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7 Simple Agribusiness Ideas To Profit From In Nigeria

 
1. Custard Manufacturing
In Africa, almost every ethnic group makes a different variety of food out of corn or Maize. In Nigerian villages, towns and cities, people are used to what is called Ogi, Akamu (pap); this is corn starch, This is the local concept of Golden morn which is made from maize and soya protein by Nestle for adults. 
 
When the Europeans came, they came with what they called Custard. But it was later known that the only difference is the coloring and flavor that was added to the packaged corn. It is very easy to produce custard. You can package it in small sachets and It is also very easy to market, particularly in bigger towns and cities where people are used to modern lifestyle.

2. Frozen Fish, Chicken And Turkey Production
Many Nigerians have come to depend on imported frozen meat, fish, chicken for quite a while now and this is in detriment of local poultry industry and the subsequent health implication because of the long voyage from China, Europe or wherever, most times the imported product are usually preserved with chemicals, some of which are said to be injurious to health. 
 
A lot of people prefer not to go through the stress of slaughtering and preparing live birds because frozen chicken can easily be stored and used at will, thereby saving time; and many people think it is cheap too.

 Start-up requirement are space, knives, tables, basins, heat source, stove heater, soap, hand towel, extra hands, freezer and generator . You need to go directly to the chicken farms to source for your live birds cheaply You can also position yourself to supply small hotels, restaurants and eateries.

3. Export Agricultural products from rural areas.
Agricultural Export trading guarantees good returns on Capital on almost monthly basis. Exporting Wood charcoal, Palm kernel shell, Cow horns, Gallstones, Bitter Kola, Cashew, Ginger, Gum Arabic Chilli pepper, bitter kola, coconut, okro, yam, etc and earn good returns on investment. 
 
It might interest you to know that the gap between you and the millions waiting for you in this business is nothing but the “basic understanding of an export business process.”

Understanding the fundamentals of an export business process especially as it concerns securing a genuine export order or contract with a well secured method of payment is the basic requirement in this business and then you are on your way to making unimaginable loads of money.

You can also become an export broker which is one of the easiest and most rewarding ways any prospecting exporter can raise money to go into full time export business. Starting from a little or no capital, an export broker could earn large “finders fee” with absolutely unlimited income.

4. Source for Agro raw materials for urban manufacturing companies
Despite the apparent growth in the number of indigenous players in the industry, there still remains the fact that no company has set up a basic active raw material manufacturing plant in Nigeria. 
 
Most of the raw materials being used by the industry in our urban centers are sourced from the rural areas, you too can be part of this opportunity by locating a manufacturing companies and start supplying them with raw materials based on their specification and quality. 
 
Approach the personnel in charge to provide you with appropriate information on how to be their supplier.

5. Help the Nigeria rural farmers who deal in foodstuffs to export it to the foreign Countries
Our foodstuffs are very cheap in the rural areas, you can bring this food stuff to the cites and tap into the local and the international market. 
 
Foodstuff like Smoked fish, Garri, Beans Flour, Melon seed (Egusi Ground), Ogbono, Cassava Flour, Bitter leaf, Dried Ugu leaf, Pepper,Tomato paste, Hibiscus flower and Ukazi leaf.

Others are, Hot Chilli Pepper, Ground nut , Kola nut, Potato, Ginger, Kilishi, Soybean Groundnut, Okra, Cassava, Yam, Bitter Kola, Ofada rice, Catfish, Shrimps, Pounded Yam Flour. 
 
You can bring some of these food items to the markets in the urban centers, you can also sell to some food stuff exporters who are looking forwards to buy at ridiculously low prices.

6. Start connecting rural farmers with exporters using the internet
Can you browse the internet very well, can you chat online? If yes, then I want to congratulate you because you can connect the farmers in the rural areas with Nigeria exporters and earn a commission. 
 
A lot of exporters find it very difficult to get their desired agro product at the right quality and quantity, you can do this for them and name your price. You can also join some online trade portals, secure a contract, sell the contract and charge an appropriate commission.  
 
A lot of Nigeria including my humble self earns commission by connecting the rural farmers to local exporters and I also help Nigeria secure good contract.

