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JOIN I.F.A AND EARN EXTRA INCOME

Posted by Sunny Mike on July 30, 2011 at 8:02pm
First, I thank 9jabook.com for this privilege.

As a Founder of Naija Guardian Jobs one of the fast growing web blog in Nigeria that focus in contributing immensely to reduce the rate of unemployment. I am also a strong member of Independent Field Advertisers (IFA). I will be sharing one of my secret of success with you all. If you are interested, you contact me.

Before I introduce this successful business opportunity, let me quickly bring to your notice very important point, BIG BUSINESS STARTS SMALL!

Introduction to I.F.A in South Africa
I.F.A stands for Independent Field Advertisers and is one of the most successful network marketing businesses in Africa. Since the inception of the I.F.A. Business Opportunity in South Africa 15 years ago, close on N20 billion has been paid in commissions and bonuses to successful I.F.A.s. Business Opportunity was an innovation of Clientèle Life, one of the most respected and fastest growing life offices in South Africa. Clientèle Life has been providing simple, affordable and essential insurance products to all South Africans for over 15 years. It has been ranked 10th out of all listed companies on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange for sustainable growth over the past 10 years.

Brief introduction of the company in association with I.F.A in Nigeria
This business opportunity has been a successful one over the years in South Africa. This business opportunity is perfectly suited to Nigeria, because it supports and encourages entrepreneurs of all ages to turn their dreams into a reality. It is a business opportunity that is fair and rewards you for your efforts. What you put in, you get out.
 
Interesting part - as an Independent Field Advertiser (I.F.A.) you do not need special qualifications or a degree. All you need is a dream – and the passion to pursue it.

A most know. The chairman of MTN Nigeria and Diamond Bank is also the chairman of Independent Field Advertiser (I.F.A.) is no other person than Pascal dozie.

The I.F.A Opportunity is brought to you in association with ADIC Life Assurance Ltd. It has been in operation for the past 21 years. Was incorporated in April 1989 and was on e of the first insurance companies in Nigeria.

HEY! Are you turn-off? because insurance was mentioned. I felt same way too. But the good news is, an I.F.A is neither an insurance salesman nor a financial advisor. SO RELAX!

As an I.F.A you own your own business. PLEASE YOU ARE FREE TO ASK ME HOW? – HOW? Thank you.
 
You are just a referrer – an inviter. You invite people to meetings where a trained and accredited I.F.A Business facilitator will explain well-enough the business opportunity therein and the product to the people you have invited. SIMPLE!

This is what you can actually do while you still have your present job and for those that have no job can take it full-time. Just like me, I do it as a part-time at the moment.

NOTE: I need to ring this to your hearings over and over again, THIS IS NOT A GET RICH SCHEME. There is no shortcut to success. It takes hard work, if I don’t tell you this; I would be lying to you. For this business, lie is the last thing you do.

This is how far I can get you with my drive; it is now left to you.

Are you ready to take the bold step? If yes! Then read on. This business needs people that have great pursuit of their dreams. If you only want to dream and not pursue please stop.

You start with as low as N2, 500 upward as your CAPITAL. One gate way to success.

NOTE: NO ONE IS ASKING YOU FOR N2, 500 NOW, YOU WILL NEED TO ATTEND THE SEMINAR FIRST AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. IS A CHOICE! NOT FOR EVERYONE.
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Mike and Irene Adegun – I.F.A. No 1 & 2, Nigeria



Testimonials - A message from I.F.A. Nigeria No.1
“We have witnessed how the I.F.A. Business Opportunity has transformed the lives of thousands of South Africans. We are so excited that I.F.A. has been brought to Nigeria and that we, too, can be part of this opportunity. Nigerians have an exceptional entrepreneurial spirit, are intelligent and have a passion for innovation and working hard. I therefore recommend to you this life-changing network marketing business opportunity. With I.F.A., we as Nigerians can experience so much more! Join us now so that you can change your life and the lives of others around you.”
 Next step:
I will host anyone interested on FREE BUSINESS SEMINAR where the experts will explain to you more of the benefits of the business opportunity. THE SEMINAR IS FREE!!!

