Setting Your Goals For 2010
It has been proven that written goals are more likely to be achieved than unwritten goals. People who write down their goals are more successful socially, emotionally and financially than people that don’t have their goals written down.
The much awaited and anticipated New Year for new beginnings – 2010 is here.
What is the difference between a written goal and an unwritten goal you might want to ask? The power of vision cannot be over emphasized. The brain cannot remember all it sees every day no matter how intriguing and spectacular the event might have been. There is always a limit to what you can remember. It is very important that you put down your goals in writing. Read more
Face Reality and Take Action
There has been an ongoing ‘Tsunami’ in the Nigerian banking sector in the past few days. People have been relieved of their jobs… You would have thought that people would be allowed to go through this yuletide season and management will do what they feel is necessary at a convenient time … Is there a convenient time to break bad news?
I greatly empathize with everyone that has been affected. May your eyes of understanding be opened to know that which you would do in the coming days. The loose of a job is not the end of ones’ life but I want you to see it as the beginning of a beautiful chapter in your life. The glass is never half empty but rather half full. Read more
Introduction to Social Media Optimization: A Tool for Business Success
You must have heard about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This is a tool that every successful webmaster knows about and use. It is used simply to increase the rank of their website or blogs on search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, MSN and others. In order to do this, webmasters perform some tasks (such as keywords, internal & external linking, permalinks, design, niche etc) that make search engines to give their website an ‘authority’. Sites or blogs with higher ‘authority’ are the ones you find on the first page of your search engine when you conduct specific searches. Read more
The top 8 tools for anyone using Twitter
With more and more businesses investing time, effort and resource into Twitter John Giazzi from JCG Marketing thought it would be pertinent to list some of the best tools available to help businesses get the most out of Twitter. Read more
An Introduction to Social Media
What is social media?
Social media is online networking via such websites as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube, Digg, etc. These websites work via “Web 2.0” technology which allows internet users to easily save, publish and share information with friends, colleagues and followers.
Blogs, podcasts, video and photos can be uploaded to a social media website and then be shared with contacts and other websites relatively easily and at very little cost, if not for free. Read more
Definition: Small and Medium Enterprise in Nigeria
For the purpose of the SMEEI Scheme a small and medium enterprise is defined as any enterprise with a maximum asset base of N500 million (excluding land and working capital), and with no lower or upper limit of staff. Read more
Introduction to Franchise
A franchise is an established business format where by the Franchisee (You) licenses a business model from a franchisor(The business Owner e.g. Mc Donald’s). Plain English if you don’t have a business idea or you don’t want to go through the process of starting a business from scratch with untested model or process you might be interested in buying into an existing business with time tested process and guaranteed of getting support and training from the owner of the business (Franchisor). Read more
Working from Home
For most women, one of the main reasons for going into business is to fulfill the desire of being able to take care of their children and spend more quality time with the family, save some money on after school class/care givers and decide on their work pace. And have more disposable income.
From the traditional point of view we have all been told or made to believe that the only way to make a good pay is to do the 8 – 5 job in an office environment. Read more
