 Literature › Re: The Hole In The Wall by bigbauer(m): 7:17pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
Souloho19 it's time you rounded this story up. It has become an ancient of days here. 1 Like |
| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Intellectually Sound And Intelligent? Let's Connect by bigbauer(op): 1:30pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
let's create things |
| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Intellectually Sound And Intelligent? Let's Connect by bigbauer(op): 1:30pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
hi, I'm expanding my network of friends, I'm a male I've lived for 3decades +, I am attracted to intelligence. I'm a Sapiosexual, and naturally drawn to intellectually sound and intelligent people, male or female (I'm straight) especially those with good business sense. I'll so love to connect with a female that can code with a white hat, I speak HTML, PHP, MySQL, And some other scripting languages. And hey, I can be fun too, if I were to be described in two words it'll be "simply complicated' I'm simple, but not easy! PM let's connect! |
| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Meet New Cool People And Just Make Friends by bigbauer(m): 1:24pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
hi, I'm expanding my network of friends, I'm a male I've lived for 3decades +, I am attracted to intelligence. I'm a Sapiosexual, and naturally drawn to intellectually sound and intelligent people, male or female (I'm straight) especially those with good business sense. I'll so love to connect with a female that can code, I speak HTML, PHP, MySQL, And some other scripting languages. And hey, I can be fun too, if I were to be described in two words it'll be "simply complicated' I'm simple, but not easy! PM let's connect! |
| Business › Re: Popcorns & Chips Bags,boxes Available by bigbauer(m): 6:28am On Feb 16, 2020 |
Cee9:
Wr are still taking orders can you make paper shopping bags? |
| Business › Re: Lets Talk About Networking Business - Edmark, Longrich, GNLD, Ag Cera Etc. by bigbauer(m): 6:27am On Feb 16, 2020 |
You left out the best, Alliance in Motion Global (Aimglobal) WhatsApp @zero8zero575zero5four04 for info. IzuDboy:
Networking is a socioeconomic business activity by which businesspeople and entrepreneurs meet to form business relationships and to recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities, share information and seek potential partners for ventures.
Many businesses use networking as a key factor in their marketing plan. It helps to develop a strong feeling of trust between those involved and play a big part in raising the profile of a company.
To make you understand fully were am going to, I know you have heard about Longrich, GNLD, Edmark AG Cera etc. Networking is their no 1 marketing plan. they use this business style to market products and make them relevant worldwide. In doing this they provide lucrative making money platform for smart and intelligent citizens of a country who are ready to register as a distributor refer people and earn their money. They are those this networking business are their main source of wealth and profiting side hustle for civil servant, small business owners.
They first discover the company when they reach their country. They study the company and their products very well and they start making their millions from it.
Let me tell you what you don't know, American President Donald Trump became who he is through networking business.
Let me hit my point? Networking Business is highly lucrative, It is one of the easiest way to make money.
But Nigerian runs away from it because of one stupid reason which is "I can talk to people, I can't bring people" for me another meaning of this statement is "I want to be poor". How can you make it in life if you can't talk to people? is really hard, i swear.
Being a Nigeria i learnt that my people love the hard way to make money. The can't coordinate, they can't take risk. They only follow the normal ways to make money that have been existing 100 years ago. And it won't be paying well because is very saturated. Many people are barbers, food stuff traders, provision store owners etc
Le me give an example, A new company producing very effective and powerful stem cell product Ag cera.......... Read more by clicking the link below.
http://www.9jaweather.com.ng/2020/02/ag-cera-stem-cell-nutrition-its-effect.html?m=1 |
| Literature › Re: NIGERIAN Ethan Hunt... By Danny Walker by bigbauer(m): 6:09am On Feb 16, 2020 |
I understand the situation bro, nevertheless I still believe you have what you need at your disposal. If she's been graciously allowing you use her phone to post on NL, I believe she'll also allow you use it even if it's for 30 minutes daily till you've published. Keep pushing, don't give up. PS: Me thinks she's a keep. IamPlato:
I Am A Writer who Lacks Tools 
I Will Try Publishing A Romantic Action Novel On Amazon Next Month.
Publishing For Me Has Been Very Difficult because Of Lack Of What I Need but Still Pushing 
I'm Not Even The One Dropping The Updates, I Have My Girl Doing That For Me because My Phone Cant But Her Phone Is Very Capable |
| Literature › Re: NIGERIAN Ethan Hunt... By Danny Walker by bigbauer(m): 10:24pm On Feb 14, 2020 |
IamPlato:
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It was very dark, Ikenna was as hungry as the darkness; he came out from the bushes and
“Take him away” he ordered and Ikenna was taken away... More! More!! More!!! Please! I'm so loving this. Great job bro! You should consider publishing and hope you're on upwork and other freelance writing sites? |
| Literature › Re: The Hole In The Wall by bigbauer(m): 5:35pm On Feb 14, 2020 |
souloho19:
You guys sure know how to make a writer feel loved. Thanks for the support and comments, I'm actually still on the hole update so don't think I've forgotten, Just wanted to update you guys on the launch.
