Bukola Oriola

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Monday Motivation with Bukola Featuring Yvette

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Another edition of Monday Motivation with Bukola is only few hours away. To celebrate the 4th of July, I will be bringing Yvette Toko, founder of Healing Words with Yvette back Live on Google Hangouts on Air.

I hope you are all having a great 4th of July celebration. It’s fireworks night and it doesn’t seem like we will be getting much sleep as I can still hear the sound of fireworks in my neighborhood.

Yvette Toko is an author, a wife, mother, and teacher. Yvette is the founder of Healing words with Yvette and she will be talking about “How to use our words for healing” – healing in our health, money, relationship, business, winning during challenges or setbacks.

Yvette believes in the power of words to heal. She uses words in all forms to encourage, uplift and inspire herself and others. Her most important roles are being a wife, mother, teacher and writer.

Get Yvette’s book via this link http://www.lulu.com/shop/yvette-r-toko/for-the-love-of-cameroon/paperback/product-22533662.html

Monday Motivation with Bukola Featuring Yvette

You can join Live at 5:30 AM CST by clicking on the video below. You can also watch directly on Google Plus or YouTube.

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Monday Motivation with Bukola is an inspirational Live Broadcast on Google Hangouts on Air focusing on women empowerment, beauty, health, money, culture, entertainment, and advocacy. To be featured on the show as a guest or sponsor, send an email to info@bukolaoriola.com.

SMART goals for networking

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Networking guru, DeShondra Brown, founder of enRich Solo, has suggested the need to have SMART goals for networking. She made this declaration last night on Monday Motivation with Bukola during a Live broadcast on Google Hangouts on Air. According to Brown, 80 per cent of job opportunities are secured through network while only 20 per cent are secured through advertisements.

Brown emphasized the need to build specific, measurable and attainable networking goals to  be able to take advantage of various opportunities in our career, professional, and personal life. She noted that we need to building relationships that offers mutual benefits. In going into new relationships, the networking guru encouraged us to have something to offer in other to benefit from the relationships that we are going into. She frowns against just taking from relationships rather than giving and taking.

She also cautioned against taking a “no” response negatively. Rather, she encouraged us to accept a “no” response in a positive feedback that could result in our heart desire in the future. Sharing her personal experience, the double bachelor’s degree holder stated that she was recently hired as an adjunct professor at the same university where she had been previously rejected.

Set SMART goals for Networking: Work the Net

In providing strategies to building key relationships, Brown recently launched a digital Networking course called Work the Net. According to Brown, “the course to help you to Review, Reveal and Revive your Networking skills.” She added, “A key component to obtaining visions and goals is through building lucrative relationships and this course will help you to do just that once you have completed the course.”

An opportunity for survivors

As a survivor of human trafficking or domestic violence, you could use this skill as an opportunity for you to project yourself as a subject matter expert in your community. You might also use it as a way to find the right contacts to leverage your career opportunities in other fields of your choice.

You can enroll for the course on her website, Work the Net  or just click the link http://bit.ly/1UD7J2w or https://enrich-solo.thinkific.com/courses/work-the-net

You can also contact DeShondra Brown at enrichsolollc@gmail.com.

What the full video below.

Thanks for reading. I hope to talk to you again through my blogs. If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please, send me a note – fill out the contact form. I want to hear from you. You can also get my recent posts by signing up to receive updates.

Bye for now, until next time.

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How to start a popular blog

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How to start a popular blog does not have to be a difficult task. In fact, it can be a fun task if you focus on what you are passionate about. It can also be a way to share inspirational stories that may be helpful to someone else.

If you are already a writer or love to write, blogging will not be too tasking for you. In fact, you you are already on social media sites like Facebook, where you post regularly, then starting your own blog will be a smooth process. I have seen many posts on Facebook pages and thought, “this is a post for a website or blog site.

You can write 300 words and post with pictures that may end up becoming a popular blog. Remember, “picture speaks a thousand words.” Sometimes, it is the picture that will keep someone on your site. If you are a person that likes to take pictures, begin a blog or website to talk about your pictures. You can talk about why you took the picture. You might be surprised to see a local or national brand show interest in your picture. Vanessa Lambert of What would you Wear once had a picture used by a brand, according to a blog report on CNBC. She made her money out of it by asking the brand to pay her for using her image without her consent.

How to start a popular blog that makes money

Initially, you may feel that there is no way to make money from your blog, but bloggers like Lambert felt the same way at the initial stage of their blogging career. She said in a post by CNBC that, “When I first started, I didn’t even know you could make money,” said Lambert. “Now my blog is an actual business and my source of income.” The article by Hayley Phelan on the CNBC’s website, entitled, The Power of the Mid-Tier Blogger showed how Lambert and some other popular bloggers have been able to make steady stream of income using their blog platform.

