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Your AI Business Assistant: Using Your Phone to Brainstorm · Closing Sales in Nigeria - Sales For The Nigerian Business Person: The Sales and Marketing Blueprint

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  Hello and welcome to the podcast.
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  Today we're going to look at how we can use simple research
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  techniques to come up with good ideas for how to grow our
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  businesses. And the reason why is because a
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  listener of my show, not this podcast, but rather my radio
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  show, he oh, sorry about the noise in the background, by the
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  way, making the recording at home.
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  And even though we're not allowed to have pets in this
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  estate, my neighbors have Peacocks, chickens, dogs, cats,
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  you know, so expect to hear all kinds of noise coming in from
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  the background. All right, now back to the topic
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  at hand. So I said we're going to look at
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  simple research techniques so that we can use to come up with
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  ideas for growing our business. And the reason why is because
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  the listener of my radio show, not the podcast, sent in a
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  message. And I decided to use the message
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  as a case study to show listeners on the radio how we
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  can use simple AI tools for ideation, coming up with ideas.
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  Because there's lots of conversations about artificial
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  intelligence, whether it's good, whether it's bad.
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  But in my own opinion, you know, we can leave the policy issues
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  to the side and we can just focus on business as a as
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  business owners and as sales people, self-employed people,
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  let's just focus on seeing how we can use these tools to make
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  some more money. That's, that's my own focus.
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  Now, some of you are going to say these tools have problems,
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  they hallucinate, they're not perfect, you know, blah, blah.
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  But my own take has always been, yes, what else is 100%
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  effective? Just use these tools for to get
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  ideas, the ideas that seem reasonable, the ideas that seem
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  feasible, the ideas that seem to make sense.
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  Take those ones and explore the ones where no make sense ignore
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  and that's it problem solved known as you keep running around
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  shouting that these things are imperfect and they and they
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  hallucinate and then plus these things are freely available.
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  They are already on our phones. So if you bought an Android
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  smartphone last year or you bought one this year, Google
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  Gemini is already on your phone. It's there.
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  If you bought an iPhone last year or you bought an iPhone
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  this year, then Copilot and all the other stuff is already on
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  your phone. Let's see.
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  I think even for Macbooks, if you bought a MacBook last year
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  or you bought a MacBook this year, there should be something
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  that's installed. And I think if you use a Windows
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  based system, you can access, I think ChatGPT, I can't remember
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  if it's ChatGPT or whatever, through the Windows.
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  What does Windows use again? Microsoft them, What do they
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  use? Is it Bing, The Bing search
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  portal? Yeah, you can access different
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  kinds of AI tools on the Bing search portal.
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  But basically what I'm trying to say is if you have a phone, it's
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  already there. If you have a computer, it's
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  already there. Why not just use this thing to
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  grow your business? So the listener of the show, the
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  guy's name is Friday. I'm not going to give his real
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  name. And the guy is a professional E
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  hailing driver. So that means he works with
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  companies like Uber and Bolt. Oh, by the way, this is your
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  first time of listening to the show.
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  My name is Tavishima Ayede. I'm a former lawyer turned
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  business consultant. If you would like to connect
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  with me just like Mr. Friday did, then you can call, send me
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  a text message via WhatsApp message on 08064662140.
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  Let's see how we can help you solve some business problems.
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  If you're scared about how much it's going to cost, yes, I'm
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  expensive, but don't worry, I also talk to people for free.
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  But I will only answer one question.
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  So think really hard about the question that you are going to
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  ask and then if we have to go in depth, stretch things out,
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  examine a few things, then we can look at hourly consulting
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  options, daily consulting options, weekly consulting
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  options or monthly consulting options.
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  I have only done quarterly consulting sessions like two or
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  three times. But for the average small and
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  medium scale business person, I don't think there's any need for
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  any quarterly consulting thing. But if you want to give me your
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  money, I'll take it and I'll see how much value I can give to you
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  in the meantime. So Mr. Friday, send a message.
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  And this was the message. It says good day, SA/MA.
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  Now, for those of you who have been listening to the podcast
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  for a while, you know that this is the part where I start
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  getting angry and I go off on a serious tangent about how when
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  people are trying to do outreach, they don't even do
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  simple research so that their outreach is tailored.
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  And actually, this was one problem with the outreach.
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  By the time we read through the whole thing, you see that it
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  actually does make sense. But remember, people are busy.
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  Lots of messages coming in. People have hundreds of emails,
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  hundreds of text messages, hundreds of WhatsApp messages
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  coming in on their phone. So I want to be sure that from
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  this small bubble, you understand, like when a message
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  comes in on your phone, before you Click to open, you see the
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  bubble, you see the few lines. What they see in the bubble
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  should be compelling enough to cause them to open.
