Getting SMEDAN certificate for your business and including your business name in its database can give you access to lots of benefits, including access to business masterclasses, grants, and loans. Takeaways: In this post, we will show you the process of getting SMEDAN certificate for free online and how to link your BVN to SMEDAN to … Read more
Don’t copy and paste other people’s work, be creative, listen and read news, create your own unique content from it, head straight to the hub, and hit publish. You can earn as much as N500, 000 if you can perfectly do this. While you continue to create content and earn on the hub, in another … Read more
Your Curriculum Vitae is expected to contain your name, professional title, contact details, and a captivating personal statement among others. When it comes to job search, your CV is as important as your academic qualifications, through your CV, you create an impression. What is a CV? Curriculum Vitae, CV short, is a personal marketing document … Read more
In history, the Nigerian currency has never experienced a situation where one U.S. dollar is exchanged for N1,444 at the official market. In the parallel market, the exchange rate stands at $1/N1,451, at the time of updating this article. The disparity between the dollar and the Naira has raised questions among Nigerians, such as why … Read more
Here is a privilege to apply for BOA-SMEDAN matching fund programme and we’ll outline all the things you need to put in place before submitting your application for this loan to stand a chance of getting up to N5, 000, 000 to boost your business. Remember, you need SMEDAN Unique Identification Number (SUIN) to access … Read more
A few weeks ago I was searching for an affordable car on social media which made me explore social media. The number of vehicle-related Facebook Groups I found was overwhelming. For sellers, social media is a huge place to grow their car dealership business online. If you haven’t started using it for sales, you are … Read more
Are you an entrepreneur and not more than 30-year old? You could have your business in front of millions of potential customers around the world with the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Flexxpreneur of The Month. While Nigeria’s foremost bank is encouraging undergraduates to embrace entrepreneurship, we put together 30 sources for students to set up … Read more
Passion in relation to entrepreneurship is called passion to profit. Passion has to do with something you love doing, that thing that gives you joy, something you’re never tired of. “Passion is an intense life-force generated from within, that manifests itself in boundless enthusiasm. It is a deep, positive and emotional connectedness that is created … Read more
As a student, there are businesses you can start on campus that require little capital. There are even some of them that only require your creativity. You need to understand starting a business isn’t only for those who already have financial freedom, students can start small businesses on campus even with little savings from their … Read more
The management of Fidelity Bank through its SME Radio Forum has announced the launching of four new funding schemes to support Small Scale Enterprise (SME) and Medium and Small Scale Enterprise (MSME) in Nigeria. Making the announcement, the managing director of the bank, Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, said the loan scheme was part of Fidelity’s mission to help small businesses … Read more
A sole proprietorship is one of the best ways to have the desired business freedom. You will have time to make a decision. You will decide when to open shop and when to take a time off work. But this doesn’t come without some challenges, one of them is raising capital. Most times, financial institutions … Read more
I asked 10 young graduates about the most challenging thing in starting a business, six of them said funding, the rest picked other reasons. This isn’t peculiar only to young graduates who want to set up a business because the government has failed to create jobs. And every successful business owner faced the problem of … Read more
You may have the money to start a business, but you need people to grow. No business succeeds in isolation. You need people as clients and customers, you need people to help you grow. So how exactly can you explore the power of existing and new customers to grow your business? If you are considering … Read more
The North East Development Commission (NEDC) a few years ago rolled out different training programmes for residents within the six states that fall within the geo-political zone. Today, it has trained about 3,000 in ICT alone over the period of two years. One of the beneficiaries of the NEDC said the ICT training has helped … Read more
Hundreds of Nigerians who applied for funding for their businesses during and post COVID-19 are worried that their application was rejected. Some of those whose applications were rejected concluded that the funds were only given to those who are “connected” to political heavyweights. But the fact is we’ve received lots of testimonies from those who … Read more