Folks, have you ever considered the possibility of building a mobile gaming guild and selling it later? Games? I thought we play games just for fun and entertainment? Folks, I am not going into how you are going to sell the guild. You have to build the gaming guild or clan first to a respectable value before anyone would consider buying it from you. Games nowadays, especially those we term MMORPG, an acronym for massively multiplayer online role-playing game, require guilds to manage their thousands of players. Now, I am still very much attached to a mobile game I told you about 2 months ago ..read more

Lately, I have been busy. Apart from running my trading business, I have downloaded a mobile game called Brave Conquest into my smartphone. Before long, I have developed a kind of passion for the game. I don’t think I am an addicted gamer per se because I still run my company as normal. At least not yet. Furthermore, I am also busy developing a new range of product portfolio for my trading business. Therefore, the game acts as a channel for my mental release. In case you didn’t already know, I am a solopreneur. Check the link because I still brag about it to anyone who showed a sign of intere ..read more

Friends and relative laughed when I told them of my intention to be in business. A friend went as far as to call me crazy when I told him that I quit my job to pursue the insurance business in 2015. Thinking back, I was crazy then. Taking up insurance was just an excuse to escape from my soul-sapping job as a general manager. It was scary. After going through the many ups and downs in starting this business, I am curious. Are there fix formulas in determining on how to be successful in a new startup? Or better, are all the so called ‘proven formulas’ by your favorite experts, mere myths purpor ..read more

This June 2019, I am into the third year since I go all out to bootstrap a business. For three years, my small business only relies on one principal vendor. The business model is simple. I find out the needs of my clients, set-up a technical discussion and provide a solution to their processing needs. My principal vendor will supply me the ingredients and additives that cater to the solution. Apart from providing technical consultation, I am also the salesperson, debt collector and the delivery man. The truth is, not everyone who starts a business like to do it this way. It was exactly for th ..read more

This June 2019, I am into the third year since I go all out to bootstrap a business. For three years, my small business only relies on one principal vendor. The business model is simple. I find out the needs of my clients, set-up a technical discussion and provide a solution to their processing needs. My principal vendor will supply me the ingredients and additives that cater to the solution. Apart from providing technical consultation, I am also the salesperson, debt collector and the delivery man. The truth is, not everyone who starts a business like to do it this way. It was exactly for the ..read more

Via sheer grit, can we ensure that our side hustles will grow big enough to support our entrepreneurial dream? I come across a video recently about a Japanese girl’s fantasy of becoming a K-pop idol. Mizuni believed that she could make the dream a reality through pure determination. Initially, the Korean producer allowed her to pass through at the first round. Mizuni learned singing, dancing and everything that an entertainer needs to do on stage. Although the competition was intense, she practiced harder than many of her Korean peers. Her loved ones were hopeful that she could indeed make it ..read more

What do you do when you start a new job? I get a similar question another day on Quora: “What was the hardest thing about starting a new job, after you’ve worked for the same company for so long?” Apparently, humans hate changes. This trait plays out most in unequal proportion when we talk about our jobs. Most of us hate changing jobs. It unnerves us, to say the least. Everything that we are familiar with gets uprooted when we switch our career. Our boss, colleagues, the fake seniority feeling, among others. Considering the amount of time taken up by our jobs, can we blame ourselves for the fe ..read more

I remember vividly that fateful day when my wife was up and had already dressed for work. However, yours truly was still in bed, observing my lady, without the slightest inkling of what to do next. That day was the first time I woke up a jobless dude, without the next job as a backup. It also marked my first day as a solopreneur, playing out in the insurance line. For a 40-year-old guy who had worked for 20 years to be out of a job is almost a nightmare coming alive. If you can’t relate, imagine Freddy Krueger standing right in front of you, with only your breath separating his face from yours ..read more

Luke was drenched in sweat. Tomorrow would mark another milestone for him with the 10th Luke’s Lobster shack opening, and yet, the seafood was short in supplies. As if life ain’t challenging enough, the carpenters had yet to complete their renovation work. Let me remind you, I am not going to talk about how good Luke’s Lobster Roll is in this blog post. It’s all about startup management and not advertising. Right?! Just 9 years ago, Luke had a fight with his parents. His folks wanted him to continue with an undergraduate degree education when all he had ever loved was to help out in the family ..read more

This is not my first blog. In fact, when I started on a free blog platform, it never crossed my mind that a blog could make money. I remember getting my hands into blogging by registering a free blog on Blogspot.  Of course, I chose a dumb name. I called the blog “The Art Of Business”. So it was something like TheArtOfBusiness.blogspot.com. By the way, this blog post is sort of a mini-biography of my whole blogging journey that includes lessons, mistakes and what have you. Therefore, if you pick up anything useful, just appreciate by commenting below and share if you can. Back to the free blo ..read more