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  Now a message coming in. So excuse me now, a message
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  coming in on the average person's phone saying good day,
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  Sir, ma, it's not compelling. It looks like, oh, this is a
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  broadcast, was not intended for me, blah, blah, blah.
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  The average person can just select, delete, select block,
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  select move to spam, select whatever, or just select mark as
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  read. So at the very least, these
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  things should have read. Good day, Mr. Tavishma.
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  It's not hard. I mean, he's heard me on the
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  radio, he knows my name, he can check the radio website to
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  confirm the spelling. It's not that hard.
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  But anyway, he's lucky that because I have a soft spot for
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  people trying to grow their businesses.
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  Truth of matter is I look through every single message
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  that I get and then I now decide whether OK, I'll respond or I
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  won't respond. So far I've responded to
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  everybody. I've only blocked one person
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  since I've been doing this in the last 7-8 years.
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  OK what was I? OK so good day Sir Ma'am my name
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  is Friday. I'm a professional E hailing
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  driver with over 4 years of experience on platforms like
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  Uber and Bolt. I'm a family man with a wife and
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  three children so I prioritize safety, steady income, and car
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  maintenance above everything else.
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  I'm currently seeking a vehicle on hire, purchase bracket, work
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  and pay basis. Why partner with me?
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  I maintain a high rating and I understand the best earning
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  routes. Routes, sorry.
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  Then I treat the vehicle as my primary office.
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  I don't believe in managing faults.
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  I'm looking for a long term partnership to support my family
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  and will ensure timely remittances.
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  I'm ready for immediate vetting and can provide credible
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  guarantors. Please contact me at 080 blah
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  blah blah. If you have a vehicle within
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  Abuja, I'll be very grateful. Thanks.
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  So that was the message that he sent to me.
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  Now, of course, I'm not in the business of matching up people.
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  So I have to tell him that I can't assist.
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  And the radio station, excuse me, that I have my show on, is
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  currently a not-for-profit. Making some moves to see how I
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  can get on TV and then on other radio stations as well.
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  So it's not like I can, how I put it, even use the radio
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  resources, try and hook him up. So that was not an option.
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  But I told him that one thing I was going to do for him was to
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  use the example of this outreach to show how you can come up with
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  some simple ideas for how to grow your business.
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  So what I advise him and what I'm going to advise you
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  listening to the podcast is this.
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  It is not every single time that you have a problem in your
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  business that you actually need to go and look for an influencer
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  in quote, a guru in quote or to go and pay a consultant some
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  money. Especially nowadays that we have
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  simple AI tools on our phone, we actually can come up with some
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  simple ideas that we can try out first.
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  Then when we hang in executing those simple ideas, when we jam
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  issue, it is then that we can look for a consultant to see how
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  we can extricate ourselves for this.
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  And please listen to me very carefully.
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  I'm only talking about using these tools for ideation.
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  Ideation just means coming up with ideas.
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  I did not say use this thing to file your taxes.
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  I didn't say use this thing to get legal advice.
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  I didn't say use this thing to structure a joint venture
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  agreement. I didn't use this thing to
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  prepare. What's it called?
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  Pitch documents that you're going to send to potential
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  investors. I didn't say use these tools for
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  any of these other things. I'm talking about some simple
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  things. I'm starting a Business Today.
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  I'm thinking about ideas for how best to start promoting my
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  product, promoting my service. What are good ideas I can use?
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  Use the AI to come up with those sorts of things.
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  You'll see that some things make sense, some things seem doable.
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  There's some things that you can start tomorrow.
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  Those kinds of things. Go ahead and start.
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  It's better than sitting down, not having any ideas and
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  thinking that you need to talk to somebody on Instagram, you
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  need to talk to somebody on the podcast, you need to talk to
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  someone on the radio show, or you need to book time to see a
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  consultant before you begin. That's just the gist of what I'm
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  saying. So I used his message to just
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  show people how to come up with ideas.
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  Now this is what I did. I basically took the guy's
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  message. I didn't change anything, I just
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  added something in front and something at the bottom.
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  I added a preamble and then I added a request at the bottom
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  and that's how I turned it into a prompt.
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  So at the beginning of the message, I just wrote a listener
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  of the show sent in this message during the show last week.
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  That's all I added. Then at the bottom of the
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  message, I now typed in suggest good avenues where the listener
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  can find people with vehicles in Abuja they can partner with.
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  Now, the reason why I added that is because remember that Mister
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  Sorry was his name again Friday. So I had to scroll a bit to see
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  the message because, you know, I'm using my phone for this.
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  The message is on my phone and I'm using my phone to record
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  this podcast. So Mr. Friday, what Mr. Friday
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  is looking for is he's looking for higher, higher purchase
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  kinds of arrangements. Somebody who has a car, who is
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  currently not using the car so that he can take the car, he'll
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  be driving the car, He'll be paying the guy monthly or daily
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  or weekly or quarterly or hourly or whatever it is that they
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  agree. And after a certain period, the
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  car will now belong to Mr. Friday.
