Prinsult targets 1000 successful women entrepreneurs in one year

…As experts task SMEs on how to become financially independent
As part of efforts in addressing financial independency often faced by women entrepreneurs in the country, Prinsult Global Consulting Limited has disclosed its intention to target not fewer than 1000 successful female business owners in one year.

Experts, who were at the inaugural ‘Women More Series’, tasked participants on various aspects on how to achieve financial independent.

The first of the series, which is a new project by Prinsult, is geared towards empowering women to get more out of life, goes by the theme: “Attaining Financial Freedom As a Woman”, held recently in Lagos.

The convener of ‘The Women More Series’ and Lead Consultant, Prinsult Global Consulting Limited, Raliat Oyetunde, has disclosed that in the space of one year, the second of the series would have a room full of 1000 successful women entrepreneurs.

She said; “Today to be a member of this conversation, we are developing what is called ‘Women more second ‘, a community and for you to be a member you must be single, married, divorced, separated or a widow.

Also, you must be in Career, business or a full house wife, most of it all must be passionate about personal development.”

Oyetunde added that for anyone to be qualified, must be between the age of 18 and 55 with minimum secondary school qualification and must have attended one or more of our women more series. So, today all of you are members.

Oyetunde, who is also the Chief Operating Officer (COO), GEM Factor Event, noted that the new women community only has an ethics that must followed and abide by the members of the platform, which is a must to empower at least one woman in a year.

But speaking at the event, the Executive Director, Heritage Bank, Mary Akpobome, however, charged women entrepreneurs who were at the ‘Women More’ event to start small and grow big.

She advised them not to benchmark their success with other successful entrepreneurs whom they don’t know their stories, how they started and their background.

According to her, “Be careful when you want to benchmark because you don’t know their background, you don’t know where their resources is coming from because if know where those things are coming from you would rather not be them.”

She emphasized that it is really important to start small, “If what you are doing or services you are rendering can be started from home, you should star from home, and when the time to move out arises then you move out.”

She told them to always be a woman, to act like a woman, work like a woman, smile like a woman and everything they need do like a woman. But when it comes to their businesses they should be a man.

The former Acting Managing Director, Enterprise Bank following its acquisition, lso, charged participants on persistence, so as to be successful in their respective businesses.

While, responding to questions from the participants, Hajia Aisha Ibrahim Banbagida, advised women who are willing to start a business, but lack adequate knowledge on how to start such business, due to their career to identify themselves before going into any business.

“I think what you needs to figure out is who you are. For instance, do you want to stay as a civil servant and build your career, because you cannot in any way say I need to do a business and I don’t know what to do? No, if you know what you want to do, you have to do it.

“And if you want to do both, there is a way to go about that, because even in marriage, you can do anything and everything without cheating that marriage, which implies that you must learn how to be interdependent in your space and take ownership of yourself in order to achieve financial independent”, she advised.

On her part, Lead Consultant of Thistle Praxis Consulting Limited (TPC) Ini Abimbola, strongly advised women to change their spending habit and save against unplanned incidents.

She tasked the audience to learn how to be able to do so many things, in order to have crops of source of incomes.

But Nneka Okekearu, who is a 3rd generation entrepreneur and Deputy Director of Enterprise Development Centre (EDC), encouraged small business owners to take stocks.

According to her, “You need to take stock of everything that you want; who you are; the people in your network; especially those ones that keep coming, aunty give me, and would keep coming to take and take.

Motolani Oseni