6 Ridiculous Excuses Young Nigerians give For Not Starting a Business

From time immemorial, starting a business has always been a monumental task. It is not for the fainthearted nor is it for those who aren’t dogged. And this won’t change anytime soon.

Regardless, you will find Nigerians who are dogged and who have the entrepreneurial tenacity or spirit running from pillar to post searching for jobs. Besides, even those who have jobs are no better. They always have an excuse for not starting a business on their own. Jumia Travel shares some of these pretty inexcusable excuses.

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4 Simple But Powerful Tips on How You Can Use Twitter To Find a Job

Twitter is usually known as the second most popular social media website after Facebook. Though not too popular in the African continent, its one of the fastest ways to spread information across the world, with its fast and unique features, its being used by many top organisations to communicate their customers or fans.

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Discover Shopping at Classifieds

Classifieds is a collection of advertisements. But it is not just an ordinary collection. It is a unique place with hundreds of thousands of offers gathered there for making your life easier. 

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Top 5 business apps for every Nigerian entrepreneur

 

Being an entrepreneur in Nigeria is an enormous responsibility. You attend business meetings, send out business proposals and coordinate your daily activities. With all these tasks, it is near impossible to keep track of your day-to-day affairs. Thankfully, there are now smartphone apps for this purpose. Jovago.com, Africa's No 1 hotel booking portal identifies some of these apps.

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3 smart ways to make money through your website

If you're looking for creative ways to generate revenue for your business through a website, activating online adverts is the way to go!

In addition to making a few extra bucks on the side, ads increase the visibility and integrity of your brand on the internet. To give your website the competitive advantage it deserves, Jovago.com, Africa’slargest hotel booking portal reveals ways to target a niche market and make money from the traffic your site generates.

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How social media can help your business

By Rita Ohai

Since Facebook listed on the stock exchange, everyone has decided to have a piece of the action.

While more than 90 percent of the world’s population stays interested in posting selfies on the internet, a few savvy entrepreneurs are seeking creative ways to deploy social media recognition for their businesses.

In this article, Jovago.com, Africa’s largest hotel booking portal presents tips on how to increase your social media presence and help your business grow like wildflowers.

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Six tips on how to improve your mobile photography

Improving your mobile photography could be the best thing you will do in your phone, mostly for the selfie addicts. According to Android Authority, Photography’s evolution has dramatically sped up since the inception of quality smartphone cameras. Handsets have effectively replaced point-and-shoot cameras, something we never expected to happen only a generation ago. This opens plenty of new doors for creating memories, but it also means there are millions of other users taking a sea of photos every single day. How can you make your own pictures stand out?
It’s hard to teach anyone photography, as it’s a skill that usually takes a long time to polish. There’s a plethora of factors to take into account every single time you release that shutter. Not to mention, every user has a personal style. Regardless, there are some simple ways to dramatically improve your shots, without investing too much time and resources into this art.
LG is giving us some tips and tricks you can apply to your daily snaps and share even more awesome images to your social networks. Of course, this is mostly marketing content and mentions LG products quite often, but these tricks can be applied with any camera, and it’s definitely useful information. Let’s dig into the nitty gritty, shall we?

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Ways to Defeat 6 Obstacles Facing Most Online Marketers

Here are six common obstacles marketers face and tips on how to overcome them.

1. Advertising nobody sees.

According to programmatic advertising company Infectious Media, 54 percent of digital advertising goes unseen. Reasons why range from lack of plug-in support to ad-blocking browser extensions to miscellaneous loading problems. That means that more than half of the budget allocated to digital advertising is used ineffectively.
To combat this tough issue, buy advertising from companies that assure your ads will be seen. Millennial Media boasts a 100 percent viewability guarantee on its mobile ads, where your creatives are perfectly visible to audiences or else you do not pay for them. By prioritizing viewability, you can easily boost the effectiveness of your campaign.

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What is Affiliate marketing?

