Olawale Akanbi, Group Head, Growth Marketing, Merchant and Ecosystem; Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze, founder, Accountinghub.ng; Nelly Agbogu, founder, Naijabrandchick; Tochukwu Anene, Growth Marketing Specialist, Quickteller at the 'Let’s talk: Your business and sales with Nelly and Chioma' event powered by Quickteller Business in Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday, August 7, 2021.
As businesses seek to overcome the post-COVID challenges
affecting them, Quickteller Business, a leading payment platform focused on
empowering businesses of all sizes facilitate payments and manage transactions
from anywhere in the world., has said it will continue to provide support for Small
and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through various value propositions that are
designed to drive growth for the sector.
The firm made this known during the SME event hosted by Nelly
Agbogu is popularly known as Naijabrandchick and Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze the promoter of
the Accountinghub on Instagram. The event themed “LET’S TALK: YOUR BUSINESS
& SALES” was held in Lagos. The SME event was sponsored by Quickteller
Business.
In his opening remarks, Olawale Akanbi, Group Head, Growth
Marketing, Merchant and Ecosystem, enumerated practical business strategies and
skills needed for SMEs to increase their revenues.
He said SMEs must leverage partnership, innovative solutions
and viable financial products to drive the growth of their businesses.
Akanbi continues, “The SME sector is fundamental to driving
the economic development of any nation, critical skills such as business
management, bookkeeping and basic accounting processes are necessary for SMEs
to stay abreast and scale. This is why Quickteller Business is in partnership
with impactful initiatives such as this event to avail SMEs the opportunity to learn
and grow their businesses efficiently.”
He noted that Quickteller Business is committed to building
capacity and supporting SMEs across the country. He urged SMEs to take
advantage of all the offerings on the Quickteller Business platform, explaining
that the integrated platform is designed to help them better navigate the
challenges around payments collections which invariably allows them to focus on
their core businesses, with their diverse transaction requirements taken care through the versatile platform.
Some of
the offerings he urged the SMEs to leverage on the Quickteller Business
platform include; escrow services, split settlement, pay with USSD,
International acceptance on POS, Quickteller mobile app and ubiquitous android
terminals among others.
He stressed on the need for SMEs to have financial discipline
as this will save costs and increase their bottom line.
Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze, founder,
Accountinghub.ng, educated the participants on the strategies on how to
increase their sales in the next six months. She also expressed her gratitude
to Quickteller Business for sponsoring the event.
She emphasized the inherent value in
the synergy between the three brands at the event. She explained that while Nelly
(Naijabrandchick) teaches online marketing, Chioma (Accountinghub) teaches
general business management while Interswitch powers collection payment and
requisite technology. She enthused that
the Let’s Talk Business event is an amazing collaborative initiative for small
businesses to leverage for growth.
Chioma and Nelly, the organisers of the SME event,
recently took a tour around major cities in Nigeria to teach SMEs business strategies
how they can increase their revenues and grow their businesses. Together, they
have taught over 1,600 people in Port Harcourt, Uyo, Benin and Abuja. The Lagos
event was the last in the series with over 2,000 people in attendance.
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