6. Transcribe audio files.
An easy job; doesn’t pay well, but also a quick way to make some money. Sign up on eLance or oDesk to start, and/or advertise your services in entrepreneur forums. Requires good hearing and a good command of the English language. You may also want to invest in a foot pedal if you plan to transcribe often. Make sure you know how to transcribe interviews before you start your first job.
7. Become a virtual assistant (VA).
There are entire books written on how to become a virtual assistant, so this job is definitely worthy of more research. My advice: Focus on one niche (I just hired Lisa Morosky of VA for Bloggers, for instance.) Also, reach out to potential customers directly and let them know what you can do for them instead of hitting up freelance web sites. Finally, you may want to consider resources such as AssistU, which provides training for up-and-coming virtual assistants.
8. Write articles on eHow.com.
If you understand the basics of keyword research, you can make a good monthly income from eHow. eHow pays you a percentage of the ad revenue they make from each “How to” article you create. You can crank out a few articles a day with relative ease. Try this for a month; assuming your article titles match up with what people are searching for in Google, you can make a significant income. The great news is that you write your articles once and get paid month after month. I’ve seen figures of $100-$150/month for 30 articles. Make money writing for eHow.com.
9. Do some videos to promote affiliate products.
Enjoy making silly videos? Even short, silly videos can sell products online. Find an product worth promoting that has an affiliate program, then target your video toward potential customers of that product. In your video summary on YouTube, place your affiliate link for the product, and after the video, do a 30-second still frame showing a short URL where people can buy the product. If your video is funny, informative, or useful, you may sell some products. Big tip: Try to promote a product that makes you a fair amount of money for each sale, but doesn’t cost a whole lot for the potential customer. You can find products on Commission Junction, for one.
10. Write an ebook targeted to people who need help.
Alexis Dawes created a product called “Desperate Buyers Only”. I interview her for an upcoming case study on Inspiring Innovators, where she mentions that she is able to make up to $97 from ebooks as small as 12 pages. The key? Finding people who are incredibly desperate for the information you provide and then doing good research to find a real solution to their problems. The result? Happy customers whose problem is solved, and money for you — a win-win situation! Caveat: It may be tough to find a real desperate buyer niche (Alexis reveals some in her case study). Here are some hints: When were you last in a situation where information would have either saved you a lot of money or a lot of pain? Has someone else close to you been in a situation where they could have used information to avert pain? Think legal, medical, and financial niches.
Sunday, 30 December 2012
Saturday, 29 December 2012
5 ways to make money online - Part 1
1. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Mechanical Turk is a great way to make some extra cash. You probably won’t make much more than a few dollars an hour, but it’s also dead simple to complete many of the tasks. Most tasks take less than a minute to complete and pay a few pennies. If you do a lot of MTurk, it could add up to at least some fun spending money. Sign up for free, then complete qualifications to earn access to higher-paying tasks.2. Sell stock photos.
iStockPhoto is just one site that allows you to sell stock photos; there are others. Before you decide to go crazy and upload your whole album, take note of what’s selling well and try your hand at doing something similar. iStockPhoto also works for those who know how to render images; some of their most popular images were created on a computer! Have three killer stock photos ready for iStockPhoto’s inspection; they will want them when you sign up.3. Sell stuff on eBay.
Start by selling your own extra stuff. Then, once you get a feel for selling your extra stuff, go door-to-door in nicer neighborhoods in your town. Develop an eye for what will sell and what won’t (old laptops, for instance, could be a gold mine–if you know how to format them to get rid of the previous owner’s personal data.) Sign a contract where you take 25-30% (or more) of the gross sale. Your customers will be happy to get cash for their old junk, and you’ll make some good money selling other people’s stuff. eBay4. Become a freelance article writer.
It may not pay well, but there is a growing demand for this. Write 200-300 word articles and submit them to article directories. Potential clients include bloggers, marketers, and small businesses. You can write articles in a niche in batches and sell them as a package to one or more clients, or you can offer your services for hire per word or article and let your client give you direction. A foundation of keyword research is important to succeed at this job (unless you’re just taking direction from a client), but keyword research is learnable.5. Write articles for magazines or other publications.