Thanks for the positive wishes. Jah bless! Big congratulations! Greater heights awaits you. 1 Like |
| Literature › Re: NIGERIAN Ethan Hunt... By Danny Walker by bigbauer(m): 8:04pm On Feb 12, 2020 |
IamPlato:
have You Seen Chapter 10? Bigbauer rick9 198800mam come see chapter 10 Thanks for the heads up. |
| Business › Re: What Profitable Business Can I Do With 5 Million Naira? by bigbauer(m): 8:08am On Feb 12, 2020 |
Tesclaros:
umm, can you give more tips on this? Remember i said in my post i need a stress free business if you're looking for a stress free biz, then buy the truck and get 150k monthly. Or invest in bonds etc, for a paltry return on investment. However, if you want to be a business man, you must be ready to roll up your sleeves, and sweat it. There's no stress free business anywhere. You must be ready to learn. And like someone suggested, don't put in all the money, invest a bit like a test run investment, and grow the biz. #my0.02Kobo |
| Business › Re: What Profitable Business Can I Do With 5 Million Naira? by bigbauer(m): 8:04am On Feb 12, 2020 |
Seriously? A paltry 150k monthly on a truck? How much do you think people that drive Peugeot boxer (new model J5) and even J5 return weekly? Not even weekly but monthly, 150k on a truck is ridiculously too poor. nigeriantrucks:
I own a truck and a logistics license with some factories in Lagos. We need more trucks; 6 tyres. We handle maintenance and pay driver and motor boy, and remit 150k monthly to you.
If this interests you we can arrange a meeting in Lagos at my office to discuss further. The truck you need is sold around 3.5m. |
| Business › Re: My Startup Hotels.ng Just Raised $1.2m. Ask Me Anything by bigbauer(m): 10:57pm On Feb 11, 2020 |
Wow, I'm amazed, I never knew you were on Nairaland. Congrats, I salute your courage, I know what it means to have people believe your vision to invest their money. Sesongo, amenam tutu. I'll surely take you up on the offer, I have tons of questions. I'm particularly interested in the things you did/tried that didn't work out as planned before Hotels.ng got it's break through. markessien:
Hello Guys,
I am Mark Essien, the founder of Hotels.ng and Hotels.ng just raised $1.2m in funding from international investors. I started this business on my own two years ago in Calabar, and now we have become a big business. Hopefully, some people will read this and know that it's possible to be innovative, creative and build something from nothing in a few years.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2015/05/26/nigerias-hotels-ng-raises-1-2-million/
Questions that people have asked me and answers. If you have any other questions, ask below and I will reply.
What's your view on competition? How closely do you follow what Wakanow, Travelstart, etc., are doing relative to hotels.ng?
Competition is necessary for you to have a baseline on which you want to improve from. Otherwise you can have a really crappy product, and you don't know because there is nothing to compare it with.
At the end of 2014, you made the following statement: "We recorded almost no customer complaints in last two months, while booking tens of thousands of people.” So...what's your approach towards customer service? And how has your team (apparently) been able to proactively address issues?
Customer service in my opinion, is about empowering customer service to do the best they can to help people, no matter what it costs.
As an entrepreneur, getting the right staff is usually a challenge. How do you get talented people? What is your recruiting trick for finding great staff?
I do things like this - https://medium.com/mark-essien/hotels-ng-interview-questions-to-screen-for-a-genius-49bb6cb9946a - to find people.
What was your biggest fear on the journey to this point, and how long did you anticipate it will take you to cross this threshold?
My biggest fear was that we would not make enough money in time to be able to survive, in case we did not raise money in time. Luckily, with focus and a bit of luck, we crossed that bridge.
What would you do differently if you were starting over today?
Differently - I would have avoided doing things that are side-experiments and been more focused on the main thing.
How many percent of your company did you have to give up for $1.2million. Do you own controlling shares?
Right now, I own more of the company than if I had no investment, but I had a co-founder.
Who are your senior management team? In every conversation about Hotels I only hear about you the founder, never about the team.
So far we have operated without a 'senior' management team. But that is about changing. Expect some news here.
Did you choose your investors or did they choose you? I am personally working on a service and trying to decide who my investors should be.
We chose each other, just like a marriage
Tell us three business development hacks you used to stay afloat while you raised money..?
1. staying very focused on what would contribute to bottom line and what would not
2. Implementing performance based compensation across board
3. 3. Deferring expenses that were not critical.
What is it about hotels culture that has made you successful and how will you keep it consistent as you scale.
