‘Staying alive in business important for SMEs’

A SMALL-to-medium enterprise (SME) owner says staying alive in the business is very important for an SME.
Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Express managing director Lee Pokarop runs a boutique delivery service in Port Moresby.
He started his company last February.
“We can deliver whatever you want, wherever you want it to be delivered to, we have got a strategic partnership with RH Hypermarket, British American Tobacco, 9-Mile Farm, and a few other entities,” he said.
Pokarop was one of the SMEs that registered with Bank South Pacific Financial Groups digital pay platform demonstration session in Port Moresby on Thursday.
“With RH, all their online deliveries, everyone that orders online, right now when you order online you have to pick it up yourself, so our business exists to link the buyer, having their products delivered,” he said.
Pokarop said FMCG Express was Port Moresby-based.
“It makes sense to focus in Port Moresby,” he said.
“You can expand when you are in a position of strength, and we are trying to build our strength and using Port Moresby as a proving ground, streamline the model.
“Prove some of the assumptions and disprove some of them, how many deliveries you make in a week and you adjust and become better.
“That is what professional athletes and good business do.”