The real meaning of entrepreneurship

There is this noise for decades, about entrepreneurship. What is entrepreneurship? The word entrepreneurship means risk taking, maximizing opportunities and value creation.

Entrepreneurs are great people they have influence the world for centuries. They are creative people who have being innovative in all areas of our lives.

The first step towards  entrepreneurial greatness is risk taking. You can't be an entrepreneur and not take risk. There is high level of uncertainty in entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship is all about maximizing opportunities. Entrepreneurs are aware of the facts that opportunities are available in there environment.

It is this opportunities that the entrepreneurs notice that make the entrepreneur take risk. This endeavour might require the entrepreneur to team up to achieve its set goals.

So the flow of entrepreneurship goes thus: you identify an opportunity, you team up if you can't do it alone and you take neccessary risk to achieve some value creation.

An entrepreneur can miss this process if she intends to ahieve its set goals.

7 top qualities of successful entrepreneurs

All aspiring entrepreneurs  always admire successful entrepreneurs. The question always on the lips of young entrepreneurs is what qualities make successful entrepreneurs successful.

These are the top qualities that makes entrepreneurs successful.

# 1. Vision

Successful entrepreneurs are visionary entrepreneurs. A good example of a visionary entrepreneurs was Steve Jobs.

Successful entrepreneurs always have a long term perspectives to whatever they do. They always have the end in mind.

The vision is what keep successful entrepreneurs going, irrespective of the challenges. They have the roadmap planned out.

# 2. Self-discipline

You can get anything done without discipline. Successful entrepreneurs have Self control. They discipline themselves to stay to their cause.

# 3. Core values

Successful entrepreneurs have core values which they leave by. Their core values is what differentiate them from the rest.

The major core values of successful entrepreneurs are integrity and excellence. Successful entrepreneurs leave their lives base on their core values. They don't compromise their core values for anything.

# 4. Team player

Bill Gates didn't start microsoft alone even Steve Jobs team up to start Apple. Geat entrepreneurs always believe in synergy, the power of more than one.

Successful entrepreneurs believe from the outset that they can't do it alone and are always ready to partner with others.

# 5 Persistence

Successful entrepreneurs always persist at what they do even if they don't get immediate result. They are Persistence and they always believe if keep up to what they do, they will get their desired result.

# 6 Action oriented

To learn and not to act is not learning. Successful entrepreneurs are always ready to take decisive actions.

They believe in the fact which is no action no result. They are always ready to work the work and not just talk the talk.

# 7 Exceptional expert in their field

Successful entrepreneurs are always experts from day one at what they do. They are never mediocre nor are they ready to settle for less at what they do. They are always ready to learn and improve their skills.

They always maintain top 10 in their field. They always believe in competency and hardwork.

These are the top qualities of successful entrepreneurs how many of these qualities do have and how many do you think you should work on.

7 basic public speaking tips

One of the biggest fears of adults is public speaking. The majority of people will rather die than speak in public.

Every problem have it own solution as long as you are ready to solve the problem. We will always have cause of speaking in public once in a while.

Most public speakers that we admire are not born with public speaking skills but they acquire the skills over time through practice. The secret is just practice.

For better public speaking, these are the seven basic public speaking tips.

# 1 Know your subject

Whatever topic you want to talk on should be a subject you are well familiar with. Make sure it is a topic you are familiar with there terms.

Don't talk on a subject you aren't vast at because it will be easy for your audience to notice. The more you know a subject the more information you can give your  audience.

There is this confidence that comes with Knowing the subject you speak on. When you know what you are saying you have more confidence to speak. Make sure you are knowledgeable enough before you speak on any subject.

# 2 Know your audience

When you know your audience you can know the ideal terms that is suitable for them.

The way you will talk to a professor is different from the way you will talk to an undergraduate. You tailor your message to suit your audience.

# 3 Never apologies

Never apologies to your audience when you make a mistake, and you apologies it makes it look obvious. Just deliver the message and ignore any mistake you make in the process.

# 4 Focus on your message not on yourself

The main focus is the message not you! Stay focus on the message and deliver to the best of your ability.

The audience are not interested in you but the message. Try and stay focus on the message so that you won't distract the audience from the point you are trying to pass.

# 5 Gesture and body language

Communication is more of body language than verbal. So give more gesture to your talk, it shows passion and authenticity of what you are saying.

Body language shows demonstration of what you are saying. If you don't use gesture in your talk, to your audience is like you are not passionate about what you are saying.

Through the use of body language the audience can sense how real what you are saying is or you are just faking it.

