Monday 28 May 2012

HOW TO EXPORT FOOD STUFF ABROAD

Three days ago I received an email from one MR. PAUL OGUNDANA, below is the message.
“Hello MR. SUNKANMI AFOLABI I want to commend your good work especially giving out useful guides on your website for free. I pray that God will give you more knowledge to keep the good work moving. Please sir I need your help on how to start food exportation business, have heard a lot about this business but I am afraid to fall into the hand of 419ers. I and others reading your blog shall be grateful if you can provide clear information on this.
  Thanks (PAUL OGUNDANA) 0805XXXXXXX”

Good morning friend thanks for joining me on this blog this week as I will be giving out more useful Tips on a daily basis. The message I quoted above was the one I received from Mr Paul Ogundana last weekend (sent to afolabisunkanmi@gmail.com), please permit me to keep his contact email and phone numbers anonymous.
I want to quickly correct a statement in his message, as a business minded person you should not be afraid of being a victim of 419ers or scammers, to succeed in your business you must be ready to take business risk, business owners are risk takers. I always say be wise.
    Now back to food stuff export business information or guide which ever you call it.

FOOD EXPORTATION
According to record of Nigerians living abroad at present has been estimated to be over 20 million, with majority living in South Africa, USA and UK. Though we have Nigerians all over the world, but the population figure shows that more Nigerians reside in UK and USA than other countries.
      With this high population of Nigerians and other Africans living abroad, it has provided a business opportunity to sell food stuff {AFRICA FOOD STUFF} to these people. But do you know only few food exporters are into this business by which it has made the supply of food stuff very low and can not meet the high demand from these people over there. Now you as a smart and business minded Nigerian that is ready to venture into food stuff export business, then you should consider some exportable food stuffs listed below.


  1. GARI
  2. CASHEW NUT
  3. GROUNDNUT
  4. GROUNDNUT OIL
  5. YAM
  6. YAM FLOUR
  7. COCONUT
  8. ORANGE
  9. TOMATO (PASTE)
  10. PEPPER
  11. DRY PEPPER
  12. CASSAVA FLOUR
  13. PLANTAIN
  14. PLANTAIN FLOUR
  15. SNAIL
  16. HONEY
  17. RICE {OFADA} on high demand
  18. PALM OIL
  19. VEGETABLE LEAFS {BITTER LEAF, DRY VEGETABLE LEAF, UGU LEAF}
  20. FRUIT
  21. WATER MELON
  22. CATFISH on huge demand
  23. POULTRY {local fowls}
  24. OKRO
  25. GINGER
  26. ONION
We have many, but listed above are popular ones.

HOW TO START THIS BUSINESS
  1. PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
.Choose those products that is ever so easy to produce or to sell to your customers you can choose from planting or producing the food stuffs yourself or buying the products from local traders and market women.
  1. You need a capital at least #200,000 to start this business.
  2. You need knowledge on how to use internet marketing to promote your product, why? Over there in countries like USA, UK and CHINA, They prefer surfing out or getting everything they needed online, also this will give you the chance of having many customers at hand.

REQUIREMENT

  1. You need a phone number
  2. You need an email account
  3. You need a website
  4. You should learn how to promote your goods on social network site like facebook. (click here to do that)

  1. Get your message across to your targeted buyers by sending massive mail promotion that introduces your offer. Advertise on website like facebook, google and you can also join ecommerce site like alibaba.com where you will advertise your product for free. Still on it, join or register as a member on Nigerian forums like Nairaland, Nbf to promote your product, if you are not a Nigerian search for forums in your country through google search. You can also target my visitors on this blog worldwide by placing advert on this blog (click here to see how it is done)

HOW TO SEND YOUR FOOD STUFF AND HOW TO RECEIVE YOUR MONEY
  1. You can receive your money through bank to bank transfer {i.e. you must have a domiciliary account with any globally known Nigeria banks} Also your buyers can pay through western union and money gram.
  2. You can send by air that’s the fastest and suggested option to export your product abroad. Since it takes less hour sending by air than sending through Nipost, you can choose sending your product by air when it comes to perishable products} more so, you can send by Nipost, visit any nearest post office for further details on this. To non Nigerians please use your country postal agents.
  3. You can also choose to deal with commodities exporter companies that you know.
        
USEFUL INSTRUCTIONS
  1. To open a domiciliary account you need a current account, two referees and opening balance that depends on the bank you are dealing with, I use GTB is $100.
  2. sending through Nipost, send to individual address and  not company to avoid delay or useless interrogation
  3. If you want to go into this business as a serious investor then you should try as much as possible to register a business name or company name. {many buyers would love to deal with reputable company or business owners and not ordinary individuals}                                                                                 HELLO with the above tips, i think it is a new dawn for you. Just pick up from where left off

    If you have any question feel free to use the comment box or follow any of means listed below to contact me. Wishing you best of luck in your business. 
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Thursday 24 May 2012

15 BUSINESSES FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE DURING RAINING SEASON

Now that Nigeria and some other parts of the world are experiencing heavy down pour of rain, It is no longer news that many things would be disturbed or stop due to Non stop of rain. But some business minded people will always see this period as an opportunity to make a good income.

Here are list of businesses some one can venture to this period.
1. SALE OF COLD WEATHER CLOTHING
    a. cardigans
    b. sweaters
    c. head warmers
    d. hood sweaters
    e. mufflers

2. SALE OF RAINY SEASON RUBBER WEARS
     a. rain coat
     b. rubber slippers
     c. rubber boots

3. PRODUCE MOSQUITO PREVENTION PRODUCTS

4. RENTAL OF WATER PUMPING MACHINE

5. TARPAULIN RENTAL BUSINESS POPULARLY KNOWN AS CANOPY

6. HALL RENTAL BUSINESS

7. SALE OF HOT BEVERAGES (coffea, tea)

8. SALE OF SNAIL MEAT

9. SALE OF HOT SNACK

10. SALE OF BEAN CAKE

11. LAWN CARE BUSINESS

12. PLANTING AND SELLING OF VEGETABLES

13. SALE OF COCONUT

14. SALE OF PEAR

15. SALE OF OINTMENT

Research was done by SUNKANMI AFOLABI  host of this blog.
Research material (SUCCESS DIGEST EXTRA NEWS PAPER, get a copy from your vendor #100 only)
Feel free to add your own business idea using the comment form below. 

