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Success built on success cannot make a great story.

One quality that will make you a compulsory success is TO NEVER GIVE UP.

If you have any question, you can ask before I continue.

CUSTOMIZING YOUR SHOP ON WASAPORDER

As I earlier said, you have many branding options on WasapOrder and they are all easy to implement.

Here are DIY guides for customizing your WasapOrder shop with your own insignia (static banner, sliding photos, or video)

Someone said:

"Winners see the opportunity in every difficulty while losers see the difficulty in every opportunity"

Please, who knows?

And this. Problems are opportunities.

This is from Michael Josephson.

"Problems are opportunities in disguise" - Andre Bellfield.

Does this saying apply to the problems in Nigeria? Of course, YES.

5. DO SOMETHING NOW TO HELP IN RELIEVING OTHER PEOPLE OF THE ECONOMIC CRUNCH.

If you have ever forgotten your problems because you were genuinely concerned about someone else, you must have discovered the joy of caring for caring sake. In fact, these points I'm sharing with you are my own pieces of advice that I have given to myself. Now, as I am sharing them to help someone else somewhere, I am feeling very light and good as if I don't have any problems whatsoever.

The pieces of advice have already helped me when I gave them to myself. But now, as I'm sharing them, I feel extremely good to know they might help one or two people out here.

So, I advise you to do the same and see the effect. Share your thoughts too about overcoming challenges. Do you have some idea that I have missed? Or, do you have another perspective to any of the points I made? Maybe, there's a quotable quote you have that can help.

Many times, such a sharing could worth more than if you gave someone a million dollars. So, kindly drop a thought or two to encourage anyone experiencing the economic crunch in very particular ways. I will also share more.

4.NEVER FORGET TO REMIND YOURSELF THAT CHALLENGES ARE NOT BAD. INSTEAD, THEY COULD BE ONE OF THE BEST TREASURES YOU WILL EVER HAVE:

Honestly, challenges are very far from looking like a good thing at the moment you are passing through them. But continue to remind yourself that they are like the pressure used to squeeze out the sweet wine from the vine. They are bringing out the best in you.

Remember that those who overcome bigger challenges deserve more respect. This law is so fair that we all presume it to be fair without it getting written down anywhere. So, if your own challenges seem to be greater than those of others, its an opportunity to overcome a greater challenge than others and be greater than them. Isn't it?

3. FIND A WAY TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR PASSION BY SOLVING SOME REAL CHALLENGES SOMEWHERE IN THE ECONOMY: See how...

A bad economy lacks so many things. But it has an abundance of one thing: PROBLEMS. Each problem is an economic opportunity that can be exploited if you give them a thought. Each lack is something you can provide and get paid for.

No matter how small the money you are making is, if it is regular and from a passion you have, it removes a lot of the psychological weight due to the bad economy.

So, get a stream of income running in case you don't have. If you already have, get more running. More money in your account is like more grease in your engine. It lightens the burden a lot while making you relevant in the world. I did a free webinar about how to IMMEDIATELY start turning your passion into regular money using Whatsapp and other free resources. You can see the thread here: https://www.nairaland.com/6498749/use-get-paid-whatsapp-whoever

2. DECIDE TO BECOME CONSTRUCTIVELY SELFISH : Spend your mental energies constructively thinking up solutions instead of using those energies destructively to complain against the situation or against the government or the situations of your birth.

Complaining at every opportunity may sound like you care but it's LAZY of you to do. Instead, use your time and energy to think thoughts like, "what can I do better than most people?" "How can I be useful to someone?" Where can I find those dying to have the solutions I can give?"

Don't overthink it though. Just let your mind touch on it lightly from time to time (especially when you feel worried).

Mind you, I am not saying that your complaints are not justified. I'm only saying that they are weighing down on you and keeping you from getting your problems solved. These things are more subconscious than conscious. So, give up the psychological load so that you can be free to fly.

While others are crying about a bad economy, YOU can be cashing out instead. It all depends on your PERSONAL choices.

So, how can you turn these harsh economic times to favor YOU and your family? Just a few inspirational thoughts that occurred to me. Follow these simple steps:

1. Start from your mind: REMEMBER that all great people earned their respect through the challenges they overcame. So, see the hard times as an opportunity to excel rather than an obstacle.

