Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Dear friends, I want to say thank you quickly

Dear friends, I want to say thank you quickly for believing in me, I sincerely hope you will find this guide useful an if you follow my instruction; I see no reason for you not to make $1,000/month with my system.

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

A BILL FOR A LAW TO PROVIDE FOR ROAD TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION AND MAKE PROVISIONS FOR ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLE INSPECTION IN LAGOS STATE AND OTHER CONNECTED PURPOSESTHE

A BILL FOR A LAW TO PROVIDE FOR ROAD TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION AND MAKE PROVISIONS FOR ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLE INSPECTION IN LAGOS STATE AND OTHER CONNECTED PURPOSESTHE

LAGOS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
enacts as follows:
Control of Traffic. 1. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of Section 11 of the
Lagos State Traffic Management Authority Law, the Authority’s
control and management of vehicular traffic in the State, shall
include the;
(a) prohibition or restriction of the use of any specified
highway by vehicles of specified class or description;
(b) prohibition of driving or propelling of vehicles on any
specified highway otherwise than in a specified direction;
(c) prohibition of vehicles parking or waiting on any specified

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Sunday, 8 June 2014

CONTROVERSY TRAILS AUCTION OF FERGUSON’S CHEWING GUM



CONTROVERSY TRAILS AUCTION OF FERGUSON’S CHEWING GUM

The social media were awash on Tuesday with the purported sale of Sir Alex Ferguson’s last ever piece of gum chewed as Manchester United manager on an online auction and shopping website, eBay.  Reports say a West Broom fan had dug up the chewed gum at the hawthorn – the club’s football stadium, after the Manchester United’s 5-5 draw with West Broom. 

The listing of the chewing gum for auction according to blog. faxsoccer.com on eBay states, “Used chewing gum: RARE. Recovered from The Hawthorns. Clear Perspex/wooden case
“Unofficial merchandise, rumored to belong to Sir Alex. After 1,500 games of intense chewing as manager of Manchester United, here lies fegie’s last piece of chewing gum. All proceeds go to the MU Foundation charity.”

WHO TOOK MY HARD-EARNED MONEY?



WHO TOOK MY HARD-EARNED MONEY?



H
ave you ever withdrawn money from the bank (in the days before cash-less Lagos), stopped over at the mall, taken the remaining cash home, and  taken a bit from it and then the envelope or bag was virtually empty, and you wondered ‘who took my money?’ You look at your receipts, the stuff you bought, trying to piece together the forensics, but it does not seem to add up. Have you ever assumed someone took your money, only to realize later on that you are the one who took it, rather, spent it?

ALL WORK AND LITTLE ASSETS
How come that our money seems to disappear without trace over the years? We work for ten years and there is precious little to show for it, maybe a plot of land in Ogun State, pictures of cars and holidays and a rented apartment full of electronics and gizmos, items that are here today, gone tomorrow. If you add your income in the past ten years, you will be amazed at the amount of money that has passed through your hands – without trace. It seems like magic.

Creating Value for Customers

Creating Value for Customers


Thinking of the concept of customer value took me down memory lane to my undergraduate days in the eastern part of Nigeria. I recall taking a taxi to New Haven Junction in the serene and beautiful city, Enugu. The location was known as the precinct of typist and shorthand writers. I urgently needed to type my final year project as the submission date was fast approaching. Most of the typists looked busy, so I approached a lady with a cropped hairstyle plaited with local thread and a shiny face obviously massaged with kernel oil. She nonchalantly informed me that it would cost 10kobo per page and showed me the pile of work on her table. I decided to wait for her, watching as she typed away on her mechanical Underwood Five typewriter. 


After six hours, she typed rather roughly, erasing the various mistakes with Tippex ink and bringing out a work that might have looked neater if handwritten.Today, the ‘sophisticated’ mechanical typewriter has almost gone into oblivion along with the careers of the hundreds who depended on it for a living without upgrading their skills. On the contrary, companies that understood the concept of ‘customer value’ have gone ahead to introduce the personal computer, and now, we have the latest invention,the I-Pad, a 700 gram tablet (miniature) computer developed by Apple, Inc. Probably, in years to come, our children will tell their unbelieving grandchildren that there was once a contraption called I-Pad. Hence,defining what customers need is a key success factor that should be a priority for any organization.


With this background, it is also important to take a look at how marketing has evolved over the years.  Shortly after the Second World War, the American Marketing Association came out with the following definition of marketing: “Marketing is the performance of business activities directed towards, and incident to, the flow of goods and services from the producer to consumer or user” (1948 AMA Definition of Marketing). This definition was a reflection of the times, concentrating on the flow of goods and services from the producer to the consumer.

In 1985, there was another definition inculcating the concept of the 4Ps of marketing,namelyProduct, Place, Price and Promotion. This was during the marketing era of 1950 to 1990 when there was a
focus on the needs/wants of the target markets and delivering satisfaction better than competitors.The 1985 AMA definition of marketing is as follows: Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of goods, ideas and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organisational goals”

After 1990, the value era was ushered in with a shift by companies towards creating value for customers and delivering superior value. This time was called the ‘one-to-one era’. Emphasis was on relationship building and the paradigm shift from asellers’ market to abuyers’ market. There was also a new definition of marketing:

“Marketing is an organisational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organisation and its stakeholders”(2004 AMA Definition of Marketing).

While the 1985 definition was about planning and execution, 4Ps, exchanges and individual and organisational goals, the 2004 definition emphasised marketing as an organisational function (not an individual unit/department),a set of processes creating, communicating and deliveringvalue andrelationships and conferring benefits on theorganisations and stakeholders.
There was yet a new definition of marketing by the AMA in 2007:
Marketing is defined as “the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners and society at large.”

The following are the four (value) activities observed from the above definition:
   Creating: Process of collaborating with suppliers, customers and other stakeholders to create offerings (products & services) that have value.
      Communicating:Describing the offerings (products & services) and the value therein to customers and obtaining necessary feedback
     Delivering: Getting the offerings (products & services) to the consumer in a way that optimises value.
          Exchanging: Trading value for the offerings (Raymond & Tanner, 2010).