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Wednesday 23 May 2012

MAKE MONEY HERE IN NIGERIA SELLING REFURBISHED AND FAIRLY USED LAPTOP

A guy once asked me how to shop abroad online here in Nigeria. I replied him with one of my blog Tutorial post “How to shop abroad right here in Nigeria part 1
Today’s tutorial is all about selling fairly used or refurbished laptop in Nigeria.
 TIPS TO START
  1. YOU NEED CAPITAL
  2. YOU NEED A LOCATION
  3. YOU NEED TO SELECT AN ONLINE SHOP TO ORDER YOUR PRODUCT
  4. YOU NEED PACKAGE FORWARDING COMPANY
  5. YOU NEED TO APPLY MARKETING STRATEGIES

                              ABOUT START UP CAPITAL
Now that you have chosen to start selling refurbished or fairly used laptop. The first thing that comes to your mind is how much you would need to set up your own laptop market. But before you jump into capital decision, why not take a good look on necessary or important things needed for your business to kick off, by this you will be able to decide quickly on amount needed for each requirement. E.g
1. shop(you should decide if you are going to rent a shop, buy a space or may be you going to stock your product at home)
2. Location (you have to decide on location, which I believe would require transportation fees, shipping bills and so on).
3. Product Type (You should also decide on the laptop you want to sell, to make your business unique just limit your product type to not more than 3 types).
4. Tax (Do you need to pay any Tax , How much is the clearing charges? You should decide on this)
5. Marketing secret (you should decide if you will market it in a traditional market i.e just open your shop and display your laptop to buyers. Also decide if you will apply some marketing tools to boost your sales such as online marketing, advert on news paper, bill board, hand bill, poster and radio advert).
6. Quantity (decide on the pieces of laptop in your first order)

If you can follow the above mentioned tips then you should be able to calculate your needed capital. But for small laptop shop just budget #500,000 to #1,000,000. Remember I am talking about refurbished and fairly used pc and laptop.

                                                          YOUR LOCATION
Location helps this type of business, No thought that Lagos is still the best place to be or other civilized area if you are investing into this kind of business.
You also need to decide if you will pick up your own stand at a place like computer trade centre a good example is our popular Lagos computer village. You can get a mini shop, open shop, just a stand, full shop, ware house and so on, it depends on how big or small you want your business to be.
                                         YOUR AUCTION SITE
Decide on which country you want to buy from, you can choose from the popular ones i.e USA, UK, CHINA and JAPAN. Permit me to tell you that the best country to deal with when it comes to buying quality computer and laptop online is USA and when you are looking for a place to buy the cheapest Laptop just head straight to CHINA.

HOW TO ORDER LAPTOP FROM USA
For every non USA citizens just head straight to AMAZONsearch for your product as illustrated below.
MIND TO BILLION'S PHOTO
 E.g hp laptop then search, hence you will notice series of product with different specification and worth as shown above, here you can choose to buy new, buy refurbished or buy used. Pick your product, pay for it with any globalize credit card, master card. Ask your local bank for this card, if you are a Nigeria fellow like me use zenith websurfer, zenith debit buxz or gtb dollar master card, we have other good ones please ask your bank officials.
Next is
YOUR PACKAGE FORWARDING COMPANY
To receive your product from amazon as a Non USA resident you need a USA address, you can get the USA address of your relative living in USA or use a website called myus.com, this site will provide you a USA address as a non resident where you can easily forward any of your amazon product to address provided by myus.com. To register for a USA address log on to myus.com register for free and go for the subscription package that suite you best, note you can choose standard package $6.99/month or $60/year.
*order you laptop on amazon, try to order in bulk like 5 pieces in other to minimize your shipping bills, send your product to USA address provided by myus.com, when your product gets there myus.com will notify you.
*It is time to forward your product from myus.com to Nigeria, you are to pay for shipping bills, myus.com will calculate the bill according to the weight, size and quantity of your product, also your product will be forwarded to your resident address or office address here in Nigeria through DHL, it takes 3 to 7 days, it depends on the package you have chosen.
*When dealing with amazon, myus.com just use a dollar dominated credit card and don’t worry your self about paypal, inshort if your country is not listed among the countries accepted by paypal just stay away from dealing with them.

HOW TO ORDER FROM CHINA
I once dealt with Aliexpress.com one of the largest e commerce site in CHINA; my experience with them was good, though with carefulness. So here is not like amazon oooo, you must shine your eyes very well before jumping into the pot of scammers. There are lots of merchants on Aliexpress.com each promising the cheapest and a ridiculous price for their products.
*Don’t buy from substandard merchants, deal with at least Gold suppliers
*When you want to pay for your product pay through escrow. Escrow stand as a third party bank between you as a buyer and seller. When you pay, escrow will receive the money on behalf of supplier and when you receive your product escrow will then pay your supplier. I think that’s clear enough.
PAYMENT FLOW CHAT


You can search for your laptop using the search box, plus the combination of keyword, make sure you read product information very well so that you wont order a substandard laptop especially those CHINALLY made laptop that are very cheap. Did I just said “CHINALLY MADE” lols but that’s the truth.
Your supplier shall send your package through fedex or DHL. You can pick your product up same way as that of amazon. That’s clear.