# 6 Keep eye contact

Try to keep an eye contact with your audience and the best way to do that is to smile and look the audience in the eye. It shows confidence and it makes the audience pay attention to what you are saying.

You don't have to focus on one particular audience instead carry all the audience along by varying your eye contact.

# 7 Make use of pauses variety

Pause is a period of silence between words and phrases. The main function is to separate ideas and hold attention.

Pause give your speech power it makes you sound like a professional speaker and it makes you sound like an authority. Pauses Make your point organise and clear.

These are the basic public speaking tips, make use of it regularly and trust me you will get better at it.

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7 Steps to effective selling

Effective selling is not luck! Effective selling is doing the right thing. When you do the right thing you get the right result you want.

We all are in the business of selling but how many of us are selling rightly and how many of us are closing the sales.

These are the steps for effective closing.

# 1 Prospecting

Prospecting is your first step in selling. Prospecting will help you unfold your real customers.

You can't sell to everybody you need to Prospect base on demography so as to know the prospect that match your need.  The more time you spend on Prospecting the easier for you to close the sales.

# 2 Establishing rapport and trust

Establishing rapport and trust is your secret to good closing. You create rapport by answering good personal questions.  When you ask question that shows likeless it make customers like you as a sales.

The world is in an era of relationship marketing and selling. People buy more from people they like and trust.
Show some love to your customers by letting them know you care through been interested in there other areas of personal life.

# 3 Identifying needs accurately

You need to take your time and check if your prospect really need your products. As they used to say no need no sales.

You need to confirm there is an unmeant need in the life of the prospect.

# 4 Making presentation

After you confirm there is a need your prospect need to fulfil you tailor your presentation to match her need. Here you let them know the uniqueness of your products.

Your presentation will determine Whether your product will be accepted or rejected. So make a good presentation of product.

# 5 Answering objections

Here you answer your prospect all question in respect of the product. The prospect might have some doubts you want to clear. This give you the opportunity to clear all there doubts.

If he says he is not interested you ask why and you give a good answer to the reason. If she says she will like to think about it you as why? If she says later you ask why not now.

# 6 Closing the sales

This is when you make your sales closing. The customers is ready to buy and you are ready to sell.

# 7 Resales and referrals

If you create good rapport, trust and the product satisfy the need of the customers then there will be  resales. Referrals is very importance in sales the more referrals you get the more you sell.

Words of mouth is very importance in sales if a friend can refer or tell you about a product you have more trust in the product. Work on all these and you can sell more.

7 Ways to Make money while you sleep

We all have a money issues Whether young or old. The question we always ask ourselve is how can we make more money.

Is Your money making money? As they say, you are only wealth until you can make money while you sleep. These are the steps to  make money while sleeping.

# 1 Invest in Shares

You can Invest in Shares to earn passive income.

# 2 Invest in real estate

Real estate Investment is also a good business you can Invest in and earn money.

#3 create an online material

You can create an ebook and other online materials like images or photograph and sell.

# 4 Freelance writing

You can join freelance website and write as a freelance and make money.

# 5 Affiliate marketing

You can join online Affiliate marketing platform like citibank and amazon and sell their products.

# 6 Start an ecommerce site

You can also start an ecommerce site and start making money. You can sell anything from clothes to gadgets.

# 7 Sell online advert

You can sell ads on blog and website. With your blog and website you can earn from advert placed on your blog.

5 tips to improve your public speaking voice

We need good voice for effective public speaking. Your voice is what showcase the power of your wit.

You can always improve your voice quality. As you improve your voice quality it increase your persuasive power. All you need is committment.

These are the steps to follow

# 1 Slow Down

Always take your time when speaking, when you speak too fast your listeners find it difficult to get Your point. So always take it gently.

When you take your time while speaking it show confidence and you have the opportunity of picking the right word for every expression.

# 2 Record your voice

Record your voice, to know the kind of voice you have. When you listen to your recorded voice you know the area to improve on.

# 3 Voice Exercise

With regular voice exercise People with weak voice can become more powerful speakers.

One of the exercise you can try is place your hand on your jaw and pronounce some words and listen.

You can also play with words and put emphasis on each words.

  # 4 Make use of pause

The use of silence as you make point is every importance in public speaking. The more you practice and use pause effectively the more professional you sound.

# 5 Stay on healthy food

You need plenty of protein to boost your brain power because protein is a brain food. Stay away from cold water it can have negative effect on voice. Try these 5 tips and you will improve.