An opportunity for survivors and new bloggers

Starting a blog can be a great opportunity for survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, or any other kinds of crime. This will give you an a chance to be on the driver’s seat of your story or experience. For example, it can be an avenue to share just what you want to share. It can also serve as an avenue to talk to members of your community, law makers, faith based organizations, NGOs and anybody interested in your cause.




It is also an opportunity to educate the public from your own perspective. You may be surprised by who your readers and followers will be when you open up such a platform to keep the public abreast of what is happening in your community, or what you want to see happen in your community.

As a community member, who is passionate about a cause, starting a blog can serve as a avenue to share your thoughts.

Starting your blog with $0 – Blogger vs. WordPress

If is interesting to learn that you can actually start your blog that looks like a professional website with $0.  Blogger is my number one choice. I have chosen blogger over WordPress because it is much easier to set up and also more friendly when you want to start earning from the site. With WordPress, you have to have a self hosted WordPress site to be able to apply for Google Adsense for example, which is kind of revenue opportunity for a beginner’s blog. However, if you choose Google Blogger, you will not need to worry about that because Blogger is a Google product. All you will need to focus on to get approved is producing content on your site.

You can create a website like one of the ones listed below with Blogger.

I have put together a course to show how to start your blog with $0. You can join others to learn how to start your own blog today without worrying about paying for templates or hosting your website or blog site here.



How to prevent human trafficking among immigrants

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In this post, I will focus on how to prevent human trafficking among immigrants in the United States. In a simple definition from my book, Imprisoned: The Travails of a Trafficked Victim, “Human trafficking is when a person is here in the United States as a result of fraud, force or coercion for the purpose of being subjected to involuntary servitude, forced labor, debt bondage, slavery, or commercial sex exploitation.”

I am writing this post in response to a reader’s question from one of my previous posts. Human trafficking as a result of fraud can take various forms. Some of the forms are promise of marriage, education, employment, or a better life. There are immigrants in colleges across the United States that are vulnerable or are already victims of human trafficking as a result of fraud. For example, some people have applied for student visa and are supposed to be in college but are not because they were not allowed to get enrolled by their traffickers, whom are known to them as friends, neighbors from home country, or family members. There are others who have been brought under the pretense of going to middle or high school but are kept as maid in the homes of their traffickers.

There are other category of victims who are married to their traffickers. Many in this category are working while their traffickers, whom they know as their spouses are garnishing their income or denying them access to the income that they have earned from work. Some are trafficked by people they know as their employers, where they are also working, but are not being paid, or are told that their income is being used to pay off the debt they owed for coming to the United States. Some are made to have sex with multiple partners while the money received went to the trafficker.

It takes continuous education and community awareness to prevent anyone from becoming a victim of human trafficking. One of the tactics of traffickers, whether it is the case of one victim or more, is isolation. Victims are isolated from known people like friends and families. Worse still, if a family member is the trafficker, the victim is made to believe that other family members or friends who may be helpful is a bad influence. It is very difficult to know that someone is a trafficker when the person is familiar. However, for a victim in the United States, there are various resources available to support a victim. The national human trafficking resource center has a hotline. The number is 1-888-373-7888. This is a number that I will recommend to an immigrant victim who doesn’t know who to contact or how to get help. My second recommendation is the nonprofit organization that I founded called The Enitan Story. If a victim has access to the computer, the email for The Enitan Story is info@enitan.org or call the number 763-433-9454.

I hope I have been able to answer this question in simplicity.

Thanks for reading. I hope to talk to you again through my blogs. If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please, send me a note – fill out the contact form. I want to hear from you. You can also get my recent posts by signing up to receive updates.

Wait a minute! Are you aware of my upcoming book. You can still join the Insiders by clicking here. As an Insider, you get to be the first to read the book before it’s available to the public. You will also be joining me to empower survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, sexual assault, and female genital mutilation.
Bye for now, until next time.

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A Living Label Book: An Update for the Insiders

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As I write, I have progressed on my upcoming book, A Living Label. I am writing this post as an update of how far I have gone with the book. Several things have happened. I had promised to share the details of how I am working on this book with my followers and readers like you. And, if you are new to the Insider’s club, you are welcome to join by clicking here.