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  So for the person who owns the car, he's killing two birds with
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  one stone. You sell off the car and you're
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  able to get some income from the vehicle in the meantime.
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  So I thought it was a very, very good idea.
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  Now, the reason why I'm using Mr. Friday's question in
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  particular is because to be honest, you know, something is
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  just seem to move in seasons and I've been getting this question
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  a lot. In fact, somebody who currently
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  works at the radio station where I have my show, the person even
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  asked me this kind thing. The guy said, you know, like I'm
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  here and you know, when I clock out at 5, you know, you know,
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  get waiting and they do again. You know, I can't just go home
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  and be chilling with wifey now, like, I suppose arrange, you
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  know, one or two things. So the guy was thinking that if
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  anybody has a car like Bros, you know, anybody who has a car, you
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  know, like hook me up now more arrange this in, you know, I
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  guess on spare change will be good for the other person, that
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  kind of thing. So of course, at the time I only
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  knew one person who had a fleet. I tried to hook him up, but that
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  guy has gotten out of the fleet business.
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  By the way, when we say fleet in today's episode, what we mean is
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  just a collection of cars or a collection of buses.
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  So the guy was no longer in her business, so he just moved.
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  So anyway, summary, I took Mr. Friday's message, I added an
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  opening paragraph, I added the question at the end, and then
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  bam, I threw the thing into Google Gemini.
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  Now, Google Gemini is not the best and I'm not, but the only
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  reason why I talk about it is because number one, it's free.
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  Number 2, if you use an Android phone, The thing is already on
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  your phone. If you've got a Chinko phone
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  like I do, you take it. You Scroll down, you will see a
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  folder called Google. Click on that folder, keep
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  scrolling, you'll see an icon. It has a white background and it
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  has a blue star. The star has four points
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  pointing north-south, east and West.
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  That's it. That is Gemini.
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  Very simple. Click and start using.
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  If it didn't come pre installed on your own phone, that is not a
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  problem. You just go to the Play Store
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  and then you type in Gemini and then you install it.
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  Now the reason why I talk to people about it is just because
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  you know, it's free and then everybody has a Google account
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  anyway. So you know, all join, you know,
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  everything will just everything will just blend.
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  So yeah, that's it. So I threw that thing into
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  Google Gemini and of course I advise people that this thing
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  can work for whatever tool you have.
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  So don't worry if you do this with cloud, it will work.
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  If you do this with your AI on Snapchat, it will work.
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  I'm assuming if you do this with your AI tool on WhatsApp, it
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  will work because remember that Facebook has its own AI, meta AI
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  something, something it's enabled in your WhatsApp.
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  In fact, to be sure, let me just click out one moment.
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  I'll open my WhatsApp right now. May I give you guys the lowdown
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  live? Very good.
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  So if you open your WhatsApp now you see that or at least for
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  those of us on Android phone, open your WhatsApp as you're
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  listening to this thing. Now just open your WhatsApp,
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  then you see that all your messages are arranged right?
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  Then if you look at the bottom right hand corner, you see one
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  white bubble. If you click on that white
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  bubble, that's where the thing will tell you, you know, select
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  broadcast message, blah, blah, blah.
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  That's for broadcast messaging. OK.
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  Now above that one you will see another icon that has a a circle
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  there and the circle is going through different colors.
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  It starts with blue, I think it goes through green, maybe
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  Violetta and then purple or something.
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  That particular one, if you click on it, if I'm clicking on
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  mine right now, good. The thing will now show you will
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  now say business assistant. That is what it is with Lama
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  four. I have business assistance with
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  Lama four. So the thing immediately opening
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  screen, the thing said, good afternoon, Tava Shima.
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  And then the thing gave me some some prompts of what am I want
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  to do? You know, it says write a
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  description for my business, help me organize my charts, how
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  to avoid burnouts, how to create reels and marketing tactics, how
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  to convert customers, tips for launching a new product, new
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  shop opening ideas, you know, things like that already.
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  The thing is ready open with some ideas that we can use to
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  move our business forward. So even if you do not want to
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  download anything at all, you don't want to download nothing
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  while open your WhatsApp. You see that there's an AI tool
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  there. So before I used to say Meta AI.
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  Now The thing is saying LAMA no problem.
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  The name is not important whether in a Meta AI or a LAMA
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  4. Anyhow, shall use the thing.
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  This will work as well. OK, so you do not need to
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  download anything else. I have gone through a similar
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  exercise like this with somebody in Snapchat.