How to speak with clarity

How clearly do you speak? If you mumble when speaking, People won't understand what you are saying.

This is not peculiar to amateur speakers alone even experienced speakers fall victim of this, they are  unconsciously cluttering up their speeches, when speaking.

Speaking is a regular part of our daily lives. So the question we always ask is how do we speak clearly?
To improve and speak clearly,
these are the tips for a clear public speaking.

# 1 Control your breath

It is good to have a deep breath before you start speaking. Pay attention to Your breathing . Make sure you are not breathing too fast.

# 2 Don't rush when speaking

Take your time while you speak. Speaking in public can make you feel nervous and make you want to speak fast.

Keep in mind that People want to hear your words so take your time and pronounce each words correctly.

# 3 Know what you are saying

Take time and think before you speak and make sure you know what you are saying. When you know what you are saying you have more confidence to speak.

# 4 Watch out for "filler"or unnecessary repeation

Words like "um's" "you know" and in fact makes Your speeches unclear. Try to avoid fillers in your communication. In short try to avoid repeation of words.

With the following tip you are on your way to filler free public speaking.

Top 10 books every entrepreneur must read

You can't read all the books in the world. If you are  considering reading books as an entrepreneur pick this top 10.

# 1Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill

# 2 How to make friends and influence People by Dale Carnegie

# 3 Awaken the giant within you by Tony Robbins

# 4 Rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki

# 5 The richest man in babylon by George Samuel Clason

# 6 The effective executive by Peter Drucker

# 7 Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

# 8 7 habit of highly effective People by Stephen Covey

# 9 The millionaire fastlane by M J Demarco

# 10 Spin selling by Neil Rackham

What do you think about this list, is there a book you think I should have included in the list. Let me have your comments.

3 sales books you must read before you die.

# 1 Secret of closing the sale by Zig Ziglar

This is a great book that detail closing sales. It is a must read if you want to improve your sales skills.

# 2 The psychology of selling by Brian Tracy

What I love most about this book is the practice question asked in this book. The book mention what you need to do before you meet the customers. The book also talk about the question to ask the customers before closing  the sales.

# 3 How to sell your way through life by Napoleon Hill

This book talks about how to picture sales in images to customers. This book also explain the importance of selling in all areas of life. A must read.

These are all great books try and get a copy if you haven't read them. They are a must read.

What do you thinK about this post and let me have your comments, if you think there is a book that should be part of this post.

7 ways to brand the leader called you

You are a leader irrespective of who you are, you are a leader. Even if you are not leading anybody you are leading yourself . It is importance to brand that leader that you are, if you must stand out .

Leadership in one word is influence while branding is perception based on peoples experience with you. The two buzzword leadership and branding preach value, influence and solution to Problems.

Personal branding is even more importance than ever before in this crowned world. Personal branding and leadership is the solution the world need to all problems.

The importance of branding and leadership can be overemphasied. We need to brand the leader that we are just like companies brand their products. We all like to buy products that are memorable, that stay in our mind. So the big question is how do you brand the leader that you are to stay memorable.

This is the road map to brand the leader that you are. You are a leader and it also importance to know that you are a brand.

Everything start from here because everything start and end with leadership. So brand the leader that you.

# 1 Differentiation strategy : Just like every company used differentiation strategy to differentiate their products, you too as a brand need to differentiate yourself. You need to always ask the question what make me different from others.

What are things people notice when they first meet you. If you can't  mention what make you different then you dont have an advantage.

#  2 Expert at something that has value
In 21st century if must be a brand you must be an exceptional expert at something that has value.
What are you good at that you can brag about.

You need to compare your skills with others and check if you have an advantage. Your skills with take you to the palace. So step up your game and be an Expert in your field.

# 3 Visibility

Just like every company market their products, you as a brand need to be visible for people to notice your skills. If you are speaker go to places and speak for free . If you are a teacher teach for free and get noticed.

Every leader must always be in a place where there leadership skills can be showcase. Look for every opportunities where your skills can be visible.

# 4 Team player

You can't do it alone, to go far you need to work as a team. Bill Gates started microsoft with a team likewise Steve Jobs . So who are you to say you want to do it alone.

# 5 Project oriented

It is a project world. All your tasks should be project oriented.

If you are not organising your task into project, you are living in the past. You move from one project to another. Just make sure you have projects you are working on.

#  6 Public speaking

There is no great leader, who is not a great speaker eg Barack Obama is leader and a speaker. Find very opportunity to improve your speaking skills.

You can join a toastmasters club or stand in front of mirror and practice public speaking. Continues practice is the secret of great speaker.

