Our marketing strategy will be based mainly on making the right service(s) available to the right target customer. We will ensure that our services’ prices take into consideration organizations’ and peoples’ budgets, and that these people know that we exist, appreciate the value of our services, and how to contact us. The marketing will convey the sense of quality in every picture, every promotion, and every publication. Our intension will be to target those individuals and groups looking for leisure activities and places to visit. We realize the need to focus our marketing message and our service offerings. We need to develop our message, communicate it, and make good on it. The decision to establish strategic alliances with several hotels, lodges and travel agencies is aimed at tapping our target market effectively and efficiently.
We have identified competing companies, some firmly established, that fill the same needs as Sephats Tours. We intend to market ourselves in such a way that with time competitor customers will choose our service over competitors’ on the basis of our higher quality and informative excursions. A more thorough outline of our main competitors including their strengths and weaknesses follows:
Upon closer analysis of the above competitors it may be observed that the majority of these are offering safari excursions, and this represents an opportunity to be realized by us. According to the Central Statistics Office there are approximately 81 travel agents, tour operators and safari operators in Botswana at present, the majority of which have a South African background either in directorship or actual origin.
Our advantages are best described as our strengths:
The keys to Sephats Tours success will undoubtedly be effective market segmentation through identification of several niche markets and implementation strategies. Along these lines the company intends to implement advertising, personal selling and direct marketing strategies to the target markets. Our personal selling marketing strategies will rotate around keeping in touch with hotels and travel agencies for major customers, and advertising for more individual customers. Hence our key success factors will include the following:
Marketing plan.
One core element of our strategy will be that of differentiation from our competitors. In terms of marketing we intend to ensure that our name and services are marketed on an extensive basis so that customers are aware of our existence. We will have a Social Media Strategy. We will be in Twitter, on Facebook, and on LinkedIn. We will run promotions and sales and have our customers tell us their favorite vacations, and experiences and they will talk to each other. In price, we intend to offer reasonable and competitive prices in comparison to competition and we need to be able to sustain that. Our service marketing will strive to ensure that we establish long relationships with clients.
For the short term at least, the selling process will depend on personal selling/networking and advertising to lure and inform potential customers about the services we offer and the benefits of utilizing our services. Our marketing does not intend to affect the perception of need as much as knowledge and awareness of the service category.
At present the company offices are located at Plot Number 28338, Block 3, Belabela road opposite Gaborone Television Station, near Hill Crest Primary School. However, as time progresses the intention is to move into more accessible and attractive offices in a prime area. This regardless of the fact that our type of business is not too dependent on office location and size.
Sephats Tours will strive to ensure that it contains the latest, or extremely recent personal computer including relevant software so as to ensure that the company is continuously at the forefront in our market arena. The one certainty in our industry is that technology will continue to evolve and develop, changing what we market as well as how we market it. Our aim will be to be aware of the implications of this new technology and utilizing it in our existing framework where possible. However it should be noted that as we are new on the market it will take some time before we have in place our own website and other multimedia presentations. With time we also intend to have the latest and most efficient software in place to enable smooth operations.
Key metrics.
Our Key metrics are:
Sephats Tours is a Private Limited company incorporated at the Registrar of Companies through the foresight and vision of Mr. X and Mrs. Y. It is a 100% wholly owned Botswana firm.
The founders of Sephats Tours are passionate about the activities it will promote and offer on the market. Management style will reflect the participation of the directors/shareholders. The company intends to respect its community and treat all employees well. We will develop and nurture the company as community. However we realize that we are not fully conversant in tourism and as such intend to engage experienced staff as well as undergo a training course from a reputable institution.
The Managing Director’s experience in public commercial transportation and government will assist in the establishment of good networks. He also has attended a course in Auto Mechanics at X Centre that will assist in servicing the vehicles. However acknowledging the importance of continuous training and improvement the Managing Director intends to undergo a course in Travel and Tourism so as to be fully conversant in the field, as well as obtain knowledge of the latest developments in the industry.
