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MEMBERS of our communities know that SEN2020 is now history. A better vehicle that is guaranteed to drive our Vision 2020 has replaced it. It’s known as SEC –– short for Successful Entrepreneurs’ Club. But SEN2020 has some unfinished businesses. I want to lay their ghosts to rest here. The first one is the status of Authorized Resellers [ARs] and how they will be paid their commission henceforth.

As I noted here in the last edition, we are still maintaining the ARs as a component that will make SEC run smoothly. And their function will be the same: collect SDE! from our Super Agents [SAs] and hand them over to SEC members nearest to them. For this service, they will be paid their usual commission.

Yes, what if you could become the next SuccessDigest Extra! editor? What changes would you bring to the paper? What would you remove? What would you introduce? What changes would you implement?

We would like to hear from you.

As you read in the last edition, YOUR SuccessDigest Extra! will soon be going weekly. And we know that there’s something you’ve always wished you could read in the paper that is not there.

What are those things?

Put your thoughts on paper [or, rather, on email] and send it to me at newsde@sadcnigeria.org

The Absolutely Critical Step 2: Do It! (Part 1) –– A step-by-step guide to acting on the knowledge that you’ve invested time and money to acquire

Unknown to millions of people who daily dream about making it in life, the master key for achieving their loftiest dreams consists of just two key words: Do it!

Incredible, you’d say. And you’re right for thinking that way. But this is not a fairy tale. It’s true! Mr. X actually got some banks in Nigeria to provide the loan for his start-up business.

But how did he do it?

Yes, considering all the story you hear about the hassles business owners go through before they could get a few quid as loan, N75m is quite a miracle. We hear the story of banks who ask their customers to provide collateral that is more than twice the amount they want to borrow.

If you ask many Nigerians who have ventured into it, Network Marketing, alias Multi-level Marketing [MLM] is dead in Nigeria.

And they have tales of woes to back their view. Yet, on the other hand, there are those who swear, by the load of US Dollars they are making from network marketing, that it is far from being sick, not to talk of dying.

My wife and I were in the company of such Nigerians in Malaysia recently. It was the conference of V-Gold, marketers of Bio Disc. The well attended conference attracted people from all over the world, numbering more than 7,000.

SEN2020 has been rested. In its place, we now have Successful Entrepreneurs’ Club [SEC].

With SEN2020, you get a FREE copy of SDE! once you’re in Group A. Since SEN2020 is no more, that has also stopped.

Now, with SEC, whether you are a Gold or Silver member, you are required to subscribe to SDE! That is one of your principal conditions for belonging to the club.

Okay, to the second part of your question. Yes, our Authorized Resellers are going to continue their roles as before. The only condition is that they are required to be either a gold or silver member of SEC.

In the second part of this series, published in the last edition, I listed three ways by which anyone may determine what they need to learn in order to Sell It and get paid by the Invisible Paymaster. Those things are

[1] A solid evidence that the ‘thing,’ whatever it is, can be sold.

[2] The ‘thing’ must be what you like doing or you could develop interest in.

And,

[3], the ‘thing’ must be what is legally and morally right and acceptable by the society.