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How To Get Investors For Business Funding In Nigeria

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  How To Get Investors For Business Funding In Nigeria Sometimes, the distance between where we are and where we want to be is light. Istifanus Sarki If your attempts in getting investors to fund your business have fallen flat on countless occasions, then it’s best to pause the search and focus on the roots. And don’t even buy the lie that it’s difficult to find investors. Those are false assumptions from the backend of wrong approaches. You would be shocked to know the rate at which millions are being invested on a weekly basis locally and globally. Here, you will learn how easy it is to get one…just one investor that would bring your ideas to life with their investment. The Financial Investment Space in Nigeria We can date investment back to when Dangote was loaned half a million in 1977 to start a business and the rest is history. Today, we have more investors who invest in several businesses, ideas, and startups. Even more, there are lots of angel investors who are looking for busi

Bike Delivery Service: Origin, Success, Failures and How to Start One

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Bike Delivery Service: Origin, Success, Failures and How to Start One Back in the days, it was an uncle or a neighbor who was going to the market that acted as our delivery service. my mother would write a list and tell me to give it to uncle john or aunty Helen so that they would buy the items on their way back. Sometimes we had to look for someone coming from another city and buy in bulk so that we don’t start searching for a makeshift delivery system the next week The Gulder ultimate search for people to deliver goods for us did not always yield the required results. And traders, afraid that the lack of an effective delivery system would cost them their customers, came up with the idea of delivery boys and girls. Although they meant well, this delivery system did more harm than good,as these delivery boys and girls sometimes got locations wrong, delivered the wrong goods or delivered late and in some cases ran away with the goods It was clear there was a serious gap between effectiv

Niche Marketing: How To Make Your Brand Different from Your Competitors

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How To Make Your Brand Different from Your Competitors WHO IS YOUR CUSTOMER? Who are the potential customers and how will you reach them? They are the reason why you have a business in the first place. The business idea is about solving their problem, therefore you need to know who they are, where they are, what they need, and how to reach them. The fashion business is quite vast so you can not just come up with a blanket mission statement like “I want to make quality and affordable clothes for all functions.” That is vague and caters to the whole population of consumers in your location.  No start-up can seriously aim to serve every single tailoring need in their location alone. You simply do not have the resources to achieve that. Before you start using up your limited resources let us sit down and sort this out first! Find Your Niche A start-up cannot expect to compete with the bigger boys in any industry. But as an underdog, the crumbs falling from their table is enough to grow big