Business on the GO!!!

If you ask me what I’m passionate about, I’ll tell you.

I am passionate about Ideas and innovations, creativity and its open-ended capacity and enterprise opportunities for value-added results.

Last week Tuesday, I was unable to put up a blog post because my hands were busy receiving God’s Blessings (Ask me privately, I’ll tell). Today, a new label has been introduced to the blog, Business on the GO!!!

Today's Business on the GO is simply about e-Business as technology is developing so fast and easily penetrating our lifestyles. I have decided to tag along with this Innovation, so through this label, I will be bringing to you the different privileges and opportunities available for your usage in Naija even through your very own mobile device.

To set the ball rolling, let me first ask: Are you aware you can set a shop easily online and deliver sales live on the internet 24/7 without having to worry about physical shop set-up and maintenance, landlord harassment or permits and paper work? If you are not, please allow me formally introduce to you the latest dependable eCommerce platform established to enhance the visibility and expansion of businesses -  Mami Market.

As a 24 hours virtual shopping mall, Mami Market eases the challenges faced by young and prospective entrepreneurs in setting up their businesses and provides the opportunity for them to showcase their wares to prospective buyers through online shops. Here, shop owners can sell their products and maintain their individual shop names and brands on the internet.

Subscribers to the mamimarket.net platform only make a monthly or annual rentage fee for any of the three different product packages offered by the platform, Basic, Premium or Elite. They need not worry about technical setup skills, hosting and maintenance upgrades as the platform offers its users all the tools needed to enable their businesses go live on the internet. Buyers on the other hand can view items displayed by the shop and make payments for purchases using multiple e-payment options. Mami Market does not share in the profits of the shop owners unlike other such online platforms. 

In such little time, the Mami Market platform is already offering great prospects for major target markets. One of such is Computervillage.com, an online market solution to purchasing your technologies and gadgets from the comfort of your home. Here, shop owners at the Computer Village, Ikeja- Lagos, are being afforded the opportunity of enhancing their visibility and presence through online shops. All that is required of shop owners is to rent an online version of their computer shop and implement sales within their brand space. Sellers could be easily reached by customers, drive sales effectively and offer overall satisfaction. For most Lagos residents, this has indeed taken the hassle off being tied up in traffic when trying to purchase a new computer hardware, gadget or phone.

Further information on accessing the Mami Market platform could be found on www.mamimarket.net or you could call the Mami Market Product Managers on 01-8447302, 08129123988, 08129123726, 08126382647, or 08096971111 and Start Selling!!!

The Computer village online market could be accessed through the website - www.mycomputervillage.com.  You could also be updated on latest information by clicking the ‘Like’ button on the Facebook pages – mycomputervillage.com and Mamimarket.

Please feel free to also make your inquiries here and have your questions answered.

These shops are waiting for you. Start Selling…

and Start Buying!!!

Mami Market is a software product of eKnowvate Solutions LTD. 

NEW EVENT ON SATURDAY!!!

Hello Everyone,

A new event comes up in Abuja this weekend in line with the Social Media Week. Its AdoptATweep™, an innovative event aimed at empowering people to create brands that will attract attention on Twitter. The event held quarterly, is aimed at teaching folks simple Twitter growth secret at a 100% discounted fee.

This February, AdoptATweep™ brings you "A Social Affair - Now| Connect| Future" aimed at creating an atmosphere for relaxation, while people network and share on the impact of technology and connection in their lives today. In a lighter mood, the event will bring 'netizens' together on a social note, for leisure, fun games, networking and touching on the two sides of technology (taking offline, online; and the need to bring the benefits of online interaction, offline for good) and how it affects us now and tomorrow, for purpose, energy and sustainability.

Date: Saturday 22nd February, 2014

Time: 4pm

Venue: Millennium Park, Three Arms Zone, Abuja, Nigeria

Speakers:

Moses Audu (@mosesAudu): Moses is a rapper and a spoken word artiste from Benue State Nigeria. A Lands Surveyor, trained at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University of Science and Technology, Bauchi; he has been rapping since 2004 and has recorded a couple of songs, and in recent times delved into spoken word. He is known to thrill his audience every time he performs. Moses is a toast of Abuja residents, whenever he's on stage, making pure love to words.

Jerry Agenyi (OwJerry): A compere and comedian; OwJerry as he likes to be called,  is a webdesigner and humanitarian. A trained geologist, he has interests in environmental geology and how climate change affects the earth's crust. He's currently on the #AdoptATweep team. The seriousness of comedy is what Jerry is about, and espouses.

