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Top 10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Website in 2020

Consumer behavior has changed over time to adapt to the evolving technologies in the digital era. For instance, the thick yellow pages, which were popular not so long ago, have been replaced with online directories with the advent of the World Wide Web.

Today, the number of people who use the internet to find businesses has increased manifold and yellow pages have nearly been reduced to dust. According to Adaptive Marketing, in 2017, 97% of people searched online to find a local business near them.  Therefore, if you want to grow your business by being in front of the right audience, you need to be found online – implying you must have a website. This blog talks about the top 10 reasons why your business needs a website in 2020 regardless of the industry you are in.

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The importance of a good social media profile

We all use social media these days, and it’s more important than ever to make sure your online presence represents you well, as it can be a powerful self-promotional tool.  Many recruiters now use social media sites like Facebook and LinkedIn to search for their next hires, and over 60% of employers look at the profiles of potential candidates before hiring, so it’s clear social media is key when it comes to the job-search process.

Our online profiles have become like a second CV, and as such it’s worth thinking about how you can tailor yours to ensure it stands out to a potential employer. Which may mean deleting those questionable photos of you on Facebook, or at least making any undesirable photos of you, private ??

Social media sites are now

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Code Literacy: Why Coding Became Important

Coding and programming are all around us and will only get more all-pervasive in the future.

For this reason, many are making the argument that learning to code, or at least have a basic understanding of it, should become a common part of a child’s education.

Here we explore why coding is important, what it is, and where you can learn it for yourself. 

Why is coding literacy important?

Coding and coding literacy can be argued to be one of the most important skills for current and future generations to learn. Many have argued that it should form part of a national curriculum on par with a native language, the sciences, and math.

We are surrounded with electronic devices each running uncountable numbers of software that run on code of some kind. Our modern world is also heavily reliant

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7 REASONS YOU NEED TECH SKILLS – EVEN IF YOU DON’T WORK IN TECH

The great thing about tech skills, though, is that learning begets learning. Once you figure out how one part works, it gets easier and easier to dive into other parts and figure out how things work.

And the benefits of having some tech skills under your belt extend way beyond just the tech industry. Coding skills can also carry over into other parts of your life, both professional and personal. There are so many benefits to learning tech skills, from basic HTML and CSS to more complex languages like PHP and JavaScript, that it’s becoming a big disadvantage if you don’t make learning basic coding a priority.

Check out these seven ways that coding and other tech skills can improve your life outside of the tech industry.

1. THEY MAKE YOU A BETTER PROBLEM SOLVER

Coding is all

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Affiliate Marketing in 2020: What It Is and How You Can Get Started

Affiliate marketing is a popular tactic to drive sales and generate significant online revenue. Extremely beneficial to both brands and affiliate marketers, the new push towards less traditional marketing tactics has paid off.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is the process by which an affiliate earns a commission for marketing another person’s or company’s products. The affiliate simply searches for a product they enjoy, then promotes that product and earns a piece of the profit from each sale they make. The sales are tracked via affiliate links from one website to another.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

Because affiliate marketing works by spreading the responsibilities of product marketing and creation across parties, it manages to leverage the abilities of a variety of individuals for a more effective marketing

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Corona Virus Disease 2019, a growing threat to children?

In Wuhan, the original place of COVID-19 outbreak, the first infected-child case was diagnosed on January 28, 2020, 8 days later than the first infected-child case reported city of Shenzhen, 1000 km far away from Wuhan. However, it does not mean that children in Wuhan were not suffering COVID-19 during the epidemic-period, nor the symptoms of infection occur later than the other areas. The possible causes for the delayed diagnosis of children in Wuhan are the overstrict diagnostic criteria and the shortage of testing reagent in the early stage. Afterwards, the number of children confirmed increased dramatically as the relaxation of the diagnostic criteria and the opening of nucleic acid tests for suspected cases of childhood on January 28, 2020, with 5 cases confirmed on the same day. Most children cases

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How To Make Money From Blogging

What’s blogging ?

Blogging is currently a buzzword on the internet these days with over 2million websites talking about it.  But despite the huge discussion on this topic,  most people do not still get the gist or know how to make money from it.

For me, blogging is a business of publishing helpful articles on a web blog.  A typical example is this article you are reading right now.  It was written and published by a blogger.

Here are few blog monetization strategy you should adopt.  

1. Pick a Topic

Get clear on what you’ll write about. Define a topic or niche, and design all your content around those things.

This will help you to not only

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7 Reasons You Should Learn Web Development

Maybe you have your reservations about starting a career in web development. Or, maybe it’s a trade you haven’t thought about yet. Either way, we’ve gathered seven reasons why you should learn development to help you decide if web development should be your next career move.

1. Now hiring! There are always Web Developers jobs available.

Given that there will be approximately 1.4 million computing jobs available in 2020, with only 400,000 qualified developers to fill them, those interested in acquiring in-demand skills can certainly benefit from having web development and coding in their resume. It’s safe to say there is, and will continue to be, high demand for web developers. You

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NETLIGHT TECH CAMP 2019 – A Resounding Success

NETLIGHT SYSTEMS TECH CAMP 2019 was held on the 23rd and 24th of August 2019. It was two days of intense TECH experience. People from all works of life attended with a positive mindset of getting involved in the technology space. It was a tech innovation camp, consisting of the three most relevant courses in 2019; Web Design, Graphics Design, and Digital Marketing.

Web Design Class

DAY 1

The first day started great with a good number of attendees for each class, with all materials and work items in place. Web design class started on a good note with young aspiring web developers getting set with their laptops, books, and pen in order to get all

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NETLIGHT TECH CAMP 2019

WHAT IF IT DOES?

Think about it!

If you are a graphics designer, and you have at least 10 organizations e.g schools or churches, that you handle all their activity graphics.

The fact remains that most of these organizations have monthly programmes and likely special programmes sometimes within that space.

Now if you are been paid at least a token of ₦10,000 (Ten Thousand naira) for just a design for the month, doing that for at least 10 organizations in a month yields you nothing less than ₦100,000 (Hundred Thousand naira).

Now, if special programmes also comes up within that space, that is extra cash for you. There is also probability that 4 out of those 10 will have as well special programmes for you to design for.

Now, what if you have more than 10, I mean 20’s, 30’s or 50’s? Do you

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