Archive for November, 2008

Dear informed online marketers,

It’s been 11 good months already. And in next 35days the year 2008 will be over. The best time to review all you’ve been doing in 2008 is now.

At the beginning of the year, you probably started with “HIGH” ambition to use internet technology to rock your bank account positively. But unfortunately, it went other way round. Or may be you probably got stucked at the middle of the process this year. Don’t worry.

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. - Dale Carnegie

How times flies? It was just about this time last year that our own Rich Kid, Lateef Olajide was honoured as the young entrepreneur of the year 2007. An event that left those of us that were actually present inspired.

Behold! It’s 2008 and as it has been a practice for the award to be held towards the end of each year, that of this year was no exception as the award took place on Saturday the 8th of November.

A BRIEF LOOK AT THE EVENT

…Award! Award!! Award!!!

As this year’s award took place, all roads led to the Lagos Sheraton Hotel & Suites where the event was schedule to hold. Present at the event were readers of SuccessDigest Extra, members of SuccessDigest leaders club, members of Successful Entrepreneurs Network (SEN), members of the Board of the organization, friends and well wishers of the awardees and that of Complete Communications, publishers of SuccessDigest and Complete Sports.

Among the many personalities who graced the award ceremony were well known clerics like Bishop Moses, Bishop Geroge Amu and Pastor Ehimika Emmanuel.

At about 2.15, with many of the guest and participants seated, the anchor for the event finally took to the podium. He called for the opening prayers after which Dr. Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase, the President/founder of Success Attitude Development Center, organizers of the award, gave his welcome address.

The time finally came for the award proper. One after the other the awardees were called upon to be honoured. Among the awardees were great entrepreneurs who have contributed immensely to the economic growth of our great country, Nigeria. They include Dipo Davies, Publisher/CEO, Castles Magazine, Mrs. Ibidun Ituah-Ighodalo, CEO, Elizabelt-R, Mrs Tara Fela-Durotoye, CEO, House of Tara, Mr. Sunny Elem, MD/CEO, Wealth Team Networks, Mrs. Betty Irabor, Editor-in-chief, Genevieve Magazine,

Also awarded were Mr. Oluwasanmi Akindipe MD/CEO, Set Consultant Service, Mr. Gbeminiyi Oluwabusola, MD, Techclick Limited,(link), Mr. Tajudeen Adepetu, MD/CEO, Consolidated Media Associates Limited, Paul Oluwabanjo, MD/CEO, Webpower Continental Services.

One of the highlights of the event, that might have probably brought many SENetworkers to the event was the Raffle draws in which Mr. Kenneth Omoregbe won the 1st prize of the (KIA PICANTO CAR) while Kalu Peace won the 2nd prize of ($500,000) worth of shares. The 3rd price was won by Abikoye Joseph, making him the proud owner of a brand new laptop.

Apart from the winners of the raffle draws, also rewarded were three Other SENetworkers who were said to have been able to register more people into the network.

In between the presentations of awards and rewards, was a short drama pieces, traditional dance, musical stage performance which was performed by the combined SuccessDigest Leaders’ Club (SDLC) and Aity Inyang Band. Pastor Ehimika Emmanuel also gave a brief motivational talk. All these made the event a very entertaining and memorable ceremony.

The award been the 12th of its kind finally came to an end after the vice president, Pastor (Mrs.) Esther Obazu-Ojeagbase gave the vote of thanks while Bishop Amu said the closing prayers. At this junction I must say that the event was more organized than the previous ones.

I therefore use this opportunity to say well done to the organization and to let them know that we are expecting more improvement come next year and to the recipients of this years award as well as to the winner of SENetwork rewards, I say a big Congratulation.

LESSONS FOR ALL
The award organized by the publishers of SuccessDigest Extra with the vision of discovering, encouraging and honouring exceptional entrepreneurs in Nigeria was yet another success and inspiration to many.

As an entrepreneur, business person, internet marketer, information marketer and/or success minded fellow, this I know for sure is a time of the year when most of us reflect on what we might have achieved and what we might have not.

Are you feeling tired?

Are you stuck in the middle?

Are you on the verge of giving up?

Are you considering quitting?

Dear friend, why it may not be surprising that many of us struggle very hard to achieve success. There are still quite a number of people who make it to the top and become very popular just like those who had just been honoured.

There is also these other group of people who seems to get tired along the line only to give up their precious dreams; they are always complaining about how hard it is to learn new things and how difficult it is to get along. They seem to have every reason why things don’t work.

Before you decide which group you belong to and which you might want to stitch to, let take a look at what the awardees had in common. During the award ceremony, while the awardees stood, waiting to be honoured, a short video clip of an interview that probably took place in their individual offices, about their journey to success was shown to the participants of the event. They were all inspiring.

