Entrepreneurship
Does Your Website JUSTIFY the Money You Spend?









[NB: This article was first published online on June 25, 2009] I have decided to focus more attention on helping business owners develop and implement low cost web marketing systems and strategies that will increase their marketing mileage, while lowering their expenses. But in doing this, I have noticed the following trend amongst many Nigerian […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 185: You Can Succeed Smarter by Earning Income Even Without Clients









What if you could earn 80% of the income you need without needing to have clients? Wouldn’t that make your life as an expert so much more fulfilling? Well I can tell you it’s a wonderful way to be in business – because that’s how I earn my income. In this article, I offer tips […]







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Career Development
To Succeed, Understand That Suffering Can Be Good for You!









Viewing adversity in a positive light(be it in business or everyday life) can sometimes amount to asking too much of some of us. As soon as a problem/difficulty appears to go on for longer than we feel we can tolerate. Or if it happens once too often for us to rationalize, we begin looking for […]







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Career Development
Don't Let ANYONE Give Up On Your Behalf!









Ever tried to pursue a goal that others were skeptical about/voiced their doubts to your hearing? If YES, do you recall how painful it was to hear them express a lack of faith in your ability to do something YOU BELIEVED was within your capacity to do? When you had a setback(s), delay(s) or disappointment(s), […]







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Entrepreneurship
Never Judge A Website's CONTENT QUALITY By Its Design!









Maybe in the earlier days, it was okay to do that i.e. judge a website by its design. But today, with the massive proliferation of websites and the need for discerning visitors to save time, effort and money in finding what they want, MORE people are realising this TRUTH: The design of a website does […]







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Career Development
To Truly Succeed, Help Others UNCONDITIONALLY









[Tip: The quote below, credited to the Dalai Lama inspired me to write this article] No matter the individual wealth we accumulate or personal achievements we record, as long as we fail to help others struggling/suffering around us find their own places in life (NOT necessarily by giving them money), we WILL ALL be failures […]







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Entrepreneurship
Five (5) Action Steps That Can Increase Your Chances of Business Startup Success









In February 2001, about 4 months after I got promoted out of my shift-based Brewer position, to become the Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery Technical Training & Development Manager, I came to the conclusion that I needed to fast-track my plans to quit paid employment and start my own business. I had been plotting my […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 184: To Succeed Profitably, Know What You’re Worth...& Protect Your Integrity!









If a client company's decision maker demands gratification, as a condition for awarding YOU business, what would YOU do? In this article, I destroy the myth some - misguided - “experts” perpetuate, that, to succeed, one must give in improper demands from crooked client company representatives!  SCROLL DOWN TO READ FULL ISSUE Publication: Weekly Public Speaking […]







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Career Development
Lincoln Self-Studied Public Speaking, and So Can You! (3 Tips)









Preamble: Don't Waste Time Waiting To Find a Speaking School! Many people I have spoken with out here about learning public speaking have demonstrated this bias. Whenever I explained to them that there are many self-study learning resources they can adopt to learn public speaking, they expressed reservations about adopting a similar method. I am […]







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1 Hour Talks
New Autorun Multimedia DVD Information Product: Spend Less Money & Time to Make Customers Find & Contact You, Even While You Sleep









They LOVED it. However, I'll write later on about the intriguing events preceding the talk I delivered yesterday, at Sherryville Arcade-Lagos, to a group of CEOs and Network Marketing Professionals. (Hint: I came in right from Cotonou border, but arrived over 1 hour late, despite hiring a taxi, due to crazy Lagos traffic)! To make […]







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