 YOUR MARKETING PLAN AND TIPS TO SELL YOUR PRODUCT
  1. If you know you knew nothing about fixing laptop problems easily, please don’t bother to order for used ones Just order refurbished. Note used laptops sometime might be faulty that you will need extra money to repair it, that’s another capital for you. But if you are a laptop engineer then you are good to order any type you like. So either way chooses wisely, that’s all.
  2. for example a refurbished laptop on amazon or aliexpress could cost as low as $250 to $300, compare to knew $500 above. If you exchange the currency figure to our naira its around #40,000 per refurbished, now let assume $50 shipping bills from myus.com and $50 from Aliexpress, please note am talking just a piece of laptop not in bulk, bulk shipping are calculated on quantity , weight but if you ship in bulk there is going to be a discount in your bill I am very sure of that.
If you ship through DHL, but please make sure you register with DHL as a real customer to avoid any future embracement of law enforcement agency, Nigeria is so corrupt especially our officers, pardon me for that. Let assume that our total cost is now #48,000 you can resale #55,000 or more, you just have a #7000 return on your capital, let assume you order like 10 pieces that’s #70,000, the more you buy the more your profit maximize, so on any capital calculate your profit before order.
  1. how do you market your product for quick sales and profit.
  1. bit down your price but calculate profit, be wise.
  2. Apply Extra Advertising tools.
You can choose from or combine all.
    1. news paper advert (complete sport is a good target cost #7500 per classified advert)
    2. online advertisement(you can build a website if you have many laptops in stock just like simple ecommerce site, so your customer would already known what the product you are selling is all about, before they start calling you to order, you can also use free classified advert website like dealfish, trade stable. Also register on Nigeria big forums like nairaland, nigeriabestforum and so on. If you have knowledge about facebook marketing secrets its also a good tools to advertise your product quick click here to read about facebook marketing secret.
    3. you can place posters, handbill, use direct contact, go to your targeted market such as schools, cafĂ©, send bulk sms to boost your market, you can buy like 10,000 to 100,000 units of phone numbers and send a bulk sms for as low as 90k per number. Contact me if you want to buy Nigerian’s numbers at cheaper rate, contact me using any of my contact listed below.

PROFIT PLAN
#fact you will make it if you apply everything I have discussed with you just now.
RECOMMENDATION
If you are afraid of dealing directly with amazon, then you can choose to pay for your product via a company called Circuit Atlantic, Circuit Atlantic would allow you to shop any product in USA via their website, note only that, you will also pay in Naira through bank deposit so you wont need to worry about credit card. Follow this link to contact circuit atlantic in lagos

Did you missed my post on how to shop from abroad Right here in Nigeria, if yes click here to read before you leave.
God bless, I still remain your friend SUNKANMI AFOLABI host of this blog.,
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Tuesday 22 May 2012

HOW TO START A BLOG

BEGINNERS TIP ON STARTING A BLOG
I told a friend of mine few months ago, how he too can set up a blog on his own. As a newbie on blogging platform, starting a blog can be very easy, if you can follow some steps and important tips I will be discussing now.
Here is my advice to fresher, newbie should  opt for the use  of free webhosting packages at the initial stage of their blogging career, there are two popular ones on net i.e blogger and wordpress, you should pick the one that suite you and start building your blog on it. Sign up for free with your email account. The good part of it is using any of these two free web hosting to create your blog means your blog would be hosted for free and if at the end of the day you were not able to achieve what you might have achieved from blogging then you can quit blogging since you have got nothing to loose.
This is how your blog domain address look www.yoursite.blogspot.com or www.yoursite.wordpress.com Good for you to practice few weeks even month sometimes a year or more. When your training  is over and your blogging professionalism is clear then you can invest a little using a custom domain and a paid web host. But before that here is another free host to use www.web.com
TIPS TO START YOUR BLOG ON A PAID HOST
  1. BUY DOMAIN
  2. BUY A WEBHOST
  3. INSTALL YOUR BLOG SOFTWARE
  4. CUSTOMIZE YOUR BLOG
  5. MAKE YOUR BLOG FIRST POST
  6. BUILD TRAFFIC
Now lets take it one after the other.
                   DOMAIN
A domain is the combination of alphabets and numbers that you type into web browser to open the page of a particular website or blog. We have different types of domain but I will discuss that in my future post. For example www.yourwebsitename.com (yourwebsitename is the domain)
 HOW TO REGISTER A DOMAIN?
Web host companies allows you to host website and receive a domain for free, though we have some that rather prefer you to pay for your domain and hosting separately. If you choose to register for free plus hosting package then pay for host, you will have you domain registered for free. But I personally used domain registrar during my blog or website registration, why? Because there is more assurance that your domain would be registered plus a chance to control your domain as the real owner.
      BELOW ARE GOOD DOMAIN REGISTRARS
  1. namecheap
  2. godaddy
  3. register
You can search the rest on google for those registrars in your area or country for easy purchase.

2.BUY ALREADY MADE DOMAIN.
 if you feel like buying already made domain then just head straight to any domain auction websites to order for registered domain that fit your website or blog title we have good ones like
1. sedo

 3. BUY EXPIRED DOMAIN OR DEAD DOMAIN
the third option to get your domain registered is by buying expired or dead domain i.e buy domain that is no longer responding to server due to expired fees. if you know how to choose this type of domain rightly, you can pump massive traffic to your blog within short period of set up, why? most of these domain are on net for a long period of time which means search engines must have heard about the domain before. you can check the popularity of the domain before you purchase.

HOST YOUR BLOG
what is a web host?
web host is where your blog or website lives, when you forward your domain and install your blog software plus contents your blog host will house it for you, not only that your blog shall be visible on internet for people to locate easily anywhere they are, we have lot of web hosting company everywhere but i use FATCOW  for my real sites and blog, you can also use hostgator  or search the rest on net.