Note: Please adhere to this time, you can only call me from Monday - Friday. Time: 8am - 6pm. Am a very busy person.

If you are interested, please email me at naijaguardianjobs@gmail.com or call me on 08072041412 and provide the below details:

Name:
Phone Number:
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Thank you for your time and I will be glad to help change your life forever!

Naija Guardian Jobs
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Shit business is serious business The Modern Agbepo and shalanga meet Otunba Gadaffi

Posted by 9jabook.com on November 15, 2010 at 9:19pm
CNN carried out a report today on Otunba Gaddafi and his Mobile toilet


CNN's Christian Purefoy talks with a Nigerian entrepenuer who sees an opportunity in providing quality portable toilet units in the country.

Long, long, long, long time ago
African man we no dey carry shit
We dey shit inside big big hole
For Yoruba-land na "Shalanga"


Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos where a local entrepreneur is benefiting from a niche in the market - providing portable toilets.


Isaac Durojaiye was sure that his business would succeed
"Years back those who evacuated human waste in Nigeria were ashamed to do the job - they covered their faces so nobody could recognise them.

"But all that is changing now," says Isaac Durojaiye - also known as Otunba Gaddafi - who runs a mobile toilet business called Dignified Mobile Toilets (DMT).

"I named it dignified to show the world that there is dignity in the business," says the former bodyguard whose code name while working in government security circles was Gaddafi.

"There is nothing to be ashamed about human waste, it is a reality - we all have to answer the call of nature."

Confident of success

He started the business in 1992 after observing that there were only about 500 functional public toilets in Nigeria, a country with a population of more than 130m.


The toilets are becoming a familiar sight in Nigeria's major cities
"Even then most of the public toilets were poorly maintained," he says.

Mr Durojaiye says his mobile toilets which are made of high quality plastic materials are available for sale, rent and for leasing. DMT maintains the toilets and its specialized trucks evacuate the human waste twice a week from each toilet.

He recalls that when he set up the business he was confident of success given that with a population of Nigeria's size, there is a huge demand for public toilets.

Social service

The toilets are becoming a familiar sight at densely populated public places like bus stops and motor parks in major Nigerian cities.

"We are performing a major social service as we are eliminating the need for people to defecate in public places," he says.

Each toilet according to him typically serves about 100 people each day for a fee of 20 Nigerian naira per usage.

A typical day's proceeds works out at about $15 which is a fairly good income by Nigerian standards.

And for a fee, businesses can advertise their products on the toilet doors. To date, about 25% of DMT's revenue comes from advertising.

The company is also working on plans to recycle the waste collected to generate bio-gas, electricity and fertilizer for farmers.






watch bbc interview

http://www.9jamovies.com/play.php?vid=1025









Long, long, long, long time ago
African man we no dey carry shit
We dey shit inside big big hole
For Yoruba-land na "Shalanga"
For Igbo-land na "Onunu-insi"
For Hausa-land na "Salga"
For Gaa-land na "Tiafi"
For Ashanti-land na "Yarni"
For Ethiopia-land na "Sagara-be"
For Kagyu-land na "Cho-Cho"
For Bemba-land na "Chimbuzi"
For Tunga-land na "Echibuzi"
Long, long, long, long time ago
African man we no dey carry shit
We dey shit inside big big hole
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Atiku: Lets debate ! Please where dis man come get brain now ?

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on September 22, 2010 at 11:03pm
A Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has called for a debate, on the economy, among all the presidential aspirants on the economy.Photo Atiku ? this man looks like a Hitman sha



Abubakar, a former vice-President, made the call after submitting his nomination form at the PDP national secretariat on Tuesday in Abuja.



The Adamawa State- born politician said the economy should be the main issue in the 2011 election campaigns.



