10 ESSENTIAL LESSONS IN LIFE BY WILLIAM MCRAVEN, AMERICA’S TOP NAVY SEAL.

William H. McRaven has been a Navy SEAL for 36 years. At age 58, he is now the top Navy SEAL in the United States military, as Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command. McRaven is the man who actually commanded the Navy SEAL mission to get Osama Bin Laden. In other words, William H. McRaven is the type of man who, when he speaks, commands attention. 

On May 17, he returned to his own alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, where he delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of 2014. In his speech, he offered 10 life lessons that I think are worth repeating. As McRaven said, while he learned these lessons in the Navy SEALs, they are just as valuable for people who have never worn a military uniform. “It matters not your gender, your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status,” McRaven told the Texas Longhorn grads. “Our struggles in this world are similar and the lessons to overcome those struggles and to move forward — changing ourselves and the world around us — will apply equally to all.” Quoted from his commencement address, here are 10 principles to live by, from the top Navy SEAL in the country, William H. McRaven:

MOBILE MARKETING TIP FOR YOUR NIGERIA BUSINESS

Mobile Marketing on Fire

With the first quarter of 2014 well underway, it’s time get creative and put some weight behind your brand. To help you achieve this feet, I have narrowed down a few important aspects to keep in mind when developing your sales strategy this year:

Increase Mobile Advertising Spend
With a growing mobile economy reaching more than 30% of Nigerian adults, companies will find it crucial to integrate mobile advertising solutions into their overall advertising strategy. Brands that have already intelligently implemented mobile marketing strategies must start thinking of the appropriate mobile advertising channels to bulk up. Tracking the success of various mobile advertising services and understanding where the greatest ROIs are seen will help companies determine a proper increase in mobile ad spending for the holidays. With the projected increase in sales revenues during November and December, there’s no doubt that increasing ad spend as well as developing creative mobile marketing ideas to draw traffic will prove worthwhile and ultimately profitable.

EMAIL MARKETING STRATEGY...A MUST READ

10 ESSENTIAL LESSONS IN LIFE BY WILLIAM MCRAVEN, AMERICA’S TOP NAVY SEAL.

William H. McRaven has been a Navy SEAL for 36 years. At age 58, he is now the top Navy SEAL in the United States military, as Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command. McRaven is the man who actually commanded the Navy SEAL mission to get Osama Bin Laden.

In other words, William H. McRaven is the type of man who, when he speaks, commands attention. On May 17, he returned to his own alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, where he delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of 2014. In his speech, he offered 10 life lessons that I think are worth repeating. As McRaven said, while he learned these lessons in the Navy SEALs, they are just as valuable for people who have never worn a military uniform. “It matters not your gender, your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status,” McRaven told the Texas Longhorn grads. “Our struggles in this world are similar and the lessons to overcome those struggles and to move forward — changing ourselves and the world around us — will apply equally to all.” Quoted from his commencement address, here are 10 principles to live by, from the top Navy SEAL in the country, William H. McRaven:

SECRETS TO CREATING BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS

What do Arianna Huffington, Jay-Z and the founders of Twitter all have in common?

They changed the face of American culture forever.
They have enabled us to "see ourselves, or something in the world, differently," explains author Grant McCracken. In his book  "Culturematic," McCracken discusses how these and other innovators came up with revolutionary concepts that helped shape the way we see the world today.
McCracken describes "culturematic" as "a little machine for making culture. It's an ingenuity engine." The cultural innovators practicing this art form all get one key thing right: They challenged the traditional order in which our world is run. "They speak to us because they go against the grain of expectation," McCracken shares.  See  the most valuable secrets from their successes after the cut.

32 WAYS TO USE FACEBOOK FOR YOUR NIGERIA BUSINESS

For most the most part, Nigeria business owners thinks Facebook is  just for keeping tabs on friends and filling out quizzes. others open a facebook business page simply because they hear its the best way to market a brand. “Yes” it can be used as a highly effective business tool only if you know what to do. It’s great for marketing your products, landing gigs and connecting with your customers. Here are 32 ways to use Facebook in your Nigerian business.