If you have a background in journalism, or just a passion for it, you can try your hand at submitting articles to publications. Don’t just randomly fire off articles, however; have a plan and, preferably, a contact at the publication you wish to submit to. The good news is that there are publications in pretty much any niche you can think of. To see some publications that are hiring, visit Online Writing Jobs, PoeWar Freelance Jobs, and Writing.com.Friday, 28 December 2012
ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU
It has been a popular saying over the years to “ask not what your country can do for you”. If we come to think of it, what really can Nigeria do for you? Provide you with electricity, good roads, pipe-borne water, and maximally, a good job with adequate security. The golden question is, I sour own Nigeria doing these for us? Maybe the nation’s failure to provide all of these for her citizens is owed to bad leadership, over-population or what have you, I really will not get into. Whatever the reason, it is happening and that is what matters.
The truth that I owe you, is that our nation is fast going under the control of capitalists. The golden question here is, who are capitalists? The quickest response is, capitalists are people who have much of their money and interests tied to business concerns. People like Dangote, Otedola, Adenuga, Ovia, Elumelu etc. They now control the economy from communication to oil and gas to banking and recently to power. Somebody will say it is unfair to have all the nation’s wealth being controlled by a few business people, what I say is, these people never asked what their country can do for them. Instead, they asked, how can my country serve me?
Every morning you wake up, ask yourself, how can I make my country serve me? When you have a regular job, you are called a ‘civil servant’ meaning you serve government. If you are employed in a private firm, your entire life’s service is spent in enriching the owner of the company, so you are some sort of servant too. But, to be really free, to be really a leader, to be really successful, you must find a way of making the nation serve you. Today, there is no disputing the fact that Nigeria is serving Dangote and his likes because they control virtually everything that holds the base of the Nigerian economy.
Somebody will ask, can every Nigerian be this free? Can the nation serve all of us? The quickest and most appropriate answer is NO. Just like a billboard inscription in my home town once read, “Only the deep can call to the deep”. Only those who can find it in their hearts to forge a path for themselves can truly make the nation serve them. My expectations thus are that only a few people reading this text will locate that inward desire in them to be a leader of people and make the nation, our nation serve them.
Zig Ziglar once said, “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have”.If most employees will be sincere, the jobs they are at does not afford them the full utilization of their abilities. In a government job, you are either being over-paid and under-utilized or under-paid and over-utilized. In either way, the joy of satisfaction that comes from fully expressing one’s abilities is absent. This is not the definition of success, this is the definition of a cage.
JOB SECURITY Vs. FINANCIAL FREEDOM
What most job seekers really look for is job security. In this case, a paycheck is guaranteed at the end of the month. What capitalists, people whose aim is to have the nation serve them, look for is financial freedom. In this case, the opportunity to expand and contract their financial power at will, I mean their ability to use money as they wish without salary constraints. They can afford to vary what they do with money based on the income they are able to bring in by the effective and maximum utilization of their abilities. Their worth is not restricted to how much the employer pays them, it is boundless because they determine how much comes in by themselves.
It is why Otedola can afford to buy a yacht and his top employees can not, the same reason why Dangote can afford to ride the best of cars running to millions of dollars and the highest paid of bank executives dare not do whatever is beyond their salary except they go into debt. It is the same reason why all these capitalists can afford to dabble into politics and sponsor a candidate. It is because they control their income, their success is a factor of their utilization of their abilities backed by God’s support and not dependence on what their nation can do for them.
My message is simple and straight-to-the-point. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do with your abilities that will make you a force to reckon with and make your nation serve you. Get away from the cage of seeking job security and seek financial freedom, invest, do business, sell, just make sure you are about to make the nation serve you.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill 2. Think Big - Ben Carson
Monday, 6 August 2012
GUIDE TO MONEY-MAKING VIA IMPORTING FROM CHINA
1.
DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO SELL/IMPORT
The very first
step to any serious means of making money is to decide what exactly you want to
do to make that money. While one person will want to sell clothes on his way to
money-making, the other person might want to sell shoes. It is the same with
the game of importing, you as the intending importer must first decide what
exactly you intend to import and sell in Nigeria
to make money.
The reason why
importing goods from overseas is quite profitable is that majority of the
products being used by Nigerians are not produced here in Nigeria ,
thus when you purchase such products in the open market, you have helped the
importer of such product make certain profit. For example, you still find that
items as common as pencil are still being imported into the country this means
that the actual price of it would not have been up to that #10 you buy it had
it been it is being produced in Nigeria .
It could be around #3 while the importer takes the other #7. Importing is that
profitable!
