Three Easy Branding Ideas for Small Businesses to Give Your Brand Personality Perhaps you have your logo, your Instagram account up and slowly growing, and a website that shows your portfolio—but the inquiries aren’t pouring in like you thought they’d be. Or maybe you started your business three years ago […]
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5 Time-Sucking Tasks All Freelancers Should Automate in 2020 Source:https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1526948128573-703ee1aeb6fa?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2250&q=80 When it comes to working as a freelancer, there’s no more important asset than your time. We’ve all heard something like this a million times. And yet, we continue to let less-important tasks absorb our time, sometimes finishing up the […]
HOW FRANCHISING CAN AID YOUR BUSINESS GROWTH GETTING STARTED One of the most readily available ways of starting your own business is to buy a franchise. Compared to other forms of start-up, this is often a relatively risk-free method of getting established in business, because the development of the product […]
WHY YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS A BRAND STRATEGY Most entrepreneurs generally start out by focusing on what they’re good at and what they can sell, but this is the cart-before-the-horse method of creating a long-term viable business. What every business needs first is a good brand strategy. If you don’t have […]
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By Ayodele Olalere They look unkempt with unclean clothes and walk about curiously with dirty sacks. Inside those sacks are used and discarded materials such as household items, used metals, plastics, worn-out slippers or foot wears, broken plates etc. To search for those materials, they hold in one hand a […]
Choosing partners to start a new venture is one of the most critically important tasks that the entrepreneur must undertake. And it is a difficult task because it is often not possible to understand a person’s character until that person has spent some time working in the company. The […]
One of the most difficult tasks facing the entrepreneur is forecasting demand for the new product or service, particularly if that product or service has never existed previously in the market place. Much of this difficulty is due to the lack of historical data and to issues of seasonality […]
It is useful to build a business model in stages. Stage 1: Identify the entrepreneur’s position in the value chain The first step in developing a business model is to identify the entrepreneur’s place in the value chain. If the entrepreneur’s company is a supplier or producer of raw materials, […]
In this era of mass unemployment, several other legitimate business avenues have been largely unexplored. It is unfortunate that the Nigerian educational system largely produces job seekers rather than job creators. However, some individuals with creative ideas have been able to start lucrative jobs that require minimal start-off capital for […]
