In case you don’t know, Educating or Educational / School Business is no more as usual. Anonymous
In this Online and Mobile Era, how have you positioned your School Business? This post will be of great help to school business managers/owners and other small and medium business in Nigeria to position their business with modern tools that will take them higher. Please, if it helps you, pass it on by sharing the post with others.
They said “no body want/prays for grass to grow in his farm but it will grow without your permission but if you want yam (good) to grow, you must plant it”. So also, change in way(s) of doing business come with or without permission. It could be challenging, but change is constant and those who adapt to the change remain afloat while others may be struggling to survive with time.
Read: Education/ School Mobile App in Nigeria
As at December 2021, data from NCC shows that Nigeria have three hundred and five million, three hundred and eighty one thousand (305,381,440) internet users. This is interesting. Another interesting part is with or without your knowledge, your school’s students, parents, staff and other relations is part of this huge Nigerian population that are users of internet. And this figure will increase more as it has been on increasing trend for many years now.
Who are internet users?
Internet users are the number of population who use the Internet from any location. The Internet is defined as a world-wide public computer network that provides access to a number of communication services including the World Wide Web and carries email, news, entertainment and data files.
Internet access may be via a computer, Internet-enabled mobile phone, digital TV, games machine etc. Location of use can refer to any location, including work.
Out of the 305,381,440 internet users in Nigeria, the devices at which this hug millions of Nigerians uses internet defers. We will concentrate on internet users whose uses Computer (Desktop & Laptop) and Mobile and Tablet devices.
Computer vs Mobile Internet Users in Nigeria
Between February 2021 to February 2022, statistics shows below details.
Desktop vs Mobile vs Tablet Market Share in Nigeria.
Mobile = 86.87%
Desktop = 12.51%
Tablet = 0.62%
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Let me add this to you if you are school business manager/owner, these 86.87% Nigerian population that uses Mobile devices to access internet are among your students, teachers, parent to your students, etc. Will you continue to ignore this population in your educational services and forgone all the opportunities this will add to your business? Are you behind or acquaintance your school business with the change that has come without your prayer or making?
Banking industry, JAMB, WAEC, Medical, Religious and other business world have embraced the Online and Mobile era in caring out their business. It is time for you as a school owner that you think and take decision so as to remain in business in the near future. Take the lead.
The level of timely information you could have in what you are doing in business has a lot to add to your speed or success in business that business. E.g When I was younger, we have auto mechanic that repairs Peugeot Car for us. When the change came to auto users for Japanese cars, some Peugeot Car mechanics start to migrate to Japanese cars repair but this our young in body but old in thinking remain to be the Peugeot Car mechanic guru. Today, he’s old car taxi driver with past success history as Peugeot Car mechanic.
Solution: School Software Pro mobile App is developed to meet the modern school activities that you need. It has been proven to be one of the affordable schools ERP of its class.
Some of Educational activities School Software Pro Mobile will do for you.
Teachers at their comfort enter students marks on their phone, give and accept assignment to students, parents/ students to check/ download exam reports/ report card, take computer base test (CBT)/ online exam. Be up to date with school news/ announcements notification of upcoming events, Mark the attendance, pay fees, admin report and more.