“The issue of economic recovery for Nigeria cannot be a matter of wishful thinking nor of rhetoric. It is a subject for rigorous analyses and provision of well-thought, viable, practicable and sustainable strategy,” he said.



Abubakar said that all aspirants must be able to tell Nigerians how they intended to confront the challenges of the economy and reposition it for the benefit of all at the shortest possible time.



He said, “Of all the aspirants that have declared interest in the presidential election, I consider myself the most qualified to address the daunting economic challenges facing the country.



“I am the only one who has successfully managed a business and you need extensive knowledge of the private sector to combine its potential with the authority of the public sector to address this challenge.”



The former vice-president said his approach to resolving the economic crisis in the country was contained in a 47-page Policy Document he presented on August 15, 2010 while announcing his intention to contest the 2011 presidential poll.



He said, “We are faced with a job crisis of monumental proportions. Unless we evolve strategies to dealing with the teeming population of young people churned out almost on a daily basis, we may risk the destruction of the next generation.



“If we fail to channel the energies of this huge population, they could be a potent force for instability and social unrest.”



Abubakar, however, stunned journalists when he said that he was not aware that the President had declared his intention to vie for the PDP ticket.



“I didn’t see it (declaration). Honestly, I didn’t watch it,” he said.



Twenty seven out of the 28 PDP governors were among thousands of people that attended Jonathan’s presidential declaration at the Eagle Square on Saturday in Abuja. The event was shown live by some public and private television stations nationwide.



On the reported move by some politicians to produce a consensus presidential candidate among the Northern aspirants, Abubakar said, “There is a process for the emergence of a consensus candidate in the North. It shows that North is even more united if “they” agree to bring out a consensus candidate.”



He also said he was not aware of the support that Jonathan was getting from the northern states.



Reacting to the challenge, the Presidential Adviser to Jonathan on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji, said the President was ready for such a debate.



“We are ready for it (debate) anytime. The President has talked about all the aspects of the economy when he declared. If they want more, we are ready for them,” he said.



Another aspirant, who is also the Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, also expressed readiness for the debate.



“We are ready for the debate. That is what we have been calling for. Without such an issue-based debate, we will not be able to get the best candidate. Saraki is ready for it,” one of the governor’s aides, Mr. Billy Adedamola, said.
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Naija Must Go: Ghana’s hostility to 9gerian business

Posted by 9jabook.com webmadam on May 20, 2010 at 4:58am
ON Monday, May 10, 2010, the Africa Independent Television (AIT) ran a feature on how a hostile policy put in place by the government of the Republic of Ghana has led to the closure of Nigerian businesses in that country.
Photo: John Attah Mills President of Ghana a known member of Synagogoue Church of all nations with Prophet TB Joshua as General Overseer.
Maybe if TB stopped him from coming he might change his mind on naija must go .
Shops were seen placed under lock and key, while their owners were sitting, idly, outside hoping against hope that something would happen to change the minds of their host government. But from all indications, nothing like that is likely to happen.

As soon as he received the mandate of his people, President John Atta-Mills prodded the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Protection Council (GIPC), Mr George Aboagye, to swing into action and strictly implement the GIPC Act of 1994, which demands that any foreign business based in Ghana must pay $300,000 or 48 million Naira into the coffers of the GIPC before it is allowed to open shop or continue to operate.

Way back in 2007, Nigerian businesses in Ghana were closed down as a result of this law. There are indications that the Act is being upgraded to ensure that only foreign businesses that have not less than one million US$ will be allowed to operate in Ghana. Ghana has decided to press ahead with this rather atrocious regulation in spite of the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Trade and efforts by the West African regional body to move its member states towards economic unification....

Ghana decided to impose this protectionist measure in line with popular agitations among indigenous business owners, who feel that the influx of people from highly populous countries of the world, such as Nigeria, China and India are crowding them out of competition. A recent forum Aboagye had with Ghanaian business owners in Kumasi focused on ways of protecting the local entrepreneurs from their foreign counterparts and keeping the foreigners under strict control.

