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Lioness Playbook Series / Get Your Business Funding Ready
Lioness Playbook Series
Get Your Business Funding Ready
How to prepare your business to be ready for funding conversations with your bank or financial institutions.
Successful South African women entrepreneurs share their playbooks on how they got their businesses ready to take those important funding meetings.

About the Lioness Playbook Series
Lioness Playbook Series provides practical business advice and insights delivered directly by leading African women entrepreneurs selected from the Lionesses of Africa community. These experienced women entrepreneurs share their proven hacks, tactics and strategies for getting things done in business. Hard won, tried and tested business knowledge is presented in an easy-to-read format for you to learn from and apply in your own business. Relevant, agenda-free, pragmatic, advice and strategies that are sure to help drive successful change in your business and guide your personal growth journey as a woman entrepreneur.

Your journey to getting your business funding ready starts here
Talk to most woman entrepreneurs and they will say that getting access to funding is a real game-changer for business growth. It means they can take control of the future trajectory of their business and fulfill its potential. Yet, applying for funding support from a bank can be a daunting process for many women entrepreneurs. But it doesn’t have to be!
With the right funding support and advice, women entrepreneurs are empowered to confidently make important strategic decisions, expand their businesses into new markets, and invest in growth opportunities. Bank loans can provide the capital needed to purchase specialist equipment, increase inventory, and hire new talent to drive business growth.
As woman entrepreneurs in the Lionesses of Africa community, it’s time to work smartly and get your businesses funding ready. Accessing funding and support when you need it from your bank will help you grow your business and fulfill its potential, and in the process help to advance women's economic empowerment.
So, where to start? Use this Playbook as your guide. It will help you to focus on important information that needs to be prepared, steps to be taken, conversations to be initiated. Gain insights and advice from some of your fellow Lionesses who have already walked the journey to getting funding ready.
Enjoy our Lioness Playbook.