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
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Accountant | P30,000 | P33,000 | P36,300 |
Tourguide | P24,000 | P26,400 | P29,040 |
Sales and Marketing | P21,600 | P23,760 | P26,136 |
Driver | P18,000 | P18,900 | P19,845 |
Personal Assistant | P14,400 | P15,840 | P17,424 |
Cleaner (2) | P14,400 | P15,120 | P15,876 |
Nightwatchman (2) | P14,400 | P15,120 | P15,876 |
Mechanic (0.67) | P15,000 | P17,000 | |
Totals | P136,800 | P163,140 | P177,497 |
Key assumptions.
Some of the more important underlying assumptions are:
Expenses by month, net profit (or loss) by year, use of funds.
Thus far we have purchased a Mercedes Benz mini bus to run tours for our customers, for P167,00, which was purchased with P32,000 down and the rest on a 5-year 6% loan. Other start-up expenses covered include legal costs, business plan compilation, license costs and related expenses.
START-UP REQUIREMENTS
Start-up Expenses
TOTAL START-UP EXPENSES P5,000
We have 2 investors, investor 1 is investing P100,000, investor 2 is investing 102,000.
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
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Revenue | P678,000 | P802,000 | P916,000 |
Direct Costs | P325,440 | P384,960 | P439,680 |
Gross Margin | P352,560 | P417,040 | P476,320 |
Gross Margin % | 52% | 52% | 52% |
Operating Expenses | |||
Salaries & Wages | P136,800 | P163,140 | P177,497 |
Employee Related Expenses | P27,360 | P32,628 | P35,499 |
Rent | P14,400 | P14,400 | P14,400 |
Sales and Marketing | P101,700 | P120,300 | P137,400 |
Insurance | P12,000 | P12,000 | P12,000 |
Travel | P1,800 | P1,800 | P1,800 |
Miscellaneous | P2,400 | P2,400 | P2,400 |
Maintenance | P12,000 | P12,000 | P12,000 |
Startup Expenses | P5,000 | ||
Total Operating Expenses | P313,460 | P358,668 | P392,996 |
Operating Income | P39,100 | P58,372 | P83,324 |
Interest Incurred | P7,451 | P5,978 | P4,416 |
Depreciation and Amortization | P16,700 | P16,700 | P16,700 |
Gain or Loss from Sale of Assets | |||
Income Taxes | P2,242 | P5,354 | P9,332 |
Total Expenses | P665,293 | P771,660 | P863,124 |
Net Profit | P12,707 | P30,340 | P52,876 |
Net Profit/Sales | 2% | 4% | 6% |
Starting Balances | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
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Cash | P25,365 | P46,323 | P57,282 | |
Accounts Receivable | P43,500 | P40,100 | P45,800 | |
Inventory | ||||
Other Current Assets | ||||
Total Current Assets | P68,865 | P86,423 | P103,082 | |
Long-Term Assets | P167,000 | P167,000 | P167,000 | |
Accumulated Depreciation | (P16,700) | (P33,400) | (P50,100) | |
Total Long-Term Assets | P150,300 | P133,600 | P116,900 | |
Total Assets | P219,165 | P220,023 | P219,982 | |
Accounts Payable | P26,085 | P22,827 | P25,820 | |
Income Taxes Payable | P2,242 | P1,360 | P2,355 | |
Sales Taxes Payable | P0 | P0 | P0 | |
Short-Term Debt | P23,869 | P25,342 | P26,905 | P28,564 |
Prepaid Revenue | ||||
Total Current Liabilities | P23,869 | P53,669 | P51,092 | P56,739 |
Long-Term Debt | P111,131 | P85,789 | P58,885 | P30,321 |
Long-Term Liabilities | P111,131 | P85,789 | P58,885 | P30,321 |
Total Liabilities | P135,000 | P139,458 | P109,977 | P87,060 |
Paid-In Capital | P202,000 | P202,000 | P202,000 | |
Retained Earnings | (P135,000) | (P135,000) | (P122,293) | (P121,953) |
Earnings | P12,707 | P30,340 | P52,876 | |
Total Owner’s Equity | (P135,000) | P79,707 | P110,047 | P132,923 |
Total Liabilities & Equity | P0 | P219,165 | P220,023 | P219,982 |
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
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Net Cash Flow from Operations | |||
Net Profit | P12,707 | P30,340 | P52,876 |
Depreciation & Amortization | P16,700 | P16,700 | P16,700 |
Change in Accounts Receivable | (P43,500) | P3,400 | (P5,700) |
Change in Inventory | |||
Change in Accounts Payable | P26,085 | (P3,258) | P2,993 |