A Living Label Book: An Update for the Insiders

Since the last email I sent out to my Insiders, I have written additional chapters and have had two professional editors work on the manuscript. One of them actually did not just read the book, but also offered copy-editing service. I opted for her free offer in a Facebook group. You can check her out here. She charges $3 per page for editing and $4 per page for copy editing. In case you are not in and will like to become an Insider, click here. Now, I am at chapter 10, however, chapter seven and ten are not fully written.

I stopped in the middle of chapter seven to plan for a trip to Washington DC and Virginia. During the trip, I wrote chapters eight to ten while on board Delta Airline to Ronald Regan International Airport.

I understand that some of you were inspired to join the Insiders’ Club to write your own book. Aside from writing an update on how far I have gone on the book, I also want to share the steps that I have taken. This will be useful for you if you are working on your book. I will like to thank some of you who have responded with your critique on my book. I also have critiqued the manuscript of one of the Insider who shared her work with me. So, as you can see, I am taking this journey in partnership with you all.

The Steps you can take if you have not

  1. Set up social media pages – Facebook, Periscope, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Begin to talk about your upcoming book on these social media platforms. Tell people why you are writing the book and what you hope to achieve when the book is published. In my case, for example, I am writing my book to empower women who have gone through domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, and female genital mutilation. Proceeds from the book will be used to help individual survivors in various parts of the world, starting from the U.S., Nigeria, and Kenya.
  2. Set up a mailing list service – MailerLite, MailChimp, Aweber, Infusion, ConvertKit, and so on. A mailing list service will help you capture people’s email addresses. These people will be your VIP members.  You can reserve the best of your sneak peek to them by sharing more with them are you continue to write. You can ask people to sign up to join the list by providing a link to sign up on your website or social media platforms in case you do not have a website. However, I encourage you to set up a website, even it if is through google platform like the Blogger. You can do that by getting a copy of my book, Quit Your Day Job: Five Steps to Turn Your Passion to Money Using Social Media and Blogging here. You can also download it here for free if you are a Kindle Unlimited member. The good thing with Google Blogger is the fact that you don’t need a lot of money to start a professionally looking website. See a Blogger site that I helped to build called Wedding Trends. Mind you, for my mailing services, I am using MailerLite and will recommend it for a starter. It has features that other free account like MailChimp does not have. For example, you can set up an auto-responder to your list so that when someone signs up you can send email the person automatically. Also, to manage your time, you can schedule email to send out to your subscribers. They also provide customer service with free account, which you cannot get with MailChimp. I have both, but I prefer MailerLite.
  3. Use Fiverr: Fiverr is an online platform where you can hire someone from anywhere around the world, but not for $5. However, you can get your work done for a reasonable amount of money. I went there to search for book editors and after contacting two or three people on the site, I settled for one. I was satisfied with her editing job. Her user name on Fiverr is Florabrown and you can hire her here. While I was working on this manuscript, I was also doing researches on how to work get my book edited without frustration. I watched a YouTube video, where I learned that it was a better idea to send sample editing of about 5,000 words, rather than my whole manuscript to an editor. According to the YouTube video, the sample editing will help me know if the editor will deliver within the specified time. Florabrown blew me away with her timeliness and professionalism. I paid her $25 to have my sample editing done. That means that I can rehire her and still have my book ready by the deadline.
  4. Hire a Book Designer: Another person that I had hired and I hope to rehire on Fiverr was my book designer. The Fiverr username is Bookdesign. I hired Bookdesign and was also impressed at the first job which cost $20 because it was for a paperback book entitled, Imprisoned: The Travails of a Trafficked Victim. The picture on the cover has a metallic feel to to the touch. So, I will recommend this seller on Fiverr, as I will rehire bookdesign for the cover of A Living Label. With Bookdesign, you can get the cover of your e-book done for $5. Click here to hire Bookdesign.

I will stop here for now. If you have any question, kindly let me know in the comment below or join the Insider’s here to send me direct questions.

 

 

Get a copy of the international best selling book by Bukola Oriola, A Living Label: An Inspirational Memoir and Guide.   Book Description: A Living Label is a memoir that documents some of the struggles and triumphs of the author as a survivor of labor trafficking and domestic violence in the U.S. Bukola Oriola’s goal is to inspire hope in other survivors that they can turn their lives around positively, regardless of what difficulty they might have passed through. She also provides practical solutions to the government, service providers, NGOs, and the general public on how to effectively engage with survivors, to value them as the subject matter experts they are. As someone who has dedicated her life to empowering other survivors, she has decided to contribute the proceeds from the book sales to survivors’ education or their businesses, starting with 100 survivors in the United States, Nigeria and Kenya. She believes that survivors want to be independent and contribute to their communities, and she wants to help survivors achieve this dream. Learn more from the inspiring author, Book Bukola now!
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