Your social media footprint can deny you business, budding exporters told

Newly registered exporters in the Port Harcourt zone have been warned to be mindful of the kind of things they say and the friends they keep on social media as such could cost them dearly.

Speaking in Port Harcourt recently, Ofon Udofia, an expert in export business and the executive secretary, Institute of Export Operations Management, said some persons have been denied visas to enter some countries because of what they said on Facebook and other social platforms.

He told the budding exporters that their social media footprint is liable to investigation during application for visa for business trips.

Udofia, who spoke during training for new exporters in Port Harcourt organised by the Nigerian Export Promotions Council (NEPC), urged them to be in touch with the world and make their companies present on the internet.

He reminded the new exporters that their social media records could deny them visa and customers in some parts of the world, saying, “Cut a clear identity and be consistent.”