ovanda:
Good day everyone. My name is Victor and I need a mentor. I know I am good in programming but i keep going around in circles. I learned java and spring framework and could write meaningful program with it. Then someone pointed to PERN stack.i am through with react and all the JavaScript basics, though I know JavaScript to a good extent. I'm done with express js and I am tackling nodes js right now. I want to continue with this stack. The thing here is that I can learn any programming language fast and surmount any challenges as long as I have Google,lol. Please and please, just point me in the right direction,abeg. Thank you.

You don't need a mentor, you need challenges.

So being able to write a language is step 1, trying to solve challenges in that language is the main koko.

For me i just got into frontend and i am heading towards backend as well.

I having been looking for a mentor for a bit but now i realize that i just need Challenges to grow in a language.

If you are open to speak, i am on 0..8..0..8..5..8..33..7..99 (all you number spiders f off.

Lets connect ( did a bit of linux, devops, aws as well ( more of a rush job course, but now i am relearning them and seeking challenges in them)

I am trying hard not to laugh but lol,

Why?

Why do you do that.

forever1225:
good write-up,

i need some kind of mentor, or someone i can share ideas with i rea\l life, i hv been learning javascrip online for a long time

Omo i have been relearning html, css, javascript for such a while that this time i finally decided that it wasn't about the learning any more.

I was just getting stuck in learning phase, never using what i learnt for anything, then i would abandon it for months and years then it would spark off and i would come back to to it again.

This time i decided, to learn and challenge myself and do something with it.

Why, i sat through a friends interview on zoom with for a react, node and vue.js developer and i noticed i didn't know jake about what they were asasking him, but when i got back to my folders on javascripts, some of the questions came back and i saw that i had a rudimetry idea of what was askeed during the interview.

This confirmed and strenghtened my resolve that one should not just learn code, but learn to challenge yourself on what you learnt and take extensive notes.

I always thought about mentorship and i have searched extensively for some person or the other to be my mentor, from online to linkedin. I have come to understand that you will find a lot of encouragement, but no one will mentor you.

You have to actually get started, learn, challenge yourself, make your own mistakes, learn from them. and google alot about them

Hmmm

I see a lot of comments here.

Why don't you guys develop a telegram or whatsapp group to game the system.

As a group some of you can apply as service providers and other will apply to them for work and get paid between 5 and 10 dollars for the jobs.
This way it helps build your review and thus builds your presence and that of those you work with. (win win for all parties (add me to the group if you develop it 08085833799)

Secondly,
I noticed something on upwork and other freelancing sites, most of the people seeking freelancers are actual people, meaning they live somewhere, thus if they are real then they have a name, an email address, are on social media or linkedin.

Also usually they provide the links to a document with further details about what they want done, which may usually have details you can search online to gather more personal details that make it easier to reach out to the person who posted the job. (i have actually done this before to get ahead of over 80 people applying for a job on freelancer).

Finally Step beyond upwork and use google to find the jobs you what- a google old google dork can sometime get you what you want
example enter this in google search and check out the results
site: "react.js developer" AND "apply" OR "Send resume"

Change the first keyword according to your speciality

Youtube, Udemy, Cousera, freecodeacademy, etc.

A lot of these platforms will help anyone willing to put the time down to learn how a programming language.
But as some of you will know, watching the videos they offer can sometimes make you feel like you do not understand anything
Sometimes, you see the video tutor spiting code after code and as a beginner you ask yourself "When will i get to this guy's level"

Well you don't need to, as sometimes you might even have more knowledge than some of them.

Like the old days in school, they are just teachers, and you are there to learn.

But the way you learn determines how you can easily pickup the language.

For me, i had to develop my own system and surprising it works to help me understand what they are teaching quickly, plus more.

See my system below

1. YOU ARE NOT DUMB: If you have started on the journey to learn a language, you are not dumb or a donce or retarded. thus what ever you see as you begin your journey. Don't ever let it seem overwhelming or that its too much for you.(it may look that way initially, but it changes as you learn).

2.If you keep throwing shit at a walk, it will eventually stick: In essense, if you didn't get anything on the first watch, watch it again and again and again, download the video and go step by step.

