Friday, April 24, 2009

DIALCENTRE; AN E-BUSINESS/ WEB SOLUTION

DIALCENTRE; a web solution company in London, owned by a London based Nigerian, with branches and partners in Africa has introduced a new e-business service for wider business options, brand visibility, high sales and profit maximization. It introduced these web solutions and strategies to help companies reach their target customers and clients online, follow them up and hit the sales. Some of the company’s e-services include Business Telecoms and Web Maximization, Website marketing, SMS and e-mail marketing, Key product and Service Search efficiency, Customer and Client Targeting and Identification, Data Building, Web consulting and Training, E-business Hosting and Management, Web Strategic Placements, Banner Placements, Web Payment Guides, Web Contract Completion etc.

Some companies own websites but rarely know the difference from when they do not have a website. Some want to bring their businesses online but lack the requisite guidance on the kind of web presence or site that will be suitable for their businesses. Dialcentre offers a customized solution to these companies. Pre-existing websites have a lot to gain from these innovative web products.

The ICT Company offers guidelines and consultancy on web restructuring, market domination, product branding and market partnerships especially on the internet. An official from the company noted that with the fast pacing global market trends, companies that do not have an established market presence online will be left out even in offline transactions. He notes that one sure way to build a global brand and link up with world markets is through the internet. Dialcentre offers the easy, step by step and customized strategies to businesses and brands in all sectors including Oil and Gas, Academia, Health, Business, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Distribution and Marketing, Services etc; that will to build a profitable business through the web. One of its main aims is to organize trainings that will clearly teach businesses and individuals especially in the developing countries, how to make the most from the online global market.

The company has a pool of web experts and partners whose constant research and methods are built up to increase customer efficiency and effectiveness. Contact: www.dialcentre.net
E-mail: info@dialcentre.net

ANABEL PARTNERS ALABA INTERNATIONAL MARKET ON GLOBAL EXPANSION

Anabel Group, Nigeria’s first tier Smart Phone manufacturer has entered into a mega agreement with Alaba Market Electronics Dealers. This is to give these electronic dealers a global exposure and train them in the use of Internet broadband to enhance their business growth. This initiative is titled: The Alaba Global Market Network: An Anabel Group Initiative. It makes a way for the Smart Phones into this popular Nigerian market where it will provide training in new consumer electronics technology for Alaba traders.

Commenting on this recent development, the president/CEO Anabel Group, Mr Nicholas Okoye said that this relationship will create a powerful and remarkable impact on the market and will make it a formidable force in Africa.

Alaba International has been the most successful electronics market in Nigeria and this initiative will give it the global exposure it needs. It will also speed up the market trade relations with other countries of Africa as Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and others.

Anabel Group restated the need to develop and invest in research and development of consumer products that are Nigerian products which they have done in their show of resilience in the creation and launching of the first Nigerian Smart phone made by Anabel Mobile. The CEO of Anabel Group said “We are using this as a learning experience to tell these electronic dealers and traders we can do this and many other consumer products. So we are going to be training them on how to design and manufacture consumer products that would be Nigerian owned and brand and we would take it across Africa.”

Commenting at the introduction of Anabel brand and its range of products, the Executive Chairman, Alaba International Electronics market, Emeka Dike said that the entire market executive council voted to shut down trading in the market for three hours to show their unflinching support for the brand and a sign of commitment to a new partnership expected to grow both parties to greater heights. The traders commended the telecommunications equipment vendor for building a global brand for the country and pledged the full support of the market for Anabel.

Anabel Group strongly believes that since the brand is the first smart phones in Africa that a lot of international businessmen in Alaba would be using Anabel phones to access their e-mails, document and store data and enhance their businesses.

Friday, April 17, 2009

ANABEL; MAKERS OF THE 1ST AFRICAN SMARTPHONES PARTNERS ALABA INTERNATIONAL MARKET ON GLOBAL EXPANSION

Anabel Group, Nigeria’s first tier Smart Phone manufacturer has entered into a mega agreement with Alaba Market Electronics Dealers. This is to give these electronic dealers a global exposure and train them in the use of Internet broadband to enhance their business growth. This initiative is titled: The Alaba Global Market Network: An Anabel Group Initiative. It makes a way for the Smart Phones into this popular Nigerian market where it will provide training in new consumer electronics technology for Alaba traders.

Commenting on this recent development, the president/CEO Anabel Group, Mr Nicholas Okoye said that this relationship will create a powerful and remarkable impact on the market and will make it a formidable force in Africa.

Alaba International has been the most successful electronics market in Nigeria and this initiative will give it the global exposure it needs. It will also speed up the market trade relations with other countries of Africa as Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and others.

