Posts Tagged ‘Business’

7 Tips For Becoming More Productive As An Entrepreneur

Friday, February 13th, 2009

How often have you felt sad as an entrepreneur when you review your accomplishment in a day? How often do you feel guilty and tell yourself that you ought to have done better or accomplish more in your business venture or personal life? Well, instead of feeling guilty or sad, here are some tips that will help you get your acts together and become more productive in your business and personal life.

Plan Your Day, Have A To-Do-List

If you are really determined to become more productive as an entrepreneur, then the very first step is determining what you want to achieve. You must have specific business goals or objectives which when accomplished will give you that satisfaction that you have been productive. Once you determine your business goals, write them down. Then the next step is (more…)

Global Economic Crisis: Reduce Operating Expenses In 2009

Friday, February 6th, 2009

How are you coping with the Global Economic Crunch?

Early this morning, I receive a report on my stocks investment and it shows that my portfolio has lost 75% of the capital invested. I was not surprise about the report, but I was not happy either. Every businessman desires to make profit and increase wealth. Unfortunately, the global economic crisis is making it harder to realize the dream. I often hear some entrepreneurs, both big and small making statements such as “I’m fed up; I think I’m just going to quit”. Well, that is a wrong attitude. I see the present situation as a challenge that needs to be overcome, period. Remember there can be no champion without contest. So, now is actually the best time to show the world the stuff you have inside. This is the best time to become a successful entrepreneur.

Global Financial Crisis

Global Economic Crisis

While pondering about the stock report in my head, I decided to continue reading my emails (I’ve abandoned the box for about two days now). Next in line was a newsletter from E-Myth which talks about Reducing Operating Expenses. I was excited because that is part of my organizational goal for the first quarter 2009. So, I was glad to read the newsletter. Well, I did not learn anything new, but I was reminded of some crucial things that every entrepreneur must not forget when attempting to reduce operating expenses.

While reducing operating expenses is a good goal, (more…)

Plan To Delegate Tasks Before You Need To

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

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 others. This is more glaring in the case of perfectionists who can never get satisfied with anything done by another person. They always want to give every task that personal touch. Well, in business, the earlier you learn to delegate the better.

Since you are just a human with limited time and abilities, your business will eventually need more attention than (more…)

How To Transfer Fund From AlertPay

Monday, December 8th, 2008

How Do I Withdraw Money From My AlertPay Account?

I wrote about AlertPay sometime ago in a post titled How to receive Payment Online. AlertPay, which is a Canadian Online Payment Processing Company,  is a competitor to the widely known PayPal Online Payment Processor. PayPal has refused to allow many African Entrepreneurs (especially Nigerians) to use its facility in conducting business online. Their reason being that those nations harbor SCAM Artists (I wonder if PayPal action can be justified as being fair, since every nation has their own set of black-sheep).

I strongly encourage African Entrepreneurs, especially Nigerian Entrepreneurs to subscribe to AlertPay service. Opening an account with them is free. You only pay fees when you are withdrawing or spending money from your account. This is similar to the bank charges that local banks takes for providing you with their service. You can get your free AlertPay Account by clicking any of the links or the banner below.

AlertPay

Free AlertPay Account

Well, AlertPay has proved to be a good competitor and they allow African Entrepreneurs including Nigerians to do business online using their payment processing facility. Of recent, I have received mails and IM’s requesting to know how an African Entrepreneur can withdraw fund from the AlertPay account into a local bank account.

The answer is simple and can easily be found on their website at the following url www.alertpay.com/info/worldwide.aspx (please, copy and paste url into your browser) However, for convenience sake, I will simply explain what is written there.

Depending on where you reside there are three (3) ways you can withdraw money from your AlertPay account.

1. You can request for a Check from AlertPay

You can then pay same into your domiciliary account with the local bank. All countries that are allowed to subscribe to AlertPay are eligible for this. In some countries, the cheque might take about 21days to get cleared.

2. You can request for a Direct Deposit into your local bank account

You can only use this method  if your country of residence is eligible for such service. Please note that Nigeria is not eligible for such service. Only three countries in Africa are eligible, namely South Africa, Reunion and Mayotte.

3. You can request for Bank Wire Transfer

Almost all African Countries are eligble for this, except Republic of Congo.

I do hope this brief explanation puts to rest the fear of my fellow African Entrepreneurs who want to know How they can withdraw Fund from AlertPay into their local bank account. You can get free updates to this article How to Transfer Fund from AlertPay and other Small Bsuiness Survival Tips by subscribing to Nigerian Entrepreneur RSS FEED, it is free. See you at the top, Cheers.

Update: Please note that AlertPay was bought over by Payza in March, 2012. Payza offer the same service AlertPay was offering and much more.

Why Did You Start Your Business?

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Why did you start your business? What made you choose the entrepreneurial path? I hope your answer is not any of the following:

  • I wanted to be my own boss.
  • I wanted to earn more money.
  • I wanted to be free from the 9a.m to 5p.m daily routine.
  • This business is the most lucrative I could start.
  • I have the technical skill to do the business. etc

Living Fulfilled

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