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Affiliate Marketing: To Do or Not To Do?

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Affiliate marketing isn't a rip-off! If you're not a social butterfly, however, you'll have a hard time making money from it. In fact, I don't recommend joining an affiliate marketing platform to folks who want to make money online quickly because misery is a part of the process. Affiliate marketing is a way to monetize your blog , WhatsApp status, and social media channels by giving links to online stores and services, and earning a commission when a reader clicks the link and makes a purchase. Does this appear to be a ruse? According to figures issued in June of last year, Amazon is the largest marketplace on earth, with 17 million dollars worth of items purchased per hour. This equates to around $408 million per day and $12.5 billion per month. Changing this to naira would cost trillions of dollars, more than triple the federal government's annual budget. Let's imagine you're promoting Amazon products on social media; you'll get paid a fee

How Crowdfunding Works In Simple Ways

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Crowdfunding is the technique of raising small amounts of money from a large number of individuals to fund a project or endeavour, most commonly over the Internet in modern times. Crowdfunding is a type of alternative finance and crowdsourcing. Crowdfunding uses social media and crowdfunding platforms to connect investors and entrepreneurs, with the potential to encourage entrepreneurship by broadening the pool of investors beyond the typical circle of owners, family, and venture capitalists. Hundreds of projects are available to choose from, and investors or supporters of a project can contribute as little as $5. Crowdfunding sites make money by taking a cut of the funds raised. Crowdfunding sites make money by taking a cut of the funds raised. The most popular crowdfunding platforms are Kickstarter , Indiegogo , and GoFundMe .

When Trust Vanishes: How To Protect Your Organization From Moles

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After the FBI's moles in the KGB were exposed, Robert Hanssen was charged with finding a mole within the FBI. Unknown to officials, the mole was Robert Hanssen who has been working for the KGB since 1979. On February 18, 2001, Hanssen was arrested on charges of selling US intelligence documents to the Soviet Union and then Russia for more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period.  As a leader, the issue of trust is not to be taken for granted but to be safe, know that anyone could be a mole. Businesses today adopt security measures and also adopt a process driven system that keeps everyone in check, including top level executives.  If there aren't checks and balances within any system, such system will crumble in the hands of spies, moles and corrupt persons. A system where the gate man is equally able to check what top level executives are taking out of the gate and spares no one is the real deal.  Hanssen pleaded guilty to 14 counts of espiona