The biggest consolation is that the clock will reset and begins afresh at midnight. It’s Friday, no matter what has happened this week, make sure you reboot well as Friday fades this midnight to usher the weekend. There is a reason for weekend: end the week, period! Thinking and planning for the promises of tomorrow will always win over indulging on the mistakes or disappointments of an ended week.
By Sani Nahuche
Whenever an aspiring entrepreneur decides to start a business, the first concern that comes in his mind is how to keep the cost to a minimum. Propelling an online business isn’t about simply getting a site constructed and taking it on the web. There are several other procedures and unavoidable costs such as registering the domain, getting a server, business name registration, etc. Nonetheless, there are other operational costs that can be limited with the assistance of innovation to keep the spending limit inside the furthest point.
There are many tools and resources for start-ups that not only help in minimizing the cost, but also save time and make your business look and operate smartly. From recruiting to project management, CRM to email marketing, and every other critical element involved in running and growing a start-up today, there’s a tool for everything.
Let’s explore some of the best tools for startups.
Breadroot offers you bunches of alternatives including 50 diverse industry classes, arbitrary names, inclining names and searches utilizing catchphrases. It’s a standout amongst the best business name generators by industry. You can look by cost; the more you’re set up to spend on a business name, the more decisions you’ll have. It doesn’t mean the “ease” choices are terrible decisions. A few people basically need “the best, most costly” choices for their “notoriety.”
Some of the names offered will likewise demonstrate to you a text style plan as well as a logo to enable you to pick something remarkable without getting worried about it. The site evaluates every choice for mass intrigue and potential acknowledgment. Make sure to be savvy, consider your space name in the meantime, and make a short rundown before at long last choosing what will best suit your needs. about it.
The site evaluates every choice for mass intrigue and potential acknowledgment. Make sure to be savvy, consider your space name in the meantime, and make a short rundown before at long last choosing what will best suit your needs.
This AI-driven business name generator is an extraordinary instrument to kick you off. Simply enter the keyword that you believe is most applicable to your business and voila! It doesn’t simply produce names for you, it additionally imagines it into a logo. It doesn’t simply search for nonexclusive words yet in addition looks into equivalent words and expressions of the closest importance to enable you to focus in on the ideal brand name. Also? You can even redo it to look the manner in which you need and download it for later use. The downloads cost you about $25 however the business name thought is as yet yours to utilize!
Fiverr empowers consultants and business people to begin doing, developing and succeeding. The stage enables business visionaries to find specialists by having them interacted with administration merchants in three distinct dimensions. Along these lines, they get the chance to meet specialists with the perfect ranges of abilities and rates who will suit their needs. These merchant levels enable organizations to either grow or limit their ventures as indicated by specialist levels.
Canva is an online visual computerization instrument utilized for creating social posts, blog illustrations, Twitter headers, Facebook promotions and the preferences. The site holds a library of around a million text styles, photographs, just as symbols. Clients can choose a plan format or select to make one starting with no outside help utilizing intuitive highlights. Transferring, including and making pictures is a significant simple assignment with Canva. The fundamental record is free of expense. Extra illustrations and photographs transferred by independent fashioners can be utilized for just $1 each.
QuickBooks offers numerous renditions intended to fit the bookkeeping needs of essentially any little or medium-sized business. All renditions of QuickBooks highlight devices for routine bookkeeping that rearrange following solicitations, costs, clients, bills and then some. QuickBooks spares time by guaranteeing precise bookkeeping and by decreasing or taking out inside and out, the need to enter a similar bookkeeping information in various programming applications.
Office 365 is a cloud-based, membership model variant of Microsoft’s prominent efficiency suite Microsoft Office. Office 365 contains a similar center applications as customary renditions of Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and relying upon the arrangement bought, may likewise incorporate different applications and administrations, for example, Publisher, Planner, OneDrive, Exchange, SharePoint, Access, Skype, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams. There are various bundles accessible when permitting Office 365, including variants for individual use, multi-client family units, understudies, organizations, non-benefits, and instruction foundations. There are additionally on the web and versatile just forms of Office, known as Office Online, through which clients can gain admittance to include restricted renditions of Office applications for nothing.
WordPress is the world’s most prevalent stage and GoDaddy is the world’s biggest web host and area supplier. Together, they help you to make a wonderful site which will proceed to turn into the essence of your organization when you are pitching for new organizations.
Panabee offers you a couple of approaches to locate a reasonable business name. Begin with your two watchwords and after that take a gander at the outcomes. You might be fortunate and discover something straightaway at the same time, if not, you have different approaches to extend your pursuit. You can utilize this site for a space name too, so you cut your looking down the middle. Take a stab at modifying your rundown to check various augmentations, minor departure from your watchwords and contrasting proposals by means of web based life with see what’s accessible and appropriate. Attempt distinctive TLDs to make it something that is more nation explicit. You won’t comprehend what you’ll discover until you look.
Comm100 Live Chat is a live visit bolster arrangement reasonable for both little to medium size organizations (SMBs) and bigger endeavours. This framework empowers organizations to draw in their site guests continuously. Comm100 Live Chat can be utilized by deals groups to recognize and change over potential clients, just as by help groups to address clients’ worries continuously. This item works for organizations or associations in any industry requiring constant client correspondence. Comm100 Live Chat offers two freely conveyed versions, one for SMBs and another for huge endeavours. The SMB release highlights live talk, an easy to understand interface, adaptable evaluating, and it is portable well disposed. Comm100 Live Chat for Enterprise offers this, in addition to talk directing and assignment, programmed guest acknowledgment, key execution pointer (KPI) announcing, specialist execution assessment and all day, every day visit volume reports. It can coordinate with GoToMeeting, Cisco, Avaya and the sky is the limit from there. Comm100 Live Chat for Enterprise can be sent either in the cloud or on-premises.