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  This is how I knew it was possible because I told the lady
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  that you know open AI to more run this search and then she's
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  OK no problem I'm coming at the com at the open Snapchat and I
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  say snap what because at the time she told me this was last
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  year, I assumed that Snapchat was dead in Nigeria.
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  I didn't know that people still use Snapchat.
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  And she says no, that Snapchat is alive and well, that her and
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  her age, grade, you know, then the user, you know, anyhow,
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  anyhow. And then I said, how about
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  Snapchat? Is it not social media?
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  You know, you go share a picture, you know, stuff like
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  that. She said, yeah, that's what
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  Snapchat is, but it also has an AI tool.
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  And I said, yeah, really? Then she ran the search.
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  I was impressed with the results.
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  And then while I was still gobsmacked, actually impressed,
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  she said, you know, that is in WhatsApp, right?
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  I said, you don't mean it. She said yes.
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  And I said how, how can I access it?
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  And then she gave me this direction that I gave you when I
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  went there. I saw that oh, that circle I've
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  been seeing since I didn't know what that circle was.
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  So it's a listener of the podcast.
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  So he won't put me, you know, gave me the download on these
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  kind of things. So from Facebook, you can access
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  access their AI tool. From WhatsApp, you can access
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  their AI tool. So Google Gemini, what Google
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  Gemini recommended was first of all, this guy should stop
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  calling himself a driver because he's not the driver.
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  You know, you suppose position yourself, you suppose package
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  yourself well. And Gemini said that he should
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  call himself a proven operator because the guy, the guy get
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  track record because you know how it is now, how many people
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  drive this kind thing for like 4 years?
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  Most people try it in a couple of months and they say, you know
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  what, this thing here for me and then they leave and then do
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  something else. But this guy has been added for
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  four years. And the final recommendation
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  they gave was for him to create a profile.
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  Yeah, I think it was called profile or something where he
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  has, you know, a little bit profile about him, his
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  experience so far, his ratings and a couple of things like
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  that. But let me go into the the main
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  domain because remember, what we're trying to do with Mr.
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  Friday is to come up with ideas for how he can find people who
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  have cars and are looking for people who will drive on a work
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  and pay basis. Remember the whole point was he
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  wants to find people in Abuja. By the way, if you're based in
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  Lagos or nature, the strategy is the same.
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  This thing will work. Find people who have cars, who
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  are willing to work, who are willing to run this thing on a
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  work and pay basis. You'll be driving every day,
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  you'll be cutting them something or every week or every month
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  you'll be cutting them something.
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  At the end of the day, the car will become his own.
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  So the first thing that it suggested was that he should
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  look for professional fleet management companies.
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  Sorry, by the way, how will I put it?
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  There are always people from the podcast or from the radio show
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  who are reaching out to me for ideas.
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  And Logan, be frank with y'all. I am not a professional idea
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  generator. What I do is I solve.
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  Excuse me. Sorry about that.
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  Recovering from a sore throat. What I do is I solve business
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  problems, particularly business problems that have to do with
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  sales. So you're trying to toast the
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  customer. That's the problem I solve.
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  You're running an advertising campaign.
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  You're trying to see how much money you can make from it.
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  That's the kind of problem that I solve.
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  You're in the middle of negotiations with somebody.
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  And in negotiation, don't hang. You want to see how you can
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  extricate the something. You want to see how you can
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  facilitate it. Move this thing forward.
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  Those are the kind of problems that I solve.
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  You have a sales team, your people are not meeting quota.
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  Those are the kinds of problems that I solve.
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  I am not a professional idea generator.
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  I'm not, which is the reason why I keep going back to ChatGPT.
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  ChatGPT. ChatGPT Because I told somebody
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  about the first guy that I spoke to, the one from the radio
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  station who works with the radio station.
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  I told him that he should look for professional fleet
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  management companies. I thought about that and The
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  thing is if I sit down and think I can come up with some good
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  ideas, but it will take me time. The benefit of these tools is
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  once you type it sharp, sharp, sharp, worst case scenario 710
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  minutes, you have some ideas and you can now start figuring out
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  this one is good, this one is bad, then for the ones that
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  remain, this one is good. You can now come up with a plan
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  to start applying it tomorrow. So I'm not a professional idea
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  generator and to be honest, I suspect that people who you, you
• 20:45
  regard as gurus or you know, influencers or whatever, I
• 20:50
  suspect they're not professional idea generators as well.
• 20:53
  So use these tools instead. So the tool Gemini recommended
• 21:00
  that he should look at professional fleet management
• 21:02
  companies and of course Google Germany did not fail me.
• 21:08
  It gave specific companies that Mister Sorry, let me scroll
• 21:12
  again. What's his name?
