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| Onome Maureen |
Gracing our hall of fame, this edition, is the deserving
Onome Maureen, who has carved an enviable reputation for herself in the
nation's Internet and Information marketing sector where she is commonly known
as "The Affiliate Marketing Queen".
This appellation is not unconnected with her exploits as a hard-hitting Information marketer right from her youth service year. As the Service was grinding to an end in 2007, unlike most of her colleagues whose eyes were fixed on paid employment, Onome was thinking of how to start generating income for herself.
She had known about the Internet and Information marketing business from reading Success Digest right from her secondary school days, and her eyes had become opened to the huge opportunities of making money that on the Internet based on what she had been reading from the magazine. With this exposure, she had decided she was not going to work for other people, but to own and run her own business.
Therefore, as the Service year was closing, she thought of getting into a number of ventures she believed would enable her make money. Bead making was one of these. But after paying two fellow Corps members to teach her the art of the business, she realized she could not cope with it in addition to the teaching job she was mandated to do for the Service.
Then she heard about a "wonder" bank, where people could invest N10,000 and receive a total of N500,000 a few weeks later. She immediately fell for it and made the investment, hoping her bank account would soon gain weight with the expected cash.
But that was not to be. The program crashed like many of its kind, taking away a lot of people's money. Onome, however, was lucky. The program collapsed just after she was paid her first level earning of N18,000 - she actually made a profit of N8,000.
Seeing how risky and uncertain it was putting money as investment in wonder bank that can fold up anytime, Onome started looking for a safer and surer way of making regular, good money.
According to her, "I began to hear of Forex Trading and started researching it. Then I stumbled on very useful information on the Internet about Forex Trading, and because of my interest in it, I began to study it, using my laptop.
"And since I prefer studying things in book formats, I printed it out - about 256 pages - and titled it "A - Z of Forex Trading". I spiral-bound it and started carrying it with me everywhere I went. My friends and other Corps members became very interested in it because it was another source of earning good money. They requested for it. Some even said they were ready to buy it from me and I said ok. I also had eight VCDs on how to trade Forex, which I bought for N2,500.
"In a nut shell, I sold 45 spiral bound manuals of it at N5,500 each, 37 copies of the VCD at N3,000 each, and 58 soft copies of the Forex material into people's flash drives at N1,OOO per copy all in the space of 33 days to Corps members and to other people at Forex seminars."
In 33 days, Onome had made N416,500 from selling information and became far richer than most of the other Corps members she passed out with.
From this experience, Onome needed no one to tell her she would succeed in the information marketing business. She knew it was the business of her dream. It gave her absolute control of her time, and provided the opportunity to make big money without incurring overhead, delivery, logistics, and other costs that usually affect brick and mortar businesses. But she also knew she needed to learn what information marketing business is all about.
So when the first Information Marketing Business Workshop (IMBW), organized by SADC, and facilitated by Dr. Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase, was advertised on SDE! in 2008, Onome, who had just completed her Service programme, decided she must be part of it.
"Even with all the huge sales I made as a Youth Corps member, I never knew I could make a living consistently with Information Marketing until I attended IMBW-1. This course completely launched me into making lots of money through the various streams of income in information marketing business, which I didn't know existed before,” she explained.
Onome's Information and Internet marketing business officially kicked off immediately after the one-week IMBW programme. In fact, she made N25,000 profit only two weeks after the workshop ended from selling software products.
Since then, she has continued to market different kinds of information products, including those with resale rights, and those which she created. Today, putting her knowledge and experience together, she runs several Internet based businesses, which include website designing and hosting, and Google Adsense.
She also mentors and consults for people who desire to start and run their own information marketing business, in addition to Internet and Information Business Academy, a training programme she facilitates at her office location in Lagos, from which over a hundred people have been trained so far.
"Recently, we added the Home Study & Distance-Iearning Arm of the academy, which has helped several people in Kano, Warri, Benin, Benue who cannot meet with me personally for training,” she announced.
Onome, who is equally a seminar speaker and host of Internet based businesses for' beginners seeking money making opportunities on the Internet, has taken her monthly income to the six figure mark. According to her, “On a monthly basis I average, between N600,000 and N900,000.”
And without leaving anyone in doubt of the secret of her success, she revealed, “My breakthrough came from three things: one, my husband’s continous support in allowing me follow my passions on the internet, because if he was not in support of what I do, I would have long stopped the business.
“Two, my unrelenting marketing efforts to get new prospects and, three, my continually trying to help my customers to be better at what I promised them. This has helped me so much in turning my first time buyers to repeat buyers.'
Not resting on her oars, Onome plans to extend her business beyond the borders of Nigeria into other African countries in the nearest future, and to become the number one distant learning coach in Nigeria, teaching people how to profit from information marketing.
As a word of advice to new comers to the industry, she says, 'If you are a newbie to information marketing, you should first of all identify what people want and then build a list in your marketing campaign, rather than selling directly to your prospects.
"You should get people who are succeeding in information marketing business to mentor you. Yes, you may have been to several trainings on the business; however, you still need someone to mentor you, and critique your business - people who will advise you on better ways to do what they are currently doing.
“You should not promise your customers what you have no intention of fulfilling or don’t know how to fulfill.
