(Calm down and read this) If you are at that point where you want to hire a manager, or you’ve hired a manager before and it didn’t work out well or you have a manager but the person isn’t delivering, then this is for YOU. At some point in your business, you will begin to …
Early this year, a client and friend organized a program where she gave out a grant of N500k to a business owner. Her program targets only women in business. She invited Uche and myself to be judges to X-ray the business owners who made presentations for the grant. We agreed to function like the judges …
– Making follow-up calls to your prospects – Running ads and reviewing them frequently – Working with an influencer to market your products – Asking your existing customers for testimonials and referrals. – Creating offers – Writing sales emails and sending them – Creating videos for marketing – Creating a sales script and using it …
I hate it when certain bills come to me every month, especially bills from NEPA, Diesel and fuel expenses. E dey bite me ehh. [It bites me to my bones] Does that happen to you too? There are other bills that you can’t avoid. – Rent – Levies – Staff salaries, etc. These are called …
– Production costs (Buying raw materials) – Operating expenses like power, diesel, fuel, levies, and salaries. – Procurement – Delivery logistics These are necessary for the business but shouldn’t be where you FOCUS all your energy as the CEO. If you truly want your business to grow and be profitable, you need to guide your …
ACTIVITIES THAT REMOVE MONEY FROM YOUR BUSINESS. Read More »
THE DECEPTIVE MOVE Many years ago, my wife and I used to run a cleaning service, okay, actually it was my wife’s cleaning service, but I provided some level of support, and what’s mine is hers – it was ours. One day, a member of our team tried to divert jobs for herself, thinking she …
There are certain things that happen in life which changes your belief system completely. For me, who is ingeniously gifted as a mind-shift Coach and Mentalist, I constantly re-write theories and postulates hypotheses which are extolled by men of wisdom and good understanding. I have often heard that your networth is the average of five …
now • A few days ago, I read some stories about two different Nigerians. One, doing business successfully in Nigeria and the other, is a successful businessman abroad. Their stories came to me with so many mixed feelings – I was happy for one and for the other, terribly sad. The successful businessman in Nigeria …
The Two Faces Of Evil In The Nigeria Business Environment. Read More »
In my last post, I mentioned passively that I was on a 7-day journey round the country with a client who wants my expertise on his several businesses. Going through our SLA he knew from the word go that we weren’t text-book consultants. We do not say a word or proffer a solution if we …
Many untapped businesses are trapped as UNFUNDED IDEAS because of TRUST DEFICIT. There are people who have brilliant business ideas but do not have the funds to materialize them …AND then we have those who have so much of money (lying idle) yet they do not have an idea of how to get it productively …
