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5 Funding Mistakes Hindering Your Business Growth
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5 Funding Mistakes Hindering Your Business Growth
Many entrepreneurs make critical mistakes when seeking business funding, hindering their company’s progress.
In this article, we will explore the top 5 business funding mistakes that might be holding your company back and provide you with practical tips on how to avoid them.
From poor financial planning to cashflow mismanagement, we’ll dive deep into the most common pitfalls entrepreneurs face when seeking capital.

GROWTH FINANCING
StarNews Business Competition
StarNews Mobile a leading media platform in Africa that offers content creators the opportunity to connect with fans and monetise their content has announced the launch of its Business Competition in Nigeria.
The StarNews Business Competition was launched with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Global Black Economic Forum (GBEF).
SMEs or startups in Nigeria stand a chance to win funding, mentorship, and business support for their entrepreneurial journey.

GROWTH STRATEGY
How To Analyse Your Competition
Understanding your competition is essential to besting them, and the only way to truly know them is to analyse your competition.
Competitive analysis is very important in helping businesses gain new knowledge, uncover market gaps they can take advantage of, identify opportunities to improve their business and how they operate, and much more.
In this article, we share four steps small business owners can take to comprehensively analyse their competition.

MARKETING AND SALES
How To Increase Marketing ROI For Your Small Business
Many small businesses have sworn never to market their products because they believe the return on investment (ROI) is not worth the effort.
But yet businesses are beating their sales target yearly and doing millions thanks to their marketing efforts.
The problem is not that marketing does not work; the problem is that many small businesses simply have not found a way to effectively increase their ROI.
In this article, we share some tips and strategies that have been proven to increase the marketing ROI for small businesses.
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