E-Business
Building Profitable Business Organically

I was in a conversion with my wife last night, we were discussing what exactly is required to grow a profitable business. I thought I should share our conclusions with you because I believe it might benefit you one way or the other
I am also hoping we can be corrected if our conclusions are wrong. If you do not agree with these steps then reply this email and let me know what you think.
Here are the steps:
Validate Your Business –
I was speaking at an event yesterday and I asked a business owner to tell the audience why we should buy their products and services?
And then I asked someone random from the audience to tell us why they would buy his products and services.
Something interesting happened, the person from the audience had a different reason from the business owner.
As the person from the audience was saying why he would buy and you could hear other people in the audience agreeing. This did not happen when the business owner was talking.
I repeated this 3 – 4 times, it was the same result.
Build a business that people want.
Key Point here: – If your business is going to be profitable you need to validate it with your customers (The way you see your business is always different from the people who buy it).
Find out what your customers want and why they will buy it from anyone. If you understand what they want and why they want it then it is easy to sell to them and for your customers to buy from you.
Do Your Math And Discover The Amount Of Customers You Need:
Most business experts will tell you not to focus on money but value (Value is money). This is very true and that is why the first step is to validate your business.
Your customers know the value they want from your products and services and based on the value they are happy to pay for it.
After you know the values that your potential customers will derive from your products and services. You now need to put a cost to it.
Pricing is an interesting topic but you need to understand that a profitable business means you need profit.
This means you decide the price (not the customer) that makes you profitable however, here is a point of warning that your pricing must be at least 10% of the value your customers will perceive.
Interesting thing about value is that it is perceived, we bought an iPod made with $99 for $499 simply because we perceived more value.
Apple is an amazing company that will start telling you about the value of their products 6 months before it is launched.
So, you already perceive the value from product and imagine the cost as premium. Because they also tell you the value based on customer research – You want it, they give it to you.
Your pricing should also be guided by rule of quantity or quality.
After you decide the cost then you need to understand how many customers you need every month:
(a) How much do I want to make this year that makes me profitable? Let’s say 12 million.
(b) Divide the number by 12 months and you have 1 million every month.
(c) Now, let’s say your product cost is 100,000
(d) Divide how much you want to make monthly by your product cost. 1million/100,000 = 10 customers.
(e) This simply means you need 10 customers every month to meet your profitability target.
Key point here: It is easy for you to reach profitability in your business if you know how many customers you need to meet your profitability target.
You want to make a pledge and if you have a marketing team you want them to make a pledge. This is the pledge:
I, ……………will do all that it takes to get……………customers every months.
Every week, you measure your progress by this statement.You are allowed to get more customers but not allow to get lower than the number you need to achieve profitability.
Marketing Is Everything In Business:
You need to first figure out where your customers are and show them how your products and services can drive value for them.
Here you want to understand that the most important activities in marketing is selling value and not the products or services.
Key point here:- You can only achieve profitability if you market your products and services by selling value.
Marketing a Business Online Can Be Overwhelming! Let Me Help You…
Here is how it works:
Step 1: Send me an email to [email protected] with your marketing goal and tell me about your business (Include your website and phone number).
If I can help you increase your customer base, I will ask you to sign up and if I can’t help you, I will just give you free tips.
Step 2: Sign up, your payment is backed with a money-back guarantee. If, by the end of the 3 months after the consultation, you haven’t seen at least a measurable return in your sales or increase in leads and customers and you can proof that you have implemented what I told you to do for at least 2 months, We’ll immediately return your investment. No Questions Asked. So with that said, you are literally guaranteed to profit.
We will give you a brief questionnaire so we can learn more about your business and plans. This helps me prepare for our conversation in advance so we can get the most out of it.
Step 3: Next, my office will schedule our call together (Phone/Skype Call). The call should last an hour.
