GuysNetwork 3rd Newsletter: Dec
2017
Connecting People
with
Opportunities
The
Mission: A networking platform for
those who want to move forward
Our
Vision: To help people achieve
dreams that are bigger than them
Content
·
Dedication
1.
Prologue
2. Email: The Key to Our Digital Presence
3.
Supporting Small Businesses – Ekwubiri
Tochukwu
4.
Beyond Commitment, Be Actively Engaged
5.
Member Subscription
6.
Fearing Failure – Abdulganeey Toyyib
7.
GN Events and Conferences
8.
Epilogue
Dedication
For readers, thinkers, and doers; those who want to
move forward
For knowledge hunters and opportunity grabbers
For everyone who believes nothing is impossible
Hold your ideas in your brain
Ruminate it with your hands
Believe it with your lips
Soon enough
Your realities will be those dreams
Someone said were impossible
1. Prologue
December is always the month when we start making
resolutions for what we want to do in the next year. With resolutions, the
statement everyone tries to make is “I’m taking on a new character, I’m leaving
behind an unproductive life, I’m doing more next year,” and more. All these are
great. That’s exactly what everyone at
GuysNetwork is trying to achieve in 2018. We are aiming to do more, and be more
resourceful in the subsequent years, with 2018 holding the key to the following
years. This monthly newsletter is vital to that future we see and the vision we
have.
Well, before I wish you a prosperous New Year, permit
me to invite you to a new realm. Here comes the 3rd GN Newsletter,
released December 2017.
2. Email:
The Key to Our Digital Presence
We now have an online form that
everyone is expected to fill for proper registration with GN. With the form, our aim
is to gather each person’s email address so we could push notifications and
vital documents directly to your email, bypassing the need to contact you via
WhatsApp or phone.
However, the turn up hasn’t been encouraging. Without
a well-built email network, it will be hard to connect with you remotely which
is important to any organisation
operating in the 21st century. If you haven’t filled the online form, kindly
do that via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjg57N_9Yn_V2_ZDLyPkSox5j3rsEyuFxj4J3g_FrR2MBATQ/viewform.
Additionally, you can let us know what strategies we
can use to garner the email address of every member for easier communication
and networking.
Our web platforms will soon be available. They are all
in progress as we need to make some
payments for web hosting and architecture. Stay tuned.
3. SUPPORTING
SMALL BUSINESSES
Have
you ever wondered why most people don’t support small and growing businesses?
It’s very difficult for a small business to grow without the proper support, especially from friends and family. I started
my small design company about a year ago. I started making T-shirts and
printing designs on them. It was very difficult at first, and I wanted to give up because the competition
was stiff. Then, I got support from my mom and my brother who is also my
partner. I’m still designing and sewing
street wears for cool people; I’m happy doing it.
With
a lot of reading, I’m going to give ten (10) reasons why you should support
your friends or whoever close to you doing or involved in a small business.
1. “Choosing to support an independent
business is an act of respect; it’s acknowledging the tremendous risk and
challenges inherent to starting your own
thing.” - Matt Kliegman (co-founder -- The Smile, The Smile To Go, Black Seed
Bagels).
2. “Most independent businesses are run by
people - not by boards, not by stockholders, not by algorithms. And so you get
a different kind of care and quality in their product because their work is a
reflection of themselves. Instead of focusing on the next market they’re
expanding into or the next round of funding they’re raising, they’re focusing
on the details and being the best they can be.” - Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur
(co-founders -- Of a Kind).
3. “Independent business brings
originality and variety in a world that’s becoming increasingly homogenized.”
-- Craig Costello (Artist and founder, KRINK).
4.
“Supporting young and small businesses
brings about close relationship, increasing your willingness to succeed and
challenges you in creating uniqueness.”- Ekwubiri Tochukwu (Creative Director and Founder, Sleek Men
Designs).
5. “Independent businesses create and
offer choice.” - Lyndsey Butler (founder, creative director - VEDA).
6. “Independent businesses are where most
interesting concepts and new ideas are generated.” - Sabrina De Sousa
(co-founder -- Dimes).
7. “Independent business is the fabric,
man.” - DJ Clark Kent (DJ).
8. “Small businesses provide the feeling
that a real person is behind it all, someone who cares more about giving us a
quality product or service, over just taking our hard earned dollars.” - Annie
Bukhman (Designer, founder -- Gift Shop Brooklyn).
9. “Authenticity and hustle - that’s why
you should support independent businesses.” - Yu Ming Wu (co-founder --
Sneakernews, Sneaker Con, partner - Stadium Goods).
10. “They’re authentic, they’re original,
and they care.” - Helena Barquet and Fabiana Faria (co-founders - Coming Soon
New York).
These
reasons could change your orientation about supporting that your friend, classmate, brother, or cousins who are into
small businesses. Be the connection that
makes that small business a great business.
