Ibrahim Maigaris Business clinic 101

Business Clinic 101
Part 1
We are starting a series on the above topic as our contribution to the promotion of small businesses, self-reliance, youth and women empowerment and the overall socioeconomic development of our country, Nigeria. I advise that we not only read but most importantly put all that we learn into practice.
Have a nice read!

Planning to start your business
Starting your own business is very exciting but can be rather daunting. It can also be a risky thing to do, so you need to make sure you understand the risks before taking the plunge and going into self-employment. You may want to start by asking yourself a few searching questions:
• Do you have the financial resources to start your business, and to pay your general living expenses while you go through the start-up phase? Can you afford to, and do you really want to risk these resources? For example, you might have to take a secured loan based on the value of your home – what would you do if your business failed and you were forced to sell your house?
• Do you have the commitment and self-discipline to see through potential hard times? There may be times when customer demands are particularly heavy, and it will be up to you to make sure these demands are met. How will you cope with this, and are you prepared to put in the necessary hours to fulfil your customers’ demands?
• Do you have the confidence that you will be able to negotiate with suppliers to get the best deal, be sociable with customers (at all times!), think clearly under pressure, and take criticism without getting upset?
• Are you familiar enough with the market for your product or service, and will you be able to assess how this changes over time so that you can adapt your business strategy to deal with fluctuating demand?
There are no specific answers to these questions, but it is very important for you to consider if you will be able to cope with the pressure of running your own business.

To get your new venture off the ground, there is a mountain of tasks to complete, research to carry out, things to do and people to contact. You need a thorough understanding of the information you need to find and the contacts you need to make in order to pull your start-up plan together. You may already have done a lot of the groundwork, or you may be right at the beginning of your quest to get your new venture started.

Whatever your personal starting point, there are some fundamental questions you need to ask yourself about your business idea, your personal aims, and your own ability.

Why are you going into business?
Why do you want to run your own business and what do you want out of it?
Are you going in to business to
• Supplement your main income?
• Replace your main income?
• Provide employment for your family?
• Start a business as an investment opportunity, with the intention of selling it on at a later date?
• Provide employment for the local community?
Your personal objectives for starting in business will directly influence some of your business aims and targets. For example:
• If you are starting a business as an investment opportunity, the focus of your planning will be leading up to your exit, that is the sale of your business. Your plan will involve building a business and maximizing its value in order to achieve the best selling price possible.
• If you are building up a family business, your plan will include your succession strategy. How will your family take over when you retire? By planning ahead you will be able to ensure that your business does not rely on you too heavily and that your family are fully prepared for what they will need to do to run the business.
As you ponder on all above, stay tuned until next monday God willing, for a continuation of this very important part of business start up.

Wishing you success in all the legitimate things you do.

