CIRCLE OF LIES! What they don't tell you in school

How do you feel when learn that someone had lied to you?

Angry, Disappointed, Frustrated, Shocked!!

That is How I feel right Now!

For Our Educational System. You may disagree with me on this but this is the truth.

Do you remember your first year in the higher institution?  Hopes were high, in fact you would have been dreaming about your dream pay(working your ass off for someone or government)

Your lecturers painting the glamour of first class first job, as you strive sleeplessly to have a good grade so as to have a good pay (working your ass off for someone or government).

In fact your professors and Doctors tried to teach you entrepreneurship. I said they tried because they are only being theoretical rather than being practical.

Which is not possible. A salary earner teaching you how to earn a living as an entrepreneur. That is why you see MBA,  CHARTERED MARKETERS, etc looking for jobs rather than creating one.

FAST FORWARD TO GRADUATION

There so much excitement in the air. So much expectation and at that point they will still tell you about how lovely the after school will be.

OH YOU HAVE BEEN POSTED!

Everyone is thanking God for your life to serve your father land. And on your own part you are also happy about the allowee.

Little did you know that the job you so much crave for is only available for just 20% or less.

AFTER FOUR YEARS

It became clear to you that you have been lied to.

When millions are there without a job.

Some got a job that pays the same as your allowee

Some gets jobs that is well paying but is chocking the life out of them.

The most shocking is that all these graduates now work for the dropouts or the illiterates.

Then after so much gruelling years of services, you are either sacked or retired.

Some who had not yet woken up will go back to school & get more certificates increasing the number of job seekers, singing: Retired but not Tired.

But for those who just tired of job search will jump into entrepreneurship with those old ideas they learnt in school but after a while they face the music of failure.

Can you relate with any of this?

Circle of lies indeed.

It is time parents start improving their financial education and start teaching their kids too.

THE TRUTH

The rich and smart ones teach their kids to go to school and start a job that employs people but the poor do the opposite.

Wake up my friend!

How To Sell Your Staff For Fast Cash!

As i have shown you before from the part 1 of this series on How To Turn Your Staff Into Cash, this is the final part.

This is a very lucrative business model, take a look at the most lucrative ways to package and sell your staff's expertise:

➤Multimedia programs. With digital camcorders available for under #25,000, you or a local video crew can cheaply produce a 30-minute “how-to”DVDs showing your employee teaching a specific process or procedure to other business owners or consumers.

Combine these DVDs with a manual, a workbook, audio CDs, and other information that can be priced at #2,950 or more per kit.

➤Coaching, and apprenticeship programs. Some of the most lucrative knowledge products ever, these programs include regular phone calls, group seminars, resource materials, and more— priced at thousands of naira per person.

➤Keynote speaking and breakout sessions. Employees with specific knowledge and a flair for speaking can represent your company at conferences and other public forums, acquiring new client prospects as a result, or even selling knowledge products at the back of the seminar room.

➤Prospecting seminars. Turn your top salespeople into prospecting machines by sponsoring evening workshops open to the public.

➤Corporate training and train-the-trainer programs. If your company specializes in HR, quality control, efficiency, or other subjects that benefit entire divisions of a client’s business, you should immediately add on-site training to your consulting contracts.

Your employees can even conduct a train-the-trainer program to teach your clients’ human resources or technical personnel to lead this training in your absence.

The long-term benefit of train-the-trainer programs is that, even though you are not on-site any longer, your client companies must continue purchasing your workbook, DVDs, and other materials for any new employees they train. Cool Cash you say!

➤Subscription consulting. Priced at #1000 to #5,000 per month per person, subscription consulting programs turn your employees into a unique team of hired guns who provide monthly classes, resource packages, industry updates, marketing and sales advice, and other such information on an ongoing basis.

➤Licensing. If your employees have developed processes, product designs, artwork, or other types of intellectual property, check with your lawyer to see if you can license these ideas, designs, and images to manufacturers, marketers, and other business owners for various uses. Then you can make money on royalty.

There you have it,  a lucrative business model you can run with. Has these been of help to you?

Waiting to hear from you. Please drop your comment.

To Your Business Profits

Joy Akinlolu

HOW TO TURN YOUR STAFF INTO QUICK CASH

Your employees know things.

They know people,processes, procedures, and other particulars that could help grow a business, improve an individual system, or simply bring in more money.

That knowledge is worth cash—lots of it.

In fact, certain kinds of knowledge—especially knowledge that’s needed by your customers and peers—can be turned into consulting revenue, project management revenue, more lucrative service contracts, and so on.

The most commonly marketed types of employee knowledge include the following.

Implementation and Installation Services Without a doubt,the number one problem that most customers have is implementing, installing, using, or integrating the products, services, or advice you sell them.

If you’re a consultant, for example, your client companies are looking for a result, not just information and advice.

If you have employees who are experienced at implementing the strategies you recommend and you aren’t currently selling implementation services, start selling them immediately, even if it means sending your staff to the client’s location for a period of time.

Most advertising agencies, public relations firms, and marketing firms, for example,have an entire team of employees who implement promotional campaigns using outside services.

And what more: these agencies typically increase the cost of the outside service by at least 15 percent as their fee for implementing the campaign.

Ok Joy What is the LESSON?

You could learn a lesson here.

If your clients are asking for help in executing the creative ideas or advice you give them, you could easily make one of your staff members an account manager to handle the implementation of the plan by outside parties.

Similarly, if you sell small electronics, equipment, parts, or machinery, for example, but you don’t yet offer the services of someone to install these items, find one of your employees who can install them. Or negotiate a joint venture with an outside installer that you can refer business to for a percentage of the installation revenue.