EKWUBIRI
TOCHUKWU ABIOLA
Creative
Director and Founder, Sleek Men Designs (SMD)
4.
Beyond Commitment, Be
Actively Engaged
One trait we’ve all shown toward GN is commitment which is quite laudable.
Nonetheless, we can always do more. You can always bring in ideas and share
important posts with others. You can do more to connect people within the platform with opportunities that you
know of.
Secondly, no one has signalled
his/her interest in volunteering to fill any of the roles discussed in the
previous newsletter. In case you have forgotten, they have been included below,
and you can let us know what roles you will fill. Thanks.
·
Hunters:
Hunt opportunities that are deemed vital to the various sets of people on the
platform. These opportunities include scholarships such as the Gate-Cambridge
scholarship; entrepreneurial contests/opportunities such as the TEFund or the Next Titan; coding opportunities
such as the Facebook Hackathon; and lots more. Your job is to hunt down opportunities
and stay abreast of global information.
·
Bloggers:
The focus is to write and publish in your own words, the information gotten by
the Hunters. Even when the Hunters seem to be getting little information, go on
your way to find good content on motivation, business, finance, et cetera, and
publish to the public. English Proficiency is needed.
·
Social
Media Publicists: Though you should publicise everywhere, but social media – Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, and WhatsApp – should be the main media of publicity. You are to
publicise the blog and the platform itself. You should have good eyes for what
can win the public’s eyes. Just publicise GuysNetwork. To do this, we will be having social
media pages to support our WhatsApp group. Your job is to run the
platforms. English Proficiency is needed.
·
Record
Holders: The Record Holders will keep record
of the number of members and their details. Also, they will keep record of the subscription fees that have been
collected, and the expenses made by GN.
·
Realists:
The role of the realists is to think of ideas and ensure those ideas or the
best ideas are brought to realisations.
The realists will think of the new directions to go. They will focus on where
and when the next conference should hold, including how. They will think
together with others what is best in each situation.
Each person should fill a role that is coherent with
his/her characteristics.
Irrespective of the team you choose, you are still
obliged to collaborate with others to write the subsequent newsletters.
5. Member
Subscription
Going by our reinvention from a ‘guys group’ to a
networking platform, every member is expected to pay a minimum monthly subscription
fee of 500 naira. This is to ensure that
we keep GN afloat during events and conferences. It is also needed for the
several philanthropy acts we will be engaged in.
Why don’t you pay yours today? With 500 naira every month, we can reach out to
thousands of global citizens.
Account Details:
Timileyin
Okungbowa
0228122197
WEMA Bank
6.
FEARING FAILURE
Fearing
Failure is the lure that makes an individual lose his potential, his dream,
incapacitate his emotional ideas about himself, and strangle his developing
ideas. The fear of failure is like the fear of success because success doesn’t
come without failure as both of them are like a snail and its shell.
There
is no such thing as failure; rather it is
just life trying to move us in another
direction, therefore, making us fear and doubt our chosen path. Rather than
fearing failure, it is better to develop our mental faculties in providing tactical solutions to the fear of directional
deviation -- failure.
Failure
in our chosen path may occur when there is a wide gap between our emotional,
moral, and internal GPS. Thus, disabling us from locating ourselves when lost
in ideas. We need to develop a very strong mental map that will help us locate
our minds and ideas. We need our minds to be deep in thought like the deepest
ocean on earth.
Not
everybody who succeeds in life kowtows
with failure, but they took it upon
themselves as part of the success. They survived a cascade of failure that
leads to an everlasting success. Don’t allow the failure to chain you down like
a prisoner, rather utilize the failure as a trap towards capturing your awaiting success.
We
must not allow the fear of failure in us be expressed so that our big dreams
have to be fulfilled, our nascent idea to become performed ideas, and our
ultimate goals achieved.
BEFORE ANY SUCCESSFUL SUCCESS, THERE
EXISTS A FAILURE
Abdulganeey Toyyib
toyyibabdulganeey@gmail.com;
+2349096721382
7. GN Events
and Conferences
People are the most valuable asset we have.
Consequently, there is a need to engage them and bring them together. Events
and conferences will be vital to our growth in the forthcoming years. Here, you
will see that the monthly subscription fee is being channelled in a resourceful direction.
To start with, FUTA is the root of GN, and I’ve thought about Tosin’s suggestions
during our previous meeting and many others’ ideas. I think we can do a proper Freshers
Orientation for new Futarians. I know you
have a bunch of ideas in your head. Now is the time to share with everyone.
Kindly let us know of your thoughts on
what events and conferences we can hold in the subsequent years. Every idea,
every perspective is very much welcome. Thank you.
8. Epilogue
Thank you for reading every word in this newsletter.
There’s no better time to communicate with such a valuable friend as you. I
wish you a prosperous 2018.
With each dream,
Work twice more.
GuysNetwork 3rd Newsletter: Dec
2017
Connecting People
with
Opportunities
