate with everyone in your organisation in a variety of ways on a regular basis, not just every now and then. For example, start holding weekly staff meetings, initiate individual conversations with your team, start a newsletter or blog.

• Consult With Your Team. Create a sense of pride in your team by asking them for their opinions, when appropriate, about changes in the organisation. Even if you don’t always use their ideas, they’ll really appreciate just being asked.

• Incentivise Employees. If you give bonuses for strong performance, give them a choice between cash or something more personal. If they choose the latter, know what your team members like to do in their time off with hobbies and interests. Then send your hiking hobbyist on a mountain trip for two in a beautiful cabin next to spectacular hiking trails. Or offer your shopaholic assistant a gift certificate to their favourite store. They’ll remember these gestures much longer than a standard bonus – although others will prefer the cash to pay off bills. All will think of you fondly when they do.

• Respond Rather Than React. Here’s the last and perhaps most important tip: When it comes to your emotions, remember to respond to your team members rather  than react to them. For instance, if an employee comes to you and says the  numbers are off by R50 000 and you react by saying: “What? Are you crazy! How  could that be?” that employee will probably not want to share information with  you next time around. But if you respond by saying: “Help me to understand how you arrived at that number”, you’ll exhibit genuine concern and let your  employees know that you’re there to help.

Remember, becoming a great leader is a learning process that never ends. Great leaders enjoy the challenges and the lessons learned, even when they’re painful.

I am a visionary entrepreneur within the Printing and Network Marketing industry and I help people create wealth in this industry. If you know people who need to start working on their fortune part time while making a living full time, please refer them to me.

To your success,

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau

Visionary Entrepreneur

tau@taa.co.za

Skype:  basi.tau