Change in Income Tax Payable | P2,242 | (P882) | P995 |
Change in Sales Tax Payable | P0 | P0 | P0 |
Change in Prepaid Revenue | |||
Net Cash Flow from Operations | P14,234 | P46,300 | P67,864 |
Investing & Financing | |||
Assets Purchased or Sold | (P167,000) | ||
Net Cash from Investing | (P167,000) | ||
Investments Received | P202,000 | ||
Dividends & Distributions | (P30,000) | ||
Change in Short-Term Debt | P1,472 | P1,563 | P1,659 |
Change in Long-Term Debt | (P25,342) | (P26,905) | (P28,564) |
Net Cash from Financing | P178,131 | (P25,342) | (P56,905) |
Cash at Beginning of Period | P0 | P25,365 | P46,323 |
Net Change in Cash | P25,365 | P20,958 | P10,959 |
Cash at End of Period | P25,365 | P46,323 | P57,282 |
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President Joe Biden urged skeptical Democrats to challenge him on the convention floor. But under a controversial plan, he would already be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee when delegates gather in Chicago.
Top national Democrats have pledged to move ahead with a virtual roll call vote, which would head off any messy fight on the convention floor. Legally speaking , it would also make it far more difficult to replace Biden once he is formally declared the nominee.
This is why some of Biden's biggest skeptics are railing against the plan.
"Fast-forwarding the nomination process is no way to convince the many unconvinced voters in the growing number of battleground states," Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas said in a statement. "Those so eager to overly protect President Biden ignore his own words inviting anyone questioning his nomination to do so at the Convention."
In a letter to other top Democrats, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Leah Daughtry, who co-lead the Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee, defended the plan to move forward with the virtual vote. They said a Friday meeting would further discuss how the vote would work.
"We will not be implementing a rushed virtual voting process, though we will begin our important consideration of how a virtual voting process would work," they wrote.
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Walz said a vote would not happen before August 1. Each of the more than 4,000 delegates elected to participate in the national convention would be able to vote in a virtual vote. Josh Putnam, a respected expert on the delegate selection process, wrote on X that it is possible that superdelegates, which include influential party leaders, could vote as well.
Doggett was the first congressional Democrat to call on the president to step aside in the wake of Biden's disastrous debate performance — 19 other Democrats have now joined him. As Doggett pointed out, Biden once goaded skeptical Democrats to challenge him on the floor in Chicago.
"I'm getting frustrated by the elites in the party, 'Oh, they know so much more,'" Biden said during an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on July 8. "Any of these guys that don't think I should run, run against me. Announce for president, challenge me at the convention."
Ostensibly, Democrats are pressing ahead because they are concerned that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris might not make the ballot in every state. The Democratic National Committee began putting a back-up plan in May when Ohio looked like it could not change its ballot deadline. Since then, Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, called a special session of the state legislature. On May 31, he signed a law ensuring Biden would be on the ballot.
But some of the party's top leaders are still not convinced.
"If we were in a simpler time, we've trusted each other and got it done," Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, speaking at a news conference on behalf of Biden's reelection, told reporters in Milwaukee, per CNN.
Walz added, "I don't trust them in Ohio to do this."
