Posts Tagged with "small business"

How To Pacify Clients When You Fail To Deliver

Monday, March 29, 2010

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Here is a guest post from a fellow Nigerian Entrepreneur who writes and practices entrepreneurship. He shares a personal experience which illustrates the importance of having a contingency plan for taking care of your clients when you fail to deliver on your promise. Please, do visit his website  Mk Akan to get more business and [...]

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Thinking About Business In 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Just Thinking About Business in 2009. The year 2009 is almost over. Less than 24hours to go. Looking back, one will ordinarily exclaim what a year! There were so many dashed business hopes and unfulfilled dreams. However, amidst the economic crisis and financial troubles in Nigeria (and really in many parts of the world), some [...]

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Managing Your Business Overhead Cost

Thursday, December 17, 2009

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How To Cut Down Your Business Overhead Cost Managing business overhead cost can be critical for the continued growth or survival of your business. Of recent, I observed that many large corporations and even small scale businesses are struggling to reduce their overall operating cost or overhead by laying off staff en-mass. To me that [...]

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2009 Is Not Over Yet!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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2009 Business Year Is Not Over Yet! The year 2009 is not over yet, even though it is natural to feel like given up the dreams you have for your business at the beginning of this year, I want to encourage you to stay in there and do the best you can. Your success as [...]

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5 Tips For Business Growth

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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How Can I Achieve Steady Business Growth? Sustaining business growth in a down economy is not a simple feat to achieve. But believe it or not, that is exactly what some businessmen in Nigeria are doing. While some Nigerian businessmen are busy lamenting the poor manner the government is handling the current economic crisis (they [...]

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Can You Still Trust Your Banker?

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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Can you still trust your banker? I know that sounds like a foolish question, but hear me out first. As an Entrepreneur, I agree w to the fact that my business success team will not be complete without a trustworthy banker. Unfortunately, entrepreneurs in Nigeria, are being made to doubt if really the bankers  actually [...]

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Steps to Starting a Small Business

Friday, May 8, 2009

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What are the necessary steps to starting a small business? What are the things you need to take into account before launching into your entrepreneurship adventure as a small business owner? Starting a small business requires determination, motivation, and know-how. This post does not promise to provide an exhaustive discuss of a successful small business [...]

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Online Business Ideas

Thursday, April 9, 2009

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What Online Business should I Start, please I need Ideas? Does that question sound familiar? Of course, that is the question so many folks are asking. The most common request new entrepreneurs make online is suggestion on profitable online business ideas to start. The forums and social network websites are full of such requests . [...]

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Plan To Delegate Tasks Before You Need To

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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How often have you felt overwhelmed with the load of tasks awaiting your urgent attention? Quite often I guess. Wondering what to do about such situation? Simple, Plan to Delegate Tasks before you feel you need to. Too often, we over-rate our ability and insist on doing everything by ourselves instead of assigning it to [...]

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7 Mistakes Home Based Online Entrepreneurs Should Avoid

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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That online business is easy to start and cost little capital to kick off does not mean you can just start one and achieve success without proper approach. Just as easy as it is to start, so it is easy to pack-up.  Experts claim that about 90% small scale businesses fail within the first five [...]

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