I didn't want to do this before but i'll take you up on your offer and write an essay. I would like this to succeed in Naija because I know it has so much potential. A lot of our people are willing to read but don't have so much access to some of these things.

@Seun did you get my MSN email?

kcjazz:

@Seun did you get my MSN email?

Yes, just replied. If you can find a way to work with the N1m budget in the rules, that will really help a lot.

Seun Exercise a little patience, mine will be ready on thursday or friday

On Tuesday, I was really discouraged because I thought this contest was going to fail!

However, since then, I've gotten 3 entries, which means if I get no other submissions, the 3
of them are going to in the prizes. One of the contestants actually wrote a full business plan,
which initially seemed to be a bit much, but on my second reading, I noticed that she was
the only one who took the N1m budget limit serious and tried to find a way to make it work.

I want to urge the current contestants to keep improving their entries because other contestants
might submit much better entries on the last day (tomorrow) and rob you of your deserved prize.

The contest closes at 12 midnight tomorrow (Friday), so you have just 37 hours 30 minutes to go!

I'm trying to write but the 1m naira limit is making it difficult for me. I'll keep trying, hopefully I would come up with something before midnight.

So Seun does the 1 million include rental space? Or just the Library infrastructure?

Ok, you can raise the limit to N2m. Since this is the last day. But it will count against you.

wad up? How just saw an update of this post on my mail. How did the brian drain end? How was the ideas like? Did anybody push it? Can we see the entries - lol.

It ends tomorrow at midnight. You still have 25 hours and 12 minutes.

share the entries you have got so far lets see if you've got any. It seems your price is not turning people on anyway but good idea sha. I just want to know if the entries you have are innovative

don't worry. i'm sending my entry today and it's going to be,

How many entries so far please, if I may ask?

@nateevs 6 or 7. I also got about 5 or 6 that have nothing to do with media rental.

Today is the final day of the media rental library business strategy essay contest. 9 hours left!

2 hours left!

Seun:

2 hours left!

still on the matter. Lol

Can we get an update of what happened then?

@nateevs: Sure. Got a lot of entries and I think I've decided on who the best 2 are. I showed the top 5 to a business consultant and the best and 2nd best she picked are also my best and second-best.

Some people sent entries on ebooks and dvd rental, but I can't really grade them if they didn't include physical books in their proposals, so I guess I should have been a bit more strict about the rules. A follow-up contest about dvd rental and e-books specifically might work. We'll see.

All I have left to do now is go through the entries one more time and pick the third best entry.

but i thought you said media rental business and include ebooks, DVDs, CDs etc and not just physical books.

spotless:
but i thought you said media rental business and include ebooks, DVDs, CDs etc and not just physical books.

I did, and it was a mistake on my part.  I'm very sorry about that.  Thought the contest was failing.

so who are the winners then? I tot you'd have posted it here. How many entries came in? I hope winners must have been announced by now or it is getting k legged

seun since you have selected your best two base on physical books rental, to be on a fair side, why dnt you choose the last 3rd position on either the online dvd rental or ebook rental or any other online entry since somw of them have spent there time wiriting base on that aspect?

Mr. Globe:

so who are the winners then? I tot you'd have posted it here. How many entries came in? I hope winners must have been announced by now or it is getting k legged

Maybe he is deciding on the 3rd before his final announcement.

Babypinkyz:
seun since you have selected your best two base on physical books rental, to be on a fair side, why dnt you choose the last 3rd position on either the online dvd rental or ebook rental or any other online entry since somw of them have spent there time wiriting base on that aspect?

Good idea. I considered it too, but in the end I decided to award the third place prize to someone
who also wrote about physical book rental. I can only judge business ideas I've studied extensively.

So make we knw dos who win.

Announcing the results of the contest:

Winner: Olubukola Sanwo.
2nd Place: LagBlogger.  
3rd Place: Emmanuel Promise.

Seun:

Announcing the results of the contest:

Winner: Olubukola Sanwo.
2nd Place: LagBlogger.  
3rd Place: Emmanuel Promise.

   

Kudos, Omolatoro Iwelabi & Co.

What a man can do .  .  .

Can we read the plans too, or executive summaries?