From their online responses, it is clear that Ghanaians are hugely in support of the measure. They have obviously not forgotten how they were shabbily treated when they flocked to Nigeria when the Ghanaian economy collapsed in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. In the name of getting rid of “illegal aliens”, Ghanaians were bundled into lorries and shipped across the borders by the Alhaji Shehu Shagari’s government in 1981.

Bags made from a tough polyethylene fabric were derisively named: Ghana-Must-Go, a term that rankles with Ghanaians who retort: Nigeria-Must-Die.

It is clear that relations between the two former sister countries have changed for the worse. In those days, Ghana was like an offshore territory of Nigeria, and people from both countries freely came, settled and went. Those Nigerian traders who are now marooned in Ghana went there in that old spirit of regarding Ghana as a friendly nation of Nigeria across the West Coast.

From the way Ghanaians are booing Nigerians in their country, it will not surprise anyone if, like in South Africa, we begin to see gangs of organised youths perpetrating violence against foreigners, especially Nigerians.

We must allow incidents like these to teach us a thing or two about the need to repair our own country and encourage our fleeing people to come back and join the effort to rebuild Nigeria. We should also come to terms with the fact that every country is defying globalisation and taking steps to protect their own citizens.

Nigeria is still a country where foreigners, such as Chinese, Indians, Lebanese, people of the Sahara and Sahelian region and even Ghanaians freely come and settle and carry on their economic activities without much regulation. In fact, in some parts of the country, Lebanese and other Arabs are far more welcome and are more at home than Nigerians from other parts of Nigeria.

Nigerians are hunted both in their country and abroad, and the Nigerian government is not concerned in the least. This is no longer acceptable. The presidency and the National Assembly must wake up and act to protect the interests and well being of Nigerians and encourage our people to stay in Nigeria and actualise the Nigerian dream.
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CEO Interview: Brian Gentile jaspersoft on How to Build a successful Open Source business

Posted by technology on February 14, 2010 at 10:21pm

CEO Interview: Brian Gentile on How to Build a successful Open Source business

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Olliance will be running a series of CEO Interviews throughout the year. I sat down with Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft ( www.jaspersoft.com ), to get his thoughts on Open Source software and current market trends. This is the first in a two part series with Brian where he shares his thoughts.

Part 1: A discussion on open source today – challenges and learnings for commercial Open Source vendors and customer CIOs.

Miriam – Some analysts believe 2010 will be a year of explosive growth for Open Source. What are your thoughts on the 2010?

Brian – Gartner recently issued an open source business intelligence report forecasting a 5-fold increase in the next three years. 2010 will be the third consecutive year where there will have been large jumps in the successful use of open source products; so yes, I am bullish about the up-coming year.

Above the infrastructure layer, more than ever open source will become necessary – more than acceptable . . . expected, mainstream and validated. It is important to distinguish between open source as an underlying infrastructure layer and the layers of software above that are more application like. This marks an important transition in the adoption and use of open source software.

Miriam – So you think that the Open Source B.I. space has moved out of the early adopter stage and is now moving to the top of the curve from a Crossing the Chasm perspective?

Brian – I would say it is early majority – it has crossed the chasm and is now in the early majority. That’s important socio-graphically, because now not just “Type A” customers (those companies and IT teams who see innovative information technology as the means to competitive advantage) are adopting, but “Type B” as well.

Miriam – How many years has it been for the Open Source B.I. segment in the market place – from when it started out in the marketplace to get to that point up the curve? Four years?

Brian – The earliest point would be late 2001 when the first mainstream open source BI project appeared, called JasperReports. Early users were developers that used this open source reporting engine and library. Then, I’d estimate that mainstream use of open source BI began in 2005, when Jaspersoft introduced the first full-fledged BI Server (JasperServer) and other vendors appeared as well.

Miriam – That’s part of cycle maturity, when multiple vendors are in the market. What about other segments above the infrastructure? What are the characteristics that you think would make it possible for another segment to become like Open Source BI?

