Karin001:


Wonderful!

Please can you let us know what snacks move very fast in Sokoto? What do you think that you could take there that will ensure massive sales and long term profitability for you?

Are the established names like UAC foods, Chivita, Kaira, and lacasera visible there? How many major markets do you have in Sokoto metropolis (state capital).

Please revert.

Virtually all the snacks move very well in Sokoto. A typical northerner likes something sweet and affordable provided it gives value for money. All the established names have the larger part of the market share already and so, my challenge now is how to get not too established names with quality products that can serve as alternatives to the already known products.

Distance too is another challenge that can eat up one's margin when you factor in cost of transportation of products from down south to up north here.

Hello
Top of the morning and happy new year. This is a good pet project. I am based in lagos. 07053142193 is my whatsapp. I am interested.

Good morning, Kari. I am Ibekailo Sylvester. I reside in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state. I am interested and my phone number is 08037888486. Thanks

Greetings Karin! I suggest you create a WhatsApp group for this, I think it will be easy to receive notification on WhatsApp. Thanks!

I represent ibadan metropolis,

well done Karin, i reside in Ebonyi. must commend ur effort in business enlightenment.

Karin001:


Emmanuel, good to hear from you. Please choose one town that you reside in. Where do you spend more time in? Where do you understand more? For some reason I feel it will be Uyo as against Abuja.

This is what I suggest you do. You can use Uyo as a nucleus and then traverse the entire Akwa Ibom State from there.

Let us assume for instance that you have been able to secure a distributive rights for a particular brand of plantain chips, maybe cakes from another company and coconut chips from another one while a another company gives you juice sales right then all you need to do is take delivery of the goods in Uyo right in your living room.

Your first step will be to create a supply chain that covers all the supermarkets on the Oron road/Nwaniba axis, Aka road up to Ning Udo and NTA on the other axis, Ikot Ikpene road up to the New Motor park and of course Abak road up to the Teaching hospital. You will also try to get resellers in the main market Ituk street and Akpan Ndem Market.

Having secured these areas, you will repeat this effort in Eket, Ikot Ekpene, Abak, Ikot Abasi and Oron. Ultimately, you will appoint sub-distributors in these locations to ensure that the coverage is aggressive and airtight.

I must also add that if your coverage is not effective you will lose some customers to the distributors in Aba because almost all retailers in Cross River and Akwa Ibom draw their goods from the Aba wholesale markets. Your primary job is to ensure that your customers always have whatever product you are selling in stock at all times.

Kindly indicate if this line of thought is acceptable to you.
Good luck.

You leave me speechless Karin, the way you reel out names of places in my town, Uyo makes me think you have lived here before. kudos. I am interested and i live in Uyo. Cheers.

wonderiyke:
Hi Karin. I'm Ikenna representing Rumuola/Rumuokwuta axis, Port Harcourt.

Hi Ikenna, in order to maximise your potential I think you will have to expand into Choba and Rumouokoro. Just my thoughts.

Port Harcourt is a wonderful city with small pockets and enclaves filed with human beings.

Homoviator:
Greetings Karin! God bless you for such innovative contribution to humanity. I'm Anthony, I base in Ilorin, Kwara State.

Good to know Anthony.
Ilorin is a very large city. There is absolutely no way that just one person can cover Ilorin effectively.

The ideal option would be three people covering the entire expanse.

Ilorin central where you have the city centre that accommodates the Post Office, Police Head Quarters, State secretariat down to Kwara Hotel/Government house and then through Flower garden to St. Anthonys Secondary school an then via Sabo -Oke in through the front of C and S college doan to Maraba junction is already enough market for one person.

Another person could take from Post Office down towards Unity, Taiwo road and go as far as General, Saw mill or even Gerialimi (hope spelling is correct). A third person could start from Maraba and expand towards Kwara Poly, veer off into Fate and enter Tanke junction/by GT bank and flow all the way down to the permanent site of UNILORIN.

Even with this very skeletal analysis, we have still left out some pockets of population density like Opomalu, emirs palace and Sobi Barracks.

So I hope you don plan to take on the entire Ilorin as an individual.

You would be too thinly spread and would tire out sooner than later.

Chinzzy:
Hello
Top of the morning and happy new year. This is a good pet project. I am based in lagos. 07053142193 is my whatsapp. I am interested.

Good Lagos, Which part? Topo, Badagary; Poka, Epe; or Imota. Ikorodu? Specifics please!

Samogbo1:
well done Karin, i reside in Ebonyi. must commend ur effort in business enlightenment.

Where in Ebonyi?