• 21:14
  Mr. Friday. Yeah, that Mister Friday can
• 21:18
  try. And that's the reason why I
• 21:20
  think these tools are wonderful because they are very specific
• 21:23
  if you give them enough of a background, enough data that
• 21:27
  they can work with. So he said that the Gemini says
• 21:31
  that lots of professional fleet management companies in Abuja
• 21:34
  that specialize in drive to own schemes, which is exactly what
• 21:39
  he had in mind. You'll be driving the car and
• 21:41
  every day he will caught the owner something, every week he
• 21:44
  will caught the owner something. Every month the guy will remit
• 21:47
  something. At the end of the day, whether
• 21:50
  the agreement now six months, 8 months, one year, 2 year, three
• 21:53
  years, you know whatever, the car will now become his own.
• 21:58
  That's why then the column driver to own, I would drive him
• 22:02
  eventually Nami Goona. So because some companies,
• 22:09
  Autovs Nigeria, they said they have a drive to own program.
• 22:12
  It even described the kind of cars that Autovs does then Max
• 22:17
  Drive. Max Drive has a presence in
• 22:20
  Abuja. They also offer vehicle
• 22:22
  financing. Vehicle financing just means I
• 22:25
  want to buy a motor, I want to buy a car, but all the money,
• 22:29
  all the bar I no get I no get the bar complete.
• 22:32
  So let's see, I see a nice Toyota Camry something something
• 22:36
  and then the same. I'll go bring like 18 M and then
• 22:39
  truly, truly, I don't have 18 M, but maybe I have like one point
• 22:44
  something or maybe 3 point something.
• 22:47
  Vehicle financing just means you enter into an arrangement with a
• 22:51
  financing company where you drop a down payment and you agree
• 22:54
  that every single month you would drop, you know, 13
• 22:57
  percentage until you complete the whole thing that you carry
• 23:00
  the car. That's vehicle financing.
• 23:02
  So Max drive vehicle financing. It also says I have a
• 23:05
  subscription model and I'm like subscription, didn't subscribe
• 23:09
  to car again. I'll look at that eventually
• 23:13
  because that sounds interesting. So financing models,
• 23:16
  subscription models, then those travel dot Ng and travel dot Ng,
• 23:20
  what they do is they connect fleet drivers like Mr. Friday
• 23:25
  with people who own fleets on both.
• 23:29
  You can see that this is perfect, exactly what he was
• 23:31
  looking for. So if Mr. Friday focuses on
• 23:34
  asking people like me, I mean, like, come on, how many of us
• 23:38
  are special, you know, specialize enough in different
• 23:41
  kinds of things to be able to have this kind of information in
• 23:44
  our head like that one time. But you can see now specific
• 23:50
  companies that the guy can try tomorrow.
• 23:55
  Then Gemini also recommended that he join cooperatives.
• 24:01
  Cooperatives and unions. Now, you know, I'm from a
• 24:04
  certain generation back when I was a much younger man, I'm
• 24:08
  still a young man. All we had in Nigeria was NURTW,
• 24:12
  that is the Nigerian, the Nigerian Union of Rd.
• 24:16
  Transport Workers. So for those of us who grew up
• 24:18
  in Lagos, all those yellow buses that, you know, used to jump to
• 24:22
  go to school or you know, you want to go and see your babe,
• 24:27
  you jump bus. But then you won't stop at the
• 24:31
  bus stop before her house. You know, you, you stop not too
• 24:34
  close because you know, you can't be seen coming down from
• 24:36
  bus. And they now just stroll down to
• 24:38
  her house. And then you say, oh, how'd you
• 24:40
  get here? You just say, oh, my friend
• 24:42
  dropped me off. You know, they're like
• 24:43
  meanwhile, meanwhile you're jumping bus.
• 24:47
  So it was just NURTW National Union of Rd. transport workers,
• 24:52
  all those dogs in Lagos. So now people who drive Bolton,
• 24:59
  Uber and all these things, they have their own union too.
• 25:02
  I was surprised. That is the AUATWONI know it
• 25:07
  sounds long but that's how we do in Nigeria.
• 25:09
  We don't do short acronyms in this place.
• 25:11
  Everything was long, everything. So AUATWON, that is the
• 25:17
  Amalgamated Union of App Based Transport Workers of Nigeria.
• 25:22
  So that's the association. Another one is PED Pan, PED PAN,
• 25:27
  the professional E hailing Drivers and Private Owners
• 25:30
  Association. They have an Abuja branch.
• 25:32
  Now, the reason why Gemini recommended and the reason why I
• 25:37
  recommend these sorts of things is because professional
• 25:40
  associations are actually a very good way to get ideas,
• 25:43
  especially when you're in the bind.
• 25:45
  Because remember, I'm professional lawyer.
• 25:47
  Sorry, not professional lawyer. I'm a former lawyer.
• 25:50
  Yeah. And for lawyers, all we have is
• 25:52
  the NBA Nigerian Bar Association.