Brian – Not all software sectors necessarily represent a good market for the open source model. There are characteristics that make certain sectors better for open source.

Miriam – What are they?

Brian – Firstly, the software sector has to be at a maturity level where you don’t have to explain what the software is, what it does, and why it is beneficial. Open source companies don’t have the time or money to educate. You won’t see successful open source companies in new software categories where you have to prove that the software is necessary.

Secondly, it has to be a big enough market where the volume needs of a commercial open source company can be met.

Thirdly, incumbent players should be leaving a portion of the market under-served or over-charged. If these three market characteristics are in place – it can be very fertile for an open source company to come in.

Miriam – What about the customer side? What are the attributes that you have to look at from the customer side in order to benefit from open source.

Brian – The early adopter market was a technical group. Technical audiences – the developers of the world, have historically consumed successful open source projects. In 2010, business users will more and more advocate using open source. It’s kind of like the early days of SaaS where end users said “I am not going to pay the internal IT prices for access to Siebel or Peoplesoft. I am going to use Salesforce because it is a better product and I can use it today not in 6 months.” The business benefits of open source are being widely recognized by business users who will pressure IT to use open source to benefit their business.

Miriam – The open source mantra has always been that the buyer and downloader of the product is technical. As it crosses over to the business side, is there a certain business function that is going to be more predisposed to come to the community, sign up, download, etc.

Brian – I don’t think so. I think that we are now technically savvy enough in every department to be able to do this. So, I think you’ll see pockets of business user adoption and endorsement across all functions in an organization.

Miriam – Even in sales? LOL?

Brian – Yes. There are big pockets everywhere and those pockets grow as the demographics in the workforce change. The most significant demographic shift of all time, at least in the western or developed economies, is underway. It is going to continue to have a dramatic effect on the technical skills of the individual knowledge worker.

Miriam – Jaspersoft is your first Open Source company as a CEO. What were some of the areas that you found critical? Lets start on the sales and marketing side. What are the unique challenges of the open source model from a sales and marketing perspective?

Brian – The biggest challenge is to recognize the value of the open source model and the community that forms over time – it requires patience. You must have an investment and operating model that allows you to get out there with a product in volume that is essentially free and solves some real business problem.

Sales and marketers want to sell something to everybody. Many are just not going to buy your product but they are going to use your product – this is discomforting to sales people. They have to be patient– because if they aren’t, you won’t have a successful open source model.

Secondly, you have to find clever ways to have that community collaborate with you on the product. Product development can’t be fully in charge of the features of the product and where it is going.Your development model must embrace that and take back contributions that originated with the community. That’s uncomfortable for everyone if you have never done it before but getting good at it is a distinction between successful and mediocre open source companies.

Miriam – Your second point is particularly interesting. Many organizations hit two walls – the first how to scale. Once people do want the commercial edition, it can become a people intensive business. How do you scale from 1 to 100 to 1,000? You also have to change the support and services model. Any insight around those challenges?

Brian – The bigger the community, the greater the need for scalable services. One must spend meaningful time trying to put in place mechanisms for community self support and knowledge-based services. So it has to be organic and scalable. There are absolutely acceptable distinctions between classes of services for a community user and commercial customers. Done correctly, it actually becomes a benefit to the P&L. Done incorrectly, it could sink a company.

Miriam – Lastly, how is product management different – you have a background in marketing and product management – you’ve done it both in a traditional company and an open source company. What are the critical success factors?

Brian – In a proprietary software company, the product management function is essentially a guardian of the secrets of where the product is going. The watchwords for open source companies are transparency, participation and collaboration. The product function owns transparency and collaboration. The beginning points for community development is where the website becomes an ideagora – a gathering place for swapping ideas. The product management function has to provide dialogue and the community has to be invited to engage. Using the ideagora, there is voting and dialogue about the direction of the product. The combination of these principles can create unparalleled value – again, if done correctly.