In their letter, Walz and Daughtry also cited concerns about deadlines in Washington, Montana, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison got into a heated back-and-forth with journalist Nate Silver, who rose to fame as an election analyst, on Tuesday after Silver repeatedly pointed out that Ohio had changed its law.
"Love y'all but when it comes to election law and ballot access, I put my trust in our legal team who make a living understanding these laws and processes & not in the pollster who promised us the red wave. #ClassDismissed," Harrison said, misidentifying Silver's profession.
There's no 8/7 deadline. You're making that up. Ohio passed legislation so that whomever is nominated at the Democratic Convention will be on the November ballot. Have some guts and defend your party's ability to follow its own process. And stop lying to the American public. https://t.co/OXl0SAPpld — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 17, 2024
Election law experts have called out Democrats' justifications, saying they are really just designed to help Biden run out the clock on any challenge.
"Respectfully, these are makeweight arguments designed to deflect attention from the Biden/DNC plan to run out the clock, which has been discernible since at least early last week," University of Wisconsin Law School Dean Daniel Tokaji wrote on an election blog hosted by fellow respected expert Rick Hasen, a law professor at UCLA.
Hasen has called out the claim that Ohio could try to bait and switch Democrats. He argued that if something like that were to occur, then Democrats could use the statements of Ohio Republican leaders in a potential lawsuit.
"I don't think it's serious to say that Democrats need do a virtual roll call to assure their party's nominee will be on the ballot. This is about politics, not law," Hasen wrote.
Biden has repeatedly declared he's not going anywhere. He's stepped up his campaign schedule and granted more interviews. Still, the doubts about his standing persist, especially after two shaky interviews earlier this week.
An unnamed House Democrat told Politico, "Quiet efforts continue to urge the president to step aside, and team Biden remains dug in."
An AP-NORC poll is likely to fuel those doubts. The poll, which was released on Wednesday, found that nearly 2/3rds of Democrats want Biden to step aside.
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Banks, airports, TV stations, health care organizations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread disruption, after Windows machines have displayed errors worldwide.
In the early hours of Friday, companies in Australia running Microsoft’s Windows operating system started reporting devices showing Blue Screens of Death (BSODs). Shortly after, reports of disruptions started flooding in from around the world, including from the UK, India, Germany, the Netherlands, and the US: TV station Sky News went offline, and US airlines United, Delta, and American Airlines issued a “ global ground stop ” on all flights.
The widespread Windows outages have been linked to a software update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike. It is believed the issues are not linked to a malicious cyberattack, cybersecurity officials say, but rather stem from a misconfigured/corrupted update that CrowdStrike pushed out to its customers.
“Earlier today, a CrowdStrike update was responsible for bringing down a number of IT systems globally," said a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement. "We are actively supporting customers to assist in their recovery.”
Engineers from CrowdStrike posted to the company’s Reddit forum that it has seen “widespread reports of BSODs on Windows hosts” occurring across its software, is working on the problem, and has advised a workaround for impacted systems . It also issued instructions to its customers in an advisory .
The incident has only impacted devices running Windows and not other operating systems. It's unclear exactly how widespread the issues are and how long they will take to resolve.
Hours after the issues started to emerge, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz issued a statement about the outages, saying the company has found a “defect” in an update for Windows that it issued. “This is not a security incident or cyberattack,” Kurtz said . “The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed.” In the statement, Kurtz confirmed that Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted by the update and said that its customers should refer to its support portal. He later apologized for the incident during a television interview .
At the same time as the CrowdStrike issues emerged, Microsoft was also dealing with its own, apparently unrelated, outage of its Azure cloud services . The company says the two incidents are not linked.
The outages could result in “millions” being lost by organizations impacted who have had to halt their operations or stop business, says Lukasz Olejnik, an independent cybersecurity consultant, who says the CrowdStrike update appears to be linked to its Falcon Sensor product. The Falcon system is part of CrowdStrike’s security tools and can block attacks on systems , according to the company.
