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Woman, You Owe No One A Perfect Body!

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The Author: Claudia A post I read on social media broke my heart and its why a lot of ladies these days don't want to bear children. The uncertainty, the treatment they'll get for no fault of theirs is why they are afraid to venture. Social media image: Zoom in to see comment

Being Matured Single Must Be Pretty Tough Around Here

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Claudia The moment men hear of or see a "matured single" woman, top of mind becomes how to get "a piece of the action". Its worse when she's a single mom.

Reality Check: Part 1

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Social Media Theatrics Vs Business Realities in Nigeria -by Harold Musa

There's A High Value On TIME In The West

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My yearly vacation this time was in the  United Kingdom (U. K). It was my first time there! 

Time Is Money

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Claudia  Long meetings are such a waste of time. You spend so much time being unproductive. As a Lagos hustler, I always try to talk my clients out of too much physical-meeting schedule because oftentimes it's needless.  Nigerian clients enjoy having too many meetings because most of them do not pay for it. The moment you put a cost to it, they cancel or start considering other options.   Why charge for a meeting? Why not? Time is money!  In a big city like Lagos, the time you spend in traffic commuting to the meeting venue would have been more useful for other things. BTW,  most of the deliberations can actually take place over instant messengers (IM) while reports/updates go over emails.  You cannot imagine what 30 minutes conference call can achieve as opposed to wasting all that long hours in traffic and in meetings going back and forth because one person wants to "prove a point" or have the last say. Personally, I ...

Five reasons why your customers choose your competitors over you.

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The dream of every business is to create value and from this, make money and even more money. For this to be possible, you need customers. There is only one boss! The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money elsewhere - Sam Walton Customer is god!   Extreme, you say? Your customers are the reason why you started your business, because you saw that they had a problem and you wanted to fix the problem for them. So, what then happens if they continually choose your competitor over you? What are you doing wrong? What do you need to improve on? Internet image  Here are five reasons why your customers are choosing your competitor over you. 1. Quality:  How good is your product? What is unique about your product that sets you apart from the competition? How valuable and important is your product to the lives of your customers? Quality is not just about how good your product is, if you don't empha...