About Us

Scaling Small Businesses

The SMME Bottomline is a business network that supports operational small businesses.

With over 70% of small businesses in South Africa failing within 5 years, it is our hope that with a more structured support mechanism, more small businesses will remain in business for longer. We want to improve the statistics by supporting SMME’s with sustainable business models, market insights and motivation, thus developing momentum towards organic growth.

The SMME Bottomline focuses on engaging business owners about the daily challenge of staying in business. Our ethos as business owners is to grow with dignity, SMME initiatives should not be applications for funding, growth should come from directed market positioning and investment.

We strive to ignite the passion of our business owners to re-invent themselves, while identifying tangible opportunities that impact returns towards a stronger bottom line.

MISSION

Provide adequate technical support to improve the sustainability of small businesses. TSB seeks to deliver clarity quickly, by engaging with the opportunities – big business is trying to create and mapping out the potential pathways for success. Starting with compliance, the aim is to do more, by investigating every opportunity so that our members are positioned to make a knowledgeable decision on the way forward.