# 7 Loyalty

You need loyalty more like ever-before loyalty to your profesion and loyalty to always improve your skills. Make sure you give your all and be the best you can be.

Stay dedicated and give your all to what you do.

What do you thinK about this post let me have your comments.

Make your passion your business

Everybody want to do business, to earn a living . The major mistake, people make is going into business they have no passion for, just because they see some of their friends doing well in some businesses, they just rush into the business because they have a quick rich attitude, before you know it they rush out! The reason for this is lack of passion.

It even better when you have a great passion for a business and you have little knowledge about the business in long-run the business will grow and develop due to the passion you have for the business. In the world of business the long-run matter because that is what will keep you in business. The first thing to identity before you start any business is your passion for the business. If there is anything you like doing often and you haven't been doing business with it you have to sit up because your passion is your business.

What is your passion and we can tell you hundred of business you can start, weather it writing , reading, watching football the lists are endless, just identify one and get started. Your passion is your business.

70 quotes for 100% inspiration

#1 "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out" John Wooden

# 2 "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." Henry Ford

# 3 Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs

# 4 "The starting point of all achievement is desire." Napoleon Hill

# 5 "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." Robert Collier

# 6 "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work." Thomas J. Watson

# 7 "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." Michael John Bobak

# 8 "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear." Mark Twain

#  9 " Only put off until tomorrow what your are willing to die having left undone." Pablo Picasso

# 10 " People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily." Zig Ziglar

# 11 "The Only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vidal Sassoon

# 12 "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain

# 13 "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." Jim Rohn

# 14 "Dont let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." Robert Kiyosaki

# 15 "Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference." Robert Frost

# 16 " You can't connect the dots looking forwards; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have trust that the dots will somehow connect in Your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." Steve Jobs

# 17 "The reason most People ,never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."

# 18 " In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." Jane Smiley

# 19 " You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." Michael Jordan

# 20 "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Ryun

# 21 "Be a yardstick of quality. Some People aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." Steve Jobs

# 22 "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart People into thinking they can't lose." Bill Gates

# 23 "A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship." John D. Rockefeller

# 24 "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." Ray Kroc

# 25 "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison

# 26 "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." Henry Ford

# 27 "High expectations are the key to everything." Sam Walton

# 28 "Your brand is what People say about you when you are not in the room." Jeff Bezos

# 29 "When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts." Larry Ellison

# 30 "When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered." Carlos Slim

# 31"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." Donald Trump

# 32 "Those who are blessed with most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the People with follow-through who excel." Mary Kay Ash

# 33 "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

# 34 "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." Jim Rohn

# 35 "Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve." Wilfred Peterson

# 36 "Act as through it is impossible to fail." Dorothea Brande

# 37 "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."
Abraham Lincoln

# 38 "Success comes down to hard work plus passion, over time." Stanley Tang

# 39 "I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next." Steve Jobs

# 40 "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson

# 41 "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." Muhammed Ali

# 42 "He who is not Courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." Muhammed Ali

# 43 "I hated every minute of training, but I said, don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." Muhammed Ali

# 44 "To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are." Muhammed Ali

#  45 "I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest." Muhammed Ali

# 46  "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." Muhammed Ali

# 47 "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." Muhammed Ali

# 48 "If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can make something out of you." Muhammed Ali

# 49 "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." Muhammed Ali

# 50 "A goal is not Always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at." Bruce Lee

# 51 "The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their People." John C Maxwell 

# 52 "It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position." John C. Maxwell

# 53 "when People respect you as a person, they admire you. When they respect you as a friend, they love you. When they respect you as a leader, they follow you." John C. Maxwell

# 54 "The measure of a leader is not the number of People who serve him but the number of People he serves." John C. Maxwell

# 55 "A leader with confidence is a leader who brings out positive changes in People." John C. Maxwell

# 56 "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." Chinese Proverb

# 57 "Always deliver more than expected ." Larry Page

# 58 "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." Albert Einstein

# 59 "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." Richard Branson

# 60 "When you cease to dream you cease to live." Malcolm Forbes

# 61 "A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power." Brian Tracy

# 62 "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." George Addair

# 63 "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Winston Churchill

# 64 "It's not Whether you get knocked down, it's Whether you get up." Vince Lombardi

# 65 "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." Maya Angelou

# 66 "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

# 67 "Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Helen Keller

# 68 "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." Franklin D. Roosevelt

# 69 "What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time." Don Zimmer

# 70 "The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best." Brian Tracy