Miriam – So when we look forward to 2010, what do you see as the opportunities and challenges for Jaspersoft and for open source software market in general.

Brian – For 2010, we have five strategic company objectives. They are aligned with where we think the market is going. One of our five objectives is to diversify our revenue stream – ensuring a growing commercial contribution from Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Europe.

Miriam – So do you think 2010 will be easier in terms of the market and the economy – from a software sales perspective.

Brian - I think we will see continued recovery – and as we move through the year, we will pick up momentum. It won’t be a banner year – it will be a solid year but an important one to lead into even bigger growth in 2011.

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Preparing for a Sure Business Plan

Posted by Mikky Webs on November 20, 2009 at 5:52am
Click here to read the main articleThis will certainly interest you if you are writing a business projection/proposal.Before getting into business one should ask a warm up questions like:1. What is the type of business?2. How will I be classified?3. What is the purpose of this plan?4. Who are our target audience?5. How can we use the plan to advance?6. What market need are we satisfying?7. How is my approach better than existing products and services?8. My time table to get my offering to the marketplace.Click here to read the main articleTIPSBe sure of these tips if you are writing a business projection/proposal.1. Approach to be market driven rather than products driven.Investors are only interested on how the product will be received in the market.2. Quality is the competition.3. Present your distribution plan to the targeted audience.4. Exploit you company uniqueness. (Like traded secret)5. Emphasis to be on management strength.6. Present attractive projections – be realistic in you market data.7. Show possible funding source because banks interest always lies on stability, security, cash flow coverage & fund return8. Close with a bang – drive home your points that you are offering a good deal.“Until you are able to say where your money goes you are not qualified to handle money”Click here to read the main articleA MUST HAVE FOR ENTREPRENEURS1. Intelligent, brilliant and has potentials2. Has a forward looking disposition towards the market prospects3. Believe God is more or his side than with anyone else4. Is faced by the twin evil of poor basic infrastructures, small or no capital.5. Is not attuned to borrowing to leverage.6. May or may not keep adequate recordsClick here to read the main articleSCHEMES FOR THE ENTERPRENEURSThe scheme are mostly credit orientated a few offer capacity building/ training and infrastructure development for entrepreneurs. Some are for export while some are in form of tax incentives owned by state, federal government Private Sector foreign agencies, non governmental organization; schemes for groups, individuals, firms etc. Micro Credit approaches are adopted in certain cases a general problem of poor access to the schemesClick here to read the main article
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Yahoo Yahoo :Cybercafe Owners say we need the business