DEAR NIGERIAN BUSINESS OWNER

Dear Nigerian Business Owner ,

Today I want to share with you one of the key ingredients for your Entrepreneurial success. It's Free and you can do it right now but I can guarantee that virtually none of your competitors are doing it.

What is it? It's thinking outside the box. It's taking a step back from your business and looking at your marketing in a totally new way.

Let me explain. Most businesses are trapped in a prison. It's the prison that says they have to market in the same way that everyone else in their profession markets. So all the plumbers advertise in the yellow pages, all the hairdressers advertise in the local paper, all the double glazing companies use telemarketing, promoters, Fliers etc.

THE DRAGONS DEN! LESSONS LEARNED

Here is the truth about entrepreneur success, everybody has an idea. But real entrepreneurs understands that there is hope and that there is opportunity for anyone with an idea. 

The classic entrepreneurial opportunities is when someone with an idea or invention has built it to some level and they need help moving it to the next level. This is what gets the brain working and thinking how do I do the right pitch, how do i successfully ask for the money, what makes it a great business.   MORE AFTER THE CUT

CREATIVE BENEFITS FOR SMALL EMPLOYERS

HOW DO SMALL EMPLOYERS COMPETE WITH COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE?

Fortune’s recent “Best Companies to Work For” issue could make small employers feel they should just give up trying to attract and retain the best employees. Instead, employers need to be creative in identifying things that give them an edge in their own geographic market area.

Small employers do have an edge to build from. A recent poll of college graduates by Quick Connect showed that savvy students and recent graduates are more interested in smaller companies that will “invest in them and provide growth opportunities”. Small companies are clearly more appealing; with only 3 out of 10 of those participating in the poll saying they would prefer to work for a large company.

A NEW BREED OF ENTEPRENURES AND THE NEW FACE OF BUSINESS IN NIGERIA

Quick Connect Nigeria aka QCN is a pioneer in the provision of corporate discounts, benefits and incentives. Over 500,000 merchants are enrolled in over 12,000 cities and 106 countries and counting. They design proactive business strategies that help businesses retain, attract and engage customers and employees in order to increase their overall corporate bottom-line. 

The GameChanger Network: ANOTHER QCN BREAKTHROUGH FOR AFRICA BUSINESSES

The GameChanger Network: ANOTHER QCN BREAKTHROUGH FOR AFRICA BUSINESSES: Sustainable community and people development begins with the locals. The best fine dining or fast foods anywhere that tend to do well d...

ANOTHER QCN BREAKTHROUGH FOR AFRICA BUSINESSES

Sustainable community and people development begins with the locals. The best fine dining or fast foods anywhere that tend to do well do so because they meet the needs of the community. But, community residents act responsibly and reciprocate the gesture when they are part of the creative process, especially when their rewards are tied to performance and support for the projects.  

I'm very happy bring you this latest business strategy because I know that a whole lot of businesses I have meet during my work here in Nigeria and in most part of the world are just doing it wrong; plain and simple! I have spent a lot of time and money researching what works from what doesn’t.  I’m more inclined to write about this new trend in marketing as a result of my understanding of your target market, the economy and your need to satisfy your corporate social responsibility. But above all are the immediate needs of your customers new or old.    

MAKE GOOD MONEY DECISIONS FASTER

How do you know the difference between "roughly right" and "not at all right"? And just how much time can elapse before "fast and roughly right" becomes "precise and slow?" Hours? Days? Months?

A simple, flexible Know-Think-Do framework can enable leaders and their teams to immediately start making these fast and roughly right decisions. To paraphrase Einstein, this framework is "as simple as possible, but not simpler." 

