Have you noticed that lately, your ability to purchase your needs and wants has become somewhat strained? You probably got to the market and you realize that the tomatoes you bought just increase in price, or that you can’t afford to fill your car tank anymore as the price of diesel has increased at the […]
WHAT IS YOUR UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION?
What makes a meal – let’s say the Nigerian Jollof rice – so irresistibly delicious and leaves you wanting a second serving? Is it the spice? Is it the sauce? What secret ingredient makes it different from fried rice or coconut rice? Just like jollof rice, every business needs that spice or sauce that […]
MANAGING YOUR BUSINESS TOWARDS FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
Side hustle, secondary stream of income, lucrative hobby…whatever we choose to call it, entrepreneurship has come it stay. This inevitable age of entrepreneurship came alongside the advent of mainstream capitalism. Everyone could now own and operate a business and it seemed like almost everyone at some point did. That entrepreneurial spark birthed about 213.65 million […]
WHY STARTING LATE IS BETTER THAN STARTING NEVER
You probably started the year 2021 with the blazing force of a bull about to knock an opponent down. Confident and motivated to start afresh with the new year, with mantras like; “new year, new me”, “new year resolutions”, “new year, new beginnings”. Then little by little, as the year swiftly ran by, that confidence […]
5 STEPS TO SAVING UP TO 40% OF YOUR INCOME
Saving can be such a daunting task, you have probably tried planning a budget –even going as far as setting up an excel sheet or cutting back on your purchases here and there, but nothing seems to help you save better as much as you would want. Hey, it happens. But it’s likely there are […]
Investing Is Not A Full-Time Job For Citizens
Investor Empowerment In The Digital Age – International BETTER FINANCE Conference, 2018, Brussels With fewer individual investors investing directly in equities and bonds and households being sold packaged products instead, the products EU citizens invest in are becoming increasingly complex. As a result people struggle to understand and to trust the financial products they are […]
Shares Pump and Dump Schemes – Legality
Introduction The fraudulent practice of artificially pumping up the price or value of the Shares or Stock of a company, whether a private company or a public company, which artificial increase in value is not reflective of the forces of demand and supply, with the penultimate objective of dumping such Shares or Stock at their […]
The 7 Financial Habits of Successful Business Owners
The smartest money management tactics are well known and proven but few business owners apply all of them. For the first time ever, there is data to clearly illustrate seven financial habits of highly effective small business owners. Based on a comprehensive study of 1,700 small business owners, fewer than one in four owners of […]