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Bunkasa harkokin yan kasuwa

A ranar 12 ga watan Janairu na shekara 2013 ne mata suka yi wani dan karamin gangami a cikin garin Kaduna. Taron gashi ba na karatu,siyasa,biki,mutuwa ko suna ba. Ama ya sa wayanda suka halarta kwadayin samun daman zuwa wani.
Kamfanonin Aim Multimedia Concepts da Greenberry tare da hadin gwiwar wasu mata da suke muamala da su ne suka hada hannu.
Gangamin dai anyi shi ne a wani cibiya da a ka kafa domin zuwa motsa jiki.Akwai wuraren motsa jiki da dama a garin Kaduna.Ama kwadayin wannan hadin gwiwar kungiyoyin mata shi ne su samu su motsa jiki a wurin da babu  maza ko da masu koyar da motsa jikin ne.
Lafiya dai uwar jiki ce,ama matan mu na arewacin Najeriya suna sakaci da kula da jikin su ta fannin motsa shi.Daga bude  wannan cibiya mata su ka yi cincirindo   dan su koyi rawan zumba wanda yake sa mutum ya rame a cikin gajeren lokaci.
Kudi yana da nasaba da lafiya a zamanin nan.A bisa wannan dalilin ne a ka gayaci mata su zo su ga yanda ake rawan Zumba dinnan.Sannan a ka bama mata masu saye da sayarwa a gida ,shago ko kasuwa da kuma wayanda kasuwar ranar kadai za su ci daman su zo su baje kolinsu na yini guda.
Mata da dama suna sanaa ko saye da sayarwa ama rashin kasuwa ko kuma bashi na karya jarinsu.Wannan dama da aka samu tamkar kasuwa ce aka bude na yini guda,gashi ba maza,ga wadatacen fili ga haja .Masu sayar da abinci ma an same su kala daban daban.
A fanin gyaran jiki da bunkasa kasuwancin ana samu karfin gwiwa daga FashionHouse Kaduna,wanda yake a Wurno road kusa da ofishin NEMA. Katafaren gida ne da ake yi wa mata gyaran gashi,jiki da kuma dinki.A shekaran daya wuce sun koya wa mata hanyoyin motsa jiki dan samun lafiya inda suka kawo Fatima Adamu daga Philadelphia na kasar Amurka dan koyar da kwas na sati uku a cibiyar ta su.Ban da haka sun gudanar da baje koli har biyu dan masu kamfanoni da sana’a su talata kayan su.
Ga wayanda basu samu halartar wayannnan taron na baya ba;ranar 16 ga watan maris 2013 za a samu dama dan masu kasuwanci a gida ko a waje su talata kayan su.Ga mazauna Kaduna da kewaye  sunan Wusasa Business school da UWIDI ba bakin sunaye bane wurin koyar da harkar kasuwanci,tallafi da kuma kare mutuncin mata da kimarsu ta fanin dogaro da kai.
A kan wannan manufa ne suke shirin yin Taro da suka   sa ma suna;’ Baje kolin kanannan yan kasuwa’.A bayanin kakakin hadin  gwiwar AIM,WBS da UWIDI Kabiru Abdulkadir yin wannan taron ya zama dole ne domin magance wasu matsaloli da ke fuskantar kananan yan` Q kasuwa da kuma masu sanaar hannu.
A bayaninsa ya ce;”Mutane dayawa suna kasuwanci ama sai ka ga basu san hanyoyin zamani da za su yi amfani da  ba domin bunkasa neman kudinsu. Wannan karamin baje koli ba irin wanda a ke yi na gwamnati bane;baje kolinmu na da riba 5. Na daya ba bashi kowa da kudinsa zai koma gida .Na biyu kasuwa cikin bainar jamaa ba zancen ba a san kana sai da kaya  ko sana’aba.Na uku halartar bita kyauta a kan bunkasa kasuwanci da zaban sana’a.Na hudu talla a cikin mujalar kasuwanci na AIM da za a kaddamar a ranar wanda ko bayan ranar mutane sun san inda za su neme ku  da kayan ka.Na biyar kudin baje koli mai rahusa wanda ko dan makaranta zai iya kama shago na yini guda.
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Beyond Facebook

BEYOND FACEBOOK
It looks like every phone and tablet manufactured lately has a Facebook application on it. That’s good, Facebook is very interesting, and it’s informative, enlightening and educational. It also keeps you connected with friends, family and boosts your causes and businesses. It’s basically a one stop shop for people.
 Facebook allows its users make friends or catch up with old ones and keep a friends list. One can make posts; upload pictures and videos for their friend’s consumption and comment on friends’ status or activity.
There is an online chat feature built in that allows multiple chat similar to sending sms short message service but on d Facebook  platform.
Every user has a wall where their posts and some of their activities on Facebook can be seen.
Bored online? One can play games on Facebook , join various groups or create your own family, friends, religious, ethnic, social group or visit pages for celebrities, businesses or interesting people.
 Facebook has a general marketplace where anything and basically everything can be sold within legal limits. The market is global and or localized to ones location.
Facebook is currently the hook up capital of the world as it gives opportunity for romance and relationships to develop.
Facebook currently has about 900 million users spread all over the world. I get all my news on Fb, attend classes, found old friends from as far back as nursery school, buy and sell stuff, do advocacy keep in touch with my relatives and so many other things but lately I’ve felt the need to stay off Facebook a bit its getting too addictive. I also noticed that too many people rely only on Facebook as internet access. I ran a poll and found that for many people social networking on Facebook, twitter and 2go is the limit of their internet use

One of the negative features of Facebook is that It’s quite addictive. It is also not suitable for children as they can be easily influenced and can make all kinds of undesirable connections.
Many people claim it leads to infidelity and has destroyed many relationships, that may be true .I have seen and heard of people getting so engrossed in their cyber friends and relationships to the detriment of their real lives especially their marriages.
Security on Facebook is also a problem as everything one does is recorded somewhere. Personal details could land in the wrong hands if the site ever gets hacked.
I choose to look at the positive features of Facebook. Despite all its positive aspects its good for Facebook users to go check visit other sites and widen their web experience. Their are other social networking sites like Myspace,Hi5, Orkut, Xing, Google+, linkedin, Friendster, Twitter, Tagged etc.
According to Alexa a rating service for websites the top 5 sites on the internet are
1-Google
 2-Facebook
3-Youtube
 4-Yahoo
5- Baidu.