3.its all about copy and paste: Remember in school, your teacher or lecturer would start writing on the blackboard and the whole class starts copying very long notes.(In essense we were all just copying his/her notes). Its the samething with the guys on Youtube. It may seem like they are just spitting code from the back of their head-Nope- they have a sheet that they are just rewriting from.
Special note: This is actually the truth about programming and coding, you have your initial code, you copy and paste it into any new project you are working on, you add to it, adapt it, streamline it and reuse it "rinse and repeat".

4.Keep a folder of for all the languages and code you learn: Learning typescript, have a folder for it, see something new on typescript, create a subfolder for it, learning vue.js , react.js etc. keep a folder for each and add to each any thing you learn

5.Comment in the comment section: Omo this is important oh, comment like a madman, write long note comments explain what you just learn. For me i comment on each part of a code, what a variable does(comment), what an array does (long note comment), what a function does (write the function and rewrite it as a comment and plaster every area of it with a comment explaining each part of it). This way when i come back to that code i know what it does

6.Have an explainer.txt for your code: Even as i comment alot on my code, at the end of the project or code i am learning, i copy all the comments to an explainer.txt file and then explainer what i just did and what its meant to do.

Important
7. Learning 30%, Dragon slaying 70%: This one is the hard part. No matter what ever language you are learning, look for dragons to slay. Look for challenges and projects to challenge yourself. Seek them out like Naruto seeks out trouble, let it beat you up, let you anger grow, train and retry it challenge again. You will learn faster that way.
-Thankfully chatgpt and google gemini can help you with this

Hi there

Do you still have it

Gentleman, please you guys need to get real ear buds and head sets.

For headsets, get a Bose quiet comfort 35 and hear nothing, good for when you boss is screaming at you and all you do is smile.
or get the Bose original quiet comfort II earbuds and shut the world up while you live in you own sounds

i use a Bose Quiet comfort 35 (going over 3 years now.)

But if you ask me what i really want

The give me a Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H95 or Bang & Olufsen Beoplay earbuds, now those are the absolute silencers that make the beat roll like you live in it.

Business Psycology

Understand the processes, principles and steps involved in a business before you even get started

Most people who start up an online business, do not realize the amount of work and effort that goes into keeping it on and running it.

Instagram, Facebook, twitter, tiktok has seems to make it look easy, so everyone plus their aunty and grandmother is on these sites believing that if they post a picture or video of their product, Huge customers sales would come in.

The post and post and nothing happens, they keep at it and nothing still happens, they maybe get one like, still nothing happens

Usually they have already bought materials, products and items in thousand of Naira, hoping to sell on these sites, weeks go by and no sale.

So what is going on?
why are there no sales?

Its simple, you didnt take the time to study the business venture you are about to enter into.

End of part 1

If you would like to hear more and learn how to actually grow a business online

Stay tuned for more in a few days

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So your brain understand this thing so

Choi clap for yourselves

So nah Iphone 5C way I wan sell

Nah the specs below

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Nah the pictures de below

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Install these plugins

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These will extract any email from anywebsite you visit with chrome or Firefox.

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Bro thank you oh.

Seun but why you no just allow us search like this

Eeeeh

Make i try am

Jesus

Omo i de come

waleyp:
Well thanks to all you have mentioned.... I will like to go into the fruit business..... Fruit sell everyday especially if you are in a right spot..... Yes competition is there but you can find where or short competitions.... U can sell both online and offline even home delivery..... Well in ibadan the megida are over the places but most of them don't have shops or stores they do it the wheel barrow way.....

Well for the okada thing.... Here in ibadan I don't even know how much they gain each day.... There are some lazy okada men that only do the streets while some can go any length within the city..... Those that can go any length are the real hustlers... They can get more money each day.....
But the question is will I be the one to ride the bike? Answer is No..... So who is even trustworthy that can handle the bike and not even lie about how much he made each day...... I'm not sure the hire purchase might work...... Maybe we can work on percentage or I don't even know yet.....

All I need is an idea of making money weekly

Waley both options you raised are good ideas required to make money weekily

But understand that even when you start, you can't become a super star seller over night.

Its not going to be as you planned or envisioned, but gradually(like life and any other natural order), you begin to grow and steadily rise to the level of sales you want.

You just have to decide on one thing and do your planning and once you have convinced yourself, you move on it.

Also understand that your way of doing a business, may or will differ from another persons approach.

Case in point

The megida's that sell fruit have their way of doing it.

There are sell market women at roadsides who still sell fruits

There are also speciality fruit stores that sell as well

And if you go online, you will find different people selling fruit packages on instagram.

