What Nobody Tells You About Entrepreneurship

Working for yourself is a dream for every young Ghanaian today, but often leads to dissapointment. Discover why and learn how to make entrepreneurship work for you. At this very moment, a significant number of people in Ghana are dreaming about leaving their jobs and going into business themselves.

These fantasies are fed by the times we've been to believe in ourselves, to embrace the 'YES WE CAN' dream of going our own way and doing it for ourselves.
There's no doubt that leaving behind a routine job and becoming your own boss is exciting, and many of those who set off on that path find personal and professional fulfillment there. But in any endeavor, reality is better preparation than fantasy. And when it comes to entrepreneurship in Ghana, the reality is complicated.

Here are are some of the things you don't hear about it but you should. 

• There is a dark side: The sad truth is up to about 90% of new businesses including entrepreneurial startups fail within a few years. It's inspiring to hear about RLG or Multimedia Group Limited but the risk of not making is so real. 

• Passion alone won't cut it: We've heard it a thousand times, passion will prevail. And the long haul, success has a lot more to do with less exciting character trait; patience and endurance.

• It takes Years of hard work to build a business: Many believe that entrepreneurship means shorter hours and more free time. In reality entrepreneurship means building your business carefully and faithfully day by day over a period of years. If there is a true secret of success, it is hard work or more accurately very hard work. Being in business for yourself is definitely rewarding but you have to be ready to work harder than you have ever worked for someone else.

•  To Lead others: You must manage yourself. In the popular imagination, entrepreneurship is just about having an idea. But successful businesses, even those with just a single employee have a great leadership. And the best leadership know, above all, how they manage themselves.

• You probably won't get Rich: Another misconception is that entrepreneurship is a good path for becoming filthy rich. The rewards are many but if what you are ultimately looking for is wealth, creating a business is probably not the best way to go.  When you feel hopeless, you have to be able to work hard to overcome any self-doubt, any feeling of doom or any situation that feels overwhelming.

I have come to realize that entrepreneurship is  not for anyone. But those with the heart of an entrepreneur will always go through making more opportunities than they find.
 

Social Media Avenue For Businesses

REGISTER HERE:  SoMedia Avenue For Businesses

SoMedia Avenue for Business seminar is one of the series of workshops to help train participants about the reality of social media to change the way business is done in this digital age and how customers can be engaged effectively. The professional facilitator will share industry insights, strategies, best practices and case studies with the participants so they will learn what works on different social media platforms and how they can also position their businesses there for higher conversion rate in sales, customers and profit.

UNDERSTANDING MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
1. Setting social media objectives
2. Understanding Facebook
3. Understanding Twitter
4. Understanding Google+
5. Understanding Pinterest
6. Understanding Vine
6. Understanding Google Adsense
4. Understanding WhatsApp
5. Understanding Social Storage (Dropbox & Google Drive)
6. Understanding YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google Alerts & WordPress


WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN
1. Understand the digital media revolution driven by the Internet
2. Know the web trends, mobile phenomenon and apps
3. Understand Social Media types, concepts, principles and features
4. Acquire the skills on how to use major social media platforms to power their businesses
5. Learn how to develop quality contents for social media platforms
6. Know how to develop, deploy and measure Social Media Strategies
7. Know how to position their brands strongly in the minds of online customers

Come and learn how to use social media to engage your customers effectively! Call 0243750022 Now!!!

CERTIFICATES WILL BE  GIVEN TO THE PARTICIPANTS

National Volunteer Day 2014

Volunteering: The heart of community development. Volunteer around September 21- September 20-22.

 National Volunteer Day , run by GhanaThink's Ghana Volunteer Program, is to encourage as many volunteer activities around September 21 which is Founder’s Day. We want to see more people in Ghana use the holiday to create, support and join volunteer activities. September 21 or Founder’s Day has been chosen as it's one that doesn’t have specific activities. 

How you can participate

Join a volunteer group or create one on your own.

Gather the youth of your community or friends and think of a volunteering opportunity i.e.

You can see various photos from NVDay, etc on the Ghana Volunteer Program Facebook & Google+ pages. Also follows us on Twitter.

Check out the #NVDay hashtag on Google+, Facebook and Twitter for more info. Stay tuned via Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Once, your event is planned, register here and tell us all about it. We can't sponsor your event but we can help in other ways, especially by getting you more volunteers. Once you register, your event will be added on this page where others can find your event and come support you. More information would be coming soon.

On NVDay, please shares pictures or posts on social media with the hashtag NVDay. We will be promoting all these volunteer events on social media and in some traditional media too. 

If you have particular questions, please email us at  volunteer at ghanathink dot org.

Have questions about National Volunteer Day 2014? Contact GhanaThink 

Source:  Ghana Think Foundation