STREET SMART ACADEMY ...NOW OPEN

“The absence of vision and innovation breeds fear, shrinks income and fans anxiety” 
Victor Osazuwa  

The ensuing information is for that “Nigerian “who wants to beat the odds. So if you want to remain where you are don’t read further. Only 2% Nigerian Directors and Managers will get a proposal and read it to the end. Only 1% will see the need for it.  This explains why only 1% of our over 150 million population will make it big.

There you go, you have it all spelled out for you in black and white. You may decide to dump of the email just as you can decide to become the Next big Deal in town.   Just remember whichever way you decide to go…there will always be room to fit.

What you are about to read is part of the intro of the “Project What Next” series,  a course offered by Street Smart Academy, a division of Quick Connect. It is designed to provide sustainable and proactive solutions for both the accomplished and unaccomplished Nigerian.

EMAIL MARKETING.. A MUST READ

Email marketing is a set of practices aimed at exploiting email messages so as to promote or sell a product or service. Every web marketing manual praises the email as an invaluable economic, practical, measurable and profitable business tool.  And it's exactly so. Thanks to the email it’s now possible to carry out advertising campaigns at a really low cost but still benefiting from a considerably high return on investment. This is also because it is now so wide spread, demographically and geographically, it is very flexible, and is very easy to create and use. But how many companies are truly aware of these qualities, and exploit them to fullest?

On average a user from Nigeria receives about 33 emails a day. Obviously, in the case of a manager or a person in the communication sector - these numbers increase exponentially.

INSPIRATION BY STEVE JOBS AND PICASSO

What is inspiration? Steve Jobs and Picasso provide some insights

 So, what is inspiration and how can you tap into it when you need to become inspired?

In today’s post, I’m going to share one of the ideas used by Pablo Picasso and Steve Jobs, when they were looking for creative inspiration. I’m also going to share a couple of tips of my own, but first, let’s take a brief look at the definition of inspiration.

Inspiration defined

The Oxford Dictionary defines inspiration as: the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.

Commonly we think of people being randomly struck by a flash of inspiration, so we see inspiration as a feeling that occurs almost by accident. However, as the start of that dictionary definition states, inspiration is a process. We become mentally stimulated (inspired) to do something. The key here, is to learn how to create that inspired state when we need to.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WORRY

7 things you need to know about worry, including a more helpful alternative.Stop Worrying

1. Worrying doesn’t make things better.
2. Worrying is a hideous waste of your time. Time is your most valuable resource.
3. Worrying is infectious to those who love you. Your family and friends will start to worry about you, when they sense you’re worried about something.
4. Worrying is infectious to your clients and customers. You can usually tell very quickly, when a business owner is worried about business. It’s common for people to pull their accounts from vendors, who they believe may be about to go broke.
5. The vast majority of things we worry about, either never happen or when they do happen, were nothing to worry about.
6. Worrying causes you to feel worse (and worse and worse.) It can also make you ill.
7. Worrying is the lowest possible use of your amazing imagination. Use your mind to build images of what you want and the things you are grateful for. Don’t use your mind as a movie theater, which plays the worst case scenarios of whatever you’re worrying about, over and over again.

You get to determine what you think about. You choose what you focus on. If you want one less thing to worry about, stop worrying. 

NOW CONSIDER THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRATION BY STEVE JOBS AND PICASSO

YOUR WEBSITE FIVE YEARS FROM NOW

Five years from now, your website won’t look like a website. It will look like a TV channel.

Video is taking over the Internet and your website will eventually morph into a multi media channel that people will access from a variety of devices.

Even today, when video is successfully added to a page, it’s common to see sales increase anywhere from 50% to 250%.

So……Why wait?

Every day that goes by where you’re not using Internet Video effectively is losing you money. Lots of money. I see many business owners daunted and confused by the idea of online video. They don’t know where to start.

The good news is, you don’t even have to like the idea of being on video to make this work. But you do need to be willing to use the power of online video to increase your sales.

At Better Business Network, we’ll cover how to do online video properly – and if you’re already doing it, I’ll show you the results of our most recent 2013 tests and the big online video mistakes that you need to avoid.

