Year: 2012

Best Of naijapreneur 2012. In the spirit of retrospection, below are 10 of the most popular unusual articles featured on naijapreneur this year. These are based on the total number of views each of these unusual articles attracted this year according to my google analytics.

MANAGEMENT 101: Structuring Your Business For Sustainable Growth. Structure is all about systems; an organized way of doing things. Small businesses remain small primarily for lack of structure, so what structures have you put in place in your business to ensure its sustainable growth?

In a world where women entrepreneurs are rare, most especially in Europe where only 10% of women are entrepreneurs compared to their 90% male counterparts; some unusual women still manage to keep their heads high passionately in pursuit of their entrepreneurial dream. One of such women is 50 years old Sandra Berbee, the founder of EventPlannerSpain; an online directory of Spanish event industry suppliers which she started 6 years ago.

MANAGEMENT 101: How To Organize Your Business For Sustainable Growth. After all is said and done, the day-to-day activities of a business purely rest on the competence of management. It’s possible for a business to have a great leader and a great product, but without great management practices in place, the business cannot exist for long. It’s possible for a business to be started by an unusual entrepreneur, but without great management in place, the whole business can easily fall apart!

Unusual Entrepreneur Interview With Adedeji Opoola Of LazyAppetite.com He is the Co-founder of lazyappetite.com, an online takeaway website that makes it easier than ever before to find a restaurant near you and order a meal directly online.

COMPETITIVE STRATEGY: How To Win The PRICE War. If you don’t want to be at the bottom of the market fighting over prices with your competitions, then be prepared to raise the bar above the usual or general playing level. In other words, if you want to charge more, be ready to give more and do more!

Unusual Entrepreneur Interview With AJ Leon Of PursuitOfEverything.com He used to be an unremarkably average financial executive in Manhattan until December 31, 2007, the day I decided to stop living the life I was supposed to live, and start living the life I was destined to live. Today, he is the Chief Trouble Maker of Misfit Inc., a company that is dedicated to traveling the world causing positive trouble wherever necessary.

Business Promotion Strategies: Many entrepreneurs fall prey to the best mouse trap illusion; your product/service can be the best ever, but it won’t sell itself until you find a way to get the word out. The aspect of marketing that deals with getting the word out is called promotion. Without this critical element of promotion in your marketing strategy, it doesn’t matter how extraordinary your product/service may be, if the market doesn’t know about it, it will definitely fail.

Dov is one of the few people who have a knack for getting to the root of very complex business ideas. You will be amazed at is simplistic approach to entrepreneurship.

What Makes You A CEO? CEOs also come in various categories; we have those who make their companies great and those who bring their companies pain; we have those who lead and those who rule; we have those who win and those who lose. What makes them different?

Unusual Entrepreneur Interview With Jeet Banerjee Of StatFuse.com He is the 19 years old founder of StatFuse, a revolutionary tool allowing students to calculate their chances of admission and making the transition from high school to college easy.

The BLOGGING MYTH: Why Blogging Is NOT A Business! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ONLINE: Building A Business OR Blogging? Find out by reading this unusual article.

Unusual Entrepreneur Interview With Laura Roeder Of LKRsocialmedia.com She is the 28 years old founder of a training company which teaches small businesses social media and online marketing.

The human side of entrepreneurship refers to those personal struggles you face as a result of your decision to become an entrepreneur. They represent the pains, challenges, experiences, sacrifices and realities that are peculiar to entrepreneurs as a result of the unusual path they have chosen.

Revolutionary marketing: How To Market Innovation Like Apple. It’s about causing profitable trouble in the market. The classy title for this is innovation. And in the history of today’s business, perhaps one company stands tall as the biggest trouble maker; Apple.

Revolutionary Marketing: How To Create An UNTAPPED Market For Your Business. It involves raising the bar and going beyond what people want to buy today to giving them what they need to buy tomorrow.

Unusual Entrepreneur Interview With Dane Maxwell Of TheFoundation.io According to him, don’t be passionate about the business or the idea; rather be passionate about the process of solving people’s problems. This is a must read interview. I am completely blown away by his approach and so happy to have him here to share this unusual approach to business with you!

Differentiate Online: How To Use The Internet To Find, Attract, Convert And Retain Profitable Customers. It is a combination of services, products, and education that will help unusual entrepreneurs leverage on the internet to market their products/services profitably.

Unusual Entrepreneur Interview With Ryan Hart Of MillionDollarEarth.com “Online there has been no unique voice in advertising, I want MillionDollarEarth.com to change that and be the creative wall for businesses to hang their advertisement on.”

As an entrepreneur your task is to build a business and not to do business. It is a task that demands more than one skill. Because you are building it, and not doing it like a job would imply, you are never going to succeed relying on one skill alone!