Posted by UndercoverYahooze on October 6, 2009 at 8:07pm
The explosion of Information Technology in Nigeria has meant that more people have access to internet connection and other innovative IT solutions, but this has brought its own ills.Two years ago, the Internet Crime Report ranked the country tops among the African countries from which fraudulent credit card transactions and other forms of cyber-crime originate. The local parlance for the perpetrators of these cyber cons is “Yahoo boys”.All that is needed for start-up is between N300 and N500 for an all-night internet access at a cybercafé or even a dial-up connection, a second rate laptop from the Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos and a handful of software. As the con man toils all-night, setting traps for gullible citizens while they are asleep; he goes to sleep in the day, expecting to wake up to a harvest in form of money, in local and foreign currencies, saleable items like computers, or the PIN of somebody’s ATM card.Bolade Akeem, a resident of Ibadan, recently fell victim of these fraudsters. “I lost my one month salary to ATM fraud,” he said while narrating his predicament to NEXT.“I do hear about Yahoo boys, but I don’t know how they operate. The way they operate is secretive because victims do not talk about it, probably because doing so reveals their palpable vulnerability,” he said.“I responded to an email, purportedly from Interswitch, which said I needed to update my ATM card details. I didn’t know such email is rampant until I spoke out and other people started relating their own experiences,” he said.“Should every victim narrate his/her experience exactly the way it happened, many more people will not be entering it and the ‘yahoo business’ will be heading moribund by now,” said Mr. Akeem.Indeed, more young people are taking to the practice, either on a part-time or a full-time basis, as revealed by the manager of a Lagos Island-based cybercafé who spoke to NEXT on the condition of anonymity.Evil partnership“It’s difficult to run a profitable internet cafe in Lagos without the patronage of these boys,” he said, adding that “many Yahoo boys are unemployed. Some of them quit after getting regular source of income. At least I know about four that have quit.”From a list that included secondary school leavers, undergraduates, and unemployed university graduates, he deduced that more than poverty, idleness and lust for “quick money” are the reasons given by some of the boys he had spoken to.According to Mr. Akeem, the fertile avenue for the business of internet scam remains the public cybercafés.“The latest strategy, I learnt, is that they (scammers) liaise with some cybercafé owners and plug a particular device into computer systems. The device records any entry made on popular e-commerce and email websites, including credit card number and PINs,” said Mr. Akeem.Solution“We are being forced to embrace the ‘e-trends’ – e-payment, e-banking, e-this and e-that without a plan for e-security. These scammers can easily link up with their pals overseas for advanced scamming technology. This ‘Yahoo business’ is dynamic and has gone international,” said the cybercafé manager.However, Mr. Akeem suggested that the best protective measure is to be wary of unsolicited emails and use trusted internet network on a trusted computer equipped with latest protective software. “And the only computer you can trust is your own,” he added.Jide Awe, an IT expert and founder of Jidaw.com in a website post on cybercrime, listed some of the internet fraud schemes as those perpetrated through e-mail, chat rooms, message boards, or websites.According to the him, fraudsters are taking advantage of the speed and easy accessibility of the internet, cheaper to use fraudulent, deceptive “spamming” e-mails to dupe unsuspecting victims and the anonymity that the internet sometimes offers.Mr. Awe urged security agencies to be equipped with the skills, know-how and the insight necessary to fight cybercrime effectively.
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Effective Internet Marketing On A Shoe-String Budget

Posted by Maveric-K on May 23, 2009 at 5:39am
The Internet has made the world an open enterprise, making It expedient for businesses to further expand their market and their target audience. Internet Marketing maybe a high risk venture for business owners who wish to explore this arena.As an internet entreprenuer, you must ensure that most of your target customers will acquire purchase product or service. You must consider the best products that will definitely capture their interests and needs. This means that you need to identify specifically where your market lies i.e. their location and financial capability. It is advisable that you acquire marketing knowledge and skill to achieve your goal on the internet.At present, you can use a variety of internet marketing solutions that are being offered by companies for support to your customers. These solutions span from email marketing, search engine optimization or website design and many more. Since you need to maximize your return on investment, you need to choose the right set of internet marketing solutions to help you achieve this. These marketing techniques will not cost much since they are very self-explanatory and can be learned easily.Email marketing is perhaps the most popular internet marketing solution. This is a cost effective way of communicating and interacting to your customers or subscribers, driving them to visit your website to check out your products. It may be in a way of marketing articles, leading them to forums or newsletters. A newsletter has an advantage of expanding your subscriber base as more and more people sign up to it until, before you know it you would have built a bulk email list.Another great Internet marketing solution is through websites. This is a good promotion strategy to employ since you can display all the necessary information for your target customers. The website should capture their interest and be complete since every transaction, from inquiry to payments may take place. All correspondence that will be done online must be well-facilitated by the features of your website.There is also a strategy known as search engine optimization. This is a type of service for your website that you can make use of in order to raise the number of visitors to your site. Once a customer uses a search engine, your website will rank high in the list of searches which in return will increase your site’s traffic.Considering these internet marketing solutions, there are different companies offering software products and services containing one or all of these solutions. It would be a great opportunity to try one of them, depending on your financial capability and expected return on investment.Maverick-KJoin my mailing list to receive regular updates on inner circle internet marketing secrets-->> http://www.nicheventura.com/optin
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