If you haven’t reserved your place yet,  YOU CAN REGISTER HERE – it is free!!

BETTER BUSINESS NETWORK OR NOTHING ELSE...29TH MAY

Did you know that Facebook has:

1.06 Billion users
150 Billion "friend connections"
2.7 Billion "likes" a day
1.13 Trillion "likes" since the site first went live.

150 Billion is a lot of connections.

... imagine you had a penny for every "friend connection" on Facebook and you stacked them one on top of the other.

How high do you think that stack would go?

Well... a British penny is around 1.52mm thick.

So stack 150 Billion of them and you'd have to crane your neck back a long way to see the top, some 228,000 Kilometres away (which isn't far off 2/3 of the way to the moon, or more than 5 times around the Earth, whichever you prefer).

Why does this matter?

Well... if you do it right, Facebook - particularly advertising on Facebook, can be incredibly powerful, because you can leverage the power of those "friend connections" and put them to work to grow your business.

DEFINING LEADERSHIP WITH A QUOTE FROM DR MYLES MONROE

Defining Leadership

Quote about leadership from Dr. Myles Monroe:

“Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.”

Influence
Leadership is about influencing a group or team of people. It is not about power and coercion, although you may influence others to move in a direction that is contrary to their own actions. Influence is creating the want and desire in others to do what you want and desire them to do.
Passion
Passion is contagious and a leader is most effective when he or she is passionate about the team, organization, and the work thereof. Passion is a characteristic that cannot be faked. It has to genuine and portrayed.

THE WORLDS GREATEST MARKETING MACHINE NOW IN NIAJA..AMEN

THE WORLDS GREATEST IS NOW IN NIAJA... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE. 

56 BILLION REASONS WHY YOU NEED THE TWO-SECOND ADVANTAGE

inShare178 The story goes that a motor bike roars up to a red traffic light in La Coruna in Northern Spain. It stops alongside a black town car. From inside, the passenger glances out and sees the young biker leaning over the handlebars. His jean jacket has appliqued patches… a throwback to the 1970s. The old man grabs his phone and calls an aide in the office. Without taking his eyes off the jacket, he describes the jacket’s stitching, its shape and color. He finished the call with a single instruction – ¡Hácedla!“ – Make it.


40 years ago, Amancio Ortega founded Zara on two key principles: give the customers what they want and give it to them faster than anyone else. As the story illustrates even today, those two key principles are at the heart of Zara, the world’s biggest fashion retailer.

Zara stores refresh their stock twice a week and receive orders in 48 hours or less. That has required some key organizational and supply chain decisions. “We never go to fashion shows,” says Loreta Garcia, a 23-year Zara veteran who heads up Zara Woman’s trends department. “We track bloggers and listen to customers, but we change our opinions all the time,” she says. “What seems great today, in two weeks is the worst idea ever.”

COULD A NEW 'COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS' LEAD THE DEVELOPING WORLD?

By Steve Clemons

inShFormally led by the Queen of England, this collection of former British colonies could reconvene into something new and powerful.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani hold a joint news conference at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth / Reuters

India, once considered the jewel in the crown of the British empire, is a member of the fossilized skeletal remains left behind, the Commonwealth of Nations -- but is also a member of the BRICS, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the G-20, the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the East Asia Summit, IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), the NAM (or Non-Aligned Movement), the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization.

AFRICA'S AMAZING RISE AND WHAT IT CAN TEACH THE WORLD

By G. Pascal Zachary

  Ten years into the continent's quiet revolution, lessons for the developing world

A construction worker walks on scaffolding on a tunnel project under construction near the Kenyan capital, Nairobi / Reuters

The poverty mafia once controlled the development debate in Africa. No longer.

The old approach was about how to prevent Africa from getting poorer. All development goals were essentially negative, as experts wallowed in risk-aversion and promoted various doomsday scenarios of an Africa with a rapidly growing population.