Hotels Culture is one of everyone-do-your-best and always keep thinking. The overall philosophy is that people should not need to be controlled to do their best. The Netflix presentation on this is one of the best I have read, and I hope we one day achieve this.
Do you consider yourself a technology company or a hotel booking service?
We are 100% a technology company.
What inspired you to start Hotels.ng?
I was inspired by wanting to do something in tech in Nigeria, and seeing a big open market
Here's my question before you received funding from spark how many employees did you have?
First of all, it was just me coding the site, then after that I hired a friend called Charles Bassey - and we were working together getting our inventory in calabar. That was before I moved to Lagos.
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If you have any questions, feel free to ask, I will answer them all!
Me and the team |
| Literature › Re: My Madam And I (part Two) by bigbauer(m): 5:03pm On Feb 11, 2020 |
Topher052, today's Tuesday. I've been checking since morning. Please drop the updates. I'm expecting like 5 lengthy posts. Great story. Kudos. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Literature › Re: NIGERIAN Ethan Hunt... By Danny Walker by bigbauer(m): 11:32pm On Feb 09, 2020 |
this is good. |
| Literature › Re: The Hole In The Wall by bigbauer(m): 1:44pm On Feb 09, 2020 |
Souloho19 it's abnormal for you stay without updating your thread. Whatever be the challenge, I pray God steps in for you. Get well soon bro. 1 Like |
| Literature › Re: "Ocean Of Secrets" A Story By Millieademi by bigbauer(m): 1:26pm On Feb 09, 2020 |
So sorry man. millieademi:
Hi, guys. How has the week been?
Sorry but this is an official announcement that Ocean of Secrets will be on an indefinite hold. I was mugged yesterday and my phone was stolen. My manuscript is gone and I have no means of continuing for now. I'm still in shock and bingeing on Sia's Big Girls Cry.
Once, I get a new phone I'll continue.
I didn't want to be like I'm online but not updating.
Love you, peeps. |
| Literature › Re: How Gbenga Found Love by bigbauer(m): 7:13am On Feb 08, 2020 |
Nice story. I hope updates will be timely? |
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| Literature › Re: Medicine by bigbauer(m): 9:28pm On Feb 06, 2020 |
marvel15:
am back ohhh I'm glad to know you're still alive. |
| Literature › Re: NIGERIAN Ethan Hunt... By Danny Walker by bigbauer(m): 9:25pm On Feb 06, 2020 |
can't help but ask for MORE! |
| Business › Re: Become A Social Volunteer... with Drone One Enterprise Solutions closes 31st-Jan by bigbauer(m): 4:24am On Jan 29, 2020 |
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| Business › Re: How Much Capital Will Be Needed To Start A Mini Supermarket? by bigbauer(m): 3:58pm On Jan 23, 2020*. Modified: 9:31am On Mar 28, 2023 |
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| Literature › Re: "Desire" By John Mfon by bigbauer(m): 10:08pm On Jan 17, 2020 |
Noblejohn32:
Fresh episode loading
Olybaby23 i am waiting for your comment How long will it take to load? |
| Literature › Re: "Desire" By John Mfon by bigbauer(m): 8:13am On Jan 16, 2020 |
Noblejohn32:
Fresh episode loading......... Now you don't need to start begging for comments. You're doing a great job. Kudos |
| Politics › Re: Customs Generates N1.3tr In 2019, Exceeds Target By N404bn by bigbauer(m): 6:21pm On Jan 12, 2020 |
helinues:
And by the way, hope you are aware Chinese Yen is more useless compared to Nigeria Naira. More useless yet a Chinese Yuan is worth 52Naira. Please how do you define "Useless compared to Nigeria Naira"? |
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| Literature › Re: The Great Tribulation Of John (fantasy) by bigbauer(m): 5:58pm On Jan 11, 2020 |
Are uninvited guests welcome? Giamem:
Please, I am inviting you guys to come read. I promise it's going to be fun and captivating.
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| Literature › Re: "Desire" By John Mfon by bigbauer(m): 9:47pm On Dec 15, 2019 |
Well done |
| Literature › Re: "Desire" By John Mfon by bigbauer(m): 5:58pm On Dec 14, 2019 |
Noblejohn32:
Abeg broz no vex I'll try my very best. Sorry bro if I’m too harsh on you. I’d rather told you the truth than comfort you with a lie. Do your part, the readers are sure to do their own. Keep up with the updates, work on your delivery, by the time all the people I invited and others that are currently reading this story will begin to drop comments, you’ll think they’ve taken over your thread. Do your own, keep improving. 1 Like |
| Literature › Re: My Adventure As A Corper In Plateau State Jos by bigbauer(m): 1:41pm On Dec 14, 2019 |
Mykeldayo, we the cool headed readers are expecting an update to help secure our cool headedness this weekend. Thank you in advance, and a bottle of non alcoholic red wine for you. |