This first tip
requires that you decide what you believe you can sell given the nature of the
environment in which you live. Your choice might also be affected by whether or
not the product you intend to import is being produced in Nigeria .
If it is, your imported goods might be a little more expensive than those
produced here. When you have decided what you want to sell, find out the nature
of the market for such goods. You ask the question, is there always a ready
market for this product I am about to import? The market also goes a long way
to affect your choice.
2.
VISIT ONLINE TRADING SITES TO CONFIRM PRODUCT DETAILS
After
deciding the product you intend to import taking into consideration the
available market for such product(s), the next thing to do is to get the
product details from online trading sites. These trading sites are links
through manufacturers advertise their products to intending buyers. One of such
trading sites is www.alibaba.com where you can obtain almost every product
detail you need.
The truth remains
that majority of the product being used in the world today are being
manufactured in China .
I do not know the exact reason for this, but I believe it is because China
has cost-effective production techniques that helps lower the cost of the final
product. It will surprise you to know that even most of the goods being
imported into the country from western countries are being produced in China
and the imported to those countries then re-imported to Nigeria
explaining the reason why most goods imported from western countries are always
quite expensive.
Having already
understood the fact that China
is the production hub for most goods, I find it easier for me to get the
details of any product I intend to import not by directly browsing Alibaba, but
going through the Google.com search engine. Let’s say I have decided to import
erasers, I will simply go to www.google.com
and enter ‘price of erasers in china’. Often, the topmost result the search
will bring is a link to Alibaba.com and all you need do is click that link.
Alibaba will in
turn bring you a list of eraser manufacturers in china i.e. erasers by
different companies and in front of each type, there will be the price and
something like MOQ, this actually means Minimum Order Quantity which is the
least amount you can buy from that company. This information will help you
determine the actual price of the product there in China
and what it will amount to eventually adding cost of shipping and import duty.
Say the minimum
order quantity is 1,000 packs, and the price per pack is $2.3, then the total
amount you will pay for the goods to the manufacturer is $2,300, somewhere
around #368,000. That gives you the price of the commodity and this is the
basic information you need to decide if you will purchase the product. If you
decide to purchase then, you go ahead and contact the manufacturer through a
link that would have been provided in front of the product details to determine
the cost of shipping and other factors like branding. By branding I mean the
name the manufacturer will crest on the product for you. If you will be
importing 1,000 packs of a product, the usual practice in China
is to help you crest your own business name on it such that you sell under your
own business name.
3.
RAISE THE REQUIRED CAPITAL + DUTY
Having determined the cost of the goods payable to the manufacturer (cost +
shipping), the next thing to do is raise the capital required. However, the
total amount paid to the manufacturer guarantees that your goods will be sent
from China
but it does not guarantee that they will be delivered to you in Nigeria .
You ask why is it so? The answer is simple, after you decide the product to
order, you must confirm whether the product is not on the Import Prohibition List of the Nigerian Customs Service. The import
prohibition list is a list of goods that are not allowed into the country. It
means, if you import such products, they will be impounded at the port.
So long your product is not on the prohibition list your goods will be released
to you after the payment of a fee called the Custom Duty. The custom duty comprises an average of 12% import
duty on the total cost of the goods, a surcharge of 7% on import duty and a
valued-added tax of 5% on the total i.e. import duty + surcharge. I advise you
visit the Nigerian Customs Service office to confirm the figure for the custom
duty payable to them so you can get the exact figure, but what I gave above is
about the estimate of it.
Thus, let’s say the total cost of the product (price + shipping) is #400,000
(i.e. the company charges you a shipping cost of #32,000), then by the
estimated duty figures above, you will pay an import duty of #48,000, a
surcharge on import duty of #3,360 and value-added tax of #2,568. That should
make a total custom duty of #53,928. Hence the total cost of your good that
will get it to Lagos
and clear it for you at the port is #453,928. Adding the cost of transportation
of the goods from Lagos
to your destination, say #60,000, the total cost of the goods becomes #513,928.
This means that each pack of the product costs #513.928k. This figure will help
you decide how much will be the selling price you will charge per pack.
However, you should have calculated all these before ordering the product,
infact it should be part of your buying decision as it will not be wise if the
eventual cost is higher than products of its like in Nigeria (even though it is
rarely so), remember, your main aim for importing is to sell cheaper products
that will boost your sales.
4.