If you have an Envato Account, it gives you access to any of the Envato Market destinations, where you can purchase or sell computerized products like WordPress topics, ambient melodies, After Effects undertaking documents, photography and a whole lot more.
These tools and resource are useful for new companies and private ventures in keeping their activities consistent, simple and progressively productive. Use them carefully, wisely, study them first, and at the end of it all might cost you close to nothing. Yes, they can undoubtedly push your business to better prospects for a considerable length of time.
By Iselowo Kolawole Kehinde
When launching a new product or startup, hacking is key to the rapid process of growth and hiring a good Growth Hacker is even more important. There are four processes I feel that are vital and must be carefully considered..
1.) Activation: how do you get people to see or know your products? Is it Direct Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Display Advertising, SEO (search engine optimization) or SEM (search engine marketing)?
2.) Acquisition: after the right people see you online, how do you convert them and generate leads and revenue from them? This has to do with your landing page and offers.
3.) Retention: how do you make people addicted to your product or service and always get them coming back for more? Is it via your UGC (User Generated Content) or Freemium Services?
4.) Referral: how do you get already satisfied clients and customers that you are purchasing from to refer your product to someone? This is very vital – you should look at things like Email Marketing, Retargeting, Excellent Service Provided, Referral Bonus, Feedbacks and New Features Upgrade.
Interestingly, pursuing growth typically requires a good level of customer experience. Yes, there needs to be a synergy between UI and UX. I tell people UI (User Interface) makes your application beautiful but UX (User Xperience) makes your application meaningful. The beauty about UI is that it should leave a first impression visually and should be appealing while your UX should leave a lifetime impression based on services being rendered.
UX is all about Ease of Use, Process Automation, Ease of Access, Maneuverability and Speed of Navigation. You should be able to switch tabs as fast as possible, your UX shouldn’t confuse your users, it should enlighten them. E.g. you can’t develop an emergency or SOS application and then request the prospective users to fully sign up before having full access to the application to send out an emergency distress call in time of trouble.
The best way to hack growth is to give users great experiences through superior services. That will help turn those users from customers to fans. Do not neglect the power of UI and UX in your design.
How do you become a true ecommerce company in Nigeria? You fix the marginal cost paralysis associated with logistics and delivery. Jumia Prime is possibly going to make Jumia one. So, if people have paid the subscription through Jumia Prime which offers largely free shipping, the implication is that the disincentive to shop online will be gone. I have maintained that you are not a true ecommerce business if your operation cannot become nationwide as you manage your logistics challenges, pushing you to only operate in selected cities. Unlike the operators in U.S., Canada and Europe which are supported by their national postal services, Nigerian ecommerce players have to build up the logistics. Those western entities, powered by the postal services, are largely nationwide operators on day 1 while Nigerian ones have to move city by city because they have to deal with logistics.
According to her, among major achievements recorded include the nationwide expansion of its last mile delivery hubs to accommodate 33 new ones. Others include the integration of 25 new logistics partners to its network of partners and the addition of 4 major local languages to assist customers to place orders by phone.
“These are deliberate efforts towards expanding the reach of e-commerce in rural cities where prepayment had been the only payment option, thereby expanding the footprint of payment on delivery to these cities. We have also observed that some of our customers prefer to interact with our customer service agents in their various native languages. In response, we have integrated the 4 major local languages – Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, and Pidgin,” she added.
In yet another strategic move towards improving customers’ delivery experience and helping them save money on shipping, Jumia also introduced for the first time ever in the Nigerian e-commerce sector, Jumia Prime package which is a paid subscription package that enables customers to shop on Jumia with zero shipping fees for a preset duration.
If Jumia can fix the logistics challenges through these newly on-boarded 25 logistics partners, running on its Prime service, the firm will see even people in villagers using its service. Making that possible without increasing the effective cost of the goods (product cost and shipping cost) will be a game changer in the sector. Yes, if Jumia can do all those and still keep the price of the products at parity with what the supermarket or open market around the corner offers, it becomes a real option in the lives of Nigerian shoppers. No matter what happens, this company is throwing many things in this sector.
By Nnamdi Odumody
The Nigerian ecommerce market is estimated at over $15billion with growth potential to $75 billion by 2025 according to McKinsey. As a result of poor delivery timeline, and high cost in price and logistics for delivery due to absence of logistics infrastructure, safety concerns as regards data leak of customers, and quality of product, the sector is experiencing low impact and penetration. These factors have contributed to a high increase of unhappy customers, and shut down of several ecommerce platforms over the past 5 years.
One Kiosk Africa is Africa’s first ecommerce platform with community inclusiveness as its focuses on connecting communities and people with what they desire and love in 59 minutes. It connects people to merchants within a 1-2 km radius in their locale to deliver whatever product they need after payment has been made. Its ecommerce platform wants to solve the problem of poor turnaround time to connect with merchants within a neighborhood and associated cost of logistics involved to deliver online orders. It uses GPS technology to match and track the nearest merchant to you within the shortest possible distance. Through its artificial intelligence algorithm, user behavior and need patterns are tracked to match them with the best merchants around them in real time.
With over 15,000 active users comprising merchants and consumers which is expected to increase by 400 percent, once its mobile application is launched later this year. By December 2019, it will have created about 100,000 direct and indirect jobs in Nigeria serving about 250,000 users.
In the next 12 months, it wants to serve at least half a million customers and communities through its platform. It intends to introduce workable offerings for its merchants to increase their capacity to effectively take control of their delivery system, either by absorbing its One Pro Delivery members, or create its own system and grow to over 3.5 million users in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa, creating over 1 million direct and indirect jobs through its platform ecosystem.