Step 4: When we talk, I will listen to exactly how your business works, discover exactly what you want to accomplish, and then “prescribe” a complete digital marketing system to skyrocket your customer base and revenue.
We will go through all of your digital marketing activities and you will end up with specific recommendations along with the reasons why. I will also give you any strategic advice I might have.
Step 5: After the phone consultation, we will give you a PDF document with the strategy discussed with resources and video tutorials to help you implement the strategy.
I would not leave you alone to do it on your own but work with you to achieve the expected result.
If you need help while implementing the strategy I prescribe for you, just ask your questions using your coaching portal or in the coaching community and we would be more than happy to get you answers and clear up any questions you might have.
If you’re serious about growing your business and want to attract your ideal clients on a more consistent and predictable basis sign up today.
The value proposition is that we will save you a lot of time and money from being wasted on the wrong actions.
I spent years figuring this stuff out on my own – wasted time and money.
But my highest jumps in competency always came from learning from other people who had more experience and are getting awesome results.
In business, getting customers is the most important activity you need to invest in.
Without customers you have no revenue, it is that simple.
Knowing what to do to get your customers is very essential because that is the foundation of your success in business.
If you do not have the right strategy, then you might waste alot of time and money trying to figure out a way to acquire more customers to boost revenue.
Without the right strategy, you can easily get over a billion impressions on your Ads, but if your advert doesn’t convert to customers or leads. You’ll make NO money but LOSE a lot of money because advertising is not cheap.
You might also spend a lot of time and money getting a lot social media followers or likes and soon realize that your likes and followers are not converting to customers.
Chances are that you have hire an agency to drive traffic to your website but then you have no converted sales.
This is simply because you have the wrong strategy.
It is best to get strategic advice from experts that have done the hard work. It saves you lot of time and money.
Are you ready to get the right strategy that will drive you more predictable and consistent customer in-flow to your business?
Yes, Tobi! I would absolutely love to have you personally work with me to analyse my business, develop a custom marketing strategy and give me direction for my business to increase my customer base.
I’m excited to discover specific ways I can grow my customer base and ultimately increase my revenue.
I promise to implement the step by step digital marketing strategy you prescribe for me because I understand that my success depends on my ability to implement and take action.
I am glad that you will give me clear direction, tutorial videos and resources to help me implement and that you will not leave me alone to do it on my own but work with me to ensure I succeed.
I understand that the coaching support is for a month and so I will take full advantage of the 1 month.
I understand that my investment is ₦90,000 and that does not cost me anything compared to the time and money I will save from taking the wrong action while doing trial and error on my own.
I understand that this will also help me work with a digital marketing agency smarter because I know what works and does not work for my business. Most importantly, I have the right strategy to get my desired results.
I understand that this service is only guaranteed if I implement the digital marketing strategy you prescribe and I do not get an increase in my customer base by the end of 3 months.
If I implement and do not get an increase in my customer base in 3 months, then I will get a full refund of my investment.
I also understand the value here, that investing this amount will save me a lot of money and time from taking the wrong action.
If I use my own knowledge I might waste valuable months or years and more than 3 to 10 times the investment in taking the wrong action.
I see real value here… So I had better act fast and join because I also understand that this is a very limited time offer, for a very limited number of people at a special price, and that the price could go up at any time… So I’ll email [email protected] with your marketing goal and tell me about your business (Include your website and phone number).
If I can help you increase your customer base, I will ask you to sign up and if I can’t help you, I will just give you free tips.
Then, I will email [email protected] with my name, phone, email, and company/business name to sign up and get started immediately….
I can’t wait to join and discover smart strategy to grow my customer base and revenue! This is really important to me to have a clear direction of how to grow my customer base and ultimately my revenue.
Tobi Asehinde, Founder, Vibe Web Solutions
E-Business
Cyber Resilience a Critical Priority for Manufacturing Amid Rapid Digitalization – Report Shows

