Chances are that whether you are a business owner or you are looking to grow your business or even if you have been contemplating setting up a business – you have been thinking local. If you live in the United States, you would have thought of that country alone. But then, there is a […]

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Reading is something that has something to do with success. A survey done with most self-made successful entrepreneurs had revealed that they all spend a good 2 - 3 hours simply reading up - novels, works of non-fiction, literature, magazines, newspapers, periodicals, anything. All that matters is that they read and are up-to-date with whatever […]

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I listen to people making excuses everyday as to the fact that they weren’t able to start their own businesses and even if they had tried once, they couldn’t do much but write it off as one- of -those -things- that -happen -to -us. Among a lot of reasons, myths and laziness-induced excuses, some people still emerge as likely candidates to start their own businesses after all and probably for the second time now and if you had just been a discerning young about-to-jump-ship business junior, this is just as relevant to you as it is for anyone else.

We have figured out 5 ways to nurture your start-up effectively :

1. Start-up in your part-time by parting time : One of the strongest reasons as to why people don’t start their own businesses is the fact that they would have to let go of their juicy paycheck. Hell, why did you even have to think about it in the first place? Why not have the best of both? But just like you’d pay more for an expensive car, good things come with fat price tags - You’ll end up working like a dog and try to manage both your day job and your part-time business - I think that’s fine. The good part is that you still haven’t let go of your trousers and that paycheck is still yours. You will get to experiment and you will get to write it off, if it didn’t work. That’s neat if you ask me.

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Everyone keeps doling out ideas by the dozen but perhaps it is time to give you the ingredients and allow YOU to think — see what makes for a great business model.
1. A no over head business : I don’t see myself having fun when I still need to pay for the rent, employee […]

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I was consulting a client on proper advertising mechanics the other day and I noticed a major flaw that some-how was a common string attached to most other companies pertaining to the message that is reaching to the consumers.

Surprising Non-chalance : Most companies are incredulously non-chalant about the mssage that is going through their marketing […]

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Every body keeps talking about why you should be IN business. Here are reasons why you shouldn’t be :
 1.You can never go back - the point of no return: take this with a pinch of salt, once you take this step, you have sauntered beyond the point of no return. You can never get back […]

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It’s been 4 months into my business.
I am right most of the time.I was wrong sometimes.I made some real quick decisions. I am learning. Fast.
There is still no one to take care of the cash flow ( coz it isn’t much!) and I still follow what Michael. E. Gerber tells me. I think of my […]

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 I am learning a lot from my business today and I thought I should publish my learnings for someone else to benefit from.
The overheads - get rid of them. Why?
Ask me. I just handed over the retail part of my business to an able management — outsourcing the overhead laden, bleeding business to someone who […]

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