7. Help the rural farmers to load Agro- Exportable Product From The Hinterland and Villages to Towns
A lot of our readers have already tap into this opportunity by providing supportive services to Nigeria exporters. 
 
You can help source for agro products for Nigerian exporters and earn finders fee. You can travel to Jigawa, kano Kaduna states and Jos, Plateau state, go to their commodity markets and meets any of the sellers of these commodities, tell them that you need a large quantity.

At least 30 tons which is a trailer load. Your commission is between N5,000 to N20,000 per ton depending on you negotiating power, since you are loading a Trailer which is 30 Tons, multiply your commission by 30, which can be N200,000 to N700,0000 finder fee. It is very important to know the product profile because exporters will always ask you to submit samples and the product specification. 
 
They will come to the market to pick the product from the market and pay you the commission because you are adding value to the export value chain and a lot of exporters will be ready to work with you. 
 
Take the step towards making money and living the life you want. Pick an idea now, execute your plan, and earn some money with any of these urban agribusiness opportunities. Have a wonderful day. Stay safe.

How To Get Viral Traffic Using Software And Video

Software is one seriously hot commodity. It's even hotter than ebooks at this point in time so giving away a free software program or tool would really benefit you. 

In fact you can compile three different versions of the same software program and earn money plus generate loads of traffic

You could create a free demo version of the software, a full version of the software that would have a yearly license renewal attached to it for it to continue working, and a supreme version that would continue running without having to purchase the yearly license for the eternity of the product. 

But we still have the task of first creating the software to deal with before we can do anything else. 

So what's the solution? Make it yourself or hire a software developer from outsourcing sites like elance.com. Building your own software isn't an easy process, but it can pay off for you big time and be one of your strongest advertising tools

While Viral videos are short clips which get passed around the 'net like wildfire. They are linked to from thousands of websites. They are forwarded from inbox to inbox, either for laughs, inspiration or just the “wow” factor.

Imagine unleashing a viral video of your own. When you apply this method to your business, you get a triple return on investment in the form of:
·       Traffic
·       Buzz ·       Branding
It's almost unbeatable in its effectiveness. The more popular your video, the more likely you are to receive coverage in other news media. Television and radio programs love to gossip about the latest Internet fads. 

Just imagine tuning into your local morning radio show and hearing one of the DJ's say:
“Before we get to the traffic report, I just want to ask one question: have any of you out there in listener-land seen that chicken video that's being passed around online right now?  

Hilarious!  In case you haven't seen it, the link is...” ..most of the time you can't even buy that type of advertising. Now, we need to talk a moment about targeting.

Admittedly, it is a bit harder to factor targeting into the equation here. You need to create something with a broad appeal so that the maximum number of people will pass it around.

However, you don't want to create something so far removed from your business identity that people get confused, don't get the message or develop a negative perception of your business.

In other words, this is still marketing and not entertainment. 

Stay safe and Have a wonderful day.

4 Ways To Develop A Base Of Regular Readers For Information Blogs

An information focused blog is usually centered around news and how to information. Most Internet marketing blogs fall under this category. Your front end product is the content you provide.
 
Your blog could primarily be information focused, rather the product review focused.

You can share how to info centered on online and affiliate marketing. 

The affiliate commissions you can make from the blog can be stealthy. You will be able to link directly to products with just a mention of their titles, or in keywords associated with them.
 
For example, you may have a post where you talk about the importance of list building, and hyperlink those types of keywords with an affiliate link for a list building related product or service.

You can also monetize your blog in other places by using Adsense ads, Amazon ads, affiliate banners, etc.

You can do this same thing for other niches. In fact, I would recommend coming up with a niche unrelated to Internet marketing. Again, think of the areas that interest you or in which you have some knowledge to share. It might be cooking or car repair or anything else you feel you could write about on a frequent basis.

Your posts don't have to be novel length. All you're really doing is writing short articles.
 
Let's say you started a car repair blog. What are some topics you could cover?

• Pain free way to change your own oil, and save money!
 
