Handling Difficult Customers
Monday, 26 November 2018
Yes, sometimes you want to say ‘to heck with this ***dy customers! I wonder why they have such airs about them and feel so important?” But as a matter of fact, the customer is king. Without your customers, there’s no you or your business. You cannot provide that business solution or sell that product to
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Business Finance: EBITDA
Monday, 19 November 2018
How adequate is your record keeping? These helps and forms the basis for making financial comparisons for companies and potential investors. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) is used for comparisms and also for negotiation. It gives a thorough analysis of how the business is faring. Earning before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Appreciation (EBITDA) are
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Thought-Provoking Business Realities
Monday, 12 November 2018
No one can be as passionate about your business as you. See every help from your staff as a privilege and not a right. e.g. your staff will not see the urgency in your business more than you will. Ensure that you have a project or asset (not liabilities) that you are financing per time
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Vehicles For Creating Value
Monday, 05 November 2018
There are different vehicles for creating value as an entrepreneur, these include: NEWNESS: Something that’s not been created before (an invention), not previously seen or experienced e.g iPad, iPhone. Newness is different from innovation which is taking what is existing and innovated into a new product e.g iPhone6 to iPhone7. Newness can be as a
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The Psychology Of Buying
Monday, 29 October 2018
Why do some people buy only what they need, while others go on shopping sprees? If people buy for a reason, then people should also sell for a reason, what’s yours? It is said that the mortality rate of businesses in Nigeria is 70%. In the midst of these challenges, how does a business survive
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Build Your Capacity
Monday, 22 October 2018
Moving from one level to the next in business is dependent on your capacity in the marketplace. Money without capacity can be disastrous. Moses’ leadership exposure in Egypt gave him the opportunity to learn how to manage people, time and resources. He must have started with managing 50 people and then from 1000 to 5000,
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Business Challenges
Monday, 15 October 2018
Creation of wealth is an exchange of value and money is the outcome or result of such exchange. The world is changing and it seems Christians are being left behind. We need to make some changes and take charge. Welcome to #MondayMarket with Coach Oliver. Is there any reason why the richest man in Africa/the
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Be A Financial River, Not A Dam
Monday, 08 October 2018
What do the world’s richest have in common? They are serial entrepreneurs and philanthropists. They understand that if you never let the money flow out to allow fresh ones in, it becomes stagnant. The African mantra is, get what you can, ‘can’ what you get and sit on the ‘can’. But money is fluid; it’s
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A Call From Nigeria – Independence Special
Monday, 01 October 2018
“Arise o compatriots”, is the call to everyone with Nigerian blood running in their veins. It is the call that we must all obey and give our best to move us up on the path of our destiny. Nigeria’s call bellows out loud and clear to us, you and I to serve our fathers and
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Faith To Disrupt
Monday, 24 September 2018
Dinosaurs went extinct. Cars replaced horses, Netflix and Kwesé are in the process of dethroning television. Apple turned technology into fashion & every single one of these things was a game changer, a great risk. But as Nikola Tesla and J.P Morgan proved with the commercialization of electricity, the greatest entrepreneurs are those with the
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The Angel Investor’s Faith
Monday, 17 September 2018
Toni, an Investor extraordinaire by all standards in the community he resides, has his tentacles spread out to real estate, commodities and fashion. Because he has made his mother proud, close friends call him Papilo 😄 In his early days as a campus entrepreneur (where he made shirts to sell for extra quid), his father’d say
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Business Worketh By Love
Monday, 10 September 2018
“For a business to thrive, it must find its why, its reason for being because business can’t be about money alone” – Simon Sinek. According to Paul, the Apostle, faith grows, love should too. Is your business only about profitability or also about purpose? Does it solve a problem and is that solution what really
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Numbers That Work
Monday, 03 September 2018
Just like without faith it is impossible to please God, without data and relevant statistics it is impossible to please investors and clients. TD Jakes in his book ‘Instinct’ advices that “…after you let your hunch lead you somewhere, you do your homework and get all the facts required”. “A key to being in any
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And God Rested
Monday, 30 July 2018
Rest is an essential element to achieve balance in our quest for success in business and life. It’s the zone where all the hustle and hassles of the market place are excluded. In addition to the daily 6 hours when we’re required to hit the off switch and sleep, weekends and annual holiday are opportunities
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Steve Wozniak Principle
Monday, 23 July 2018
What’s Moses without Aaron? Steve Jobs without Wozniak? Michael Jackson without Quincy Jones? Fola Adeola without Tayo Aderinokun? Many great businesses are built on a dynamic duo, a partnership, two people who, alone, are snowballs but together are an avalanche. Identifying a great partner in destiny for your business may be complicated but will give
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