All of them are selling the same products but in different ways.

Thus why you have to decide on your own way.

Same applies to the bike business.


Finally, if you want a business that brings in weekly pay like you want.

You will have to be actively involved in it to see it through, meaning you can't just drop money and expect it to come back with interest.

waleyp:
Actually I have been thinking in the direction you have been thinking..... But to start a big fruit business... You need to get that spot where you can sell.... I dey reason the idea too..... I'm in ibadan

Wow, glad to hear that Waley

True, finding a spot presents some sort of a challenge

Also there is the problem of competition
with other fruit megida's.

So if I were to start it low key


Low key fruit business

I would actually go at it like them.

I would ask the obvious questions

Where are you getting the fruits.
What's the purchase price
Finally, how much do you sell.

To confirm these I would locate and visit the fruit market and confirm the prices or seek out cheaper option

Next I would seek out possible locations with Ibadan where the fruit megida's ain't readly available.

My target would be be 5 to 6 of these locations.

I would also confirm from these locations, if there is a daily rate for location use.

Now once I have gather all the above

I would seat down and do some validation and cost derivatives.

Here I would ask questions like

Since I will be selling from one or multiple location, I will need to factor

Logistics cost

Cost of the location
Cost of transport to the locations
Cost of Transportation to purchase my fruits
Cost to bring it to my home or location

Before I even begin looking at

Product cost
Cost of fruit purchase

For me the initial logistic, calculations are key before I even calculate product cost and profits.

I will break the calculations Down later on to show way.

waleyp:


Aside that how does okada business thrive?
Is it profitable?
For city like ibadan how is okada business like?
Like how much will be the daily take home or weekly down to monthly

Also regarding Okada business

Aside from purchasing the bike

You have to consider that currentily there are two environments for it to operate within the country

Legally and illegally

Whether you choose to do it legally or illegally

The business boils down to four thing

Location
Daily dues
Fuel management
Finding as many customers

Business is good when in your chosen location, the daily dues are not so much, there are many customers at the right price and you don't spend so much on fuel.

Still, I would like to know

Are you asking about the business for yourself or are you looking at hired purchase

You need a lot of women selling ground nut and boli.

Make I check my contact list �

Hi again

i am at it again

From my previous topic of

"How would start X business"

I decided it would be great if we looked out the selling part of any business

Thus

"How would you sell X product or service " came up

Just like the previous post

The focus is on finding old,new, innovative, amazing, ways to sell different products or service any of you may be looking at selling or own a business that sells, or works for a company that sells X product or service.

How this works is you drop the details of a product or service you sell.

While the community provides insights, details processes, experience and tricks to selling it.

Hopefully we can all help some of you grow your business with the details you learn from here

Ok so since I started this topic

I believe I should share my own

How do I start X business.

Mine is

"How do I start a speciality fruit business in Nigeria"

This has been rattling in my head for quite a while now.

As it seems fruits are slightly cheaper than food now days.

I have been wondering how I can start, change or reinvent the wheel of selling fruits in Nigeria

Obviously I don't want to start on the road beside a megida and sell oranges while he sells apples.

But I want my fruits to get to those customer who patronize the megida guys as well.

I also want to sell it both offline and online, via app and via home delivery as well.

So this is my

"How do I start X business"

Stick around and I will share my thoughts on starting.

But also feel free to share your experience or idea of thoughts

Hello all

Welcome to this exclusive nairaland business topic where I and others would discuss and share

The process of starting various types of businesses from 0 to profitable (maybe).

The idea here is

You tell us your business idea or a business you are looking to start

And I and the other members who are experienced will answer with things like

Initial requirements
Capital requirement
Location requirement
Staff requirement
Sales requirement
Etc

The idea is to get everyone involve in the process of how to grow your idea to something worth doing.

So please feel free to chip in, share your ideas, or bring your own knowledge to help another person's idea.

We will make the rules up as we go along

Why would I go through all that hasle and then be told that you have a limit of less than 1k dollars per week.

When I can just do PayPal, payeener or other, barter by flutter wave etc.

Abi

No be to send money from and to Nigeria.

Dollarmine:
I want to learn Seo anyone care to put me true



Quote me... Please!

Go here

https://learningseo.io/

Everything you need to know about it is there

But take it one tep at a time, don't rush it

No details

No pointers to tutorials

No new data or information

And this got on first page

Wow

How much did you pay?