• 25:54
  And then the Bar Association has different, I will call them now,
• 25:59
  different chapters. It's been a while so I can't
• 26:02
  remember. I think they're called chapters,
• 26:03
  you know, state chapters, local chapters.
• 26:05
  So if you're a member of the NBA Nigerian Bar Association, and
• 26:10
  I'm assuming accountants have the association and doctors have
• 26:12
  their own association too. So if you're a member of this
• 26:15
  kind of association and then you run your business, you hook next
• 26:18
  time you're an MBA meeting, next time you're at the local chapter
• 26:22
  meeting, you actually can call somebody outside and say, I beg
• 26:25
  senior Bros, you know, I'm having a problem.
• 26:30
  Something some some I beg. What do you think?
• 26:33
  And The thing is, most people are nice.
• 26:34
  I will level with you and say, have you tried this?
• 26:37
  Have you tried this? And from this normal networking,
• 26:41
  you can find a solution to some of your problems.
• 26:45
  So this is the reason why I recommend that you join whatever
• 26:48
  body it is. So for those of you who are baby
• 26:50
  lawyers, join your join the NBA, join the local chapter.
• 26:58
  I mean, for the national chapter, when they're organizing
• 27:00
  their programs, there's going to be transport involved because
• 27:03
  you have to take, you have to fly out like the last NBA
• 27:06
  conference. I'm making this recording early
• 27:08
  in 2026. So the last NBA conference was
• 27:12
  last year. I can't remember when, 2025, I
• 27:14
  can't remember when exactly, but I think it held in Enugu and my
• 27:17
  wife went. So there was transport involved.
• 27:20
  Yeah, I married a lawyer as well.
• 27:22
  My wife is still practicing some somehow so much she's still
• 27:27
  practicing. I'm not.
• 27:29
  So yes, marriages can work. 2 lawyers can get married and the
• 27:32
  marriage won't fall apart. So you people should stop saying
• 27:34
  that nonsense that two lawyers can marry each other.
• 27:36
  And I've also heard people say that two doctors can marry each
• 27:39
  other. I haven't seen two doctors who
• 27:41
  are married, but for that one, I kind of understand because, you
• 27:45
  know, if you're on call at the same time, you know it.
• 27:48
  We put some strain on the marriage.
• 27:50
  But for lawyers, it can work. So you're a law student.
• 27:55
  You're telling somebody who's a law student.
• 27:56
  Ah, don't worry, you can figure it out.
• 27:58
  Won't be a problem. How did I get here?
• 28:02
  OK, so my wife went. There was transport, there was
• 28:05
  hotel, there was taxi, there was feeding.
• 28:07
  So you can see the money is, you know, it's getting kind of big,
• 28:11
  but at least the local chapter, local chapter, you just bossed
• 28:15
  the Uber there. Attend the meeting discussing
• 28:19
  one or two people network brainstorm.
• 28:22
  You know, it's not, not, not a bad idea.
• 28:23
  So join your association. So I told Mr. Friday, join the
• 28:27
  association and also for other people who are who are listening
• 28:31
  or in that situation, join the association.
• 28:34
  Then for Mr. Friday, there's also drivers dot Ng, which is a
• 28:38
  recruitment platform for drivers.
• 28:41
  And at this point I told Mr. Friday and other people that
• 28:45
  please shine your eye. Very well, shine your eye.
• 28:50
  What that means is verify all the information that you see on
• 28:55
  the Internet. Please verify you're responsible
• 29:00
  for your own safety. So you don't just hear me say
• 29:04
  something on the podcast or somebody say something on the
• 29:06
  Internet and you assume it is true.
• 29:08
  So please go and be verifying all these things.
• 29:11
  So the fact that I'm mentioning all these things, I'm not saying
• 29:13
  that these things are good or that they're perfect or that
• 29:16
  they're completely safe. So I told my guy gas to shine
• 29:19
  his eye. So drivers dot Ng now it's
• 29:21
  available then GG dot Ng. I didn't know that GG has a
• 29:25
  services section. So GG is jiji dot Ng.
• 29:31
  So on GG dot Ng in the services section.
• 29:38
  So excuse me, many individuals, many car owners put hire,
• 29:42
  purchase or work for pay ads on GG.
• 29:45
  So you can Friday and other people can go and check.
• 29:49
  But like I said, shine your eye in Niger with gas to be security
• 29:54
  conscious. Everybody gas to be security
• 29:56
  conscious. So excuse me, if you're in that
• 29:59
  situation and you're checking stuff out, make sure you are
• 30:02
  vetting people before you reach out and all that.
• 30:06
  Then let's see what else. OK, then Germany also said that
• 30:12
  if you check within the Bolt and Uber apps, because Bolt and Uber
• 30:16
  is a it's a it's a 2 facing it's a two guy.