4 TIPS ON HOW TO SPOT A LEGITIMATE OPPORTUNITY

Here are 4 tips, to help you identify legitimate opportunities and avoid the fake ones. Legitimate opportunities seldom look like certainties. There is always a risk attached. If it looks too good to be true, that’s because it is! The bigger the opportunity, the bigger the risk will seem. Warren Buffett wins big, however, he…

Here are 4 tips, to help you identify legitimate opportunities and avoid the fake ones.

HOW TO TAKE YOUR BUSINESS TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND AVOID THE AVERAGE TRAP

If your business is not providing you with the lifestyle or financial rewards you deserve, you will find today’s post extremely useful. In fact, I wrote it just for you.
Here’s the thing:

• When a business fails spectacularly, you know about it.
• When a business becomes a success, you know about it. 
• However, when a business lands somewhere in between those two, it’s easy to get stuck in The Average Trap, without even knowing.

HOW TO MEET YOUR 2013 MARKETING RESOLUTION (2)

A flat line is better than a declining one, but every business owner wants to see their growth going UP. And maybe for 2013, you’ve vowed that you will do something to make sure that you will see growth throughout the year. Now you need a plan. Here it is:

1. Check Your Sign Up Forms

The first thing you should do (yes, in January) is work on your online signup process. Most email marketing service providers will show you how your sign up form is performing. It might look something like this:

The No-Nonsense Guide to Successful Business Networking

Forget platitudes and theory. Here's the only advice you'll ever need to make business networking pay off.

If effective business networking is so important, why do so few people see any benefits? The problem starts with expectations.

6 WAYS TO ENHANCE YOUR CREDIBILITY

You won't succeed in business if nobody believes in you. Here's how to make certain they do.

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Your success in business is directly proportional to how quickly (and how well) you can establish credibility with your customers, investors, and colleagues.

1. Be genuine about who you really are.

BECOME THE GODFATHER OF MONEY

The fear of Failure and Success makes many in Nigeria anxious, I will do everything I can to provide you access to the info you need to make money everyday from selling a product or service. Your only job would be to act on the information provided without procrastination.  Your time to start making money is now not next year.

GameChanger strategy provides answers only for those willing to take immediate action. And "No" this is not another get rich or quick money fixes. Click Here to find out more. To help you begin, see some of the simple strategies you must adopt this new year in other to be successful.

THE ABC...OF EMAIL MARKETING REVEALED

THE PREFACE

Email marketing is a set of practices aimed at exploiting email messages so as to promote or sell a product or service.  Every web marketing manual praises the email as an invaluable economic, practical, measurable and profitable business tool. And it's exactly so. Thanks to the email it’s now possible to carry out advertising campaigns at a really low cost but still benefiting from a considerably high return on investment. This is also because it is now so wide spread, demographically and geographically, it is very flexible, and is very easy to create and use. 

A NEW YEAR, A NEW AWAKENING

If you really want to know someone, you must meet them when they are young, free and uncompromisable, most honestly themselves.  In the beginning, we challenged everything the world thought it knew about customer loyalty, Quick Connect was born out of the conviction that there’s a better way. A more corporate expression of what customer loyalty could be, and people loved it especially creative savvy business people, outsiders with nothing except better ideas and brains. 

Quick Connect launched one of the most dynamic brand the world ever seen, through many years passed, we have gone from success to success. The question is how do we ensure that we stay honest, as we grow and evolved globally? How do we ensure that the brand stays animated by the same spirit as the beginning? NATURE! 

BEING A GRADUATE! NOT A YARDSTICK FOR SUCCESS

If, like the old saying goes, knowledge is power, then librarians would rule the world. They don’t. Something else is more correlated to success than education.
Millions of higher degree recipients make less during their careers than people who dropped out of high school. And millions who never finished high school make huge impacts and a lot of money.
We miss cause and effect all the time. As an example, people love to say, “College graduates make a million dollars more in their lifetime than non-college graduates.”Is it because they went to school, or because they are motivated to do anything that will make them successful? I think it’s the latter.

