5 years ago, after I ran BARNABAS HOUSE for 5 years, struggling, we founded SAM OBAFEMI BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE ACADEMY (SOBCA).
There were 3 factors that made Barnabas House (@BHouseNG) to fail…
Last night, during the LIVE ZOOM CLASS on BUILD A BEAST, we calculated how much SOBCA makes in a year and we pegged it at an average. The resultant outcome was that IF WE CONTINUE AT THE CURRENT RATE OF GROSS INCOME IN NAIRA, IT WILL TAKE SOBCA 8,333 YEARS TO HIT “UNICORN” STATUS. 😳😳😳😳😭😭😭😭😭
Even my GreatGrandChildren to the 7th generation won’t see Unicorn at this rate. In fact, Jesus would have come back and rapture would have happened. E PAIN ME O. 💔❤️🩹💔❤️🩹
“LESS THAN 10% OF VOCATIONAL PEOPLE IN NIGERIA ARE HONEST.” That is what he told me. Instantly, I felt like a fool. Because at the instant, voices flushed through my head of everything everyone else had told me about trust too easily and being too gullible. I hated that it seemed true after all; I trust too quickly and I love people to easily.
One of my dearest clients told me last week that she was hiring a coach to help her with a particular task. I asked her not to hire him for just one task. I advised her to hire him for a fuller project. “Why pay a huge amount for a single task when you can pay about the same amount for more with the same person?”, I asked her. She replied back with a question “are you sending me away?” 🤣😂😂🤣🤣
Some time late 2020, Apple had entered a partnership with Kia/Hyundai that failed even before it took off. It was like premature ejaculation. The partnership laid to rest speculations that Tesla was going to have a fierce competition in the electric car market until Apple pulled a “Trojan horse” on us. APPLE CARS ARE DUE TO BE UNVEILED IN 2022. WoW!!!
Kemi is Togolese. She has been making hair for people for over 25 years now. She operates in Ikeja Lagos. She’s been making hair for a friend of mine since my friend was a teenager till today. She’s so good (I hear). Over the past 25 years, Kemi has trained well over 100 other people who have been apprentices with her, and have moved on to establish their own businesses
I am a major beneficiary of western content. I come from a medium-silver-spoon background, schooled in very good schools, exposed to a very balanced cosmopolitan life and allowed my choices and preferences. My parents, Dad especially, are very liberal. They let you do what works for you. Hence my ability to make some dangerous decisions that could have cost me a lot (some have). If my parents were core traditionalists or the typical African kind, I definitely would not turn out how I am.
Originally titled ‘Ameno’, the song performed by E.R.A has been trending on Nigerian social media for the past 2 weeks. Clubs, artistes and social media influencers have been sampling the song.
What most people are sampling is derived from Olamide’s 2013 remix (sampling) of the original track done in 1996 (25 years ago). WoW!!! 25 years ago and a song makes a huge comeback.
This strategy in business is called SAMPLING.
In the current book I am reading “Why Startups Fail”, the Author “Tom Eisenmann”, a Harvard Professor of Entrepreneurship talks about 4 terminologies that I like and will break down for you, viz:
One of my protégées came visiting yesterday and gave me a ‘seed’. I was humbled. He was someone who had tried to engage my attention for so many months and I did not know until sometime last year when someone sent me a DM on IG asking to join my BSG community.
But because he could not afford it, he chose to ‘pay a fee just to learn from me from a distance’. I had never heard such kind of perspective. That was how he got my attention.