• Tire Safety: How to Spot Problems Before You Hit the Road
 
• Top Ten Tips to Prepping Your Car for Winter Driving Conditions
 
• Avoid Getting Ripped Off By Unscrupulous Mechanics
 
• Used Car Nightmares: How to Spot a 'Lemon' Before Its Too Late, etc.

A lot of people are looking for these various types of information, and you could develop a base of regular readers in some of the ways listed below:
 
1. Syndicate your content. You might have a “Car Tip of the Week” feature, for example. Set your blog to send out a ping for this each week when you post it.

2. Collect subscribers. Set up an opt-in list that your blog readers can subscribe to in order to be alerted to new posts.

3. Get Links from related blogs and related blog rings.

4. Run Contests and Promotions. Let's say you're an affiliate of a company called Stayjid Shine (with a great affiliate program) that sells Yogurt. 

You can work out a Joint Venture with the owner to give out free samples. Note, the 4 tips above holds true for any niche and any blog type you may want to engage in. Not just in the case I'm describing here. Have a lovely day and stay safe.

The Benefits And Cons Of Automated Affiliate Blogs Explained

Automated affiliate blogs are virtually hands-free. Instead of posting content or products by hand, you can set up a special script that will post product images, descriptions and your affiliate links automatically. The scripts which accomplish this for you are known as affiliate data feed scripts.

The major affiliate networks, such as Shareasale (http://www.shareasale.com/ ), allow merchants the option of uploading data feeds of all their products.

These feeds are actually just text files which contain a list of their products, specially formatted to be pulled in and displayed by a data feed script.

 As an affiliate, you can find the merchants that have data feeds, join their programs and request data feed access. Once access is granted, you can get the information two ways:

1. Download the information directly in either a txt file or .csv (Excel) file, then post that information selectively (by hand), or by feeding it into an existing script.

2. Set your script up to download the data file directly from the merchant via FTP.
This is the preferred method because most scripts can be set to run periodic updates, checking the feed file for new information, then posting it.

The benefit of running an automated affiliate blog is that you have your own virtual store, in a matter of speaking. Your content creation work is minimized, and you can focus more on getting traffic to the site. But the cons or disadvantage of running an automated affiliate site are mostly due to the fact that both live humans and search engines may view your blog as spam.

So, if you choose to set up a blog, I recommend putting a human touch on it. Go in and post some of your own content to break things up, make the site more dynamic and better optimize the site for your keywords.

All the best.

Blogging To Profit With Product Review Blogs

You can start a blog for just about any topic. However, you should pick a niche topic that has some solid affiliate programs and search revenue behind it. 

Also, it’s important you know that blog readers, as a whole, are savvier than the average Internet user - and this is reflected in the types of blogs that are the most popular.
 
The hottest topics out there for blogging fall under Internet marketing, cutting edge technology and politics. Music and art related blogs also tend to draw a large audience. 

Most often, you'll find that these blogs offer a mix of news, how-to articles, reviews and opinions. Let's go through how all this breaks down in terms of content.

 Product Review Blogs:
Product review blogs are popular and profitable. These blog focus on news and reviews of the latest gadgets on the market. 

Blogs like these can be monetized with Adsense, and somewhat with affiliate marketing (not all of these products have affiliate programs associated with them).

Now, if I were you, I wouldn't try to run a blog that requires this much research. Instead, I take the theme of new, cutting edge products and apply it to one product niche - something like the latest digital cameras or why not the latest mp3 players. 

This will make your job easier, and assure you a much greater chance of finding merchants who carry these products and have affiliate programs. Another thing to keep in mind is that your reviews will likely need to be more informational or news-based in nature, as you won't be able to personally test all of these products when you start out.  However, you don't have to review physical products.

You can also create a blog to review the latest software and information products, books, music, etc. These products, from a cost standpoint, are much more accessible. For example, let's say you decide to start a blog for budget conscious PC users. 

You could review the latest shareware and freeware products and the market quite easily, as they are all downloadable from site like Amazon, CNET Download ( http://download.cnet.com/windows/ ) -- and hundreds of others.