INSTALL YOUR BLOG SOFTWARE
use wordpress thats the best software for serious blogger. Because it is very easy to install, customise and build of contents. you can find various theme for your blog on net , just install the one that fit your blog, more so your web host company should provide a link to install wordpress software .

CUSTOMIZE YOUR BLOG
Sign in to your wordpress control panel
customise the look
*ADD NEW PAGE
*ADD NEW POST
*ADD THEME OR INSTALL THEME
*ADD PLUG INS
* DESIGN LOGO . HEADERS, FOOTER 
and many more
Thats a little tip about setting up a blog . this tutorial is not over, you must learn how to write your blog first post, how to drive traffic and so on click here to continue reading 

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Monday 21 May 2012

THE SECRET OF MAKING #200,000 MONTHLY PRINTING GSM RECHARGE VOUCHER

Good day friend, today I will be sharing with you how to start recharge card printing business in Nigeria .

The statistics available to me shows that GSM user's base is almost 100 millions and is still growing. Despite this million making potentials in the telecommunication-GSM industry, "some people" are still not making a living with it.
With the information on how to start this business sold everywhere in manuals, CD, softwares or VCD packages, I have noticed that a lot of people are still not investing in this business. What are the reasons? There are three reasons i have researched.
1. People habitually read, rather than make use of it, dump and start to tell stories.
2. Those who would have started but could not afford the start up capital-#400,000
3.Those who however, started discovered they could not make the money.
The bases of this eye-opening information are for the third category above-"those who however started but could not make the money". Rather than "return on investments" they can't ever get the "return of their investments".
The universal truth is still remains that business is a game of numbers. The more the number of people in your targeted market the possibility of making it big.  Pause!!!
Let me talk to our newbie, those who are reading the information for the first time or getting it in details like this for the first time, you are welcome to our blog. This introductory is for you.

Ever before now, these cards were being printed abroad and imported to this country by GSM service providers-MTN, ZAIN and GLOBACOM. However, it was stopped by the government by making it compulsory for all GSM service providers to print their prepaid calling cards here in Nigeria. This, therefore, opened another investment opportunities for Nigerians-Agents, Distributors, Retailers And The Consumers.

HOW CAN YOU TAP INTO THIS OPPORTUNITY?
There are three options in the production of telephone (GSM) recharge cards, namely: dealership, sub-dealership and small scale recharge card printing.
....Mega GSM recharge Cards Dealership: This is a dealership/agency arrangement between the investor and the service providers. It is the most lucrative and rewarding but requires large amount of start up capital-#1,000,000.00
....Sub-Dealership: This is an arrangement that can be attached to those who are distributors depending on the dealer. It is for those who may not have the financial requirements to be direct agents to the network service provider. With a minimum of #400,000.00 start up capital you can be a sub-dealer.
....Small Scale Recharge (voucher printing): This is the one you can start with #100,000 and make mega profit.
There are two ways you can start printing recharge vouchers on small scale depending on the company you sign up with;
1.You can start printing through the internet
2.You can start printing with the voucher printing machine from a franchise company.

PRINTING THROUGH THE INTERNET
To print through the internet you need a computer, HP printer and software-enabler.
Once you set those up, register with the company and buy PIN to give you access. The software enables you to print vouchers from the website of the company registered with into the normal voucher format. The PINs are also obtained from authorized marketers/distributors to the company.

PRINTING WITH THE VOUCHER MACHINE FROM A FRANCHISE COMPANY:
To print with machine, all you need to do is to register with the company and purchase the machine which does the printing. The machine is sold for #50,000 for the smaller one and #80,000 for bigger one and you must load it with a minimum of #10,000 PIN which can be spread to print all network. Subsequently, you can buy PIN from the same company as you want them without going to the network service providers.
What are needed?
1. Machine(orange box), Registration with the company, training and administration service.


2.Raw Material( for take off) #10,000.00

ABOUT THE MACHINE
The machine is a small and portable device but very powerful. It uses two rechargeable finger batteries. You need only one machine to print all network vouchers which does not require any internet connectivity.
It is so easy to operate that you can get the whole techniques in just 5 minutes at the point of purchase. The franchise company assumes the responsibility of servicing it should there be any fault.

MATERIALS:
The only materials needed to start printing vouchers with this machine is paper. A roll of paper can print about 150 vouchers. The machine comes with two rolls of paper. A roll of paper is #75.00

SECURITY:
Each machine is operated through a security code which will be known to the owner alone. The code is what gives you access to the machine and at such cannot be operated without it. If stolen, it is useless to whoever does that. It also keeps record of daily sales made should you give it to someone to operate. Time and serial numbers of vouchers are recorded also.

PIN:
Each of the PIN is sold by the company on commission structure. You can buy the machine or PIN at designated banks or nearest branch of franchise company.

WHERE CAN I BUY THIS MACHINE?
Will recommend just one company to you:
CITISERVE LIMITED
number 398, ikorodu road, Maryland, Lagos state
Telephone:08028778491

The CITISERVE NETWORK PARTNERS (CNP) is an emerging name of young entrepreneurs who continue to be trained in product awareness and appreciation in line with the CITISERVE ENTERPRENUERIAL EMPOWERMENT (CEED) program.
One outstanding benefit of this franchise company is that once you register with them, you become part of the network and are entitled to business training and administration services.

