Tag: business
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Saving With a Mission
Almost anything that starts out without a mission or purpose is doomed to failure from the start. Deep down, we all know we need to put some money aside for the future. Many have attempted to do this but met with failure time and time again. Many have resigned to buying stuff they think are…
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The Myth about Lack of Start-up Capital – 2
Now let’s assume someone could not get his or her act together while in the University and all opportunities to accumulate seed capital no matter how minute has been frittered away. What about the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)? All youth Corpers have two sources of income during the service year – from their employers…
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The Myth about Lack of Start-up Capital
Every job seeker I come across tells me starting his or her own business is not an option because of lack of money to start. Most employees give themselves the excuse that lack of start of capital is the reason they cannot turn their hobby into a business. Both seem justified why their lives are…
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Turning Your Passion into Profit
Having been brought up to go to a good school, get good grades, and get a good job, it may be a challenge to believe we can do what they really love, and make money doing it. We generally think in terms of getting a good job and making a good living. More often than…
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The Spirit of Entrepreneurship
The first thing that seems to come to mind when thinking about entrepreneurship is going into a profitable business to make money. At the heart of entrepreneurship is making your unique contribution and creating jobs. Both go hand in hand. One fantastic end product of entrepreneurship is finding your core and growing as a person.…
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How to Decide Which Business to Go Into
Many people have challenges deciding on what business to go into in the bid to generate multiple streams of income. Their main concern is what will make money. Since money is the major driver, there is often a lack of effort in creativity, and the tendency is to copy what others are already doing which…
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Invest in Discovering Your Passion
Your main motive for starting a business should not be to make money. It should be to give, to offer the larger society what is presently lacking, to fill a need, to close a gap, and make the society a little bit better than before you came. To be able to give in a sustainable…
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Jobs in Nigeria! Why are you looking for a job?
Why are you looking for a job? That sounds like a daft question, doesn’t it? For most people, it is a stupid question. How dare you ask such a question, it is like asking why do you eat food. Well, it is not a stupid question. It is a question everyone going somewhere out to…
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Financial Freedom: Despise Not the Days of Small Beginnings 2
In part I, I tried to establish three basic principles; Firstly, your wages/salary is not your profit, but your seed capital. That is the capital you are looking for right there. If you do not develop this mentality, rather than save, you will literally blow it away. You send your money on a journey of…