What the awardees had in common.

1) They are Entrepreneur who saw and took hold of opportunity.

2) They had challenges/failures at some point in time.

3) They had setbacks which they actually took as stepping stones.

4) They all have a story to tell. This is what I call “the Story behind the Glory”.

5) They did not get their over night.

6) They refuse to accept defeat. One shocking example was what Mr. Sunny Elem, MD/CEO, Wealth Team Networks said during his interview. He said there was a time when he had to sleep in a bus. Who could ever think that such a superstar, once had to sleep in a bus, if he had not told the story himself?

I have only named a few of what they had in common, if you were at the event you might want to add your own observation.

Dear reader, I decided to share this with you today, to encourage and motivate you just as the event had motivated those of us who were present.

I believe that success in life and business is built over time and for those of us who are internet marketer, I want you to know that, it takes one skill at a time to get there.

When you start out, you likely start by learning how to pick a niche market that has buyers. You also get to learn how to do keyword research, how to go about blogging, writing and submission of articles, etc.

Like I wrote in one of my past articles tittled Internet Marketing: The learning curve. “As you advance, you might begin to see the need to learn HTML, graphic design, web design, copywriting…Remember it’s a continuous process so don’t be in a hurry to get it all at the start…”

Yes, you can’t dive at it all at once; rather you might choose to learn something like keyword research this week, next week or there about you decide to learn blogging and so on. One thing you will also want to consider is the amount of time you are willing to spend on a daily/weekly basis.

Why it’s no lies that some people succeed in whatever they do due to genius. I have come to discover that the best and surest way to be successful is by learning and doing what is to be done. Just make sure you draw a line between learning and doing. Don’t wait to learn everything before you set out.

…Keeping learning …keep doing. That is one of the secret of successful people.

Before I bring this article to an end, I want to bring this to your notice; one of the major causes of failure is impatient. You see, majority are guilty of impatient. I am likewise guilty of it. We all need to learn to be patient.

When it comes to money and success we want to see results right away but we can afford to go to school for so many years, most times starting from nursery school up to the university all for the sake of a degree.

Dear friend, the truth is unless you have so much money, influence to get you success or maybe you somehow get hold of a wonder working charm (that is if there is one) you will have to work out whatever is it you want to be successful at and it surely does take some time.

Finally, I want to say to you, Dare! Dare!! Dare!!! That’s life for you. If this ones could do it, you should carry their story every where you go, let it bring you the feeling that you can do it, especially when the storms come ragging.

Until, I come your way again, stay motivated and don’t forget keep learning and keep doing.

Francis Alaeto for IMN

‘Latest secrets to make money online’- almost every where you go now you will surely be forced to read or listen to another latest secret to making money online. We read it in newspaper/magazine, watch it on television and hear it on radio.

I once asked myself, out of curiosity, how many secret KEYS one needs to make money online~?  It may sound funny. But have said it at many internet marketing events where I speaks as guest that there is absolutely no secrets to making money on internet. And it’s the right time people understand exactly what internet means.

Unfortunately, lots of people will continue to buy into dreams. Many still holds the believe that they can make money online without doing anything at all. No wonder there are lots of cheap ‘how to make money’ online info marketer out there. They are always at the gate to sell another secret info. Check your email box now. How many offers can you count? Open that opportunity magazine to the advert or market place section how many advert did you see? Its pure conspiracy as my internet friend Fisayo Akinlolu once call it. I may be stepping on stone here. But don’t care; it’s a must I make my point. After all this is absolute truth.

I agree that you can make money online but not without doing anything. Not with believe of internet opportunity been another magical money tree. Their is a Donald Trump’s quote that I have on the wall in my room that says ‘ if you want to become successful as I am, you will have to work your butt day and night for it like I do. Success is not for slackers…”

See over 90% of people that have trek this part didn’t make money obvious because of a lot of reason which not taking internet as another medium to set up shop, share value, help others, and make money using internet as a tool.

“The Internet has no Luke-Skywalker-magic-use-the-force-power either, it’s just a tool like a hammer, it ain’t going to work unless you use some elbow grease and swing it or get really smart and get one of those powered ones where all you have to do is pull the trigger. But nothing’s going to happen unless you have something to put nails into.

Set up shop and use the Internet as a tool to build a business and stay away from the guys that tell you you can build a building without getting sweaty and pounding some nails.” Says Alan in one of his recent article titled making money on the internet is a big fat scam

My fellow brothers and sisters, as the year runs to end let’s take internet marketer seriously. Let us see internet as a very important tool we can use as a leverage to set up profitable business and not another MAGICAL MONEY VENDING MACHING.