There's virtually no cost to you to test and review these products, and there's plenty of affiliate opportunities for them. Also, you've got a lot of leeway in what you focus on. You could, for example, narrow your niche down to photo editing software only. 

Writing review for this would be a snap. Just describe the program, put up some screen shots and maybe some examples of photos you edited using the software, to show your results. 

Then, link to the trial download using your affiliate link. Have a nice day, All the best and Stay safe.

9 Safety Tips To Observe In Protecting Self Against COVID Virus

Some level of chaos has passed with Covid 19, the vaccines, then Omicron showed up. But instead of going along with the negativity, it’s best to be hopeful and have peace. 
 
As most of the world you know hunkered down in a complete Corona virus COVID -19 quarantine, many are struggling to figure out how to best spend their days productively without being bored, remote jobs have risen in demand. Here are a couple of safety tips you can observe to protect yourself should you need to go around.
 
1. Practice Social distancing, about 2 meters apart.

2. Wash your hands regularly with soap.

3. Avoid touching your face, eyes, nose and mouth.

4. Wear a face mask when in public places.

5. Use hand sanitizers when you are in places where cannot wash your hands immediately.
 
6. Look out for symptoms like fever, difficulty breathing, persistent coughing or sneezing repeatedly.
 
7. Stay at a reasonable distance away from sick people or any person exhibiting these symptoms and call the NCDC
 
8. Avoid crowded places like Market places, Supermarkets, restaurants, bus stops, etc.
 
9. Shop Online  and get deliveries at home: - This has proven to be the safest way to practice social distancing and as well get your essentials like food and medicine when needed.

As they say “Storms make plants dig strong roots.” And it’s exactly is meant to help you with especially during this challenging, “stormy” time.
 
I highly recommend this amazing list, the above safety tips will help us be safer during this corona virus time in the world. I sure encourage any one with other ideas and contributions you have to make 
this list better, kindly add below. 
 
Stay safe, stay healthy, and let's continue to collaborate in the fight against the virus. Have a nice day.

9 Benefits And Sources Of Financing Small And Medium Enterprises

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered the backbone of any nation. They have been responsible for economic growth in various countries around the world. 
They play very important roles in Nigeria’s growth and development also, as they are to be encouraged and constitute up to over 75% of  income sources to the people living in many rural and sub urban areas.
They contribute positively to the development of the country by influencing the distribution  and redistribution of income in both functional and nominal terms at the national level and by extension the whole economy in general. 
The contribution of SMEs to a nation's gross productivity, employment opportunities and other economic development parameters both in developed and developing countries is succinctly summarized as below:
1. Greater utilization of raw materials 
2. Employment generation.
3. Encourages rural development. 
4. Development of entrepreneurship. 
5. Mobilization of local savings.
6. Linkages with bigger industries.
7. Provision of regional balance by spreading investments more evenly.
8. Provision of avenue for self employment.
9.  Provision of opportunities for training managers and semi-skilled workers. 
Thus, the role of SMEs in developing any nation cannot be over emphasized.
Sources of Financing SMEs
Every business organization needs finance and where the finance is inadequate the business development will be slow. Just like big businesses SMEs get their funding from a number of sources.
The major sources of financing SMEs can be classified as debt and equity. 
 
The capital structure of a business firm refers to the composition of long-term sources of funds, viz long-term debt-debenture, preference share and equity shares.
The finance literature recognizes the importance of equity in business operations and sources can be outlined to include: Debt Sources of Finance, Owner’s Capital / Equity Sources of Finance, Funds from Specialized Financial Institution and Finance from Venture Capitalist.
  Seven major sources of funding are available to SMEs are:
1. Personal resources.
2. Family and friends.
3. Partners or business associates.
4. Informal financial markets comprising, individuals and group, including pool fund groups  and co-operative societies.
5. Banks (commercial and merchant). Specialized banks and community banks, Digital Banks Like Fairmoney MFB.
6 Specialized funding facilities e.g. NERFUND, the World Bank Loan Scheme for SMEs
managed by CBN and the African Development Bank (ADB) loan scheme for export
stimulation in the SME sector, SMIEIS etc.
7 Specialized financial institutions such as the Nigerian Bank for commerce and Industry
(NBCI), Nigerian Industrial Development Bank (NIDB) and the Nigerian Agricultural and
co-operative Bank (NACB), NISRAL Microfinance bank.  There are more sources, you can add more below. Stay tuned. Have a lovely day and stay safe.

