04 Apr 2019

Among the 47 uplifting entrepreneur quotes published in hubspotblog, there is one that states that “you have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.”

This is what young aspiring entrepreneur, Ms Kesego Moeng (25), did after she failed her Cambridge examination certificate.  

Instead of drowning in her sorrows, she got up, dusted herself and chose to focus on what she may gain than lose.

Ms Moeng decided to look for a part time job so that she could finance herself to re-write subjects she failed so as to improve her results entirely.

She typed a one page curriculum vitae bearing only her personal details as she did not have any impressive educational record to write about.

With that one page document, Ms Moeng hit the streets to look for a job.

Her first stop was a restaurant in 2012 where she looked for a waitress job.  

Although her CV was nothing to write home about, Ms Moeng knew she had to rely on one thing only.

She was convinced that her outgoing character would do the trick.

When she got to the restaurant, she said, she put on nerves of steel faced the restaurant manager and told her that she needed a part time job as a waitress because she wanted to finance her studies.  

She said she managed to do that within the shortest time possible with eloquence and boldness.

She knew she needed to state her case spot on to save the manager a long story.  

She said normally the requirement for such a position before one could be hired, was to undergo a trial lasting seven days.

To her surprise, Ms Moeng said the manager threw a waitress apron to her and told her to go on for trials immediately and was hired on the fourth day instead of seven.

Ms Moeng knew she had to do more to prove that she deserved the position and offered top notch service to her customers.  

On two occasions, she impressed regular customers receiving good tips and the customers made sure they put in good word for her at the manager’s office.

She says because she was such a good communicator and always wearing a beautiful smile on her face, this earned her another job from a competitor who was setting shop in the same area.

The new employers sent her for training in South Africa just three weeks in her new job. Training lasted a month.

In 2012, when she returned from training she worked for a short while and she landed another job this time at SADC as a help desk officer after she had offered exceptional service for the SADC officials at the new restaurant.

As fate would have it, after three years having been with SADC, Ms Moeng was among some staff members who got retrenched in 2015.  

A year later, she again got another job offer in the department of health as a temporary administration officer.

When her contract ended, she was unemployed once again.

With these setbacks she knew she had to re-invent herself. She took her character and all the skills she acquired and developed them into a business.  

She established her company Vision Bound in July 2018.  

The company specialises in events management, brand management, hospitality management and professional ushering services.  

The company was launched early January this year.

The company offers a totally new concept centered on offering ushering services to other companies and events.  Vision Bound want businesses to look at their clients and guests in a whole new different dimension.  

They purport that because clients bring in business, they need to be taken care off.  

At the end of the day, happy clients surely will definitely come back for services or even recommend services to others.

“Guests are the most valuable if you don’t take care of your guests these are the same people that can make or break you,” Ms Moeng stresses adding that this is a component that is overlooked by many businesses.

So far Vision Bound has offered their ushering services to events such as Client base project 124, Hiding Behind the mask, Mmamotse glow event and Mmakgosi live among others.

For their marketing, they do traditional advertising, social media and word of mouth. ENDS