ConnectNigeria’s Top 100 SMEs: Funpee Products and Services
Funpee Products and Services is a manufacturing and events service company based in Lagos. The business has a presence in multiple niches: it produces and retails an assortment of drinks and food, plans and coordinates events, distributes cleaning products, and runs an academy for aspiring entrepreneurs. That’s more than a handful of concerns to be […]
How To Plan For An Adventure Travel Trip
Adventure travelling is a type of tourism that involves travelling to an exotic or remote location and engaging in a physically challenging outdoor activity. It is fast growing in Nigeria. But before you add yourself to the statistics of adventure travellers within Nigeria, here are tips on how to plan a successful adventure trip. Do […]
Top 6 Advantages of Adventure Travel
Adventure travel is gaining grounds in Nigeria. Tourism usually focuses on sightseeing or experiencing different cultures from a relative point of safety or comfort. Adventure travel is more daring. It involves exercising some level of skill in physical activities while connecting with nature or the culture of a place. People go to Russia for space […]
What’s the Difference Between a Small Business and a Startup?
The startup fever has engulfed urban Nigeria. But while it has ignited a lot of positive entrepreneurial passion and creativity, it has also brought some unintended consequences with it. One of the less talked about downsides to the whole startup craze is that many people don’t really know what a startup is in the first […]
Business Growth Tip: How To Work With Long-Term Plans
Ada opens a shoe store with one intention: she wants to eventually earn a decent income from it. She rents a shop, stocks it with ladies’ footwear, puts up a signpost at its entrance, and opens business pages on social media channels. A friend tells her it’ll be nice to have a tagline for her […]
How To Start A Vehicle Rental Business In Nigeria
Vehicle rentals exist because there’s a real, constant and stable need for them. Businesses sometimes want a vehicle to convey guests; wedding attendees might prefer to travel in a van that’s headed straight for their specific destination, and sports teams would pick a bus that’ll go the distance and keep their team talks and banter […]
Business Growth Tip: Automate Your Business Processes
Let’s say you’re running a side hustle apart from your 9-5 job. Your day is usually crammed full with office tasks, and you seldom have time for much else. You’re trying to maintain your small business’s social media pages, but it’s a hard ask. Or maybe you’re a full-time entrepreneur. You always have tons of […]
SME 101: Before You Jump In
Recently I read an article by Ian James where he echoed my concern about the fact that many of people leaving our jobs and jumping into entrepreneurship. An unprecedented number of people are launching businesses only to find out that no one really wants what they are selling. Alternatively, starting a business and realizing that […]
Social Media Marketing Tips: What You Should Know About Micro-Influencers And How To Work With Them
As brands and social media experts become more conversant with the best practices for social media, they continually unravel trends that promote brand awareness and higher conversion rates. One of these trends is micro-influencers. They are the newly discovered players in the advertising industry and are rapidly replacing their counterparts, the macro-influencers. Micro-influencers are brand promoters with a significant […]
Business Growth Tip: Build A Strong Organizational Culture
Business leaders talk about organizational culture a lot. When they do, they’re usually pointing out that it’s an important driver of business growth. Even if you’re not sure how exactly this plays out in real life, you get the idea that it’s indispensable for any company’s thriving. Actually, it is extremely important. To get a […]
Is Joining Your Family’s Business Right For You?
Family businesses are an object of pride for the families that run them. This pride gets even bigger when the business is really successful. And there’s the aura that grows around such ventures if they’ve been going on for generations. Members of business owning families may be inspired to build upon the past successes of their forebears; […]
Video Of The Week: Best Business Ideas For 2018
The question of what business to do and whether it will be profitable is what plagues many would-be-entrepreneurs today. However, this doesn’t have to be the case given the fact that there are a variety of business options one can choose from. In fact, the process of starting a business can actually be simple, provided […]
Business Growth Tip: Build A Strong Local Presence
These days, businesses can go global from the very start. With a laptop or mobile device connected to the internet, they can link up with people in far-off corners of the world. As for getting products to customers, courier companies can help with shipping them halfway across the planet. Not surprisingly, small businesses are taking […]
7 Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Own Progress
Sometimes we wonder why we aren’t making as much progress as we ought to and often times we blame it on other people, events, and circumstances. But do we ever take time to consider how we might be contributing to our own poor performance and lack of progress? Before we start pointing at external factors […]
How Outsourcing Can Change Your Life
It’s true, there are things you cannot outsource. Let’s just put that out there first, because many people tend to focus on that instead of looking at just how much outsourcing can make a difference in your life. Stress is very real, and one of the factors behind it is taking on more than you […]
How To Reduce Birthday Expenses
Celebrating the anniversary of your birth should be a legal right, I mean who does not love parties. Birthday celebrations usually entail foods, cakes, drinks and lots of music, while some people just take out time to pray and reflect on their past years. Despite the fact that birthday celebrations are fun, a lot of people […]