• 30:20
  What's that thing called again? It's a 2 sided marketplace.
• 30:24
  So the app has two. What is that word?
• 30:30
  Anyway, the app has two appearances.
• 30:32
  I'll be two home page 2, whatever.
• 30:35
  Basically what I'm trying to say is when you're using Bolt, the
• 30:39
  Bolt that you see as the user is not the same interface that the
• 30:43
  driver sees. So the driver sees a different
• 30:44
  interface with a bunch of stuff. You as the user, you see just a
• 30:49
  limited bunch of stuff because there's some things you don't
• 30:51
  need to see. There's some other things that
• 30:53
  the driver needs to see. So from according to Gemini, if
• 30:59
  anybody in this situation, if you check the Bolt of the Uber
• 31:02
  app, there's a section there called vehicle solutions or
• 31:06
  partnerships, depending on which app you're using.
• 31:08
  If you tap on those tabs, you will Scroll down and you'll be
• 31:12
  able to get to a section that is called fleet.
• 31:18
  And then when you're in the fleet section, you as a driver,
• 31:21
  you'll be able to see if any other company in Abuja, any
• 31:28
  fleet company is currently recruiting drivers.
• 31:32
  So for those of you who drive Uber, you've been wondering, you
• 31:35
  know, how do you get involved in the fleet?
• 31:39
  You want to do a drive on to drive kind of program.
• 31:43
  You can see that these options are available even in the app
• 31:47
  that you are already using. So if you're listening to this
• 31:51
  podcast right now as your driving Bolt, when you go home,
• 31:53
  that's your assignment. Open your Bolt, open your Uber.
• 31:57
  The tab is going to be called vehicle solutions or
• 31:59
  partnerships. You Scroll down, you're going to
• 32:01
  see a section called Fleet. And if you're based in Abuja,
• 32:04
  you've been thinking you want to do this both you want to own
• 32:07
  your own car or you want to drive for your fleet.
• 32:10
  You start seeing some options, some options there.
• 32:14
  Then Germany also recommended that he come up with a driver
• 32:18
  portfolio to make him stand out so that when he meets a
• 32:21
  potential partner, there's something he can share with the
• 32:25
  person. It's not just talk.
• 32:27
  So there'll be, you know, his profile, the screenshot of his
• 32:30
  ratings, then his lifetime trips, you know, how many trips
• 32:33
  he has conducted, how many good reviews he has gotten, how many
• 32:37
  tips he's gotten, blah, blah blah.
• 32:38
  He can also offer to provide a recent mean verification or
• 32:44
  character reference. OK, OK, yes, he already offered.
• 32:48
  So let me scroll to his message. 1 moment.
• 32:50
  I'm using my phone for all this. Yes, I know it's not very
• 32:53
  professional, but you guys just manage me for now.
• 32:57
  When I become a big boy, when I blow, I'll have a production
• 33:01
  assistant and my production assistant will be responsible
• 33:04
  for dotting my eyes and crossing my T's.
• 33:08
  So let's see, I can provide credible guarantors.
• 33:13
  Yes, that's what he said. He said he can provide
• 33:14
  guarantors, so that's a correct one.
• 33:16
  That's a smart move because people want to know this guy
• 33:19
  that I'm giving my car. Is he a reasonable somebody or
• 33:22
  not? So, yeah, so Gemini recommended
• 33:28
  that. So that'll be part of the what
• 33:32
  do they call the driver portfolio?
• 33:34
  So that'll be part of the driver portfolio.
• 33:36
  And yeah, you just want to give people a clean background check
• 33:41
  so that they can be comfortable. Now, for those of you who've
• 33:45
  been listening for the last 30 minutes, can you see that if you
• 33:51
  had just called me on the spot like Mr. Friday did, OK, you
• 33:57
  sent a message. What shall you jam me or you
• 34:00
  call me on the spot? Can you see that I will be
• 34:04
  limited when it comes to the number of business ideas I can
• 34:09
  come up with for you? But with a simple prompt, you
• 34:15
  can do some research and you can come up with some ideas very
• 34:19
  quick. I do not use the detailed
• 34:23
  research models on this thing. I use the simple fast whatever
• 34:26
  versions because to be honest, when I use the Advanced Research
• 34:30
  functions, the thing gives me too many ideas.
• 34:33
  And you know what? I don't believe in being all I
• 34:37
  put it. I just need one or two workable
• 34:39
  ideas. Let's let's move forward.
• 34:43
  So even if you're using the research, so I know deep, is it
• 34:48
  deep research mode or something? I can't remember.
• 34:50
  These things will have fancy names.
• 34:51
  I think it's deep research mode or something.
