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How to Hire and Keep Talent You Can’t Outbid For

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

You will never win a bidding war against the banks, the multinationals and the visa. Stop fighting on the salary line — and start winning on the deal. The Problem, Lived “Omar” runs a fourteen-person IT services firm in Kingston, and by any fair measure he is one of the best developers of young talent...

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How to Expand Across Caribbean Markets

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Caribbean is not one market. It is a chain of small ones — and regional expansion fails when it is treated as the same business at a new address The Problem, Lived “Danielle” makes natural skincare products in Kingston — a brand strong enough that a Trinidadian distributor sought her out at a regional...

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How to Choose the Right Technology and ERP Without Wasting Money” — the ERPSURE

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The most expensive software in the world is the software that never gets used. Selection is a discipline — and the one party who cannot do it for you is the vendor The Problem, Lived “Trevor” runs a building-materials distribution business in Nassau, and somewhere in his office is a folder he cannot look...

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How to Digitally Transform on a Small-Business Budget

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Digital transformation is not a budget line reserved for big companies. It is a sequence of small, compounding decisions — and the most expensive mistake is buying technology before fixing process The Problem, Lived “Keisha” runs three bakery-cafés in Kingston, and her business runs on paper, memory and WhatsApp. Orders live in duplicate books; the...

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How to Escape Founder Dependence: Stop Being the Bottleneck

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

If the business cannot run for two weeks without you, you do not own a business. You own a job with employees — and it owns you back. The Problem, Lived “Andre” runs an electrical contracting firm in Castries — eighteen staff, a respected name, a solid book of commercial clients across St. Lucia. He...

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How to Finance Growth Beyond Bank Debt

July 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The bank loan is one tool in the financing toolbox. Across the Caribbean, it is treated as the whole toolbox — and growth is being rationed to fit it. The Problem, Lived “Natalie” built her Kingston agro-processing company — sauces and seasonings — from a home kitchen to a small factory over nine years. Then...

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How to Price for Profit in Caribbean Markets

July 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Pricing is the most powerful profit lever a business owns — and the only one most owners pull once, by fear, and never touch again. The Problem, Lived “Marcus” builds custom furniture in a workshop outside Port of Spain — good work, a strong reputation, a full order book. Last year was the busiest in...

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How to Get Paid: Mastering Receivables and Working Capital

July 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Your business may already own all the cash it needs. It is simply being stored in other people’s bank accounts — and on your own shelves. The Problem, Lived “Simone” runs a food-and-beverage distribution business out of Bridgetown, supplying hotels, restaurants and supermarkets across the island. Last month she sat across from a bank officer...

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How to Fix Your Cash Flow Before It Kills Your Business

July 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Profit is an opinion. Cash is a fact. Businesses do not die of unprofitability — they die of running out of cash, and many die profitable. The Problem, Lived It is Thursday afternoon, and “Devon” is doing the arithmetic he does every Thursday afternoon. Payroll runs tomorrow: that number is fixed. The equipment lease is...

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How to Build Governance into a Family-Owned Business

July 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The trust that built your family business is real. But trust without structure is not governance — it is luck, and luck runs out at the worst possible moments. The Problem, Lived Consider “the Grants,” whose building-supplies business has fed three households for twenty-two years. The founder still signs every cheque. His daughter runs operations...

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