If they were told they needed to apprentice with a businessperson they would do that instead of getting an MBA (that would be my advice). They are motivated and committed, and will do whatever they have to in order to be successful.

THE BAD HABITS OF NIGERIAN ENTREPRENEURS

A successful entrepreneur has to be energetic, organized and committed to a vision – all positive things, but they can lead to bad habits unless care is taken. As the year draws to a close, it’s important to take stock of your business and to amend negative behaviors. These can commonly include the following:

10 LEGENDARY ENTREPRENEURS THAT CHANGED THEIR GAME

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The godfather of Apple demolished the cartel of the recording industry with iTunes. Yes, it closed down your local record store, but it changed the way the world enjoys music, collects it and discovers new acts.

ACTING ON IDEAS PART 2

In today's rapidly changing market, small businesses that innovate survive. But, that's no easy task for a leader. You're expected to be open to risky ideas while protecting your company and evaluating what will work. Openness and skepticism often seem at odds, and finding a successful balance can be tough.
Innovation pulls leaders in multiple directions, Learning when and how to employ each mindset will help you manage the innovation process effectively.

These four tips can help you encourage creative ideas while keeping your business safe.

ACTING ON IDEAS

Your company's next great idea could come from anyone -- an employee, a customer, a vendor, or even a stranger. Everyone involved in your small business helps you drive innovation. They also create chaos. But, with so much input, how do you make sure the best ideas don't get lost in the shuffle?

To create a culture that fosters innovation, organize new ideas in a way that empowers you to act on them. People stop participating in an innovation community without active decision-making and transparency,
Here are four tips to help you organize your ideas and drive innovation.

TOP MARKETING TIPS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS FOREVER

Finally, the year 2012 is about to expire! But must we let it expire without learning new business secrets sense in readiness for the new year? the answer is NO! we have to become proactive if we are to have a great time come next year.  So, lets go straight to the points.

1. Throw that old marketing guide in the bin!

If you want to avoid wasting stacks of money and missing countless sales opportunities, throw your old marketing guides and audio programs in the recycling bin!
You need to know what works today; where even the smallest business can advertise itself to millions online for less than the cost of a one-off trade journal advert – AND – where you can mail a million potential clients in a few hours for just pennies.

TIITHES, GOD AND YOU (A MUST READ)

Leadership of the church rants and raves about their right to keep the general mass ignorant? Can the mass simply say that it’s our duty to give and not to ask, or God forbid, influence what is done by our contributions? Granted, on a micro level, every individual is responsible for their personal decision in regards to giving; but in the communal aspect of giving, the mass population is threatened into tithing with fear of being punished by a curse as decreed by God!  

 My dear believers, God will not withdraw his blessings simply because you did not pay your tight.

ITS NOTHING UNTILL WE CALL IT NOTHING

In the late 1800s, an Italian sociologist and engineer, Vilfredo Pareto, became known for his controversial theory that alleged the superiority of the "elite" class. That unfortunate (and now discredited) theory was used to shore up the ideology of fascism which brought misery to millions.

But he was also known for applying mathematical principles in the realms of sociology and economics, and while his now-refuted "law" of the "trivial many" and the "significant few" holds no meaning for us in terms of the value of human beings, at least one of Pareto's ideas does still hold water in other areas.

OSAZEE AND DAYO HIS SON

There on upon a time, there was a farmer by the name of Osazee who relied heavily on his sons to help with planting, cultivation, and especially to bring in the harvest. But Osazee had only one son named Dayo, strong, strapping fellow, of whom his father was very proud.

One day, as father and son were walking to the fields to begin the harvest, they were so caught up in their conversation that Dayo didn't notice where he was stepping, and in a flash he had fallen and broken his leg.

"Oh, no!" his father cried, "This is terrible!" And, in truth, in those days a broken leg WAS a grievous injury, one that could even result in death if left untreated. But soon the doctor came and set the leg and assured both men that it would heal just fine.