HOW TO BE A CNP
1.Register by obtaining and filling the CNP form which you can obtain from any of CITISERVE offices near you ar designated GTBank branches nationwide.
2. Get the orange Box
3.Load you orange box.
4.Get trained
Just visit or call the office for further details

Other Companies you can still get small scale voucher printing arrange with include
....RINGO TELECOMS
number 117, Allen Avenue(Tantalizer, Building, second floor), ikeja, Lagos
08032030771,08060079090,08054006225,08084840345
www.ringotelecoms.com
cyril2040@yahoo.com

Their software and installation as at press time of this information is #20,000
You can order for your PIN from any part of the country through email with minimum of #10,000.00 .you will also be enlightened at the point of purchase how to use the software to print card.

.....PREPAID NIGERIA
   Penth House, 5th floor, 6-8 new isheri road, Ikeja Lagos state
01-7914279,08032036770
www.ngrgsm.com, www.prepaidnigeria.com
Their software is free, you can download it from their website . You can also get the PIN from any part of the country through email.
                                    THAT IS ALL FOR NEWBIE
Now welcome back from the newbie's info.
The reason those who started could not make the money are: faulty marketing strategies and leadership skill.
Marketing is the "Livewire" of any thriving business. It is not enough to have the money to invest and printing enough vouchers. You can print #100,000.00 worth of vouchers now and still be broke.
What is the point? You must get your marketing and leadership skill right.
Leadership is all about influence and managing relationship with your customers while marketing is about attracting potentials customers.

WHAT MARKETING SKILLS WORK?
Want to share a few tips with you that will guarantee you at least #200,000 a month.
Do you know that all the phone boot operators buy vouchers from accredited printers?
Design a small form to design names, phone numbers, address  e.t.c go out in every street, meters away from your residence depending on how far you can. Explain to any operator you meet that you want to do business with them. Also give them any benefit you think of. Give the form to the person to fill and find out how much voucher can the person buy in a day or week. As you take your leave, make sure you leave your contact with the person.
Go round. There are many of them around, be friendly with them and even offer to give them credibility facility. Don't be afraid, business is all about risk taking.
....Once you have collected as many contacts lets say at least 50 boot operators or even those who sell at home or at their shops. Build a database of the contact on anything, computer, notebook e.t.c.
....Obtain bulk SMS credits from any reseller to enable you send cheap I use BBN. With this you can start building relationship with them. This is where your leadership skill comes into play.
Let me share a secret with you. In this part of the world where people have lost the sense of the community, individual relationship has become paramount. So people appreciate personal relationship. Always text greetings and other things you think can speak to their emotions to them. Always send information about stock of vouchers.
If you have 50 people who can sell at least 50 vouchers of 100 each a day, i.e.50*50=#2500
2500*100=250,000
you can calculate the profit yourself. That is just one day from fifty people. What about 100, 200, or 300 people. Don't say it is not possible it is. Calculate it in a month.
....Another thing you should do is this; do you know that people that buy recharge card traveled miles, or even ride on okada to buy from dealer?
If only some one could bring it down to them when they need it? This is their wish. People like ease and convenience thing. Rather than wait for them to come to you just start taking the vouchers to them. Encourage them to always pre-inform you when they are running out of stock. They will enjoy it.
....Try to give some credit facilities. Have you ever bought vouchers on wholesale? Those sellers don't give a dame. In fact they put strong gate or bar in front of you because you could also be an armed robber. They don't have relationship with customers “JUST PAY AND COLLECT YOUR CARDS" that is their philosophy.

HELLO with the above tips, I think it is a new dawn for you. Just pick up from where left off


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Thursday 17 May 2012

FACEBOOK MONEY SECRET FOR EVERY ONE


Welcome my darling Friends, hope your day is moving fine. I am Sunkanmi Afolabi the host of this BLOG, Today I will be sharing with you how to turn your every minutes spent on facebook to a cash rolling opportunity. Hope you will enjoy this, I know you will arrive with a lasting success, happy reading.

1. HOW TO OPEN FACEBOOK ACCOUNT
You need your email to enable you open on computer or on internet enable phones using your phone number, but for you to earn money please learn how to use the computer. Just Log on to www.facebook.com , create a free account.

2. ADDING FRIEND
   Now you can add friends quickly using the new facebook features, you can search for a specific interest, group, name, location or the combination of all. You can also search fan page, by using the search box at the top right of your facebook profile, or click add friends on automatic generated friends or suggested friends. The newly added friends need to accept you as friend, once you are accepted, you need to send a thank you message to them for accepting you as friend, lets apply a simple marketing secret here, see below example assuming WALE OLORUNTOBA just accepted my friend request, this is what I will send as a reply to Him
“Thanks Wale for accepting my friend request,  hope we going to have a very good friendship, This is my special gift for you as a new friend, Discover unlimited business opportunity TIPS and how to start one from the scratch see here www.mind2billion.blogspot.com once again thank you, SUNKANMI AFOLABI”.
Once my new friend read this, I hope he would click my blog link, before he knows it is here already and that’s traffic for my blog. You can use this marketing secret to sell anything even POP CORN market. Note you just have to be creative enough, just make sure it contains the first name of the person, your name, and little about your offer. i.e appreciation, propose a future interaction and conclude wisely, you can send the message directly to your friend’s Facebook inbox or write it on their timeline or wall, writing on wall is a very good idea once it is done, the person will see this on his wall and all his/her friends will see this too, by this you can have as many as possible people reading your offer right away, and they may click on it, or opt for any offer you promise wisely.

3. WRITE A NOTE
Since you are on Facebook for business, I will advice you to always write about your product, goods and services or any other related business. This feature enables you to distribute information to all your friends or any group you belong to at once. It is a useful tool to those who have information about business or product or service to distribute. After publishing, it will appear on your wall and the walls of all your friends you tagged or groups. That is not all, by the right side of your note you will see “tag this note” the feature allow you to add friends to the note you have written and this is what happen, all the friends you add to your note will receive an email from Facebook informing them that you have tagged them a note, that is traffic for your site, your product sales letter, blog, fan page and so on. If you have a blog like this or WordPress blogs you can import your blog article to your note, in fact when you update your blog it automatically gets the contact and share it on in your note, then you can tag your friends and groups and so on. You can also use the share this application for social website, when any of your site or blog visitors click on share this on Facebook  it will automatically share on their walls or any group they which to send the article to, this is a useful tools to bloggers like your friend SUNKANMI AFOLABI to write a note visit www.facebook.com/group/editnotes.ph?import or click note directly on Facebook.