ORDER THE PRODUCT
Having done all the calculations as shown above with sound information from the
manufacturer and customs, and you have determined the cost per unit of the
product upon delivery and found it profitable, you have then received a green
light to order the product and pay your manufacturer by any means which you
both agree on. You should not by any means order a product which you have not
carefully calculated its cost implication upon delivery and the price advantage
it will have over other existing products.
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C.E.O. I-buck Resources
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Oderinu A.
C.E.O. I-buck Resources
Thursday, 2 August 2012
5 TIPS TO HELP AVOID DISCOURAGEMENT IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Most
entrepreneurs see funding as the greatest problem to their dream of becoming a
fulfilled entrepreneur. I use to belong to this school of thought and infact, I
formerly had this staunch belief that if only I could get money, then my
entrepreneurial dreams will be fulfilled to maximum. In this article, I am
going to share with you, five (5) basic factors that influence entrepreneurial
success a little bit more than funding. These factors embedded in the five (5)
tips I am going to give you, are somewhat more psychological in nature, but you
should know that the basis of success for any enterprise is the psychological
condition of the entrepreneur.
1. TRY
TO AVOID BORROWING FROM FAMILY
This might sound to you somewhat
strange, especially since one of the sources of business financing is from
family and relatives. However, looking at the psychological trauma of
attempting to borrow from family, it might outweigh the merits inherent in it.
The first issue is, your
entrepreneurial creams are most probably understandable to you alone, and other
people might not share your view. Thus, a relative or family you are attempting
to borrow from who does not share your view will definitely attempt to
discourage from taking that leap of faith that your ideas require. You could
avoid listening to outsiders who do not share your view, it is sometimes very
difficult to avoid the psychological problems attached to your family member’s
disapproval of your idea.
Eventually, apart from not giving you
the capital you require, a relative might have dampened your enthusiasm by his
inability to see the bright side that you are seeing, maybe because he knew you
from when you were little and finds it hard to believe you are capable of
executing the plans you have. So, as a rule of thumb, try as much as possible
to avoid borrowing from relatives and family except the person really BELIEVES
in you and will approve of anything without saying pessimistic things.
2. IGNORE
THE FACTS AND DO YOUR BEST
There are
numerous entrepreneurial facts in the present day world. These facts ranges
from the inability of nine (9) out of ten (10) businesses to survive after five
(5) years which is a global fact, to the increasing difficulty in accessing
credit facility for business start-up etc.
If you intend to face the fact that 9
out of 10 businesses in the world fold up after 5 years, you would find no
reason to continue on your quest to become a successful entrepreneur forgetting
the truth that yours could be the 1 business that will survive out of the 10 in
your area if only you put in your best. The fact that access to credit facility
is fast becoming impossible for upcoming entrepreneurs can also make you forget
your ideas, at least what is an idea with no capital.
However factual the above information
might sound, it also presents the fact that only 10% of businesses survive
after 5 years. I tell you very sincerely that by giving your best to your idea,
you could make that 10%. If the credit facility is not available as huge as you
would want it, you could start small with that little that you have and grow
with it learning on the job.
3. YOU
STAND A BETTER CHANCE WITH YOUR OWN MONEY
The tips 1 and 2 above stress the fact
that a lot of discouragement can spring from trying to borrow from your family
and relatives, as well as believing the global facts. The basic tip that helps
you avoid the pitfall as enumerated in 1 and 2 above is to utilize your own
money to start.
The first advantage of using your own
money is that you will be fired up to work harder since you do not want your
hard-earned capital to go to waste. The second advantage of using your own
money is the fact that you are not placed under any unusual tension of
re-payment that might frustrate your entrepreneurial ideologies. The last
advantage of it is, since you are just starting up, it is highly likely that
you can not afford a lot of money as your take-off capital, thus, you are
forced to utilize the little capital available, making you start small and
starting small then growing and learning on the job, is the ultimate lesson for
an entrepreneur.
4. AVOID
JEALOUSY AND ENVY
In your race to become successful as
an entrepreneur, it is quite common to find other people in the same line of
entrepreneurship doing better than you are. If you decide to sell clothes, you
soon discover someone very close by doing extremely better than you in the
sales of clothes. In this situation, the immediate human tendency is to start
feeling jealous and envious. This will not do you any good, it will only
discourage you from continuing.
