One of the lessons, I have learnt from failures in my early days as Doactalk, was not having enough knowledge.

One of the lessons, I have learnt from failures in my early days as Doactalk, was not having enough knowledge. 

You don't need to wait till you have full knowledge of the field, before venturing — you must have the basic knowledge and understanding of what you are doing.

Then in the process, acquire more knowledge on your field, learn from exploration of knowledge not necessarily from your experiences.

I remembered back in December 2023, our domain expired, that was doactalk.com; we were hosted on Google Domains. Also Naira card lost it global presence, so you must use dollar card for international transactions — we and I don't have dollar card — what an incident?

What next? We lost the doactalk.com domain. We became out of business for three months, so sad. And that is where you will understand that energy is very needed to be in business, or you die out forever.

Before these events, that is before then. I do gave Mr. Seun of 2Star Technology contracts based on partnership, to run our site management and domain management. I contracted him to move our domain "doactalk.com" from Google Domains to Truehost Nigeria, in October 2023 — he didn't.

I thought he has done the task, because the other tasks he completed, according to his report, he forgot. No need to lament, no need to push faults. It was time to find way out!

I began seeking for funds, and dollar card — for renewing of the doactalk.com domain. Mr. Seun of 2Star Technology have dollar card, but his charges was high. Kingsley Jackson Samuel of Growth Catalyst have, he offered me a fair rate, but I now need money to push up.

I have secured a dollar card at emergency from two persons, and I have chosen to use Kingsley Jackson's dollar card. Okay, now for the money!

All attempts failed, friends never helps; I did not informed my parents, they have tried a lot for our startup, and welfare.

I smiled, non of my friends, I can beat my chest, and again — none helped. I was taught a lesson of being lonely and do it till you succeed. Once you succeed help those who are intentional about their growth, to grow.

That is what I am doing and I am great! Back to the failures and being ignored by people I know. I called on Adonay for help, and he did miracle that changed my life till date.

He lead me in the truth and teach me. Praise to Jesus Christ. I began learning how to migrate domain name from one hosting company to another by myself, using YouTube, and some web development sites that teaches.

I became knowledgeable enough, to know that I can do all things, with the right knowledge and right application — nothing is impossible. Then with team sharing the same vision, purpose and on the same mission; being on the same page, you are already successful.

I moved to secured doacweb.com from Truehost, partnered with Truehost technical team, and contracted Mr. Seun of 2Star Technology, that was in February 2024 — I was at Ekowe, Bayelsa State, at that time.

I working with my laptop, 2Star Technology team working from Rivers State, Truehost technical team working from Lagos State — on a mission, to get doacWeb on the internet. I delegated the tasks, they have different areas to handle, I have mine.

Mr. Seun of 2Star Technology did a great job, he is the founder and CEO at 2Star Technology Limited; his team did good work. Truehost team did great work, I with my knowledge on web development and management, did great tasks — it took only six hours; that was Monday, February 26, 2024 — doacweb.com became active.

Teamwork we achieved complex tasks within six hours. That's the power of collaboration and corporation. Then I started partnering with AI to build our business, and we are growing.

I have learnt a lot, too numerous to tell, from failures — failing is part of the journey to success. Afraid to fail, you will never get success!

© Didi-Omah Augustine Chinazaekpere 

Founder/CEO, doacweb.com, Africa