I am Joana, a Nigerian-born Austrian-based entrepreneur and activist. Founded Joadre in 2012 and continue to develop content to engage and empower African SMEs.
We often embark to look for new clients when we can build better relationships with the old clients. Do you know that old clients can send back customers to you? Do you know that old clients might purchase again if the service you offered previously was very good.
That was how I started and it landed me media attention, which later came along with a great social network. So you see that you can start, build, grow without social capital. If you wait on the excuse that you do not have connections that's why you are not succeeding, iut is a lie. It is laziness and excuses. Start what you want to start and be good, sincere at it.
I love the part that he debunks the whole marketing industry approach of manipulation. Simon actually really articulates the situation so well, that I felt like he listened to my million thoughts and then crafted out a romantic business essay about it.
Now let's move to the next which is fabric construction. Remember, we talked about knit and woven methods of constructing the fabric from the fibres. Woven is basically when the yarns (fibre threads) are woven vertically and horizontally into one another creating different kinds of weave.
In this blog, I express my thoughts and throw out our black super power as a solution to racism. We cannot talk about racism and not talk about slavery. Can we talk about Slavery and not mention...
Without these 2 figured out, you will not be able to maximise your fundraising journey. Now let's talk about donors. For many humanitarian or charity activities, we often have small donors who donate 10 dollars or twenty here and there. But these donors are super important.
After you have analysed all ideas based on the strengths you have or willing to acquire and the weaknesses as well. Then you weigh the opportunities and threats, you can confidently rank your business ideas accordingly.
Entrepreneurship is a marathon rather than a sprint. You'll have to devote a huge proportion of your waking hours to your business if you want it to succeed. You'll also be devoting a huge amount of your brain space to it. There is a whole lot of personal investment to be made.
If you are passionate about helping people and maybe venture into social entrepreneurship because you want to combine your business skills with a humanitarian cause, then this blog is for you. In this blog I...
Learn how to grow a laundry business in Nigeria. This is a 6 part blog series on Business startup and growth.
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