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What is On-Demand Delivery?
Understand how on-demand delivery can help your business meet your customer's expectations for flexibility to meet them when and where they need.
Second to None: Second Cities and Next Cities As Africa’s Engines of Prosperity
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Crafting Effective Discounts: Tips to Outshine Your Competitors
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Plan to Win: Crafting and Implementing a Business Plan for Growth and Profit
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Fueling Your Business with Small Business Loans
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How to Grow Your Business
Discover ways to grow your business, including tips for writing a business growth plan, factors that may impact growth, and how to measure business growth.
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Customs advice for first-time shippers
Shipping abroad for the first time? Discover more about customs duties and taxes and how to ensure your goods are cleared through customs.
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Women in Business: how they did it
Wondering how the world's most successful business women made it? Get inspired with these quotes from prominent female entrepreneurs.
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Plan to Win: Crafting and Implementing a Business Plan for Growth and Profit
Starting a business is exhilarating. However, launching and running a business without a clear plan for success, growth, and profit is akin to tossing all the ingredients for a meal onto a plate and attempting to eat them raw—without following a recipe. Strange, right? That’s exactly what it looks like to operate without a business plan.
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Crafting Effective Discounts: Tips to Outshine Your Competitors
Discounts, coupons, deals – these are magic words for Nigerian shoppers! It's no secret that everyone loves a good bargain. However, for business owners, discounts can be a double-edged sword. When used strategically, they can skyrocket sales and foster customer loyalty. However, if misused, they can damage your brand and hurt your bottom line.
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Fueling Your Business with Small Business Loans
Having a brilliant idea is just the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey. To bring that idea to life, you’ll need dedication, time, and often, a substantial amount of money. For many entrepreneurs, securing the necessary funds is the biggest hurdle, particularly when looking to scale. In Nigeria, only 15% of SMEs have access to formal credit.
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Second to None: Second Cities and Next Cities As Africa’s Engines of Prosperity
Cities are already the locus of 80% of global GDP and home to
more than half of the world’s population. Further, the United
Nations (UN) anticipates that the world’s urban population will
grow to 6.7 billion in 2050 from a base of just 4.2 billion in 2018,
with close to 90% of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa.
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Logistics Jargon Buster
New to shipping and logistics? Our glossary simplifies complex terms for small business owners.
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The DHL international delivery toolkit
The ultimate free DHL Express toolkit for global shipping, covering everything from packaging to last-mile delivery.
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The Ultimate B2B E-commerce Guide
Keep up to date with DHL on the digitalization of the B2B operations industry.
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Green logistics strategies for small businesses
Discover more about green logistics with this toolkit, including sustainable strategies you can implement to help your business become more eco-friendly.