10 Characteristics Of High Potential Entrepreneurs

 Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling goods or services. Simply put, it is any activity or enterprise entered into for profit. It does not mean it is a company, a corporation, partnership, or have any such formal organization, but it can range from a street peddler to General Motors. 
 
The term is also often used colloquially (but not by lawyers or public officials) to refer to a company, but this post will not deal with that sense of the word.
 
Below are 10 Listed Characteristics Of High Potential Entrepreneurs
1. They are Creative. Lots of ideas. Thinking “outside the box.” Innovative. Inventing a “third way” when others seem stuck on two undesirable alternatives. Before one can nurture a business to profitability stage you must be creative enough, All the best. 
 
2. Be Determined. Dedicated, persistent. A real “pit bull” who won’t give up even when the going gets tough. Even when you are alone and it’s all on you, you keep plugging away. Determination is also very important in any business one engages into, this will help to go far in business
 
3. Be Passionate. Invested. Totally “into” the project with blood, sweat, and tears. This is your baby, I mean the business, your reputation is at stake.  You must also be willingly to accept responsibility, Stay Focused. 
 
4. Must Be A Risk-taker. This may not be new. Everyone is out there on a limb. No guarantees. Not being reckless or foolish but still reaching out and taking the right risks, Challenge, Make attempts. 
 
5. Be Prayerful. We need to be guided and helped at some moments, every step of the journey.  Pray daily. You can ask your loved ones and friends to pray along. 
 
6. Have Integrity. Totally honest, transparent, above board. No games, no patience with unethical, wrong, cheating, dishonest people and practices.This is very important.
 
7.  Stay Teachable. Always eager to learn something new every day from every possible source: people, reading, competitors. You are a life-long learner. You know you don’t know everything.
 
8. Be A Team-builder. Business is a thing one can’t do all by yourself. One must gather an informal “posse” or “kitchen cabinet” around you. Maybe a partner with or hire quality people with complementary gifts and talents for the business.
 
9. Be A Detail-fanatic. You can’t tolerate sloppiness or careless mistakes or shoddy financial records or less than excellent products and services.
 
10. Be Communicative.  Communication is key. You can engage people with a smile and tell them the honest good news about your business, products, customers, and plans on social media, physically or any means available. One must own up to the truth and be respectful. Have a wonderful weekend, Stay safe.

The Reason Why Design Is Not Important For Twitter

For many or any brand to get the right design is vital. The importance is such that if the brand owner is not skilled enough, they should not try themselves in laying their hands on making the design as this can have a negative impact from start. 

In fact they should preferably hire a professional designer to do the job. It should not be too expensive because there is nothing much that needs to be designed for a new business per say, more over the results that one will get will be worth the money spent and the person wont regret spending it at all. 

Anyone who visits Twitter or uses it, does not do it to look at the background. Also, it is rare that they will come to a Twitter page of any particular person more than once if it doesn't have things that interests them. The only reason that the followers come to the Twitter page is to see who the person is and then they will follow to read up updates of their messages. 
 
This means that the tweets that get posted on Twitter are the most important part of the profile. It is a fact, that content plays a vital role on internet also. But on Twitter what the person or that account writes is more important than the content of the entire website. 

There are many things that the person can post as tweets so that the people follow them and also buy their products. The most effective tweets will contain the most valuable offer, special offers, rates,  gifts or give aways and basic marketing practices

There should be a marketing team that can take care of the marketing on Twitter. This is because this can generate good business for any company. The most important strength of Twitter is that it brings distant people closer. This is because they can post any message and that will come up as tweet updates even on google and more over the person does not have to put lots of effort in writing it.

 It is something that all the people who follow that particular person wait for the posts from them especially juicy offers. They are always eager to know what will happen and what new promotions can come up.  

Stay safe and have a nice day.