Just like marketing the products of a company by bringing customers to them, affiliate marketing is the online way of doing that. 
Affiliate marketing is internet advertising that allows any online business to affiliate themselves with web site owners (known as affiliates or publishers) using affiliate programs. Affiliates make money by generating sales, leads and traffic for the Merchants business. Merchants who sell goods and services online or seek other affiliate business activity typically use one of the affiliate program commission payment models below:

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Now you can make money in Facebook

Over the years google has been the most popular website that pays people, and people have been waiting on facebook to to reward its never ending visitors that gives them much income, now they have heard you guys .
Facebook will begin sharing advertising revenue with companies that post videos on its social network, a step toward luring more premium content away from sites like Google’s YouTube.
Facebook will offer contributors 55 percent of the revenue from ads that appear alongside videos, the same split as YouTube. The spots will be part of a new feature that suggests clips to Facebook users who are already watching videos, the Menlo Park, California-based company said on Wednesday. Facebook will sell the ads for the new programme, which begins later this year.

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Duchess Diva Concept-A Plat Form For Your Online Business

We are ADVERT BOARD.

We advertise businesses,We sell data bundles, We build websites and
Apps, we are into graphic designs, We run bulk sms services,We post
Jobs,We write CV / Cover letter.

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100 Businesses you can start Part 2

51. Greeting cards designer
52. Food Delivery service
53. Home made story books
54. You tube Videos
55. Information broker
56. Infopreneur
57. Internet marketing
58. Internet service provider
59. Internet recruiting
60. Interpreter /translator
61. Foreign Language Teacher
62. Mailing list service
63. Market research
64. Monogramming
65. Music lessons
66. Nanny Service
67. Online internet training
68. Painting
69. Payroll service
70. Martial arts instructor
71. Pet training
72. Selling Pet products
73. Proof reader
74. Public Relations Agency
75. Public/Motivational Speaker
76. Reporter
77. CV/Resume Writing service


Read: 8 Businesses you can do online


78. Self Improvement Seminars
79. Self Publishing
80. Song writer
81. Teaching
82. Technical Writer
83. Telephone Answering service
84. Tour Guide
85. Travel Agency
86. Scholarship and Overseas Study consultant
87. Typing service
88. Mobile supermarket
89. Writing press releases
90. SMS marketing


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91. Excursion Service
92. Holiday Camp
93. Video game Center
94. Viewing Center
95. Day care center
96. Car wash service
97. Selling chilled Zobo Drinks
98. Yoghurt Production
99. Home Business Center
100. School Dropping and picking service.

I hope this helps you to get ideas on future businesses you're planing to do, visit us for more better updates.

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100 business ideas you can start

1. Proposal writing
2. Real Estate Agency
3. Information Marketing
4. Blogging (Read: Secrets of blogging)
5. Web publishing
6. Selling Fruits
7. Baking confectioneries
8. Selling honey
9. Home tutoring
10. Freelance marketing

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14 Simple Businesses/jobs You can start

1. Sales Person

2. Laundry Service

3. Writing of  HandOuts/Resume

4. Barbing/Hair dressing

5. D.J

6. Show promoter/ Event manager

7. Computer instructor

8. Software developer

9. Driving School business

10. Real estate/ agent

11. Photography

12. Chef (Read: How to Bake Bread)

13. Painting

14. Fashion designer

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Best Inspirational Write Up

Are You Stuck In Your Comfort Zone
Attitude Versus Comfort Zone
Since the great majority of us already know what attitude is, let's talk about comfort zone:
Comfort zone is the mental place surrounded by borders in our mind where we feel secure. Even though this comfort area and its boundaries are just a state of mind that has nothing to do with reality, it plays a huge roll in the progress of our development. Since the comfort zone is limited, there is not much benefit for you inside your comfort zone, but what you already are and have. Nothing new will happen until you open yourself and leave your comfort zone.
As long as you still are having the same beliefs, you cannot grow and you cannot expect new things in your life. When you change your beliefs you will change your thoughts, feelings and actions and then, and only then you can expand and grow in all aspects of your life.


