Category: Entrepreneurship
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Proven and Budget-Friendly Ideas to Improve Your Small Business
Make 2020 the best year yet for your small business with our seven tips to improve sales volume, focus your marketing efforts, find new sources of revenue, and build even stronger relationships with your existing customers. In this article, we’ll cover: Measure Your Marketing Upgrade Your Sales Funnel Boost Your Online Presence Invest in Customer…
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Don’t obtain a loan to start a business
You have a wonderful business idea. All you need is funds you are good to go. You tried getting am interest-free loan from friends and family and but you came up empty. You decide to find a way to raise funds with interest. Income from your business should be enough to repay the loan. Sounds…
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Are you ready for the new marketplace?
Technology is driving change in the marketplace at an increasing speed. A lot of things you see today, you will see no more. They are already history. This may include your job or business. I feel concerned about the fact that most people seem to go about business as usual. They don’t foresee danger until…
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Knowing when to take your Business Abroad
By Irfan Farooq Taking your business abroad can be a lucrative and exciting way to expand and increase the reach of your brand, but it’s important to know if this option is actually viable. Many businesses make the mistake of trying to take their services abroad too soon and end up failing or suffering as…
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Before you venture into that business
Anytime the subject of multiple sources of income comes up, one of the frequent questions I get is what business to go into to generate income or monthly cash flow. Business is not something you jump in head first, looking at where others seem to be making money and trying to get a piece of…
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Wrap Your Business Around Your Passion
By Ola Emmanuel When people call on God for financial blessings, he may not answer by raining down naira. Naira is only the currency of the Nigerian economy, not heaven’s currency. A good response from God may be a release of ideas or giving of special ability, talent, or skills to do certain things uniquely…
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From University Dropout to ICT Millionaire
By DAYO OKETOLA Wande Adalemo dropped out of Olabisi Onabanjo University to actualize his dream of building an Internet service company, which is now worth N1bn. He tells DAYO OKETOLA how it all started and what other young Nigerian entrepreneurs can learn from his journey. The Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Oxygen Broadband Networks, Nigeria’s…
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Building Trust With Every Action
As the internet proliferates and more and more business activity takes place online, the opportunities are growing as well. While the great “tech bubble” of the 90s may have scared many away from the opportunities available in the world-wide-web, many more have realized that the bubble was just that, a bubble. The opportunities exist; they…
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Wetin You Carry?
Wetin you carry?, the pidgin English equivalent of “What do you have with you?” or “What do you have to declare?” was made popular by Nigerian Policemen at road checkpoints. At customs checkpoints, you are required to declare your goods. Knowing who you are and what you have to offer your community and the world,…
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How to Make Money on the Internet
Based on popular demand, I am revisiting the topic – How to make money on the internet. I have had to hold free seminars for friends on this subject. Since I have no immediate plans going on the road with seminars on this topic, however lucrative it seems, I have decide to share the information…