BrandBrainBox:
5. SEE YOUR BUSINESS AS A 'SERVICE' IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD: Do this if you want to enjoy the business and succeed faster than you ever thought possible. See the business as a unique assignment you came to do for humanity. And, truly, that's what your 'follow-come' career is.

When you bring a service attitude to your business, it doesn't mean you won't get paid. But, you place service ahead of earning. This will make you to see the earnings as only a means of sustaining the service or what helps you to deliver your assignment to humanity.

Again, service attitude doesn't mean you'd be perfect or be able to please everyone. But it will make up for many of your would-be imperfections. For example, it makes up 70% of your customer relation skills which in turn contributes as much to the success of the brand you would have created.

Let me add this here: The more GENUINELY you do the above, the more EFFECTIVE it will be. So, forget about faking it. Again, the FACT is that the more genuinely you do this, THE HAPPIER YOU SHALL BE... and the RICHER too. So, why not just be as genuine as you can get with it?

Another advantage you have when you do this genuinely is that you don't feel guilty when things go wrong all because you would be certain that you gave it all it required. So, when things go wrong, you are more likely to spend more of your energy constructively trying to get things to work than spending it destructively feeling guilty and cheap. There's joy in being genuine rather than fake.

5. SEE YOUR BUSINESS AS A 'SERVICE' IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD: Do this if you want to enjoy the business and succeed faster than you ever thought possible. See the business as a unique assignment you came to do for humanity. And, truly, that's what your 'follow-come' career is.

When you bring a service attitude to your business, it doesn't mean you won't get paid. But, you place service ahead of earning. This will make you to see the earnings as only a means of sustaining the service or what helps you to deliver your assignment to humanity.

Again, service attitude doesn't mean you'd be perfect or be able to please everyone. But it will make up for many of your would-be imperfections. For example, it makes up 70% of your customer relation skills which in turn contributes as much to the success of the brand you would have created.

A FEW THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WASAPORDER THAT WILL HELP YOU

1. ONLINE CATALOG: You can use the tool to create an alphabetical social-media-shareable online catalog of all your products and services. It means that you can easily make thousands of people see your full range of products and/or services.

2. GEO-LOCATION SEARCH: Although the Worldwide Web is global, geo-location makes it also locally relevant. Customers can search for products and services near them (example, a writer near me or a manicure service in Benin City). This is good for buyers and sellers alike because it solves the problem of trust and more. It combines online and offline advantages.

3. REAL-LIFE AND REAL-TIME INTERACTION: Another way that WasapOrder combines online and offline advantages is in communication. People can connect to you on WhatsApp and you get to chat with them one-on-one as if they are visiting you in a physical shop. REMEMBER: They chat you up only after seeing your shop on WasapOrder. So, almost100% of them are people who have a buying intent already - meaning you will hardly see unserious people chatting you up.

4. BRANDING OPTIONS: You have so many branding options on WasapOrder that will make you wonder why people need to pay to have online shops. For instance, you can brand your shop with static logo of your own, banner, sliders, or video of your choice.

5. SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING: You can display your social media handles and buttons to enable people share your store or individual products and services to their social networks. If you learn great customer relation skills, be certain that many of your happy customers will also turn to your happy marketers by using the social media share buttons. This is why we're going to say a lot about creative Whatsapp-based customer relations.

4. DON'T JOKE WITH BRANDING: Right from choosing a brand name, to designing a logo to other branding elements, DO NOT JOKE WITH YOUR BRANDING.

The branding element you need at this stage is the brand name. I have a saying that "brand name creativity is more needed by every business than a million dollar capital". That will sound like an exaggeration until you understand the profound psychological, media, and other implications of what we know as 'branding'.

Choose your brand name very wisely. If you need help, I can offer you one-on-one assistance in this respect - due to its high importance and the ease of making high-profile mistakes relating to brand names.

3. CREATE A WHATSAPP-LINKED SHOP: There are many options here. But a good free one that I recommend is WasapOrder.

Make sure that you have a brand name that is both DESCRIPTIVE and ATTRACTIVE. Next, I will show you how to use the tool EFFECTIVELY right from creating your brand name to shop design to creative Whatsapp-based customer relations and more.

In the mean time, you can learn more about WasapOrder here: https://wasaporder.com/forum/forum/off-marketplace-discussions/

criuze:
ok

go on

OK. The next step is to create a Whatsapp-linked shop.