4. CREATE A FANPAGE
Fan page allows business people to directly interact with their customers on facebook. “fans” can upload photos and actively engages with other users on fan page.  You have the opportunity to upload videos and other multimedia on you fan page  it allows you to send message to your fans which help you keep your customers informed about your new product, event or any new offer that are related to your business. For example here is our blog fan page address www.facebook.com/mindtobillion like our page now for more tips on Facebook about this blog. Fan page increase traffic to your website, blog or your product location online, it also viral that when users become a fan of your page, it is advertised on all their friends news feeds. Just click create a page on Facebook  give it a title, update necessary information, you can customize to suite your business offer. The more people who like your pages the more sales or traffic you get.

5. TOP WAYS TO MAKE MORE THAN $1000 (#160,000) MONTHLY
1. SELLING APPLICATION
One of the major ways you can earn income out of Facebook is by creating application which will interest your users of Facebook Develop them for sole purpose of selling it to web developers,  game developers, programmers and so on. You can learn how to develop software within 6 month or 1 year it all depends on your tutor, just search any software engineers in your area and request for a training.
2. SELLING INFORMATION
This alone can make you rich if you market it wisely, you can turn any of your idea to information and start marketing it inform of eBooks  Software, DVD,  CD,  Manual Book even seminars and so on. Use your wall, note, or group you belong to for selling your goods and services. You can even create a group to sell your product on Facebook and fan page  you can also advertise any of your products to targeted customers using the Facebook advertisement program. The more you are using the traffic ads the more you can increase the chances of getting more sales, for instance the major traffic to this blog is through Facebook.
I will teach you how to turn anything into information marketing in my future post.
3. AFFILIATE MARKETING
1. choose an affiliate marketing for advertising is a great source of income. This is another method by which you can use advertisement on Facebook with little penny, payment is through credit card, Paypal  You can get credit card in your reputable local banks. Just set up a blog for affiliate, website, pick a product to promote on this blog and website, you can pick a product from sites like www.amazon.com, www.clickbank.com, www.cj.com, www.paydotcom.com , www.linkshare.com , www.shareasale.com and so on. These sites work very well, each with different terms and condition so make sure your read that before picking any product.
What to do..
1. Visit the site mentioned above, register, pick a product (an ever green product or hot product in market), you will be given an affiliate code, place this on your blog or website.
2. Start promoting your affiliate link on your website using Facebook traffic secret or marketing secret I have mentioned earlier. The more visitors you get and the more click on your click, and if anyone buys the product, then you just earn a share from the product you are promoting.

4. SELL OFFLINE PRODUCT ONLINE
I once told you that you can sell anything on Facebook,  friends if you want to increase your customer traffic flow. Just go to Facebook and start telling your friends and others about your product. Using the secret I have told you, (your wall, your friend’s wall, group, note, fan page, Facebook advertisement).

Final word, my darling friend don’t just waste your precious time sharing useless story on Facebook  many are on Facebook 24/7 without doing any reasonable thing, do something that will make your pocket rich through the poser of selling through Facebook, and that thing is your idea, your product, your services.
God, I will drop my pen here till my future post.

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Sunday 13 May 2012

HOW TO SECURE A SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE BUSINESS LOAN WITH EASE IN NIGERIA

Welcome to mind to billion’s blog, I am Sunkanmi Afolabi the host of this blog. Today I will be sharing with you how to secure a business loan for your small and medium scale business here in Nigeria. Getting a loan can be very difficult this day, especially for individual business owners. No thought about this.
Lets take a little digest and see how we can finance our business or project with ease applying for loans with or without collateral.

1.GOVERNMENT LOAN FOR GROUP AND ASSOCIATION
2. BANK LOANS FOR INDIVIDUAL OR COOPERATE BODY

GOVERNMENT LOAN
Government loan should be the easiest to secure but not in this our Nigeria, you have to be a politician, have big connection with top officials before loan can be granted by the government. Thank for many state today, there agencies and ministry that now cater for micro credit loans, SME purpose, some would give out training ad seminar on your business before they start disbursing the loan. Major issue is that you cant get this done easily as an individual, the truth and Central truth is you must belong to your business related association , see government love to deal with group(s) of business owners , traders, and so on than any individual, when there is an association or group with leaders it gives more capital confidence and more trust about your business. Perhaps you are real member of the group, I promise you, getting your share from the Loan by the Government under the umbrella of your group or association is a good way to secure loan for your business. Example of such group is TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

BANK LOAN FOR INDIVIDUAL OR COOPERATE BODY
  *Individual
As an individual please forget it if you are expecting banks like GTB, FIRSTBANK UBA, and so on to loan/borrow you some amount of money as an individual , they don’t care of your amount of money in your savings or current account. Why this?
  1. You may not be able to meet up with the requirements such as interest rate, collateral, refree, short term or long term loan requirement, payment period.
  2. Those days it was easy, but these days isn’t . the new banking policy as really change everything and making deals with bank as an individual more difficult everyday.
Except you belong to association just like as I said in government Loan. Here not ordinary association, but a recognized trade or labour body e.g NUT(Teacher’s car loan, house loan, business loan…..) it doesn’t matter the loan they called it, Just divert it to your business. That’s an example how to get a loan fro the bank as an individual, we MARKET WOMEN GROUP, TRADERS ASSOCIATION and so on so forth.

