Social Media Accounts To Follow: 5 Male “Under 40” Entrepreneurs To Follow
Many love the idea of becoming an entrepreneur because it gives off the prospects of “being your own boss” and “running the show”. Entrepreneurship is indeed glamorous but at a heavy cost. It’s a challenging venture to go into and it is not for everyone. Nevertheless, many young individuals have become successful entrepreneurs through grit […]
Business Growth Tip: Emphasize Product Benefits Over Features
What do you think customers consider the most when they’re comparing different brands of a product they’d like to purchase? What would make them choose one over the other? The one with better-looking features? Or is it the one possessing better benefits? You’ll almost certainly go for benefits. After all, people won’t be spending their […]
StartUp Grind Lagos Hosts Funmi Victor-Okigbo & Adenike Oyetunde
Startup Grind Lagos is hosting Funmi Victor-Okigbo, Founder – No Surprises Events at her first meetup for 2019 Lagos (January 26th, 2019) – Startup Grind Lagos is hosting Funmi Victor-Okigbo, Founder – No Surprises Events. No Surprises Events is a design-led event production and management agency in Nigeria; with a corporate client base that […]
Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?
Are entrepreneurs the product of nature or nurture? It’s the age-old question that triggers the unending battle of words between persons and groups of almost innumerable categories. It’s a favourite secondary school debate subject, a knotty matter always being picked and unpicked by business psychologists and MBA researchers, and a not too infrequent cause of […]
11 Free Online Business Courses for Nigerian Entrepreneurs
These days, you can get some of the best business courses on the planet for free. And that’s almost totally due to the internet. Every day, numerous new skill development lessons and modules get uploaded to the web, adding to the tens of thousands already available on it. It’s no longer a matter of whether […]
Did You Know? When Nigeria Produced Half the World’s Palm Oil Exports
There aren’t very many food ingredients as essential to local Nigerian cuisine as palm oil. The red liquid drained out of tough oil palm fruits is the fluid without which most indigenous soups, stews and snacks simply cannot exist. You couldn’t possibly have been born and bred in a southern Nigerian home and never tasted […]
Business Growth Tip: Set Monthly Profit Targets
If you’re anything like this writer, then you’re the sort of person who likes setting targets for yourself. It can be tasking, especially when it requires you to fit innumerable facts about your life with the never stable, ever-changing world in which you operate. But when it’s about making more money, you’ll probably be smacking […]
7 Things Entrepreneurs Should Do at the Start of the New Year
Entrepreneurs are, in general, just as excited as most people are about the arrival of a new year. For a lot of them, it’s the closest things they can get to starting on a clean slate. Even if there’s unfinished business from the previous month (or day) to be done, January comes with a chance […]
How to Beat the January “Slow Business” Trap
For a lot of businesses, January drags along like a snail. Sales slow to a trickle, and cash doesn’t come in as much as they would like. If you’re perceptive enough, you might just about sense the mood of the month hanging over the landscape, and finding expression in the subdued tones with which many […]
Business Growth Tip: Engage Customers with New Year Marketing
The skies over our heads were lit with celebratory lights in the early hours of the New Year. Businesses also partake in the fanfare of this ‘ushering into new things’, albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Some host parties; others send out the obligatory ‘Happy New Year’ text messages and emails; and a few just […]
10 Business Lessons to Learn from 2018
This year has probably been just business as usual for you. Maybe it’s actually been brilliant (you’ve shovelled in large profits) or horrendous (you’ve made significant losses). Regardless of how the year has panned out for you, there are a handful of business lessons you must have learnt as you journeyed through it. Because most […]
SME 101: How To Build A Business: What I learned From Kylie Jenner – Part II
I’m glad you came back for more on what I learned from Kylie Jenner about building a successful business. If you missed the first part of this article, you can catch up here. Now, let’s jump in, the fourth lesson I learned from Kylie is about leveraging resources. Lesson 4: Leverage the Key resources at […]
The Law & You: Companies Income Tax In Nigeria
Companies Income Tax (CIT) is a direct tax imposed by a jurisdiction on the income or capital of corporations or analogous legal entities. Many countries impose such taxes at the national level, and a similar tax may be imposed at state or local levels. Company income tax is one of the most important sources of revenue collection […]
SME 101: How To Build A Business: What I Learned From Kylie Jenner
I am certain you heard that Kylie Jenner was on the August 2018 cover of Forbes magazine. A few things to note about this industrious young lady: Kylie Jenner is just 20 years old. Kylie Jenner is worth an estimated $900m. Kylie Jenner started her business 3 years ago. Kylie Jenner is a 21st Century […]
Is Retail Franchising the Next Goldmine for Nigerian Investors?
Nigeria’s retail market is both capturable and too large to ignore. Buying into the winning retail business model will be taking advantage of one of Africa’s biggest growth opportunities. Investing in a viable business – opens up the question of franchises: Are retail franchises good investments? How can a Nigerian acquire a retail franchise? And […]
The Independence Investment Forum Registration Began on 1st October 2018
The Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) in partnership with FootPrint to Africa is set to hold the first edition of The Independence Investment Forum (TIIF). TIIF is an annual event supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of the United States, Nigeria. It would be held on the 1st of October, 2019; […]