EYL #96 African Express feat. John Obidi

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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John Obidi is a superstar entrepreneur in Nigeria. He is an international speaker, computer programmer, web developer, social media consultant, and author. In addition, he is the founder of Head Start Africa, which is an online business platform for entrepreneurs. He also recently hosted the largest online business summit in Africa, which had over 15,000 attendees. In episode 96, John broke down the business model and explained how to monetize online summits and events. He also spoke about business opportunities in Africa, he gave tips on how to build a community on social media, and he explained how to take followers from social media and convert them into customers. In addition to the business tips he provided, we also spoke about broader topics surrounding Africa including the rise of tech, opportunities for growth, the reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement, and China’s involvement on the continent.EYL University: https://www.eyluniversity.comEYL University 40% off Annual Tuition Code: SummerEYL University: https://www.eyluniversity.comGuest IG: @johnobidi--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/earnyourleisure/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	All right guys welcome back to EYL
0:04.6	Mama Africa edition. Yeah, this is a my first episode. This is the first episode where we are
0:11.8	Crossing the water. We did a couple in from Canada. Yeah, shout out to all of our guests in Canada
0:17.2	That was our first international episodes, but this is the first episode where we're actually going to a completely different content
0:23.8	Yeah, we going over the Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, so Africa shout out to Africa shout out to all other countries in Africa
0:29.4	Through supporters too, man. Yeah, we got a lot of love and a lot of support in Africa
0:33.7	We've charted on some of the top charts in a variety of different countries everywhere from Kenya to Zimbabwe to South Africa
0:40.7	Ghana
0:41.9	Nigeria all over Africa. We've been on the top charts in some point time. So
0:47.5	You know a lot of people we have a lot of listeners in UK and all over and they like you know
0:51.9	We love your content
0:52.9	But some of the stuff that you saying is only a lot of stuff you saying is only based upon American point of view and
0:59.2	Everett makes sense because we're from America, but being at the world is a
1:04.1	Oyster and
1:05.8	We have we have supporters and and listen is all over the world. We can't just focus only on where we live
1:12.0	So one of the goals for this year was to broaden the horizon and to get entrepreneurs and talk about content
1:19.1	From all over the world and you know, COVID actually was a blessing in that regard because it helped us actually get on our virtual wave
1:27.7	And that obviously helped with getting some content
1:30.3	So I put it on Instagram a few weeks ago like you know, we want to do some entrepreneurs in Africa
1:35.1	Who should we reach out to and we got a hit up a lot of people hit us up like you should reach out to this person that person this person
1:41.6	And one of the one of the most requested people was John Obedy
1:47.4	Did I say that correct?
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