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Thanks to Alan Harbiodinho for this piece, please enjoy it: Think a unique and catchy name for your brand (eg: DBANJ,WALE WAVES, WIZKID etc) Form a street team for your brand and let them help you promote your songs. Put your music on radio and ask your street team to call them to play your song. Make your song as the ringtone of your cell phone. Print some flyers and spread the word about your band. Print stickers and stick it to where you go, to the cars and bus you travel. Print your band name on tee shirts and give it away to fans. You can use a marker pen to write your band name or website address on white tee shirts. Write new songs and print the song lyrics and give it to your fans. Have a public meet up session regularly, perform and talk with your audience. Get yourself some business cards and give it to people. Go to shopping malls, parks and cafes to sing song and promote your band. Look out for places where you can perform; look for local gigs, parties and c...

This man sold yogurt for 30 years in Kaduna and was always nice to young children and gave them free yogourt especially when they don't have money.  When he was doing this, he never knew that one of the kids will eventually make him a millionaire. His good deeds came back haunting him when one of his child customers, now grown, surprised him with a 3 Million Naira Cheque as appreciation.  Good deeds still truly does pay off. Do good always, dont be discouraged by some irredeemable  ingrates.

Over the last 12 months, I have done a lot of soul-searching. I’ve spent hours trying to uncover my ultimate dream and discover my vehicle for adding value to the world. Before this journey, I was afraid of what the answer might be… I knowingly had to come to terms with some difficult truths. I just returned from San Francisco where I met a very famous man. Booking the meeting was a nightmare and frankly, I thought it would never happen. The dangerous part was that I had no agenda. I rolled up at his office to take up his precious time, and we had literally nothing to talk about. While it may have been a stupid strategy, it was one of the best meetings of my life.  All I did was share a business idea that my friend and I had been discussing. To my surprise, he loved it and wanted to get involved. For the next 10 minutes, he rattled off a bunch of famous people’s names and offered to introduce me to every one of them. The excitement was uncontrollable, and I had to remain calm...

So you want a Ferrari? Well, they don’t come easy, and you’re going to have to add more value than anyone else to get one. Remember, you can have shiny toys, just don’t become obsessed with them. Earning a Ferrari is tough, and you are going to have to battle the demons inside your own mind to get one. Because it’s inside your mind that success happens. You find out how to add enormous value, and figure out how to get the dollars to walk into your local Ferrari dealership and tell the salesman “I’ll have that red one over there.” I’m not talking about leasing one. I'm talking about paying cold hard cash for one. I'm not talking about a real sports car here. Rather than focus on the material item of a Ferrari, let the car be a metaphor for what is possible and what you can achieve. It’s time to put your head down, and study what I am about to tell you. Below are the ten barriers standing between you and success -- and a Ferrari:...