25 SEP 2020 · Starting a business entails understanding and dealing with many issues—legal, financing, sales and marketing, intellectual property protection, liability protection, human resources, and more. in this episode, Chisom highlights some guides to becoming successful in the business sector. Meanwhile the CEO & Founder Elles Icebox Chisoba Okpala Atsu is on to give us her bits .

25 SEP 2020 · As business owner, you tend to think of change management as a discipline that only applies to our business internally. Yet every business owner has to manage changes with their customers as well to meet their shifting expectations. When you make external changes to your business, customers will usually react in one of two ways. First of all, they might be receptive to the changes, most often when the changes don’t require a huge shift in attitude or behavior and won’t take them out of their comfort zone. Chisom Ogbummo takes us through tips we can use to manage our Customers/Clients in any situation. Tobi Eyinade - Cofounder, Rovingheights Books was our guest and she took us through her journey.

18 SEP 2020 · Entrepreneurial success isn’t just about what you do when you’re working; it’s just as much about what you do when you aren’t. If you want to be successful, the best place to start is to study what successful people do. Hence in this episode of The Strip show, Chisom unpacked some of the perfect ways to spend leisure as an entrepreneur. Meanwhile, the entrepreneur guru Tosin Oshinwo Md/Principal Architect, CmDesign Atelier, takes us through her journey in the business sector.

6 JUL 2020 · Female Automobile Mechanic Kehinde Adekoya, is a Bachelor's degree holder in Mechanical Engineering from Olabisi Onabanjo University.  Kenny as she prefers to be called is also the lead engineer at FAMTS auto mechanic repair shop. Kehinde who got her first exposure to an engine and its operations when she took Auto-Mech as a subject in secondary school. made her even more curious and determined to learn more about how engines work. At university, through Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) she interned with Lady Mechanic Initiatives, where she met other ladies who were also in the business of fixing cars. After graduating from the University and before NYSC, she volunteered to work at CODE RED AUTO-SHOP as a mechanic and has been spending her free time there ever since. These experiences intensified her interest in auto mechanics and also opened her eyes to the need for more females in the industry.   As a woman in a heavily male-dominated sector, she feels moved to empower other women that were just like her as a young child but have no one to show them the ropes. she also hopes to help women come to the realization that knowing about the way their cars operate is not the man’s job, but their responsibility as vehicle owners.

3 JUL 2020 · On this episode of Strip, Morenike Molehin takes us through her business journey. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Oak and Teak – arguably the fastest growing full service interior design and furniture making company in Africa. Over a period of four short years, Morenike has succeeded in positioning Oak and Teak as a leading interior design company with expertise in servicing residential and corporate clients. Her entry strategy into the interior design business was through the provision of interior design services to clients who desired to furnish and set up baby nurseries. In this relatively uncontested sub-segment of the market, she carved a niche for her company and built a stellar reputation for exceeding customer expectations by going above the line of duty. Consequently, with several satisfied customers in the bag, Morenike gradually diversified the Oak and Teak service offerings, first by incorporating services for residential spaces and subsequently services for commercial spaces. Through her focused leadership and low cost business strategies, Morenike has strategically and profitably grown the Oak and Teak brand to become an exemplary startup company in Nigeria. While the company is based in Lagos, it has served clients across multiple states in Nigeria as well as international projects in Dubia. Her corporate clients cut across industries such as financial service, hospitality, non-profits, schools, and recently a five-star hotel. A competitive advantage which she tactfully created for her company is its ability to deliver cutting edge designs that satisfy the aesthetic and functionality requirements of clients at competitive prices. This has made Oak and Teak a household name in the interior design industry in Nigeria. Her educational background involved two degrees in Mathematics – a first degree in Industrial Mathematics from Covenant University and a second degree in Financial Mathematics and Computation from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. After her second degree, Morenike returned to Nigeria and secured a job at a management consulting firm in Lagos, where she worked for approximately one year. Following her exist from the firm, she spent approximately one year in rigorous personal online study about interior design. The more she studied, the more interest she developed for the business of interior design. It was the knowledge acquired from personal study that formed the foundation upon which Oak and Teak was built. After acquiring the requisite knowledge, she became her company’s very first client by she deciding to decorate her daughter’s nursery spending about $2,000 from personal savings. She took professional pictures and uploaded on a popular wedding blog in Nigeria for visibility. That decision turned out to provide the needed publicity for the business generating several clients for multiple years.

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