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.