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divinehand2003:
"You know nothing John Snow", Ygritte.

The exact words that came to my mind..... I am happy for the both of them. You can see the real love in her eyes when they are on set. She had two opportunities to kill John Snow in the movie using her arrow, but she just couldn't kill him. It was sad to see her die in his arms, uttering her last words (You know nothing John Snow). Before the wild-lings invaded castle black, she had threatened her own men that none of them should lay hands on John Snow. If he must die, then let it be through her own very hands!!

You said it all!

SaulRazor:
We have already held him accountable for destroying Nigeria and our verdict is aClear clarion call that this must be his last tenure in Aso Rock.. For those of you still supporting Buhari out of misinformation, bigotry, partisanship, sectarianism or just sheer stupidity remember:

Buhari poor decision is 80 percent responsible for the current bad economy.

Remember his poor decisions are also responsible for the heavy poverty and uncertainty currently ravaging your entire lineage .

Remember that Nigeria has never been this insecure

Remember Buhari has not still visited and state outside the North except Lagos since his inauguration

Remember that for the first time on our history we have military operations going on in all 6 Geo political Zones ( this didn't even happen during the Civil War)

Remember that Buhari has not been able to drive any visible to any of his ministers till date and rarely assesses them at all and when they meet its just to gossip about politics .

Remember that there are no winners in sort of poor leadership just a 100 percent losers so we are all losers under Buhari none has won .

Finally remember to vote him out is now a CIVIC DUTY..

She made her point clear already. You don't expect everybody to keep supporting this current administration in this current sorry-state of the national affairs.

Ever wondered the real meaning of SUCCESS? Or the fact that a company becomes more successful than its competitors in the marketplace? In the world of business, wealth is measured in terms of real success. The revenue from sales and the corresponding expenditures are key metrics to watch out for. Numbers are like words, put them together, and they tell the story of the business, based on facts.

There's no doubt, competition in the marketplace has become stronger as the markets keep getting crowded with several products competing for customers' attention. In this post, I'll walk you through 5 ways to position your product or service to be able to rise above the competition.

BECOME A BRAND

In the minds of customers, branding adds value to your company or product through the combination of name, image, logo, colours, and packaging. Branded products usually outperform other products that solve similar needs in the market. The act of branding is an important way of creating a differentiated tangible product or service.
Becoming a brand simply means differentiating yourself from other businesses.

Brands make the decision to "purchase" much easier.
Brands foster loyalty and repeat businesses.
A brand is certainly the best defense to commoditization. So try to build a brand, and not just a business.

DO MORE: ENSURE TO GO A STEP FURTHER

The marketplace is filled with products, sitting on a shelf and competing for customers' attention against a whole shelf of other competing products. Companies who become more successful were simply able to position their products against the growing competition in the market.

Increasing your market share becomes paramount if you really want to generate more sales revenue. That is why successful businesses are using several possible growth-hacking moves to strategically create a new customer. They call it "creative marketing strategy."

Let's take a look at few examples:
(1) Auto-responder giant, Aweber, still offer a 30-days free trial, for any new customer. This simple strategy has grown their number of active customers over the years.
(2) Dropbox used its "smart referral program" to successfully growth-hack their business.
(3) Some businesses offer discounts from time to time, to gain more customers.
(4) Many great authors have often given out hundreds of free copies of their work, in
exchange for a review. And this often trigger more sales on the long run.

COMPETITIVE PRICING STRUCTURE

Businesses offering products of different prices and sizes, are more able to attract both high, middle, and low income earning customers.

Indomie, the biggest noddle makers in Nigeria, is leading the competition in the local market, offering over 8 different product brands of different sizes and prices. Mobile phone manufacturers have also been using same competitive pricing structure to match all levels of income earners, and in turn sell millions of phones across several countries.

The idea of having different price ranges for your products can position your business on the path to survival in the face of competition.

OFFER GUARANTEE/MONEY-BACK RETURN POLICY

This feature have been used by many manufacturing companies for several years to significantly boost their sales volume.

Customers quickly jump into the band-wagon once they become aware of the guarantee that comes with purchasing and using the product. Most companies offer a year warranty for portable products, and more years for heavy equipment.Businesses who are bold enough to offer money-back return policy have found a way into the heart of customers.

However, offering these features is a true test of the integrity of any business. Failure to be able to live up to these promises will have negative impact on the business.

UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION (UVP)

Recently, a lot has been said about the unique value proposition. Meanwhile a great number of business owners have not heard about it. Many others are faced with the challenges of being able to create a perfect unique value proposition, geared towards success.

The UVP is the anchor of your business brand. It is a simple, clear, compelling message that states why your product is different, and worth a customer's attention.

The UVP defines more of the benefits of the product to the customer, other than just mere product features. Simply find a way to tell customers what they stand to benefit from purchasing your product. This is the essence of having a unique value proposition.