Bankole Oloruntoba (@Bankoletoba): Toba is a social and business tactics engagement specialist with a deep background in corporate communication, entrepreneurship development, business building and idea management. A level headed strategist, Bankole is a social trend observer and entrepreneur par excellence. A true believer of the etiquette and benefit of social and business networking, he likes to believe he is a fantastic wine connoissuer. He is an interesting talker and a fantastic listener. Bankole runs the enspire Business Incubator (a technology business incubation center in Abuja) and is currently the Sales & Marketing Head of WE 106.3 FM (Abuja’s Newest Talk Radio)

Blossom Nnodim (@blcompere): Blossom is one of the several individuals that are deliberately working to inspire, connect and empower individuals, brands and ideas in Nigeria.  She is passionate about social media and strongly believes that social media used for social good is key to achieving development. She has recently relaunched her website www.blcompere.com to become a hub for social media related information and articulated findings on the merits of clicktivism and demerits of qwerty thuggery.

About AdoptATweep™ 

AdoptATweep started through our passion about young people and how Social Media can be transformed as a Development tool. Adopt means adding a tweep. Tweep refers to someone who uses the Twitter Social Media platform to drive dialogue. Our events are aimed at empowering people to create brands that will attract attention on Twitter. Our main event gathers young entrepreneurs and creative artists, to learn twitter growth secrets at a 100% discounted fee. In other words FREE!!! To ensure sustainability of the no-cost drive, the participants are encouraged to embrace the #BYOD trend. #BYOD means bring your own device.

Register for FREE at www.AdoptATweep.eventbrite.com 

If you have questions or wish to make further inquiries on the event follow these accounts on twitter - @AdoptATweep @blcompere @KoloKennethK

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TRY SOMETHING STRANGE!!!

Hello Everyone, It’s the first Tuesday in the month of February and the very first post for 2014. How was January??? Happy February to you all!!! 

Indeed, it feels so good to pause for a while, reflect, re-strategize and plan for greater, effective ways to engage with you all. Every click you make when opening up a blog post is important to us and all we want this year is to always have you coming back on Tuesdays at noon. 

ColourmeAmba is back revamped, refreshed and ready to explore with you this year. Our fresh ideas are waiting to unfold and we look forward to making Tuesdays’ noon more engaging and worth looking forward to. This is because we have loads of information, ideas, exceptional stories and events waiting to be unleashed. 

Now for some of us who wish to become great entrepreneurs, there’s a lot to learn here. The Youwin Business Plan Competition was postponed. Again. This time to Valentine’s Day, the 14th of February. The competition is open to young Nigerians home and abroad hoping to start or expand businesses right here in Nigeria. So if by now you haven’t considered applying, what are you waiting for? 

Okay, just in case you are still having problems arriving at a business idea, or you think that strange idea you have may not hold water? Well, what you see below may be able to help! While carrying out a bit of research, I arrived at a 3 to 1 countdown of strange but creative business ideas you may not have thought existed, but have earned millions abroad. These ideas could inspire you to innovating something relevant right here. ..So, let’s begin!!! 

Starting at No 3 is the Cube Water Melon business drawing lots of profits in Japan. This was an innovative idea showing where consumers demanded and producers listened. As normal round-shaped watermelons proved harder to stack, and could barely be accommodated in smaller supermarkets and refrigerators, the cube-style water melon was created as a solution. Today, these farm products are grown, handpicked and shipped all over Japan. 

Rent-A-Cow comes at No. 2, a business idea which involves renting a cow for a month or a season to produce milk and/or cheese for the person who rents it. The business was created on 2010 because many people wished to own a cow but did not have enough room, money or time. Their main cow farm based in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada has become the largest cow retailer in the world, shipping rare cows like the elusive Flying cow and the Brown cow that gives chocolate milk. Buyers have to be over the age of 16, and the company has the right to fine anyone who injures, starves, abuses or kills a rented cow. 

The Chocolate cow gives 5 gallons of chocolate milk a week,
loves mango juice and is scared of loud noises. 

The flying cow is rarely spotted because
It can cruise to a height of 15km.
It can fly long distances and can go up to 90 kph

Finally, ending at No. 1 is the cheapest tool you probably didn’t think could aid small businesses. This is ‘Star Toilet Paper'– Affordable marketing brought to the bathroom.

While Bryan Silverman was in High school, mid-2010, his older brother, Jordan, came to him with an idea. “He was reading in the bathroom on his phone and came out and said, ‘Everyone reads in here. Let’s make a toilet paper that you can read.” Jordan later found research showing that Americans respond favorably to advertising in public restrooms, including signage above urinals and came up with the idea to print coupons on toilet paper. The siblings went to work, building this business with less than $1000 of their own cash. They bought recycled toilet tissue rolls in bulk and had a printer place coupons on the top ply with harmless vegetable oil-based ink. With this great idea, Bryan and Jordan have been able to offer small businesses the unique opportunity to reach a distraction free audience.

... And there you have them - Ideas that could inspire you to perhaps start something strange and watch it work. 

So, have you thought of any strange business idea that could be lucrative in our present economy? What do you think of the ones shared above? Please add your comments below, and if you wish, share some idea you think may be useful to help inspire someone. 

Until next week, same day at noon, Adios!!!