As 60% of manufacturers race toward full digitalisation, cyber risk is increasingly manifesting as a business risk, according to a new global report by Kaspersky and VDC Strategy.

This means cybersecurity is not merely a compliance function, it is a cornerstone of production assurance, safeguarding uptime, quality, and operational continuity.
Manufacturers are modernising to deliver safer, more consistent and more cost-effective production and digitalization is moving fast: just 9% of organisations describe themselves as fully digital today, but 60% expect to get there within two years, according to the joint report by Kaspersky and VDC, titled ‘Cyber Resilience, Built for Manufacturing’.
That shift links shop-floor equipment, production lines and site operations to platforms such as Manufacturing execution systems (MES), Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and historians, turning many plants into cyber-physical systems (CPS), where a digital disruption doesn’t stay digital. It can slow production lines, quarantine work in progress, invalidate traceability records, or halt production outright.
What’s driving manufacturing digitalization?
Manufacturers are digitising for measurable operational gains, not novelty. Survey respondents identified the primary drivers of their digital transformation strategy as:
- Improving production output or efficiency (24%)
- Reducing operational or production expenses (15%)
- Enabling new strategic opportunities (14%)
- Improving cyber resilience (13%)
The same connected systems that unlock these gains, including MES, IIoT sensors, automated material handling, remote engineering access, also become the systems that determine whether production can be trusted to keep running.
Cyber risk is now a business risk
Cyber risk has evolved from a mere IT concern to a direct threat to revenue generation, as environments transform into cyber-physical systems. In these integrated settings, digital disruptions like malware no longer just affect data, they can cause unsafe operations, scrapped batches, and halted production on the plant floor. This shift highlights the urgent need to treat cybersecurity as a key part of operational resilience.
According to the report, nearly 60% of manufacturing organisations estimate that cyber incidents cause damages exceeding $1 million per event, with an average disruption of 15.3 hours. The most significant losses often result from production halts, missed delivery commitments, and penalties, rather than just forensic costs.
In this context, downtime links cybersecurity risks to overall business performance. Cyber incidents can reduce Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), strain staffing, and disrupt supply chains. Recovery involves more than system restore, it requires re-establishing confidence in process parameters, quality records, and traceability before resuming operations.
Mature cybersecurity programs now incorporate OT security into governance, focusing on metrics valued by production leaders such as time to restore, backup confidence, legacy asset coverage, and safe degraded operation. This alignment ensures cybersecurity supports continuous production and resilience, not just IT compliance.
However, challenges remain due to split ownership. While 59% of organisations’ IT departments manage security policies, these often overlook plant realities. Managing many security tools (44%) and OT patching issues (38%) show that cybersecurity must be embedded into daily routines of production, engineering, and quality teams. Only through such integration can cybersecurity effectively enhance operational reliability and defend against evolving threats.
“As manufacturing environments become increasingly interconnected, cybersecurity shifts focus from merely adding protective layers to ensuring the availability, resilience, and integrity of production processes. The goal is to minimise operational impact and speed up recovery, rather than solely preventing intrusions.
“Kaspersky offers a unified ecosystem that integrates IT, OT, and IIoT security, empowering manufacturers to pursue digital transformation securely. This strategy helps maintain operational continuity and reduces long-term cybersecurity costs,” comments Andrey Strelkov, Head of Industrial Cybersecurity Product Line at Kaspersky.
To implement this strategy, manufacturing companies can leverage solutions from the Kaspersky OT Cybersecurity Ecosystem, centered around Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity (KICS), a native Extended Detection and Response platform designed for critical infrastructure protection. KICS enables centralised detection and response to complex attacks across the entire industrial network, ensuring comprehensive visibility and security.
E-Business
NDPC Probes UNILAG, Lotus Bank, Hackerbella over Alleged Students’ Data Misuse

Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has commenced a forensic investigation into the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Lotus Bank and Hackerbella Ltd over alleged violations of data protection laws involving students’ personal information.

The investigation follows public complaints alleging that students’ personal data were used to open bank accounts without a lawful basis.
Dr Vincent Olatunji, national commissioner and chief executive officer of the NDPC, directed the investigation team to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the circumstances surrounding the collection, processing, use and disclosure of the affected students’ personal data.
The investigation will also determine the respective roles and responsibilities of UNILAG, Lotus Bank and Hackerbella in the alleged processing of the data.
According to the Commission, the investigation will assess the data protection compliance obligations of the parties under the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 (NDP Act), as well as potential risks posed to the rights and freedoms of the affected data subjects.
The NDPC said the probe would cover several areas, including Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), the lawfulness and transparency of credit scoring or profiling activities, and the use of automated decision-making systems.
It will also examine the adequacy of privacy notices, data-sharing arrangements, lawful bases for processing, data minimisation and purpose limitation.
Other areas include data retention policies and the adequacy of technical and organisational measures put in place to safeguard the rights and personal data of affected students.
The Commission reiterated that institutions entrusted with the personal data of students, staff and other members of their communities have a heightened responsibility to ensure that such information is processed lawfully, fairly, transparently and securely.
The NDPC therefore warned educational institutions that are yet to comply with its existing data protection compliance directives to take immediate steps to achieve compliance.
The Commission said it would continue to exercise its regulatory mandate to protect the privacy rights of Nigerians and ensure that organisations processing personal data comply with the provisions of the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023.
E-Business
Microsoft to Unveil Next-generation AI Chip in September

Microsoft is planning to unveil its new Maia 300 AI chip this fall, potentially as soon as next month, The Information reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the plans.

The company introduced its Maia AI chip in November 2023 but has lagged rivals such as Alphabet and Amazon in scaling up its in-house chip efforts as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia’s costly processors.
Google began recognizing revenue from direct sales of its custom AI chips, called Tensor Processing Units, in the quarter ended June, while Amazon has also seen growing adoption of its processors, including its Trainium chips.
Microsoft has been in talks with chipmaker TSMC to secure manufacturing capacity for more than 300,000 units of the chip for delivery in 2027, according to the report. It is also looking to significantly ramp up production and persuade major cloud customers such as Anthropic to adopt the chip.
Microsoft ultimately aims to secure capacity for more than 1 million Maia 300 chips, though component supplies and ongoing capacity negotiations with TSMC could constrain its plans, according to the report.
It unveiled its second-generation Maia 200 in January, built by TSMC using 3-nanometer technology.
Microsoft packed the chip with a significant amount of SRAM, a type of memory that can provide speed advantages for AI systems handling large numbers of user requests.
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