"Abundance," in the marketplace has driven the competition over the rooftop. For almost every human need, there are several products and services competing for customers attention. "The smartest thing to do, for business owners yearning for success, is to strategically differentiate their business, product, or services to rise above the market competition."

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A person who receives financial education becomes financial literate. Financial literacy is the ability to understand how money works in the world. A financially smart person has a lot of information when it comes to money: how to earn or make it, how to properly manage it, and how to multiply it through investing. In this post, we’ll be looking at 7 things you will learn from financial education.

Understanding Money and How Money Works

Prior to the invention of paper money, individuals had to meet face-to-face and exchange their goods with other people’s goods, in a traditional trade by barter system. But with the creation of money, goods no longer needed to be exchanged with goods anymore, as the purchasing power (i.e. the power to buy something) was shifted to the paper money.

And even though money exists more in electronic forms these days, the principles of how it works still remain the same. Money isn’t attracted to selfish people. It is attracted to businesses that solve problems. It’s attracted to people who fill needs and add value to the society. The amount of money in your life is a reflection to the amount of value you have given to others. Simply offer the world value, and money becomes magnetized to you.

Understanding the real meaning of Assets, Cashflow Patterns, and Business Risks

While some assets can be bought straight from the marketplace, in other instance they are created or built from scratch. Tangible assets can exist in fixed physical forms, investments,
products, bank deposits or even cash. But ultimately, assets work for business owners by producing passive income.

And in the game of money, the direction of cashflow is very important. When expenses are made in the form of bill payments or purchase of goods/services, money flows from your pocket into the hand of another. This pattern of cashflow is described as a negative cashflow. But in a positive cashflow pattern, money flows in a reverse direction, either earned as fixed income or as passive income via sales of goods/services. The outstanding difference between what you earn (positive cashflow) and what you spend (negative cashflow) is a measure of your profitability status.

In every business venture, risk is involved. So, all business owners are risk takers. Risk is the total amount of money that is put into a business as a leverage, while anticipating an overall successful outcome at the end.

Who an Entrepreneur is

The path to entrepreneurship is like a long trek through the wilderness. The choice of becoming an entrepreneur is always a personal decision to make. The consideration is to become a job creator instead of a job seeker.

The mindset of an entrepreneur is focused on how to create a business from the scratch and grow it tremendously. He/she is always thinking of expanding, and even the next business project to embark in the future.

Successful entrepreneurs are wealth distributors, generating money from the economy through an asset exchange medium, and rewarding their employees and the government. And at the end retaining possibly tens of thousands of dollars in profit for themselves, and shareholders too.

The Role of Sales and Marketing

Sales is equal to income. Any business that cannot be able to sell enough products/services may not be able to generate revenue to cover all its operational expenses and make substantial profit. Even in the case of an employee, the total amount of income earned corresponds to the number of hours spent working.

Marketing is what draws a customer to your business. You need to let others out there know that you are there, ready and willing to provide a service to them. The amount of cash flowing into your business is directly proportional to the marketing/communication flowing out.

Understanding the Business Laws

The knowledge of the various laws guiding the business world is very important if one is truly determined for some real success. Since businesses incur certain operational and administrative costs to keep employees at work, sustain their corporation with partners, and achieve customer satisfaction; several laws are put in place by the government to protect them on so many fronts.

By following their operation plans of action, and understanding the tax laws and corporate laws, registered businesses can use their expenses column to get rich. Other existing laws favouring businesses include:
(a) security and exchange law
(b) licensing law
(c) franchising law
(d) intellectual property law (patent, trademark, service-mark)

Financial Accounting

Financial Accounting is one of the most important aspects of Financial Education. It is financial literacy that will allow you to be able to read the numbers, and the numbers tell you the story of the business, based on the facts on ground.

The ability to run a company from financial statement is one of the primary differences between a small-business owner and a big-business owner. I define financial intelligence as the ability to be able to correctly calculate Gross Profit, Operating Profit, and the Net Profit.

Other essential documents used in measuring the financial status of companies are the Balance Sheet that compares the assets and liabilities, and the Statement of Cashflow.

Business Leadership

Leadership is the glue that binds the whole piece together. If you are flat and have low energy as a leader, it flows to your staff, to your customers, and to your profit.

The overall success of an organization depends on its leadership and management. Some traits shared by great business leaders include persistence, thick skin, fearlessness, toughness, an eye for talent, powerfully passionate, financially smart, etc.

Acquiring knowledge is very important, but after it is acquired it must be organized and put into use, for a clearly defined purpose with set out goals and objectives, through practical plans of action.

Source: http://authorbasil..com.ng/2016/02/7-things-knowledge-of-financial.html

This country is really becoming a joke. People willing to take all sorts of actions just to try to see if they can survive and turns things around for good.

[color=#550000][/color][b][/b]This is really getting bad. One cannot help but to think of how horrible things are occurring here in this Nigeria!

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