The opportunity is enormous but like I said this is just part 1 of the series Join me on Monday for more.

But before then feel free to comment here cos i really love to hear from you. Is this article of help to you?

Thanks

Joy Akinlolu.

A New Form Of Business: Growing Your Business From Your Employees Resources

Are You Ready?

This is a true way of going into business with your boss or employee.

It is more like a Joint Venture between an employee and his employer in orther to create revenue sources that the employer had not yet identified.

With this in mind, i will suggest that you must embrace if you are a salary earner and wants to be promoted faster.

HOW TO DO IT

Think of ways to start improving your employees business.

Identify and locate the seven major areas where extra income can be made and find out which one your employer is failing at, then you can develop the strategy to execute it.

THE SEVEN MAJOR AREAS ARE

1. Customer data base.

2. Joint Venture Opportunities.

3. Advertising.

4. Prospects.

5. Sales Opportunities.

6. Internet Activities

7. Overlooked or Under-used Assets.

Each of the stated areas are money spinners, but to tell you the simple truth many business owners are not even aware of thses great opportunity. This should be a great news to you.

You Goal Then Will be to

1. Find Strategies You Can Implement.

2. Present the Strategy as a written plan to your employer in a closed door meeting.

3. Negotiate an Extra pay that is not less than your salary.

4. Take charge of the process.

With these you can have an actionable step to take toward starting your business using your employers resources.

I will like to hear from you about what you feel about this article, or how you felt this will help you.

HOW TO MAKE MONEY AS A SPEAKER & TRAINER

I Often hear this most times as a question from people who wants to start speaking or training.

But if you are reading this i will tell you the plain truth about this but if you can not handle the truth, it is better you go to the gurus. #wink

Professional speakers do not make much money directly, although they often make a lot of money indirectly.

There is one thing I tell most of my Protegees, which i will tell you too.

IF YOU CAN NOT DO IT FOR FREE YOU CAN NOT DO IT FOR A FEE!

If no one is listening to you Speak for free, why are they going to pay for it?

You need to see if you can build an audience before thinking about your bank account.

That is why i said If you can’t get people to listen to you speak for free, why do you think they will pay to listen to you?

How To Become Highly Paid Speaker!

Pick a niche. Let people know you for something.

FOCUS: Most speakers fail because they are always looking the new niche to speak in, but for you to be successful you must remain focused.

Seek to Speak More For Free.

WHERE IS THE MONEY

Become An MC: you can anchor weddings and events if you are good at that. If you can hold an audience and make feel engaged for hours.

I do this often that why i know, i have anchored over 125 weddings and anchored events for multinationals

But wait how long have I been in it, was there a waiting period? Yes there was! So don't be deceived into thinking that you can succeed in any business without hick ups!

Maybe there is...

CONSULTING/ TRAINING

You can train other people by solving their problems in your chosen field like i do.

I do this often for free on my radio program on SPACE FM 90.1 IBADAN, with my teaming fans on www.facebook.com/moneymatters901 like this fanpage to know more

But making money in consulting is simple but sometimes time consuming but ones you do it for the fun you can start billing per hour or per project or as you so wish!

Well this is not conclusive but it is meant to open your eyes.

What do you think?

HOW TO BECOME A TRUE ENTREPRENEUR

Can i tell you a Bitter truth?

 This truth is so powerful that it has the capacity to change completely your business future. 

 As a business person you are either a proprietor or an entrepreneur. Tragically, shockingly, but truthfully - something like 95% of all small business owners function as proprietors - not entrepreneurs. First a definition is important 

WHO IS A PROPRIETOR?

A proprietor is a business owner who adds nothing meaningful to the business category they address.  For example: A restaurant that does the same thing much the same way every other one does it---adds little (if any) real value to the marketplace - other than (maybe) convenience of location and Price.

Certainly in this case the owner is relying on the market expanding to embrace his or her offerings, but they don't make the experience any better. They don't redefine the concept. They don't innovate the product/service offering. It's just another  restaurant. 

WHO IS A TRUE ENTREPRENEUR?

A true entrepreneur is a business owner committed to continuously innovating - innovating how they conduct business, and what they offer, innovating the experience people encounter, innovating the way the product/service gets delivered/presented, innovating the product/service itself. 

The proprietor merely does what has been done by thousands before others. They don't try to create a new satisfaction, experience or consumer demand. All the proprietor does is hope they can tap into existing demand. 

An entrepreneur creates something new, creates new experiences, new satisfaction, new definition of what they do. Entrepreneurs create something different - more exciting, more satisfying, more desirable or valuable to the market. 

Which one are you? The choice is yours!

How To Get High Paying Client to Buy From You!

As an african, just like the westerners there is a "magic wand" called "Juju" Here.

There exist one{"Juju"}that any business owner can use to get high paying clients to buy from them, you can do same.

But for this to work for you or your business you must do one important thing, this alone can superchange everything in your business. Can you do it? That is...

GET A CUSTOMER TO MAKE A SALE, Don't Make A Sale to Get A Customer.

Whatever business you are in, focus on giving value and advice, instead of manipulating and maneuvering in other to sell like your competitors do. You see most people are looking the other way, trying to make a sale inorder to get a client but i am teaching you to do other wise.

Why?

Since you are really not selling products or services.

You’re selling a result, some benefits, an outcome, an advantage, a protection, an improvement or prestige based on what you sell.

And you know for certain that, customers always want to see if what you offer them will solve thier problems. 

So offer a free trial or give a double guarantee(if it does not do what it said it would, you get every kobo back, or maybe an extra service or product)

Try this and you will be rewarded in many ways you have never dreamed of.

Thanks for reading, but let me ask you, has this information been of help to you?

To your business profit

Joy Akinlolu.