Read: Wise Words About Maturity


Even though your background may be affecting your present situation, what really matters is not where you were born, your skin color, race, age, gender, religion, government, or even the poor environment in which you have been living for so many years, but what really matters and makes a big difference in your life is your attitude, to understand your comfort zone, how you limit yourself within it, who you are, why you behave the way you do it, and mainly where you are going.
Sadly many people don't go anywhere because they stay within their comfort zone. They accept defeat after defeat before even trying or knowing how capable or valuable they really are. These circumstances are not the cause of our actual situation but the conformism and the poverty of our thoughts and therefore the weakness of our broken spirit. Leave your past behind; constantly transcend your comfort zone! Your past within this comfort zone is nothing but a wasted load that you don't need to carry, at all.
Take constant action as many times as it is required and never, never quit. As Napoleon Hill said, "a quitter never wins and a winner never quits. Defeat is never a failure; no circumstance ever is failure until it is accepted by the individual as a failure". Whatever you are thinking, you are feeling, and therefore what you feel is the way you are acting, and this action is what will determine how far you will go and how your future will be. Cheer up your essence; don't let the background of your comfort zone, or any other external circumstance defeat your spirit.
Nothing is impossible for an optimist attitude; everything is possible when we start blindly trusting ourselves, when we have a burning desire to succeed and a blind determination to make our dreams come true; everything is possible when we don't take a no for an answer.


Also Read: Before And After You Fall In Love

Don't be afraid of change, life itself is change, change is growth, and regardless of how painful it may be, change is needed. Change will take you to a place full of new things, blessings and satisfaction, everything is for better. Just focus and only live your present with passion, focus on the things you want and what make you happy. Just believe in yourself, be open minded, open to change, be simple, flexible and take action.

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Wise Words you need to read

While it is good to acquire a good education, the marketplace requires more than academic intelligence. There seems to be an inverse correlation between good grades, high degree and financial success – the more degrees you have, the more you struggle in the area of money. Most billionaires and multi-millionaires are school drop-outs and folks that made third class, pass or second class upper. Good grades from a good university are no longer an indicator that one will become successful in life. You can hardly find MBA holders in the Forbes Billionaires List. Folks like Donald Trump are an exception rather than the rule. The skills required to succeed in life are not taught in conventional classrooms. It is learned in real life. 

You can visit Our Entre360 page to see many business you can engage in.. We have started updating it regularly..

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How to Produce a Detergent Powder

 you will need to learn how produce many things, and we are here to guide you throw, below is a step by step procedures of how to produce detergent

INGREDIENTS           QUANTITIES

colour(blue) 

        
ammonia solution        1/4kg

caustic soda                 2.5kg

hydrogen peroxide      0.5kg 

soda ash                      1.5kg

perfume    

           
palm kernel oil           4cups 

PREPARATION PROCEDURE

1. measure all the required materials into a bowl.
2. add perfume and colour and mix together.
3. dry with sun and grind it to powder.


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How to prepare a Meat Pie

Below is a step by step process of how to make meat pie

INGREDIENTS        QUANTITIES

Meat                           10 medium sizes
Onion                         1 small bulb
Pepper(ground)          2 tea spoons
Tomato                       3 medium bulbs
Flour                          8 cups
Butter                         1 satchet
Salt                             to taste
Groundnut oil            5 cooking spoon
Water                         required amount
Seasoning cube         2 cubes
Potato                        3 tuba


PREPARATION PROCESS

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How to make a Custard

CUSTARD



The ingredients include

INGREDIENTS            QUANTITIES

corn starch            1kg

flavour(container may differ)                1 teaspoon

egg yellow             1 teaspoon

salt                   a pinch

deep orange colourant  2 teaspoons(container may differ)

Preparation procedure
1. mix the egg yellow and deep orange colourant together
2. add the corn starch and stir
3. add the flavour and salt
4. mix all together

You can learn this and produce in few quantities both for home use and for sale, remember we are here to help you to be self employed. Visit us regularly for best updates..

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How to Bake Bread

We are here to teach you how to be self employed, you can bake bread and sell to shops and people around you, so here are the steps, click HERE for more entrepreneurship posts.

INGREDIENTS

 Flour

Margarine 

Warm water 

Yeast 

Salt 

Sugar 

PREPARATION PROCEDURE

1. Add margarine and salt to flour and mix thoroughly
2. Mix salt, sugar and yeast with warm water
3. Pour the mixture into the mixed flour and mix until it becomes smooth.
4. Cut and put into a loaf tinbake ina hot oven for 45mins.
5. Reduce the heat for 15mins.
6. You can bring it out.

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