When you discover an entrepreneur
doing better than you, there are only a few profitable options available to
you. You either learn from the person, or concentrate on making your business
successful without measuring the success of others. In entrepreneurship,
jealousy and envy will only lead your business into the 90% failure group.
5. DO
NOT BITE MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW
It is true that you are a capable
entrepreneur who knows his onions. But, I believe, that each human has a
certain limit to his capability per time. This limit is often set by the
enormity of our experiences. The capability of a 5 year old child, is not
anywhere comparable to that of a 30 year old man so long he’s not an imbecile.
So also, the capability of an entrepreneur who has been in the game for 30
years is higher than that of one who started yesterday. This limit is
determined by their experiences.
It would therefore amount to sheer
madness for a fresh entrepreneur to attempt to start at the point where the 30
year old entrepreneur is, the result will be frustration, discouragement and
will be catastrophic in nature. So, as an entrepreneur, you must seek to
understand the limit of your capability at different points in time so that you
may understand ideas that are currently beyond you and those you are capable of
handling. I tell you, the brilliance of an entrepreneur is measured his ability
to differentiate the ‘sensible’ from the ‘gamble’. Whereas a sensible venture
will bring profit, a gamble will bring discouragement, bite only what you can
chew.
For some more
counsel, read my article on THE EXPECTATIONS OF A GRADUATING STUDENT AND WHAT
THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY HAS IN STOCK FOR HER DISCIPLINE.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
THE EXPECTATIONS OF A GRADUATING STUDENT AND WHAT THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY HAS IN STOCK FOR HER DISCIPLINE
Relying
on the principles of division of labour
as enunciated in elementary economics, which stipulates that production process
is to be divided into parts or stages, to be handled by different
professionals, Nigerian graduates from various disciplines in this circumstance
undoubtedly, will have high hopes while graduating. Specifically, he/she will
expect that:
i.
Jobs/employments
must be waiting for him/her to take up since the various production processes
are fashioned out for diverse professionals to man. Every discipline could
therefore be accommodated within the production processes.
ii.
That there
will be abundance of opportunities for self employment and development backed
with cash/finances waiting for him/her, going by the oil wealth that we have
discovered and been relying on since the early sixties.
Whereas
the Nigerian graduate’s expectations are as summarized in (i) and (ii) above,
hinged on his/her perception of how the situation outside school should be, the
current global realities present something different from what the ordinary
belief of the Nigerian graduate would be. The current realities are as listed
here-under:
i.
The world has
moved to the Information age where the success or otherwise of any citizen of a
society depends on how deep and diverse his knowledge is of a variety of
issues. In the world of today, the more a graduate knows, the higher the
chances of his/her success in the enlarged society.
ii.
Vocational
Skills are now the fast becoming lucrative ventures. We now live in a world
where people make millions on just a simple skill as make-up. You can imagine
how much Mrs. Tara Fela-Durotoye makes from her knowledge of make-up, quite a common
skill amongst women you would say!
iii.
Emphasis has
shifted from job-seeking to entrepreneurship, from work-for-pay to work-for-profit.
As Bill Newman wrote in his book ‘The Road to Success’, “it is better to work
100 hours for yourself than work 40 hours for someone else”. It means the
recent global reality is that of people working for themselves and for nobody
else – self employment.
iv.
It is now economically unwise for the government of
any country to employ all her graduates and school leavers. This fact is
premised on the fact that government relies on Internally Generated Revenue to continue
discharging its functions. However, this IGR is raised from taxes paid by
corporate bodies, import duty, foreign exchange etc. We could say, the cause of
the recent global economic crisis was basically over-burdening of governments. America had
Social Security and a lot of other responsibilities to her citizens and this
resulted in a geometric increase in the country’s debts. You ask me why? The
country’s IGR could simply not withstand her burden. Thus, all nations of the
world are currently encouraging their citizens to look the way of investment
and entrepreneurship so that government can earn more from taxes paid payable
by such establishments.
Based
on the aforementioned global realities, the Nigerian economy has in stock for
graduating students, things different from the graduates’ original and ‘ideal’
expectations. These are:
i.
That
graduating students will abhor career immobility and swing into a state of
career mobility which elementary economics describe as ‘occupational mobility’.
