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🌳The Three D’s to Avoid as an Entrepreneur 

When you make a mistake, own up to it.

Don’t 

🏓Dodge

🏓Deflect 

🏓Disburden

Yourself from failures in your business.

You must learn to take responsibility for customer dissatisfaction and complaints in your enterprise.

If you fail to deliver as promised, don’t start blaming the delivery office. If you fail to meet up with an order don’t start blaming the product or the non existent clerk.

Don’t start blaming sources outside yourself. Dodging from your mistakes because you want to appear ...

🌳Keep Up with the Trends in your Industry

Every business person should be up to date with the events in their industry. We live in an age where things are changing every second. Even a well situated business can be hit by the winds of change.

If you want to know the dangers in trailing behind just look at Nokia. The executives of Nokia Corporation were reluctant to follow the trend. They didn’t know that a better iOS was in the market ...

Wouldn’t it Be Nice to Have Someone Around Who Behaves Just Like You?

Well, maybe to hang out or grab a drink but not for your new business.

Here👇 is why

There is more to running a business than the ability to relate with like minds.

This is an error most entrepreneurs make when hiring. We look out for people who behave like us and we hire them because we think we can work together with them.

I know we all love ourselves and we ...

The Business of Management 🤔

We all want to have solid businesses like Coca-cola, Amazon, Dangote group, Microsoft corporation etc but the question you have not asked yourself is this..

Can I pay the price?

Can you drink of their cup?

 

Can you die now and resurrect later?

 

Or you can’t wait to start showing off luxurious  cars and houses?

 

Your greatest challenge as an entrepreneur will be to discipline yourself, to kill the Hushpuppi syndrome in you, if you must manage your money and business ...

Is Your Business Still Stuck in One Location🙁?

If your business is still stuck and limited to that little office/shop of yours then now is the time to make changes.

If the only people seeing you and what you do are the people in and around your location then you’re business is endangered😥

The businesses that thrive in  this 21st Century are the businesses that are not stuck in one cubicle or physical location.

You should take your business everywhere, I don’t have to ...

What a Competitive Analysis does for your Business?

If you have ever written a business proposal then you should be familiar with this term. If not, then continue reading.

The aim of a competitive analysis is not just to write a business proposal that will earn you a loan or grant from the bank, the aim is to make you thoroughly aware of what is involved in your market so you can prepare on how best to deal with it.

I remember in ...

You achieve more when you work with a group than when you work alone. Learn to have and integrate team members in your business and share your visions with them.

You may start alone but don’t remain alone. You need people to grow and expand. You need shared responsibilities with team members.

Three people can hew a tree faster than one person but in choosing people be careful not to end up with the wrong set. Chose the right people who can ...

♦️Are Your Sales Operations/Avenues Easy to Navigate?

You need to answer this question as an entrepreneur or a person in business.

By sales operations I mean your sales methods. Are they easy to navigate or is it one heck of a problem. Do your customers queue up for hours before they’re attended to or is your online portal another GMAT they have to solve before they figure it out.

Know this👉 Sales are easily made and increased when customers find it easy to ...

● Your Business is not Growing because You don’t Have a Strategy?

It’s good to have goals, but what’s the use of a goal when you don’t have techniques for achieving the goal?

Every business undertaking must have a strategy put in place and geared towards the realizations of the company’s goals.

So you as an entrepreneur must have a strategy for the achievement of goals/milestones in your business.

What is a Strategy?

A strategy is a plan of action used (or intended for use) ...

No Business will Grow Beyond the Capacity of the Entrepreneur

🛑People who ‘blow’ before they grow end up blowing up the money.

♦️Some businesses can manage and weather crisis, while others can’t. They bleed during crisis, while some trudge on and pull through. The difference is in the capacity of the person driving the business.

When people can’t account for how they spent money, especially huge sums of money that they held at one point in their life, it’s a testament to the ...