HOW TO GET YOUR BUSINESS PROPOSAL ACCEPTED

'Let's see where it all leads'. That's one statement a young businessman never wants to hear on his business proposal. It's as though cold water has been poured upon his nice Italian suit that he wore on the day he came to show his business idea.

But what would you do if you were told those same words? Would you dive into the river and drown yourself? Or you would rather drown yourself in ways to make your business idea more enticing and attractive to a potential investor.

When a certain politician, Mr Olisa Metuh, said to our President, President Muhammadu Buhari, that he should stop demarketing the country, some people said that Mr Olisa was just ranting as a political noisemaker while some others saw some sense in the opinions of the man. This writ is not to show whose opinions I hold but there is no man alive who would want to eat a woman's, preferably his wife's, food after she has told him that their dog had peed in the food, and that their son, Junior, put some faeces in the food, and that when she was about serving the food, some of it fell on the floor and she was able to scrape it off the floor. If you were the man, tell me, would you eat the food, even if it smells nice and looks tasty? I'm sure I wouldn't. A food is as sweet as the packaging around it.

Same with a business idea, you cannot have a business idea that would yield millions of naira in six months and then package it like as if it would yield thousands of naira instead. When you properly describe the proposal to your investor and get him to see what the future of the project is and how he is likely to gain from it, you would have sold him more than half of the idea.

Now your charisma is also of importance when going on such an endeavor. Remember my illustration about the food. Imagine your wife brings in a meal and she is looking her dirtiest ever, it would take the grace of God to eat that food. So if you come looking like Tarzan and you want to get a person to invest in your idea, you're at best building a stone temple from sand, you're trying to do the impossible. So, please dress well when going on such a trip.

Finally, you yourself have to believe in the idea you're trying to sell. If you're not convinced of the vision, there is no way you can convince another man to invest in the vision. That is why some people will ask their wives to taste the food first. If she reluctantly does so, my guy no go chop that food o. So, you have to get yourself fully convinced of the idea before you set out to look for investors.

God's favour is always with us. So, let's get our act together and get men to invest in our vision. See you at the top!!!