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Double Your Business Profits Using Just One Clue from Professors and Lawyers

No matter what business niche you serve, what products you sell or what services your provide or even if you are a complete newbie in business there are many important clues you must be aware of if you must really rake in plentiful profits from your business. I am here with you now with one [...]

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5 Marketing Strategies for your Small Business in 2012

Small Businesses need Marketing! Has the daily grill of your small business prevented you from coming up with fresh marketing strategies? If that is the case with you, fasten your seat belt as I plunge into the array of swords every entrepreneur must have in the armoury. 1.    Craft Attention – Grabbing Headlines “Hey! Is [...]

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Totally Free Ways to Take Your Local Business Online

The internet makes available ample opportunities for businesses – not excluding small local businesses – to have free and even extremely cheap visibility.  It is very obvious that a great number of local business owners are still far behind in tapping the opportunities. With the continuous information and communication technology advancement summoning us all to [...]

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How Much do You Actually Need to Start a Small Business?

For people that keep postponing the pursuit of a viable small business venture on the guise of not having sufficient capital to set up the business, here is a word of advice for them – actually you don’t really need a lot of money to start some types of small business. With little or no [...]

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An Invitation to attend the FATE Foundation 11th Annual Celebration

We are pleased to invite you to attend the 11th FATE Foundation Annual Celebration & Entrepreneurial Awards Ceremony to honour outstanding Nigerian entrepreneurs, and celebrate the 2011 graduands of the various FATE programmes. The theme of the event is The Price, Prize & Pride of Entrepreneurship. Please find the details below: Date: Thursday, December 8th, [...]

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Africa’s Entrepreneurial Hot-Spot by Randall Kempner

ED, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneur Africa’s Entrepreneurial Hot-Spot by Randall Kempner I’m writing from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. I’ve just spent the last two days participating in events related to Global Entrepreneurship Week hosted by Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) members Pan-African University-Enterprise Development Centre (EDC), Alitheia Capital, and [...]

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What is the difference between an Entrepreneur and a business owner?

As an entrepreneur what are the main functions or duties to be performed on behalf of one self and the society in general? Interesting question to me because it isn’t easy to differentiate between an entrepreneur and a business owner. They seem to mean the same and at the same time not necessarily so. For [...]

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What Ambitious Small Business Owners Should Learn from Accidental Entrepreneurs

What Ambitious Small Business Owners Should Learn from Accidental Entrepreneurs

One trouble, two small notes, LinkedIn website and then the emergence of a top entrepreneur… The above line is not just a phrase but the phases of the problem faced, the actions taken and the entrepreneurial service organization that eventually surfaced for Henk van Ess. Henk needed to find a way of extending the life [...]

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I will be Speaking at the SME Toolkit Conference to mark Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011

The Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) kicks off on the 14th – 20th November, 2011. Nigeria won’t be left out this time around, a number of organisations have made a commitment to grow the entrepreneurial awareness amongst Nigerians and they have programmes lined up to mark this year’s GEW. Fortunately for me, I will be speaking [...]

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Insanity is key to becoming a successful entrepreneur – Fola Adeola, Founder, Guaranty Trust Bank

Fola Adeola remains a successful entrepreneur by all standards and he is one man I know with a large heart for small businesses. FATE Foundation is 11 years old, thanks to this man who single-handedly set-up this great organisation, with the sole aim of helping people get started in business. It is sad to note [...]

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