If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, you know that everything you do in the first few years of your business can set the stage for a lifetime of successes or failures. Getting your new business off the ground starts with a well-devised growth strategy that covers marketing, branding, product development, and…
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The coolest way to eventually become your own boss is to start a side hustle and build your self-employed income while you still have the safety and security of your day job. This is what modern entrepreneurs refer to as Hybrid Entrepreneurship. Hybrid entrepreneurship is identified as the process of…
Let’s face it, 80% of new businesses and startups will fail for one reason or another within the first three (3) years of getting started. Why is this so? New startups are coming up everywhere throughout the nation with Lagos and Abuja being the Silicon Valley of the majority of these startup businesses….
As a small business, If you have a product or service you sell online, having an adequate means of collecting online payments for offered goods and services is a no-brainer. Many businesses have a website or online store but only collect payments via Cash on Delivery. That is more likely…
Are successful small business entrepreneurs born or developed? Small Business Entrepreneurs are some of the most multi-talented and diverse people out there. A successful entrepreneur puts on many different hats at the same time. No less important than great business ideas are the actual people who bring these ideas to life….
Starting a business is a big achievement for many entrepreneurial minded persons, but how to maintain the business is a greater challenge that most entrepreneurs battle with. There are many standard business challenges that face every business whether they are large or small. These include things like hiring the right…
This post concludes is the last of the series on “How to write a business plan”. The major challenge when it comes to writing a business plan is knowing where to start from. This most business owners and entrepreneurs don’t always get right. Looking through existing business plan templates gives a…
In the first part of this topic “How to write a business plan”, we discussed the tips you have to consider before setting out to write your business plan. We will be taking the discussion further by looking at what a professional business plan should look like. A business plan emphasises…
Going through the process of writing a well-thought-out business plan for your small business when starting up is one of the most important things that you can do. Unfortunately, many small business owners find this process to be difficult and confusing. Writing a business plan essential for the success of…
This article has got facts based on a survey conducted by a Lagos-based digital marketing agency on 2000 Nigerian entrepreneurs on last month, June 2017 in the different parts of the metropolitan city, Lagos. There are high failure rates among small businesses. Many don’t even last 2 years – and…