So what is the best and easiest way to secure business as an individual
*Deal with micro finance bank for 3-6months or more, Try to have a good patronage with the bank, A sound customer relationship with your bank official. Micro finance banks are loan givers when it comes to financing small and medium scale businesses, that’s their aim and objective, supporting and financing business and project of customer with good business potential.

Any Micro Finance Bank can work well, but make a good research on your own of those MFBs in your area.
Below is a good Micro Finance Bank’s example
As a business owner just walk in to the bank open an account, deal with the bank for 3 month, open up that you need a business loan, though you will be interrogated if you manage to proof yourself best as a smart business minded one and so far you meet up with requirement , I promise you , you will get the loan, and not only that , The bank will make a reasonable follow up to make sure you succeed in your business. Here is their contact address
Website
Contacts
BRANCHES Ikeja (Head Office)
9, Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos
Tel: 01-4482155-8
OSHODI
101 Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, by Oshodi Oke Bus Stop
Opposite Mecure Healthcare Limited, Oshodi, Lagos
Tel: 07098119475-8
IYANA-IPAJA
319 Ipaja Road, Opposite Government College,
Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos
Tel: 07098124105-8
SURULERE
29B Itire Road, Surulere, Lagos
Tel: 07098120791-4
KETU
56 Ikosi Road, Ketu, Lagos
Tel: 07098731737-40
APAPA
74 Mobil Road, Ajegunle, Apapa.
Tel: 07098731733-6 TELEPHONE:
+234-1-4482155-9

COOPERATE BODY
1. company , association, organization. Just head straight with group or association officials to banks like GTB, UBA, FIRST BANK and others. Note each bank with different terms and conditions. Collateral, trustees, interest rate, payment period and so on and so forth.
Try to read this all on their websites or local interaction.

*other means to secure loan for business
1. Approach local micro finance group
2. Borrow fro individuals.
3. Start saving from the scratch
4. Joint venture with others

#central truth(The idea of turning your small business to bigger one is the key issue not really the capital. You can start any business with any little amount and later divert profit to finance your normal business, start something today, plan for it and success is yours)
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Saturday 12 May 2012

HOW TO WRITE A GOOD APPLICATION LETTER TO GET A GOOD JOB

Good day friends, I am your friend Sunkanmi Afolabi today I am sharing with you How to write a Job application letter.
Things you should avoid when. Writing a Job letter
1. Avoid indecent covering letter.
2. The whole thing shouldn’t just be about you or how good you are
3. Avoid writing a letter with no benefit or rather no reference to the company or organization.
4. Avoid to over emphasis on what you have in mind if you are employed.
                       
  To write a Decent CV
I have made a good research on this on internet and a friend of mine applied this trick He got the Job.

…Write a proper covering letter for CV, send a letter or deliver it yourself

…Don’t send your CV anyhow; make sure you send a proper letter and not just a brief or summary.

…Give a good reason why they should employ you, be courageous in writing this and make sure you have wide knowledge in what you are promising the company. They might ask a question about it during interview.

…Along with your CV’s letter you can enclose a photograph of your self, your employer like to see who they might end up employing.

…Don’t just write story, show inside your letter that you are interested in them. You can give a good reference of what your knowledge about the company. Try to research; this will give you more tips to write about the company.

#Fact, no company would place 100% attention in your ABOUT YOU message, all they are looking for is about the company and you can figure out reasonable problem if there is any affecting the company. Try to give a brief solution in your own perspective of specification.

…Your benefit to the company
Explain your skill and experience and relate to the company how it will benefit the company if you are employed.

…How to write
Write with good hand writing, use blue ink and check spelling.

…Do the follow up
Phone call, email, Go to office, get secretary, P.A , office assistant and even director’s Contacts. Don’t just send CV and sit-down expecting the company to give a call or email you, Do important follow up.

…Finally, Hope in God that you are employed.

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Friday 11 May 2012

15 STUDENT'S BUSINESS IDEAS AND HOW TO START ONE IN NIGERIA TERTIARY SCHOOLS. PART2


I friend , Today I am sharing with you the part2 of the student business ideas which I discussed in PART1, click here to read PART1.
As you discovered in PART1 of this write up I discussed a lot on how a student can start a genuine small scale business that cough out good profit smiling to the bank on a daily basis. I mentioned 5 of the 15 business ideas in part 1 includes as follow;
1. Setting up a mini barbing saloon
2. Setting up a mini cyber café
3. Recharge card business
4. Setting up a phone call and repair boot
5. Selling of tokunbo clothes, shoes and bags

Today I am sharing with you more eye opener to financial breakthrough as a student. This is a good opportunity for you to say bye bye to suffering in school. Here are more business Tips

6. START HOME COACHING OR TUTORIAL CLASS.
               Just like the first five in PART 1 this is another hot business idea , infarct the cheapest to start, I have made my research and I discovered many smart students out there are making their living so comfortable, just by teaching their level mates or other students. Lets take a ride on tips to profit
                       
 TIPS TO START
1. Tutorial class, you can use any of the school lecture room, you need your writing materials, you need sound teaching skills, and you must be very good in course you want to teach. Preferably specialise your self on particular subjects.
2. Home coach; set up a coaching centre t home or somewhere else, you can even approach other tutor for joint venture, so that you can have a wide taught of many subjects . This will lead to a standard tutorial class. Another home coaching could be tag to teaching kids and little children in their various homes; many families out there are looking for good home teacher for their children. The way you package yourself determines if you will get the job. Tutorial classes or home coaching commence off school hours and sometimes weekend
                                                    PROFIT PLANS
1. You will make it on daily basis, if not ask your tutorial masters how much they earn teaching 2-3hours per day. You should have some materials in stock for sale, it could be simple printout materials, I promise you they would buy it all.
2. Home coaching alone can earn you good income, many parents are willing to pay you good money sometime weekend or at the end of the month, if you are lucky to be employed as their children home teacher then you are in money.

