As I said in the first installment of this series, I’m not a fan of the philosophy of going through friends and relatives (to find buyers), especially here in Nigeria/Africa.
Reason: Too often such clients tend to expect and/or demand what I call “Profits-Killing” and “Growth Stifling” concessions from you, because of the relationship they have with you.
“You are a marketer first, and an expert second” – Burt Dubin
“Once you have passion, and you have verifiable competence in whatever it is that you aim to sell, then you can do what I’m talking about.
Since I posted it online in November 2009, apart from being widely read and syndicated, it has even been translated into different languages in some countries.
And I’m not at all surprised because I know that “Finding Profitable Buyers” on a repeatable basis in a reliable manner, is something DESIRED by every business owner but understood by relatively few.
In this article, I discuss one big mistake some non-Nigerian Africans seem to be making in thinking about Nigeria.
To do this, I share a true story about a Francophone African undergraduate in his 20’s, who called me a thief – and meant it.
Why?
Because he daily saw me typing away on an Internet connected laptop, and I never seemed to go out to “work”…LOL!
On Wednesday 31st March 2021, a New Farm CEO Client Sent Me a Mobile Number She’d Seen On a Pirated Copy of My Feed Formulation Handbook!
Yep. Content thieves have been republishing my handbook (and possibly other products) with their own contact details and selling! Continue reading…
Watch this video to learn how a client who spoke with me in November 2019, about buying my Excel-VB driven Poultry Farm Manager software, went away without buying, only to return mid-March 2021 (16 months later) to take up the offer I made to him 2 years earlier. Click here to continue…
What you’re about to read is a verbatim text transcript PDF based on the MP3 Audio Introduction for my Audio Podcast based Coaching Program titled “How to Sell ANYTHING to Anyone – Online or Offline”.
This is the true story about how I made a sale (on 29th December 2020 i.e. 2 days before New Year’s Day – January 1st, 2021 – of my Excel-VB driven Poultry Farm Manager software, to a Poulty Farm Business based in the Caribbean. Click here to watch the video…
Download this PDF ebook to read the true story of how I literally single-handedly created a market for my Excel-Visual Basic solutions development service in Nigeria/Africa. I had no one I could ask for guidance, because NOBODY was doing what I wanted to do and NOBODY believed I could do it. Click here now…
TRUE STORY: Farm CEO asks for help using Indomie Waste to formulate rations for Catfish*
His name was Ben – and he was a Catfish Farm CEO based in Nigeria’s Port Harcourt in Rivers State.
10 days EARLIER he’d sent me a compliment, mixed with a request via my website contact form …
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