“And lastly, surround yourself with colleagues and friends who are in the business, because having friends in the business – people of like minds – will motivate you when you feel like giving up. These friends or colleagues can help push you to excel and succeed through their encouraging words.
This appellation is not unconnected with her exploits as a hard-hitting Information marketer right from her youth service year. As the Service was grinding to an end in 2007, unlike most of her colleagues whose eyes were fixed on paid employment, Onome was thinking of how to start generating income for herself.
She had known about the Internet and Information marketing business from reading Success Digest right from her secondary school days, and her eyes had become opened to the huge opportunities of making money that on the Internet based on what she had been reading from the magazine. With this exposure, she had decided she was not going to work for other people, but to own and run her own business.
Therefore, as the Service year was closing, she thought of getting into a number of ventures she believed would enable her make money. Bead making was one of these. But after paying two fellow Corps members to teach her the art of the business, she realized she could not cope with it in addition to the teaching job she was mandated to do for the Service.
Then she heard about a "wonder" bank, where people could invest N10,000 and receive a total of N500,000 a few weeks later. She immediately fell for it and made the investment, hoping her bank account would soon gain weight with the expected cash.
But that was not to be. The program crashed like many of its kind, taking away a lot of people's money. Onome, however, was lucky. The program collapsed just after she was paid her first level earning of N18,000 - she actually made a profit of N8,000.
Seeing how risky and uncertain it was putting money as investment in wonder bank that can fold up anytime, Onome started looking for a safer and surer way of making regular, good money.
According to her, "I began to hear of Forex Trading and started researching it. Then I stumbled on very useful information on the Internet about Forex Trading, and because of my interest in it, I began to study it, using my laptop.
"And since I prefer studying things in book formats, I printed it out - about 256 pages - and titled it "A - Z of Forex Trading". I spiral-bound it and started carrying it with me everywhere I went. My friends and other Corps members became very interested in it because it was another source of earning good money. They requested for it. Some even said they were ready to buy it from me and I said ok. I also had eight VCDs on how to trade Forex, which I bought for N2,500.
"In a nut shell, I sold 45 spiral bound manuals of it at N5,500 each, 37 copies of the VCD at N3,000 each, and 58 soft copies of the Forex material into people's flash drives at N1,OOO per copy all in the space of 33 days to Corps members and to other people at Forex seminars."
In 33 days, Onome had made N416,500 from selling information and became far richer than most of the other Corps members she passed out with.
From this experience, Onome needed no one to tell her she would succeed in the information marketing business. She knew it was the business of her dream. It gave her absolute control of her time, and provided the opportunity to make big money without incurring overhead, delivery, logistics, and other costs that usually affect brick and mortar businesses. But she also knew she needed to learn what information marketing business is all about.
So when the first Information Marketing Business Workshop (IMBW), organized by SADC, and facilitated by Dr. Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase, was advertised on SDE! in 2008, Onome, who had just completed her Service programme, decided she must be part of it.
"Even with all the huge sales I made as a Youth Corps member, I never knew I could make a living consistently with Information Marketing until I attended IMBW-1. This course completely launched me into making lots of money through the various streams of income in information marketing business, which I didn't know existed before,” she explained.
Onome's Information and Internet marketing business officially kicked off immediately after the one-week IMBW programme. In fact, she made N25,000 profit only two weeks after the workshop ended from selling software products.
Since then, she has continued to market different kinds of information products, including those with resale rights, and those which she created. Today, putting her knowledge and experience together, she runs several Internet based businesses, which include website designing and hosting, and Google Adsense.
She also mentors and consults for people who desire to start and run their own information marketing business, in addition to Internet and Information Business Academy, a training programme she facilitates at her office location in Lagos, from which over a hundred people have been trained so far.
"Recently, we added the Home Study & Distance-Iearning Arm of the academy, which has helped several people in Kano, Warri, Benin, Benue who cannot meet with me personally for training,” she announced.
Onome, who is equally a seminar speaker and host of Internet based businesses for' beginners seeking money making opportunities on the Internet, has taken her monthly income to the six figure mark. According to her, “On a monthly basis I average, between N600,000 and N900,000.”
And without leaving anyone in doubt of the secret of her success, she revealed, “My breakthrough came from three things: one, my husband’s continous support in allowing me follow my passions on the internet, because if he was not in support of what I do, I would have long stopped the business.
“Two, my unrelenting marketing efforts to get new prospects and, three, my continually trying to help my customers to be better at what I promised them. This has helped me so much in turning my first time buyers to repeat buyers.'
Not resting on her oars, Onome plans to extend her business beyond the borders of Nigeria into other African countries in the nearest future, and to become the number one distant learning coach in Nigeria, teaching people how to profit from information marketing.
As a word of advice to new comers to the industry, she says, 'If you are a newbie to information marketing, you should first of all identify what people want and then build a list in your marketing campaign, rather than selling directly to your prospects.
"You should get people who are succeeding in information marketing business to mentor you. Yes, you may have been to several trainings on the business; however, you still need someone to mentor you, and critique your business - people who will advise you on better ways to do what they are currently doing.
“You should not promise your customers what you have no intention of fulfilling or don’t know how to fulfill.
“And lastly, surround yourself with colleagues and friends who are in the business, because having friends in the business – people of like minds – will motivate you when you feel like giving up. These friends or colleagues can help push you to excel and succeed through their encouraging words.
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