Anabel Group restated the need to develop and invest in research and development of consumer products that are Nigerian products which they have done in their show of resilience in the creation and launching of the first Nigerian Smart phone made by Anabel Mobile. The CEO of Anabel Group said “We are using this as a learning experience to tell these electronic dealers and traders we can do this and many other consumer products. So we are going to be training them on how to design and manufacture consumer products that would be Nigerian owned and brand and we would take it across Africa.”

Commenting at the introduction of Anabel brand and its range of products, the Executive Chairman, Alaba International Electronics market, Emeka Dike said that the entire market executive council voted to shut down trading in the market for three hours to show their unflinching support for the brand and a sign of commitment to a new partnership expected to grow both parties to greater heights. The traders commended the telecommunications equipment vendor for building a global brand for the country and pledged the full support of the market for Anabel.

Anabel Group strongly believes that since the brand is the first smart phones in Africa that a lot of international businessmen in Alaba would be using Anabel phones to access their e-mails, document and store data and enhance their businesses.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

BRANDING NIGERIA; What is it?

You can only brand what has been made. If you could ask a brand manager or a brand strategist, they would simply tell you that they have product lines and an existing company which they seek to give a known identity. Branding simply means creating and modeling a powerful identification mark for something. I have heard of branding a product, a company, a service even a person…. Yes; a person, for if you do not create a niche for yourself…..then you are the man missing in the crowd. That is why I’m very concerned when Nigeria talks of Branding even rebranding…..
Amongst the nations…who do we say we are?

Anyone who talks of rebranding should first talk about who we are. We are already the one great nation where talents die because nobody believes in it and where names grow because they have someone in power. Yes; Nigeria is a great nation filled with great people who are good at looking down on what they’ve got but still syphone the money that will be used to create the kind of thing they like. Yes…we are great people..or what do you think? We are a great land..where oil and coin and cocoa and cotton and..the blessings of our lands are tools of violence or exported to our psychological masters.

We are blessed…blessed indeed! We can only brand what we’ve got. Lets first entrench the values, vibes and visions of change, oneness and progress…for all I care. .then we can go ahead and brand to eternity.

What do you say when a Nigerian man proudly values a foreign product to a Nigerian made product. Our well made Foods, shoes, instruments and services are looked down upon. We do not want them…all we want is ‘it was sent’, Sent from where? When you hide who you are and wear the image of another man. How can others see you…not to talk of identifying you.

What again do you say when a Nigerian man makes up his mind to give a low quality or fake goods to his people to make quick gain…we can rebrand but lets change first then we can show the world….A man who stands out with a torn nicker at the bottom is laughed and jeered at. We can’t stand it!

How do we expain that our leaders at the forefront of the economy runs out of the country for medical check up and sends their children abroad for schooling when the country’s money could purchase the best medical equipments and build the best materially and human equipped schools in West Africa. We need a change.. only then can we brand…sorry rebrand.

How do you brand us with our politicians very corrupt and selfish to steal the people’s money and brag about it….and show off with it ..and corrupt even the youths who feel left behind and resort to 419s and drug trafficking in the quest to ‘meet up’. Where are we running to. Don’t brand a decayed system. It will smell and bring shame… recook it and revive it then you can give to the world to have a taste.

Do you know the Okada man cheats and extorts people? The taxi driver does too. The students now believe you can’t pass or gain admission without sorting or bribery, most lecturers teach with their hands at the back for cut corners, the applicant believes you must know somebody in a company before you get a job there, the elections are conducted to be reconducted for the tribunal to judge, the tailor believes Nigerian made fabrics are fake, the ibo distrust the yoruba, the Yoruba eyes the Hausa, the Niger Deltans cry for negligence and exploitation, the policeman allows anything; guns and drugs to pass his checkpoint because of 50 naira bribe, the Nigerian man see leadership as “they” not “we” (because every Nigerian is part of the leadership. We have our personal and social roles to play), the roadside seller wants to cheat you with the balance, the young talented graduate believes in carrying paper about and roaming the streets looking for jobs for a year plus because nobody believes in him and he also lacks courage to use his talent……now may we brand Nigeria? Now?

I though I was the only one crying for us to put a grain in our can and not chaff before branding. But I’m not…Ahmed Kamal said it loud and clear in his article “Branding Nigeria Right” in the Guardian dated 14th April 2009.pg95 “Nothing will change unless our mindsets are changed to such an extent that we no longer rig elections, we rebrand our politics away from Baba Iyabo’s do-or-die to the international best poll practice of free and fair and peaceful. Stealing in high places must receive zero tolerance from the operators of our political machinery. The apparatus for checking small time and big time scammers must be strengthened. Highway beggarliness from our policemen must be checked with maximum force by the inspector general of police and the commissioners at the state level. Kickbacks and ten percent must become unfashionable in our public and private sectors”

We have a lot but I know we have began but we need to go a little father, smarter and faster so that we have a tight brand and would not end up being in the UNO’s and Superpowers dump market….

Lets have your views about what, how, where, who and how best to Brand our motherland; Nigeria!