“It reminds us about our dependence on IT and software,” Olejnik says. “When a system has several software systems maintained by various vendors, this is equivalent to placing trust on them. They may be a single point of failure—like here, when various firms feel the impact.”
The outage stemming from the CrowdStrike update has had a huge knock-on impact on public services and businesses around the world. Scores of airports are facing delays and long queues, with one passenger in India sharing a hand-written boarding pass that they have been issued. In the hours after the outages first emerged, more than 4,000 flights around the world have been canceled, although not all of them may have been directly linked to the disruption .
Within health care and emergency services, various medical providers around the world have reported issues with their Windows-linked systems, sharing news on social media or their own websites. The US Emergency Alert System, which issues hurricane warnings, said that there had been various 911 outages in a number of states. In Portland, mayor Ted Wheeler declared a city emergency as a result of some of the outages, although also said many systems were being restored. White House officials say president Joe Biden has been "briefed" on the CrowdStrike outages and his team is monitoring the situation.
Germany’s University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein said it was canceling some nonurgent surgeries at two locations . In Israel, more than a dozen hospitals have been impacted, as well as pharmacies, with reports saying ambulances have been rerouted to unimpacted medical organizations.
In the UK, NHS England has confirmed that GP appointment and patient record systems have been affected by the outages. One hospital has declared a “critical” incident after a third-party IT system it used was impacted. Also in the country, train operators have said there are delays across the network, with multiple companies being impacted.
Indicating the far-reaching nature of the disruption, the organizers of the Paris Olympics, which is due to start next week, said that its systems have been impacted in a “limited way.” According to a statement from the organizers, the affected systems are linked to the delivery of uniforms and its ticketing system hasn’t been impacted.
Among other services, CrowdStrike provides endpoint detection and response (EDR) to companies around the world. This EDR technology runs on thousands of “endpoints”—such as computers, ATMs, and internet-of-things devices—and scans them to identify real-time threats, such as malicious activity from cybercriminals. The company has more than 24,000 customers around the world.
Cybersecurity researcher Kevin Beaumont posted on X that he has seen a copy of the CrowdStrike update that was issued and says the file isn’t properly formatted and “causes Windows to crash every time.” Beaumont says, in further posts, that it appears there isn’t an automated way to fix the issues, at least currently. This may mean that impacted machines need to be manually rebooted before they can come back online, a process that could take hours or days depending on the impacted entity.
Brody Nisbet, the director of overwatch at CrowdStrike, also posted on X indicating that the workaround fix the company had issued involves booting up Windows machines into safe mode, finding a file called “C-00000291*.sys,” deleting it, and then rebooting the machine normally. “There is a fix of sorts so some devices in between BSODs should pick up the new channel file and remain stable,” Nisbet posted.
Update 7/19/24 1:35pm ET: This story has been updated with further comment from Microsoft, and additional details about the outage's impacts.
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The global software outage last week caused thousands of travelers flying in the United States and internationally to have their flights delayed, canceled or both. In the days that followed, some airlines were trying to reboot critical computer systems affected by the outage, with many of their passengers still stranded at airports.
During a travel meltdown, it may seem nearly impossible for air travelers to find immediate help . Gate agents are swamped, customer service phone lines have hourslong hold times, and seemingly confusing or incomplete instructions online only add to the headaches.
Passengers who foot the bill for last-minute lodging and other expenses are entitled to reimbursement if their flights were impacted by an event in the airlines’ control, like the CrowdStrike outage. Here’s how to get your money back.
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It is the airline’s fault when a situation under their control — issues with crew, maintenance, baggage and fuel, or software outages — leads to a delay or cancellation. Weather and air traffic control issues do not count. On Friday, the Transportation Department noted that this I.T. outage fell under the control of the airlines.
What passengers will get from airlines depends on how long they were forced to wait, but it could include transport to and from hotels and the costs of accommodation.
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