Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) have been urged to take advantage of events that would equip them with the requisite knowledge to grow their businesses for corporate Ghana.
Miss Anita Wiafe, Managing Director of Occupational Management Limited (OML) Africa, a Human Resource Management institution made the call at the opening session of a two-day International Conference and Exhibition dubbed ‘Business Sense 2011’ in Accra on Thursday.
It is on the theme “Turning ideas into profitable businesses to drive Ghana’s private sector”.
She explained that the conference was to provide the necessary know-how and skills for SMEs to grow and help individuals to start-up businesses.
Miss Wiafe said although most people would like to start businesses, they thought about access to loans from financial institutions, but that there were other alternatives to begin businesses.
She said they could engage in online marketing or produce fliers to publicise their business.
Miss Wiafe said the conference would help business start-ups by equipping them to better manage their businesses and sustained to create jobs and improve the living standards of Ghanaians.
The maiden “Business Sense” held this year, would be organised annually to equip individuals and companies with the knowledge to make good business decisions.
The exhibition was to allow businesses to showcase their services and products to a high-calibre business-oriented audience and to network with visitors on a face to face basis.
Most of the exhibitors said they expected to publicise their services and products while others were to network with distributors for their products.