Dave is the rave.

2. KNOW YOUR 'FOLLOW-COME' CAREER (especially if you don't have a business already. If you already have a business, you can skip this but it can also help you):

Ask yourself, "what is it that I can do better than most people?" Is it writing articles? Is it graphic design? Is it web design? Is it mathematics? Is it motivational speaking? What is it? Take time to answer yourself that question.

You can make a list of the things you can do well and choose the ONE you can do BEST. That is the one thing that you were born to do for others and get them to pay you. In other words, that's YOUR 'follow-come' career (I'm using Nigerian English here). It doesn't matter whatever you studied in school.

Decide that it's exactly what you are going to do. After all, it must be something that you even enjoy doing.

1. HAVE WHATSAPP INSTALLED ON YOUR PHONE: The first thing you need is Whatsapp. Whether it's the regular Whatsapp app or Whatsapp Business, you're good to go. But, I prefer Whatsapp Business.

In case you don't have Whatsapp installed already, you can get Whatsapp for Android here: https://www.whatsapp.com/android/

Or for iOS here: https://apps.apple.com/ng/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997

Whether you have a business already or you want to start a business now, whether you're a worker, a student, or an unemployed person, I invite you to come over here and learn a great secret that many people do not know:

HOW TO START A LUCRATIVE CAREER ON WHATSAPP IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS.

Everything I am revealing here is based on resources that are absolutely free just like Whatsapp itself. No need for a website or whatever else that will cost you money.

This Is about the third time this has happened to me: Immediately after paying for Facebook ad, they lock my account and do not offer me an option to get my money back.

Mind you, as the screenshots below reveal,

1. Facebook is thoughtful enough to allow me the 'log-out' and 'download your info' options. But no option to get my refund.
2. My account was locked less than 5 minutes after I finished making a payment. For me, it shows they're doing this deliberately to rip people off.
3. They've done this before and unlocked my account after many months when I no longer needed the ad credit. So, it's supposed that they should have resolved whatever issue that led to the account closure earlier.
4. And it's so shameful that a company like Facebook does not have a single known customer complaint desk. Looks like it's a part of the rip-off agenda.

I met an Indian online who has the exact same experience. I want to sample opinion here because I intend to escalate the fraud to the highest levels. Why I'm doing so is that it amounts to economic sabotage if Facebook is defrauding small businesses of their ad budgets this way.

I need independent opinions to confirm this. So, please, please, if you have experienced this, kindly indicate.

This is a part of a set of projects to help Nigeria stay more peaceful. One of them is meant to promote inter-tribal peace and reduce unemployment in the country. It mainly promotes mutual understanding among local Nigerian language groups.


It's also meant to help local brands grow while helping tens of thousands of foreign brands to penetrate Nigerian markets more deeply. It's an online social platform to help brand penetration into different local language groups in Nigeria.


To benefit from this, PLEASE, TAKE TIME TO READ THIS ATTENTIVELY. 


There are hundreds of language groups but millions of brands wanting to sell to those language groups (like Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo, Tiv, Idoma, Efik, Ibibio, Itsekiri, Inyang, Nupe, Ebira, Gbagyi, Ijaw, Urhobo, Igala, etc) IN THEIR OWN MOTHER TONGUES. So, there's enough for everyone. 


For now, we are looking for the first set of people to join. All you will need to do to earn huge in this set-up is to TALK ABOUT BRANDS IN PARTICULAR LOCAL LANGUAGES. 


Anybody can benefit from this opportunity. For instance, if you are a business person, this becomes an easy way to link your business with the big names in a very social setting (more social means less bottlenecks). If you are a worker, you can make this ANOTHER stream of income without having to quit your present job. It may even pay you more than your present job. 


Then, as a jobless person, of course, this can be a good full-time job as you'll be having big brands as your clients. And you don't even need to be good in English to be able to do this. 


WE ARE KICKING OFF IN DAYS

In fact, we've already kicked off with this awareness campaign. Please, if you want to be a part of this, it is 100% free to join. It is the brands we connect to you that pay us, not you. They pay both you and us. 


So, don't worry about ever being asked to pay a registration or any other fee. Instead, just comment "INTERESTED" in capital letters and I will get back to you (for the fear of the mods).

We're still here.

