My Motivation

One day all the employees reached the office and saw a big advice written on the door.
"Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away.
You are invited to join the funeral". In the beginning, they got sad for the death of one of their colleagues, but after a while they got curious to know who was the man who
hindered their growth. Everyone thought: Well
at least the man who hindered my progress died! One by one the thrilled employees got
closer to the coffin, and when they looked
inside they were speechless. They stood shocked in silence, as if someone had touched
the deepest part of their soul. There was a
mirror inside the coffin and everyone who
looked inside could see himself.

There was a sign next to the mirror that read: "There is only one person who is capable to set limits to
your growth...It is you. You are the only person who can influence your happiness, success and realization.
Your life does not change when your boss, friends or company
change.....your life changes when you
change...you go beyond your limiting beliefs and you realize you are the only one responsible for your life. Its the way you face
life that makes the difference! If an egg is broken from outside force....life ends but if it is broken from inside force life begins. Great
things always begin from our inside. Believe in yourself.
Make your change". You have what it
takes to make your change, Make it.

Merry CHRISTmas to you all

7 Mistakes Businesses Make On Social Media

Social media has come to stay and businesses and individuals who have position themselves are taking advantage to increase their sales why others promoting their brands.

Anyone who owns and runs a business should already understand the importance of an effective social media campaign but there are a lot of businesses and individuals out there who got it wrong.

Follow this as I am highlighting 7 most common mistakes on social media.

#1        Not posting Encouraging Content Regularly

Status update should be used to say something interesting people can engage with. Some 176 million people buy product online each year, so you just need to catch their attention.

#2        Focusing on the Quantity of Followers, not the Quantity

It is all well and good having hundreds of followers, but they are not much use if they are not interested in your business. About 60% of people share product posts on #facebook, so you need to find people interested in your

#3        Not converting followers into Paid Customers

Conversions are very important for business users. Having thousands of people to share your post is good, but you are not going to benefit from that unless they make purchases. Only 12% of people whom see products advertised on social media will go on to make purchases. For that reason, you need to make sure your posts are eye-catching as possible.

#4        Having No Brand Personality

If people think that your posts are too generic and boring, they are less likely to make a purchase. You need to ensure you personalize every status update you publish. For that, you could do with a dedicated social manager. At the moment, only 22% of companies have one.

#5        Spamming

The last thing you want to do is to spam your audience. If people start to think you’re posting too many ‘salesy’ updates, they will simply stop viewing your page.

#6        Not having a strategy

Blindly trying to do the right thing on social networks is not a good idea. You need a strong strategy that has carefully created. About 53% of businesses are currently using social media to grow their customer base. 60% of them will have a planned strategy.

#7        Doing Everything Manually

Posting all your updates manually is going to make a long time. There are lots of applications and websites out there that allow you to manage everything from within one screen. You can schedule posts and tweets and deal with engagements that way. The platforms include @justunfollow, hootsuit,spredfast, @tweetdeck. Etc. Around 18% of businesses are run that way.

 We spend a lot of time on social media. In fact, the average user spends over three hours on social media every day. Unfortunately, a majority of that time is not bringing in a good return on investment. Your time is valuable, and you need to get the best out of your social networks. @nayakjnr

Own Your Own Business Conference 2014

Bridge Of Hope Limited #BHL, is a Human Resource Company established to empower people to confront real life challenges, pose optimistic outlook and take their destinies into their own hands, with confidence and hope to face the future while charting a course to their prosperity.

They have a vision to change the world of gloom and uncertain future confronting, to a world of opportunities that offers enough space for all to give positive expression of their God.

As a means of realizing their vision, they write and publish self-development and motivational books. They have three (3) books on the market so far.
Namely:

1. Own Your Own Business  

                                                                

2. Managing The Pressure of Success and Time

 3. Key To True and Lasting Success

Out of these inspiration that the idea of organizing young people who desire to transform their lives with the people around the for a day of empowerment Own Your Own Business conference 2014 came about.This is the first of its kind in Kumasi.

 This Conference will help participants to realize the need to turn the searchlight for job hunting on themselves, be challenged and motivated to take action, identify the various opportunities within the #Ghanaian system and build a successful businesses.
Be part of this maiden edition of #Ownyourownbusiness conference 2014 at KNUST Campus, Faculty of Law Auditorium.

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

The Vim Views & Versions - Blogs of a MIghTy African: Growing Kumasi Konnect (team, initiative and event...

I personally have a lot to share as far as #KumasiKonnect is concern. And for that I can't miss this second edition. 

The Vim Views & Versions - Blogs of a MIghTy African: Growing Kumasi Konnect (team, initiative and event...: The Kumasi Konnect initiative is growing. When we first promoted it, a gentleman called  +joseph osei  emailed us saying - "My name ... Tweets by @nayakjnr