7. SET UP A FOOTBALL STADIUM (FOOTBALL WATCHING/VIEWING HOUSE)
    This is a very good business, especially during the season of football competitions (UEFA, PREMIER LEAGUE, LA LIGA, AFRICA CUP OF NATION and WORLD CUP) and so on. The good part of this business is, taking for instance those living in your hostel can you just take a statistical data of those that watch footballs and those that do not, some people are so addicted that when they talk, they talk ball 24/7. This business is so hot that your customer will be ready to pay any amount you going to bill them, a business where customer begs the owner just to watch football, To be sincere this business is still running faster for profit in our tertiary school environment. I think the first person that introduced this must be a smart person with future profit potential, can you see what it has turned to today?
                TIPS TO BUILD YOUR STADIUM
Easy, very easy so far you have your start up capital to get the below requirement then you are ready to go, infarct no need of advertisement , you biz will advertise itself, in short time your stadium will grow faster than you will ever think of.
1.Get your stadium(watching house) lets take a survey on this business , you will notice these football houses are built mostly with rough woods, covered with ordinary iron sheets or rubber canopy.
2. Get television, can be fairly used or if you have more capital Buy new, but fairly used is okay, instead of buying new convert the money to buy two used sets.
3. You need a generator, 1 I better pass my neighbour can help you out #12000
4. Install a satellite dish + decoder (DSTV-HITV) any of the two, but the popular one is DSTV with a price between #22,000 to #24,000 depends on the supplier.
5. Get set of wooden benches at least that will be enough for 50 people to 100 people, assumption in view of benches 10 to 20 benches is okay others will stand on feet.
                                                 PROFIT PLANS
I told you earlier that this is one of the hottest business you can start as a student, people wants to catch fun watching football, people are looking for a place to discuss and talk football with other club members than sitting at home watching all alone, I have seen a Rich man with his family who preferred to watch ball in football house than his house. Can you imagine how many customers you will be recording in a single match, lets assume #50 per match 100 people attended=#5000 per day, what of situation of having more than 1 match in a day especially during football seasons, can you see you will be earning more than #100,000 to #150,000 at the end of the month.
        #fact you will make it and keep smiling to the bank

8. COMPUTER BUSINESS CENTRE
     Just like I discussed with you in PART1 I talked about setting up a mini cyber cafĂ© this is another ICT related business that can quench the fire of poverty and poor financial status among smart business minded students. Computer is making everything easier everyday, can you imagine you are reading this just because there is computer, there are lot that you will gain from setting up a computer business centre. Lets take a look on how to start one.
                                               TIPS TO START
1. Get your computer, just one computer is okay for a start (p3 or p4) fairly used or new one. Depends on your pocket
2. Get a printer, for a mini computer centre you can purchase the 3 in1 printer that allows you to photocopy, to scan and to print out your computer documents.
3. Get a generator
4. Get a small shop, you can even rent a stand inside the campus from the school authority or SUG …. It is a good idea to locate yours inside school to boost your customer’s traffic flow.
5. Get some other materials, like your A3 A4 paper, ink, and so on
6. You can employ a computer typist for full time business i.e 24/7 opening or handle it your self during off school hours and weekends.
                                    PROFIT PLANS
1. You will earn good profit when people photocopy, type their documents especially after customer had compiled their project works, assignment, questionnaire , if you are good in delivering a good job then you will have enough customers and you will continue making it and smiling to the bank.

9. INTERNET MARKETING BUSINESS

      Internet marketing is the act of turning idea, information, offline products to online products, no matter what you are selling offline the best way to get 10times customer in few time is to market online. Many people have no single product of their own, all they do is to sell other people’s products online , Also let me make a clear statement here, internet marketing is far different from online fraud AKA Advanced free fraud or Yahoo Yahoo. Internet marketing is the only way anyone can earn money online legally, with little capital,
Here are some online business you can venture on
1. Blogging
2. information marketing
3. web programming/ web publishing/ web design
4. Forex
5. e trading
6. online importation and exportation
7. website hosting
8. bulk sms reseller
9 .affiliate marketing
And so on, my dear friend make sure you are always with me on this blog as I will start discussing the above Internet marketing business one by one in future post.

10. OPEN A BOOKSHOP


       Just like we all know that major learning materials needed in tertiary schools are books, text books and manuals. If you take a notice of school libraries you will notice most schools lack good library with good books.
                                    TIPS TO START
1. Just get good books that your colleagues or other student will love to buy, you can get this books online, there is a site called amazon  where you can buy books and other products online at a very ridiculous prices, please CLICK HERE  to read about amazon.
                                         PROFIT PLAN
1. You will make it selling these books to student , you can lease out , you can get these book at a very cheaper rate or even free on amazon and still sell at a reasonable price. So you are in money.

Friend I will stop here today , I will continue in PART3. did you missed PART1 CLICK HEREto read it before you leave, thanks for taking your time.

My aim and objective is to see every students to be self employed, .
My final words, you might have said to yourself where would i get start up Capital?
1. Ask God for help, Ask your parent, Guidance, Your relatives, to help you
2. Seek for help, gives reasons why they must help you
3. Knock on doors with your ideas, they will surely help you.
4. alternatively borrow, work part time, Just make sure you find a means to start
          #fact:- it doesn't matter what people call you, they might referred to you as a hairdresser, barber, typist, car washer, But you know where you are going to, You know the reason why you are into business. when it comes to the time of famine in school those that insult you will beg you for food.
***********Note cultism, prostitution (ashewo, aristo), internet scam(yahoo yahoo) Non of these is a business but an avenue to spoil your beautiful future. God bless
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