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Ways to Make Customers Fall in Love with Your Business. Hi Friends, Welcome to another day of achievements in your business and finances. Am sure you are with a customer already doing your best to make them as confortable as you can and make them come back for more. Here is an article i best prescribe for you to know how you can make you custormers come back to you for more services. Please enjoy your reading as this article is refreshing and best equips you better. Nurturing relationships with your customers is a crucial part of growing a successful business. In this age of automation and innovation, caring for your customers has never been more important. At any moment, an unhappy customer can share their opinion with the masses through social media and the web and negatively affect your business. That’s why it’s even more important than ever to create an excellent experience for your customers to help develop your company’s relationship with them into love. Walt Disney sai...

Going Into Real Estate Or Building In Nigeria? Be Sure Of The Property And The People You Are Dealing With! Real estate is the land and building attached to it. Real Property is the legal rights that run with land and building; leasehold, leased fee, fee simple and freehold. Real estate is the 2-3 dimensional physical aspect of real property. Example of real property is fee simple or freehold; ownership in perpetuity except when interrupted by police power and or eminent domain of the state. When a state in Nigeria grants one a Certificate of Occupancy, even though it is for a term certain (leasehold), it is considered real property given the initial term and renewal options. For land one owns in their village via Right of Occupancy, it is freehold, because such land is owned in perpetuity but is still subject to police power and eminent domain.

Quantifying an ROI from social media is only possible after you’ve developed a strategic plan that will make measurement both clear and easy. When it comes to social media “80% of marketers begin with tactics instead of goals” – eMarketer Report. Here’s how to build a strategic social media plan to ensure that you don’t waste time or money on tactics that might work. Why do you need to measure social media ROI? It will never be possible to measure all aspects of social media ROI. However, this is not a good enough reason not to measure social media ROI. Currently, only 20% of marketers actively measure ROI - eMarketer Report While it’s important to balance ROI with metrics that show more incremental value, if a business is to increase profitability, customers, and to grow, then ROI remains the critical metric and the single best measure of success over the longer term.

For the building and construction industry in Nigeria, growth prospect is very high and expectation among industry players is that by 2020, the country, alongside India, will enjoy higher growth rates than notable nations like China, predicting that by 2021, the industry will triple its investment value. The contribution and impact of this industry to the economy cannot be neglected as it has become a veritable index when it comes to employment generation for both skilled and unskilled employment in Nigeria, and it is estimated that this industry contributes 3.2 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Solomon Ogunbusola, president, Federation of Construction Industries (FOCI), who gave these hints, pointed out, however, that despite these prospects, the state of the nation’s economy has somewhat overstretched members of the association as they task themselves to meet up with contracts awarded to them at various levels. He added that these members operate under ser...

Reaffirming its position as the choice property development company for the growing middle class, International Property Development Consortium (IPDC) has promised an exciting 2014 for Nigeria’s mid-income property market with its range of developments in major city centres. The firm, which is already a major player in the Lagos mid-income market with various mini apartments such as Lotus Apartments and Pine Court Apartments, will also for the first time veer into the Abuja market with its lifestyle Hilltop terrace. In an exclusive chat with BusinessDay, Weyinmi Edodo, chief executive officer, IPDC Limited, said the firm would make its debut in the Abuja market with about 10 units of terrace houses to be located at the Asokoro area of the city. The lifestyle community will be delivered in four-bedroom apartments with state-of-the-art facilities such as automatic gate, club house, swimming pool and other luxurious amenities.  However, it will be moderately priced...

At a time when people think that the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) should be taken to the cleaners, the apex mortgage bank is springing pleasant surprises with an innovative, technology-driven idea that has given birth to e-Card platform which has enabled it to take the National Housing Fund (NHF) scheme to a new level. With this NHF e-Collection Platform, FMBN has raised the NHF monthly collection by 214 percent to N2.2 billion, up from N700 million it collected before the platform was deployed six months ago. The bank estimates a further 100 percent increase in collection to achieve about N4 billion per month before the end of this year.

Part of my job is to talk to job seekers and help them either ramp up their job search, to improve the quality of their efforts when it comes to how to  write their cover letter  or  résumé  or to setup a path for long-term career success if they’re already in a job. This week I talked to a woman who was recently hired by an organization only three weeks ago. On the phone, she sounded distressed. It turns out that the job title she thought she was hired for did not match up to the daily expectations of her boss. All too common do we hear about this sort of mixup: employers hire for a certain job title but (accidentally or purposefully) don’t accurately represent the duties and expectations of the role. In addition to feeling out of her element, said that she felt she was being excluded from significant meetings by her supervisor. When she expressed interest in participating in important meetings, her supervisor’s response was,“You will probably be lost.” ...

It has been said several times that ‘ideas rule the world’ and this holds true in real estate investing as well. We want to examine a time-tested idea that guarantees quick turnaround time and good returns on investment in most real estate markets. We’ll be examining guidelines for making a good return in rehabilitating and selling properties. First, you need to find a property that is in need of repairs or renovation but is located in a good area. 

The Lagos State Mortgage Board on Tuesday began allocation of homes to 30 indigenes that emerged winners from a raffle draw for the state housing estates. Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State said at the presentation that allocation of the homes to first set of beneficiaries had confirmed the state government’s commitment to the mortgage scheme. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some of the homes were in Shitta, Ikorodu, Epe, Age and Lekki Housing Estates. The governor said the scheme was the state government’s answer to the limited access to housing and one of the strategies to improve living standards. “With this scheme, we are moving our people from desperation for housing to an orderly and predictable living. And, that is our dream and I have always believed that when people can dream things, their hands can do it. “Our journey really begins today; Lagosians should begin to put their steps in that ladder, the ladder to prosperity that we have d...

Nigerians from every major construction company and allied services will join their counterparts from more than 91 countries around the world for this year’s edition of  CONEXPO/CON-AGG 2014. The Niche PR, which gave this indication in a statement on Sunday, explained the newest equipment, technology and product breakthroughs in construction industry were usually unveiled at the event. It said all arrangements had been concluded for the participation of the Nigerian team in the event. “This year, Niche PR leads a team of Nigerian business technocrats and professionals in the building and construction industry to the event,” it added. According to statement, officials of Niche PR, constructions companies and public sector institutions in the sector are all set to experience the expo. It said, “Every three years, the Association Equipment Manufacturers organises CONEXPO/CON-AGG to unveil the newest equipment, technology and product breakthroughs in construction...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday gave a clean bill of health to all the 832 microfinance banks (MFBs) in the country, saying it is generally satisfied with their operating conditions. There had been an earlier report that the CBN was planning to shutdown up to 600 MFBs on the basis of poor performance, but in a reaction, the apex bank said such insinuations were all false and unfounded. Out of 832 microfinance banks, four of them are now national, 75 are state, and the remaining 753 are unit MFBs. Olufemi Fabamwo, CBN director, other financial institutions supervision department (OFISD), confirmed to BusinessDay last night that the story was untrue and that in fact rather than closing shops, some of the institutions are already upgrading their levels of operations as they meet required guidelines. His words, “Out of 832 microfinance banks, four of them are now national, 75 are state, and the remaining 753 are unit MFBs. And it is a continuous thing...