• 34:53
  So if you're doing that and you run a search, the AI tool can be
• 34:56
  thinking and thinking and thinking for maybe 5 minutes, 10
• 35:00
  minutes, 20 minutes depending on what you ask it.
• 35:03
  But if you're using this simple interface, the simple, basic
• 35:07
  fast query, coming up with your prompts will take you 5 minutes.
• 35:14
  Copying and pasting in this tool will take you, what, 5 seconds?
• 35:19
  Then by the time you hit enter, results will come up instantly.
• 35:24
  Let us say you want to take your time and read through the whole
• 35:26
  thing. Scrolling up and down should
• 35:28
  take you what, another 5-10 minutes?
• 35:32
  Then writing out the ideas that you like should take you
• 35:36
  another, I don't know, maybe 5 minutes.
• 35:38
  What I'm trying to say is Pata Pata.
• 35:42
  Anyhow, Anyhow, 30 minutes you are done, 30 minutes you're done
• 35:49
  and you have ideas you can execute tomorrow 'cause I mean
• 35:53
  look at this, look at what I said right now.
• 35:56
  See how specific, specific companies, he told him drive to
• 36:01
  own schemes in Abuja. He called companies by name,
• 36:04
  Autovest Max travel No on and on and on and on and on.
• 36:10
  Drivers dot Ng as I mean, like, what more do you need?
• 36:17
  I know I've spoken about this before on the podcast, but I've
• 36:20
  been very academic about it. So today is the very practical,
• 36:24
  practical, practical session. You want to do simple research.
• 36:28
  You need to come up with ideas, AI tools, very, very good, very,
• 36:33
  very helpful, very, very affordable, in fact, free.
• 36:37
  And then they're already on your phone.
• 36:39
  You don't need to learn anything else.
• 36:41
  Can you type? That's all, that's all.
• 36:46
  So that's it and that's all for today's episode.
• 36:50
  Remember, if you'd love to get in touch just like Mr. Friday
• 36:53
  did and other people who have done so before, the number to
• 36:56
  call to send a text message or WhatsApp message to is
• 36:59
  08064662140. If you are afraid that I might
• 37:07
  be expensive, actually I think I'm reasonably priced or some
• 37:10
  people say I took course, no problem.
• 37:13
  I also talk to people for free. Just let me know that you're
• 37:16
  looking for free coaching or free consulting and I will
• 37:19
  answer only one question. So think real hard about what
• 37:24
  you want your question to be. Some people have money, but
• 37:31
  they're still looking for free. It's another problem.
• 37:33
  I'm not going to sniff you out. No Allah.
• 37:36
  But The thing is, if we have to go in depth, we have to start
• 37:40
  refining things. We have to start touching upon
• 37:42
  things. If it looks like these things
• 37:43
  don't become a long story, then we have to explore coaching
• 37:47
  options, paid coaching options. And it's either going to be
• 37:50
  hourly. Some people like that hourly
• 37:51
  thing. For me anyway.
• 37:55
  Some people like that hourly thing.
• 37:56
  Let me not say whether I like it or not.
• 37:59
  Daily coaching options there. Weekly coaching options are
• 38:03
  there. Monthly consulting sessions are
• 38:05
  there, quarterly consulting sessions are there, but I doubt
• 38:10
  that for most people will have to do any quarterly kind
• 38:14
  something. But either way, if anybody comes
• 38:18
  across my path, my goal is to make sure that you get the most
• 38:22
  amount of value possible because I don't want it to be heard that
• 38:26
  anybody came across my path and didn't get any value at all.
• 38:31
  The only people who will say they didn't get any value from
• 38:34
  me coming across my path was that guy that I blocked.
• 38:39
  Unfortunately, although now I regret it, I should have just
• 38:41
  told the guy that, look, this is not how you do things.
• 38:43
  I should have advised him. So that one guy and then a
• 38:46
  certain ex of mine who says that meeting me was a waste of time.
• 38:50
  So if you're not my ex and if you're not that guy, then I'm
• 38:53
  going to block. Trust me, reach out.
• 38:54
  You're going to get lots of value from this.
• 38:57
  Again, the number 0806466 2140 call, send me a text message or
• 39:04
  a WhatsApp message. And yes, I'm the one who's going
• 39:06
  to answer the phone. That's for those of you who are
• 39:08
  like, oh, it's you, yes, it's me.
• 39:11
  I don't have APA, not yet. But when I'm a big boy, yeah,
• 39:15
  definitely will be the PA who answered the phone.
• 39:16
  But for now, I'm here at least in 2026.
• 39:20
  If you're listening to this in 20350, then I'm definitely a big
• 39:24
  boy and you know I'm not the one who's going to be with the
• 39:27
  phone. But reach out anyway.
• 39:28
  Let's what we can make happen. So thanks for your time and
• 39:31
  attention. I'll catch you some other time.