My BusinessDiary Thread

Mostly gonna be picture thread, pictures of everything beautiful! I hope you can grab one idea or two of business you can start with little capital.

Happy Viewing

Note: Most pictures will be extracted from my favorite online shopping mall

For tailors who will want to try stuff other than the usual ankara and gele. Here is a luggage box cover

Luggage boxes come in standard sizes and shapes. So making a cover for the luggage boxes shouldn't be a problem. Go to the market and select beautiful and suitable materials. Sew and sell. It doesn't require huge capital

Advantages.
1. It makes the luggage easily identifiable.
2. Prevents scrathes and dust during travel.
3. Gives and extra level of protection for the travellers belongings.
4. Makes travelling funky.

Other designs in pics attached below.

Sleeping Masks

Have you ever been awakened by someone who sneaks into your room, puts on the light to take something? And then you find it difficult falling back to sleep?

Or you need a quick nap at the office but the light is too bright? Or you are on a long-distance journey and you just can't fall asleep?

Truth is that most of us need this small piece of cloth cut creatively to make sleep deeper and more peaceful.

On flights, airline companies give to the passengers on First and Business class cabins, but hardly on Economy except for long distance flights where you may first need to ask, before you'll be given! So air travellers need this a lot too. You can start small, and grow into becoming a major distributor to airline companies.

Also you can aim selling to hotels. Convince the hotel managers to add it as part of their hospitality gestures towards hosting their guests. At least something different from taking cakes and small chops to them.

You can do it!

More pictures

Even though big companies can add several orishirishis, massage kini, frost packs etc, the basic technique remains the same. I use the simple ones and it still serves the same puropse.

Create your own designs. Market your products.

Good luck!

Simple, easy to use and cheap

You can go into Home Decorations Business with a touch of class.

Will be uploading pics as I see more beautiful little stuffs

Balcony Hangers for those who do not like to go up and down the stairs

Make decoratioms for toilet seats

You can sew beautiful decorative parterns for light sockets and switches. Sell to homes, offices, hotels etc
Not capital intensive, you know right?

More pics

The switch and socket decorations can be made with silicon too. So that they are washable, foldable, more dorable and of course more parterns

You can also carve beautiful designs on ceramics, just like tiles. More luxury, bigger customers

Cover for standing fan.
1. You don't have to unbundle the fan to clean it.
2. Reduces noise.
3. Reduces direct effects such as chocking, coughing or eye discomfort.

Two types of fan covers.
1. Air-through
2. Non air-through.
Both serve different purposes. With great designs, you can make great sales

Stop staying idle at home. Start a business today.

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Nice one flyca....i have been up all night thinking of new businesses

You are welcome. For more ideas stay tunned!

Washing machine covers
You can start making water-proof washing machine covers for washing machines in the bathroom area to prevent water from damaging the machines.

Or make beautiful asthetic designs for the ones in the laundry area or busy areas in the house to prevent dust and scratches.

Sample designs in the pictures attached below

More sample pictures for washing machine cover

More on Home Decorations
You can decide to make covers for home sofas, tables, chairs and other appliances.

Chair pads

Covers for washing machines, tables, microwaves.
Aim at doing something creative, something different.

Dear Diary, I didn't forget you. I've been busy lately. And maybe for a couple of days more.

But I'm still very much into you. I hope to have time to make more ideas known through you tomorrow

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Nice work

nice work @ flyca ...... keep it up ....

Business Website

Create a business website, a platform where people with ingenious lines of trade can register and advertise their business. Also, you can source for people making beautiful stuffs all over the country, and convince them that to have a wider outreach and more customers,
they need to advertise on your platform.

Take an instance - Aba tailors are good but because their business reach is small (Most of their custormers are within Abia State), so people in Enugu might not able to reach them, take less of Lagosians. I have once travelled from Nsukka to Aba to take measurements. And travelled back to pick my clothes.

So I imagine that if there is an online forum where I can look at different tailors showcase their designs in different pictures, with price tags, and I can contact with them online, I definitely will not choose to travel that far twice to make my clothes.

Now this is not only about Aba tailors or about clothes. Nigeria is blessed with many ingenious people who have skills, creating nice stuffs. But they are in their little corners and largely unheard. So you can reach out to them and make them showcase their brands on your platform.

Think of creating a link between sellers and buyers who are many miles apart.

How can you make money from this:
My suggestion is this. Once a customer places an order for the goods, he/she pays the full amount into website's account. Then the trader makes the goods and sends (either by courier delivery or by hand delivery). Once the transaction is complete, you pay the trader his/her money. And take your percenatge cut. Say 2% or so

Look, going into this business or any other for that matter shouldn't be an impromptu decision. It takes months or years of careful thinking ans planning. This is just a rough sketch of a plan that you can grow. The other intigritis, you have to figure it out by yourself. Remember that you have an integrity to keep if you wanna make clean money with peace of mind. And also last long in business.

As an aside... my first name thoughts went to "custommade.com", "madeforyou.com" But choose whatever name you like. And remember to advertise your website strongly!

Good luck!
I will continue to showcase other designs of business you can start with little setup capital.

Packaging
The old saying, "if you wanna add more value to a gift, package it well", remember?

Gifts look better when packaged well. Even a simple 1K OK bedsheet for your friend will be more appreciated if well presented. Simple candies put in a nice gift box and sent to colleague's kids can go a long way. Jewelries for your spouse well packaged and viola!

We all need these simple stuffs but many a times, they aren't within our reach.

So you can grow the in the industry packaging, presenting simple stuffs in a "wow" way. Lol.
Your new line of business just need to be heard. So make it and market it!

Gift boxes can come in different patterns, different sizes, different designs and of course different colors. Its a big thing!

Because its your handwork, for a little more cash, you can also customize according to the buyer's specifications

The more creative you are, the better.

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I need you to be encouraged to start a business with little capital and excel at it! No matter how little. It is better than staying idle at home. Stay-at-home mums can also use their handcrafts to bring an extra invome to the family.

With internet access, your products can be heard of thousand of miles away from you, so you have a broader outreach to customers. That's your advantage of being in the 21st century. So use it!

I wish you the best!