BUSINESS AND THE FINIANCIAL CHOLESTOROL

Quick! What's the very first thing that springs into your mind when you read or hear the M-word?  (M-o-n-e-y.)  For many people that first thing isn't necessarily pleasant. And for others there's a fleeting flicker of delight as they imagine having plenty of it, winning the lottery or the like, which just as quickly fades into a more familiar "not enough" feeling instead.

It's not surprising. After all, most of us have been carefully trained, taught, even indoctrinated our whole lives to believe that money is scarce, that it's hard to come by, that only people who have any ever get more, that it's the cause of all the world's troubles ... and on and on and on. Loads of heavy baggage packed with negativity on the simple subject of something we really cannot do without. So since we already KNOW that we attract/create our own experience through our thinking, how about we just Unpack some of that mental baggage and ditch some of the seriousness so we can stop creating and attracting more stuff like THAT?

STREET SMART ACADEMY (NEW)

"The more educated you are, the poorer you become "

 "Your chances of attaining Financial Freedom diminishes when you rely on the teachings of a broke professor"

Victor Osazuwa

OBTAIN A CERTIFICATE IN STREET SMART aka Common Sense
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Factology 101

General Purpose:	To create and inspire proactive knowledge based entrepreneurs
Objectives:	Provide the foundation for growth and personal development, to develop and be part of the game changer community.  To create a proactive network of practical knowledge seekers with the mind to transform the community through sustainable business solutions.(We teach faith, inspire hope and provide practical reversed solutions to success )
Central Idea:	That together, we can develop an idea bank for our personal and community development.

THE TRENDS NIGERIAN BUSINESSES MUST EMBRAZE IN 2013

Consumer Trend;

Being a member of an exclusive discount organization club that allows members to have additional savings on service and product purchases from preferred businesses is sure in vogue and will continue to be for another decade or more. The is exactly why QCN is going all out in our drive to expanding our business categories to include services everyone wants and everyone needs and everyone can afford. Virtual interaction with favorite merchants using a technologically backed member applications will defiantly see a rise come 2013. Robust web portals, expedited over the counter purchases, the upcoming i-member e-commerce store integrated with IVR are all strategies aimed at redefining our shoppers buyer experience.  

CHAMABERS OF COMMERCE REPORT (NIGERIA)

 The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has said that no fewer than 800 companies in Nigeria closed shop between 2009 and 2011 due to harsh operating business environment.

Dr Herbert Ajayi, President of NACCIMA, gave the figure on Tuesday in Asaba in a paper he presented at a zonal workshop on economic diversification organized by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).

Ajayi said that more than half of the “surviving” firms had been classified as “ailing’’, a situation, he said, posed a great threat to the survival of the manufacturing industry.
He added that capacity utilisation in industries hovered around 30 per cent and 45 per cent on the average, with 100 per cent overhead costs.

He blamed the continued decline in the manufacturing sectors on “political and economic factors’’, citing poor infrastructure and epileptic power supply as key impediments to the industry.
“The manufacturing industry as a whole operates on more than 70 per cent of energy it generates; using generators and operating these generators greatly increases the cost of manufacturing goods,’’ he said.
The industrialist gave other reasons for the woes in the sector as incessant increase in the price of petroleum products used by industries, multiple taxation, unabated smuggling and inadequate access to finance, both local and abroad.
According to him, widespread insecurity and the inability of government agencies in the ports to meet its 24-hour target for cargo clearance have contributed to the dwindling fortunes in the manufacturing sector.
The NACCIMA president, whose speech was delivered by Mrs Mary Iyasere, Vice President of the association, described current government policies to revive the manufacturing industry as inadequate.

MILLIONAIRS WORD

I don’t know about you, but during my growing up days, becoming a Millionaire was seen as an extreme and far off achievement. When the Mercedes Benz drove past, we looked at the driver with complete awe and amazement. Those who became Millionaires were regarded as almost living in another world.
 
A few decades ago, that might have been an understandable way to view Millionaire status. I would like to suggest to you that it’s a very dangerous way of viewing it in 2012.