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5 Reasons Why You Should Start a Business as a Student

Are you among those who think that running a business is the game of experienced graduates and professionals? I am going to show you five reason why that believe is wrong. If you are a student reading this or you are a fresh graduate and you have never thought of More »

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How You can Buy or Sell on Google Trader through SMS

You can now search, buy, post or sell your products/services on Google’s classified ads site Google Trader. It is very simple, you only have to send a message to a short code via SMS. To start using the SMS service Text START to 6007. Posting on Google Trader is free! More »

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Wikipedia to Go Free on Mobiles in Africa and Middle East This Year

The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia and Orange, a mobile network provider have concluded a deal that will allow millions of people from Africa and Midddle East to gain free unlimited access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia from the mobile phones. The project is targeted at the More »

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Google+ integrates with Google Trader: Personalize your Listings

Google announced today that it has integrated Google+ (its social network) with Google Trader (it classified ads site). This means users on google trader can personalize their listings. According to press release on Google Africa blog: We wanted to make Google Trader a little bit more personal. So today, for More »

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Top Ten Most Visited and Popular Nigerian Websites in January, 2012

In continuation of our monthly review of Top Ten Most Visited Nigerian Websites and Blogs which we started in November of 2011 we bring to you the list of most visited Nigerian sites in January, 2012. 1. Vanguardngr.com: The online version of the well read newspaper has retained its top More »

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Five Internet Startups to Watch Out For in Nigeria

November 04, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

Nigerians are very enterprising people. Of recent they have begun to show that they can play the game on a global level, as their peers from the US, Europe and Australia despite the existing infrastructural gap. The number of internet startups in Nigeria, going by the challenges to online business, is impressive. However, many fall

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Church Marketing and Promotion: A Growing Phenomenon in Nigeria and What Companies Can Learn from Churches

September 12, 2011   NairaBrains   2 Comments

The idea for this article came when sometime ago, a Pastor friend of mine called me for a little chat. His young church was barely two years old and was not doing badly. He sat me down and told me point-blank that he needed help with growing his church and was thinking of starting a

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What to Do When You Lose Your Job

September 11, 2011   NairaBrains   1 Comment

Even as a few jobs are created more are lost. We may not be in a recession but many businesses are looking at ways to cut costs and for many of them reducing their work is always the first idea that comes to mind. It’s Not The End of the World If you recently lost

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The Right Approach to Personal Finance: Between Increasing Your Income and Reducing Your Expenses

July 10, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

For readers who have read so many books on personal finance this article may be unacceptable. Still I wrote it with the business person in mind. I tried to approach the subject matter from the point of entrepreneurship. The idea for this writing came a few years back when I read a view point on

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The LinkedIn Revolution: Risky or Not?

May 24, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

For quite a while now the names dominating discussions and news in the internet and new media business has been Google and Facebook. We’ve had doses of the news about the feuds between the two. Somehow the past couple of weeks another company stole the headlines from them. LinkedIn, the business and professional networking platform

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