Oh yeah, did i mention that the site design was terrible.

My home then, looked like something your little cousin drew on sand, absolutely terrible.

Even now i just updated it last year and it still looks like an eye sore.

But nearly everyone who lands on the site, has never landed on it

I wonder who developed the idea that every blog you need adsense to make money.

If there is one lesson i have learnt blogging since 2015

"Not all blogs need adsense to make money"

I bit of background, i started blogging in 2015, i setup a couple of blogs but none of them were so popular.

One of them was an Agricultural niched blog that i am passionate about

When i started my traffic was 1 visitor every two days, gradually it went to 5 per week.

For me i wasn't really bothered as the idea was to give value.

Gradually it grew to 20 a week, to today where its doing 125 visitors per week.

Most of those looking at using adsense for blogging would be laughing now cos this is no where near what is need to get approved for adsense.

Like most of you who were hunting for adsense approve, i did the same and got rejected multiple times.

Did that make me stop, no, i kept blogging away

As i kept doing it, i noticed one thing.

I was getting a lot of comments, calls, feedback and messages from those visiting my blog.

The traffic when these calls started coming in, was less than 30 visitors a day, but i noticed that my bounce rate were way too low, with people spending and inordinate amount of time reading my blog 20min - 45min.

From this people started dropping comments, calling and asking for more details and information.

This cumulated into me and friend running a training to answer these questions in 2017, we billed the training at 20k per head, We thought people would complain about the price.

But, someone who wanted to be trained who came from the blog actually said they would pay over a 300k for the training.(as we would need to pay for hotel and logistics for each attendee)

We finally set our training at 100k, we joked and laughed that nobody will attend

We were wrong

We had over 11 attendees on the first training day, we had 2 expatriates from Lebenon and China, which blew our minds, as in these guys came all the way to Ife for our training. We had people from the North all the way to Bayelesa. (That was a big Wow moment for us).

We ran the training monthly for eight months before i had a falling out with my friend(naija greed), due to location and logistic and over spending.

Since then, i create one on one consultancy sessions, ebooks, guides, feasibility studies and business lists people actual bought, which has lead to between, 100k-300k a year in profits.

I just added one and one online training and discussions via whatsapp call and zoom, which i has gather a lot of interest from my visitors, leading to a class end of july.

Today the max traffic i get on the blog, hasn't gone beyone 125 visitors, with most of my traffic source coming from Google, facebook, linkedin and Nairaland.

Why am i telling you this.

Please, any upcoming blogger , please stop thinking adsense is your only way to make money blogging.

Adsense requires numbers, lots and lots of numbers(visitors)

You as a new blogger, do not require lots and lots of visitors, you need the right visitors. You need few of the right visitors to see value in what your blog solves and be willing to talk to you about how you can solve their problem.

Then you have the basis for something that can make you millions.

Further to this.

If you are a blogger and have being going the adsense route and are not seeing any progress, but would want to try what i did, i am open to help.

Just tell me about your blog and i will go through and give advise on what you can do to change.

Just worked with an agency here in Ajao estate that handled my items from Ankara direct to my door

Cost was $12 per Kg cos it was about 11kg

It took 4 days from the factory to here.

I have told the guy my next order will be over 100kg and he has promised to do discounts for me .

Someone once asked me if i get an agent for turkey to nigeria shipping i should let the group know.

Reach out to racglobal

Mr Rex 08185956707

Just worked with an agency here in Ajao estate that handled my items from Ankara direct to my door

Cost was $12 per Kg cos it was about 11kg

It took 4 days from the factory to here.

I have told the guy my next order will be over 100kg and he has promised to do discounts for me .

Someone once asked me if i get an agent for turkey to nigeria shipping i should let the group know.

Reach out to racglobal

Mr Rex 08185956707

Just worked with an agency here in Ajao estate that handled my items from Ankara direct to my door

Cost was $12 per Kg cos it was about 11kg

It took 4 days from the factory to here.

I have told the guy my next order will be over 100kg and he has promised to do discounts for me .

Someone once asked me if i get an agent for turkey to nigeria shipping i should let the group know.

Reach out to racglobal

Mr Rex 08185956707

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And I am giving them away for 2k for the whole pack of 602.

Yeah yeah, I want money for it, just as you would if you have it.

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