This concept preaches inevitable need for every individual to be broad-based in
skill acquisition rather than confine self to a single profession. This means,
the success of a graduating student in the Nigerian economy will require more
than the knowledge of his course of study alone. In the event that he/she can
not secure employment in his/her area of specialization, he/she will become
unemployable in other areas of the economy if his/her course of study is the
knowledge he/she carries. Aside that, all establishments (government and
private), now require ‘utility staff’ i.e. an employee that can be effective
even in other areas aside the area to which he was employed.
ii.
The Nigerian
Economy has in stock for a graduating student – CONDUCIVE ATMOSPHERE FOR
INVESTMENT which is the global phenomenon. Governments at the three tiers are
focused on provision of conducive atmosphere for investment, self employment
and job creation for others. This is in a bid to ensure the employment of her
teeming graduates while simultaneously increasing revenue for the government. Thus,
they are wooing foreign investors and sensitizing their to engage in self
employment and job creation, promising financial support or guaranteeing bank
facilities/micro-credit loans.
iii.
The Nigerian
Economy also has in stock for her graduates, OPPORTUNITY FOR SKILL TRAINING AND
RE-TRAINING in all areas, to further equip young graduates for self employment
and job creation. It is now expected that an individual with Higher Education
Certificate could be equipped with skills in other fields of human endeavor
within the shortest possible time and at lesser cost. This explains the huge
presence of various training and professional organizations in the country,
aiming at human capacity development for graduates.
iv.
That
graduating students should only apply in hope for only few jobs that may become
vacant in government rather than in unfailing expectation. The current economic
situation is such that government is heavily relying on the citizens for its
continued success and so, citizens can not so heavily rely on government. A
testimony to this fact is the increasing presence of billboards reading “Please
Pay your Tax” in every nook and cranny of the country. Sign posts to revenue
offices are so conspicuous that even a blind man can see them, this simply
because government relies more on the people than the people can rely on her.
v.
The Nigerian
Economy welcomes graduates into a field of practical as the principles required
to succeed in the enlarged society are deeper than the theoretical lessons
learnt in the institutions of learning. A graduate thus have to buckle up and
integrate him/herself into the world of reality.
WHAT
SHOULD GRADUATING STUDENTS DO?
1.
Graduating
Students must first conduct what is referred to in management as SWOT-Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities and Threats). The Strengths
of a graduating student are those skills and knowledge he has acquired that
stands him out as someone the society needs. Weaknesses will include the shortcomings in his know-how, what and
what he does not know as much as he should. Opportunities will include the chances available for him based on
the strengths that he has and threats
will include the chances he might lose by his inability to master certain
skills and overcome his weaknesses. The SWOT-Analysis is quite important for a
graduate to identify the exact position he stands in the Nigerian economic
situation.
2.
Graduating
students should strive to enlist self in skill acquisition programmes and
professional courses to further boost their capacity.
3.
Identify potentials,
generate business and entrepreneurial ideas and sought for financing.
4.
Graduating
students must give themselves to extensive reading to tap from the experiences
of such writers in economic and financial issues (books by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Richard
Templar, Dale Carnegie, Ben Carson, Bob Eldridge, Dave Ule
etc are good sources of knowledge for graduating students).
5.
Look for and
attend workshops relevant to your interest.
6.
Conduct a
personal 4-P (Price, Place,
Promotion and Product) analysis on self. The price in this case refers to how much value the graduating student
places on him/herself, talking of self esteem, human capacity etc. I should let
you know that the difference in levels attained by various individuals is
marked by the difference in their value system, while some aim for ultimate
success, some only value stipends that will come from menial jobs, a graduating
students should check his value system. Place
refers to the location which the graduating student feel is most conducive for
him/her to achieve his set targets. A good target in a wrong location is like a
shoemaker producing shoes in the country of the lame. Promotion refers to how well the graduating student presents
himself. A good idea presented badly or rather ‘packaged’ badly will fail. This
packaging even includes mode of dressing, manner of speaking etc. Product refers to the capacity of the
graduating student himself. A bad product (an ignorant graduate – by ignorant I
mean lacking the knowledge of the current global realities as have been
discussed earlier) can not get a job nor succeed in business no matter the
location or value or dressing. An empty barrel is empty no matter the paint on
the outside. Thus, graduating students should seek to stuff as much knowledge
as possible in themselves to stand a chance at success in the Nigerian and
global society.
It is
my honest belief, that Nigerian graduates and graduating students will take the
bull by the horn and utilize the lessons inherent in this concise article
towards achieving success in their labour market endeavors.
Thank
you.
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