Igbochief001:
U don't get me ...it's possible for us to coexist years lebanon is worse than us but they live happily , christians ,jews and muslims

Now the question is would north allow for reforms that would make is coexist ? Can fulani kill there dream to own land upto the atlantic ocean ? ....u and I know the answer is no they won't ....that's why it's impossible to coexist

Would Nigeria allow Igbos to form regional government with Igbos in south south and control their police and resources ? ...u know the answer is no

We are two different to be one , 1900 Igbos were the least educated , by 1960 they were among the most educated because they were open minded ...same period fulanis went from the most enlightened to the most backward

We are two different to mix bro the list us endless

If only we can look far enough. A proof that break-up is not the answer is the current war brewing between the Kanu camp and Dokubo camp. As for Fulani taking everything, well, I will be giving us updates on how we're going to wrest the country from Fulani stranglehold.

Until we Black people are ready to reason through our problems, we'll remain slaves for ever. Our inability to reason well is why we're the only race that the Arab Fula people are ruling everywhere. We should be ashamed of this enough to change it.

Let's have growth mindset. Let's change our lot.

10. OUR COUNTRY CODE

Well, somehow, I mean to be funny with this last point - because we must learn to be happy no matter how difficult life gets. It makes things a lot easier.

That said, I have to confess, Nigeria's country code '234' is one of the things I will miss if the country ever breaks up. If we're ever lucky enough to have creative leaders (which must happen), then, you will be surprised how that beautifully unique country code can be used to launder the image of the country to a lot of advantages.

Nigeria is beautiful in so many ways. But some enemies are contending against our blessings. It's why I'm saying we shouldn't let it be.

9. OUR POPULATION IS OUR STRENGTH

Yes, Nigeria is enjoying many political and economic privileges in international politics just because of our population. Of course, politics is a game of numbers always. Now, the economic benefits due to our population eventually trickle down and go round.

For you to understand this better, here is what happened between me and a Nairalander when we were talking about top Nigerian brands that are making the country a global destination. Someone objected as to why I included Bet9ja on the ground that it is the only Nigerian brand that made it to the top 200 most visited sites in the world, going by Alexa ranking. So, this is the response I gave him. Thank God he was convinced at the end of the day.

BrandBrainBox:
Bro (or sis?), thanks for your strong interest in this. First, click here to see Bet9ja.com's page on Alexa. It was ranked 173rd yesterday while I was writing but today at about 11:50 am (WAT), it was 174th.

Next, here is an example of how Bet9ja.com's top place on the Alexa list could help to make Nigeria a global destination: Entrepreneurs across the world often get involved in SEO and SEM researches. One of the favorite points of such a research is to find high PR sites to target their backlinks at or for other marketing insights. And one of the common ways to locate high PR sites is to look for those that top the Alexa chart.

In the process of looking for 'top 100, top 200, top 1000, etc sites on Alexa, a wealthy but adventurous entrepreneur in Canada might discover that a betting platform made it to the top 200 on the globally respected ranking. The business man in the guy might begin to ask why it is so. Then, he discovers that it is so because the site in question is located in a country with huge populations of unemployed youths. This could inspire the entrepreneur to set up a production plant somewhere in Nigeria because it means he can get labor more readily and so, cheaper.

That's an investor coming to explore Nigeria. And when he sets up his plant, many of his skilled workers will certainly relocate to Nigeria. Also, many of his customers will be coming to Nigeria for business. And, if I must tell you this, many companies with bases in Nigeria were moved by such factors as availability of cheap labor, access to the sea, and a huge local market. These are some of the reasons attracting investors to Nigeria in spite of many extraordinary challenges that characterize the country's local business environment.

If you still disagree, feel free to air your further objections. Thanks once again.

8. OUR VARIETY IS BEAUTIFUL

I came to realize how beautiful Nigeria is once in 2002 when I attended a national church conference in Ibadan. We had a song procession in which different tribes from Hausa to Igbo to Yoruba to Edo, Tiv, Nupe, Ibibio, etc sang in their respective tongues. It was so beautiful I could have died for joy!

Now, whether in fine art, music or science, or whatever else, variety is always the spice of life while monotony kills interest. Our variety is our beauty in so many ways only that the beauty is currently being messed up by the cancer of foreign domination which we can easily remove if only Nigerians can listen to me.