Don’t run a ghost shop
People always flock towards places where they think their problems can be solved. Whatever you offer the public must be relevant to them if you want them to stop by. If you are serious about making a difference in the …
You could at least pretend to care
The primary reason we do business is to make money. Simple! If its not making money, its not business; that’s more like a busyness. So, take your customer’s money, all of their money, but please care about them too. If …
Apprentice by proxy?
Mentorship and apprenticeship are forms of relationships that must be deliberate. Not laid back, all in. I do not think an effective apprenticeship can be done by proxy. You cannot hope to absorb the wisdom of the master by staying …
Am I ready for this?
Are you ready to start out your own schemes and ventures? Do you need some more training first? These are questions you need to answer before you set out and say you are starting your own business or NGO or …
The problem with been first and foremost a Nigerian in these times…
Is that you are in big trouble. The economic recession is real, prices are going up. There’s no money anywhere. The economic recession is real, its hard. For Nigerians, they are inside a real mess. The alternative: if you believe …
The real way to service the customers
The first week of October is designated Customer Service Week in many parts of the world. It is an international celebration of the importance of customer service and of the people who serve and support customers on a daily basis. …
You do not have to be here
None of us has to compulsorily do whatever it is we find ourselves doing. There is always a choice, an alternative. So, do not sit miserably at your work cubicle all day, doing things you are not interested in doing.You …
When you meet a winner…
You just know it! You can smell it a mile off! Losers smell of losses, you can feel the disorganisation, the slacking off, and the carefree attitude from a mile away. But when you meet a winner, someone who is …
Surviving the changing landscape of modern business
These days with Facebook building a marketplace (Like Jiji.ng or Jumia Market) and Google now making mobile phones, VR headsets and other hardware products. It is now clear to everybody: Nobody has a safe hold on any area of business. …
The skies are falling down, People are dying every day!
Things are never as bad as they paint it in the media. People are dying everyday: of course… That is what people do, they die! (Moriarty said that actually.) But really, why do you focus on the fact that people …