Abakaliki, Afikpo or Ishiagu? Specifics please!

thanks4idias:
I represent ibadan metropolis,

Ibadan is too large for one person.
Where are you staying? Start from your immediate location and grow from there. many very busy and potentially profitable locations in Ibadan. Dugbe and Agbeni markets are a distributors delight but there are many other commercially viable locations in Ibadan including but not limited to Challenge, Ojoo, Bodija, Ring road etc,
t
Emphasis is on choosing a location and starting work from there.

Sorry please what's up country and secondly what are you products and finally i am Michael i am based in Jos but presently in Bauchi so if i can be a part please let me know.

Karin001:


Where in Ebonyi?

Abakaliki, Afikpo or Ishiagu? Specifics please!

Abakaliki town

Kcxee:
Sorry please what's up country and secondly what are you products and finally i am Michael i am based in Jos but presently in Bauchi so if i can be a part please let me know.

You have to choose one of both cities. You cannot have them both. Kindly choose the one you know better and think can give you better returns on your capital (cash, effort and otherwise)resources,

Homoviator:
Greetings Karin! I suggest you create a WhatsApp group for this, I think it will be easy to receive notification on WhatsApp. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion. There will be a whatspp group but it will only be exclusively for the paritcipants of the project. Only those who are consistent players irrespective of company or brand they sell for will be allowed on this platform. We will eventually delineate the territories appropriately and assign same to the interested participants and then provide the necessary support from that group.

Karin001:


It appears this is the third indication for Asaba so far. We will confirm and work something out.

Okay. Patiently waiting for further directives/guidance from you. Also, a briefing on the products so that we know ones we can handle

Bauchi will be better for me

Karin001:


You have to choose one of both cities. You cannot have them both. Kindly choose the one you know better and think can give you better returns on your capital (cash, effort and otherwise)resources,

I reside in Kaduna and you are yet to make any analysis about Kaduna.

ebukasoso:


Okay. Patiently waiting for further directives/guidance from you. Also, a briefing on the products so that we know ones we can handle

Aha! There is need for me to correct an impression here. I will not choose the product(s) for you.

My intention is to create a platform for interested Nairalanders to view and study various products that will be advertised here by the producers/promoters and then decide which one we consider best serving and profitable for our various locations. The key here is to be objective and shrewd enough in deciding what will sell your neighbourhood with reasonable return on investments for you.

I can however proffer some guidance drawn from my personal experience where necessary.

jonaboy:
I reside in Kaduna and you are yet to make any analysis about Kaduna.

Kaduna is a great location for any kind of business. I have been selling snacks for a while and I have come in contact with other distributors selling snacks in Kaduna and other Northern Nigerian states and I can tell you the success stories are super. I think similar stories will also be traceable to other products. Think about it, there are a great many products out there being produced by small and medium scale enterprises which are not yet available in Kaduna. Now lets imagine that you are the person that gets the franchise for selling these products in Kaduna and it is well received, what do you think your cashflow will look like after a few months? Let this guide you accordingly.

Morning madam Karin, like i stated earlier, i reside in Uyo and i am interested. Thanks.

Homoviator:
Greetings Karin! God bless you for such innovative contribution to humanity. I'm Anthony, I base in Ilorin, Kwara State.

Homoviator am in ilorin. I think we can cover ilorin together.

Hi Karin. Great job you're doing on here. My name is Sandra, I stay in satellite town,Lagos. I am interested in this. Thanks.

Kcxee:
Sorry please what's up country and secondly what are you products and finally i am Michael i am based in Jos but presently in Bauchi so if i can be a part please let me know.

Upcountry means (at least contextually) out of Lagos.

I took some time off to visit some major supermarkets in town today and the whole purpose is to identify some products that are used everyday in Nigerian households. I have identified some of them. So I am at this stage populating a list of products that we will commence with. Please note that the products may not be publicized here. That will be stuff for the Whatsapp group only. That much should be pretty obvious.

Suffice to state here that not everybody in the group will sell everything. Members will have the opportunity of choosing the items that they want to sell in their respective localities which will also reflect the peculiarities of their locations. We will however bargain with the producing company and place our orders as a group even though we wil make our payments individually.

There are indeed many opportunities that are open for us at this point. I can assure you that we will have a swell time while growing our income on a consistent basis.

I have started compiling a spreadsheet of people who have indicated interest so far on the body of the thread with their preferred locations and contact details. All the underlisted people should please send me an email (karinebinne@gmail.com) stating their full names, email addresses, phone/whatsapp numbers and locations(not specific address but just the area in the preferred town e.g Anantigha, Calabar, CRS or Trans Ekulu, Enugu or Sabon Gari, Kano.

Meanwhile please note the following monikers who constitute the first phase of candidates;

1. Emmyaite - Uyo

2. Much30 - Awka

3. Jonaboy - Kaduna

4. Africanman85 - Umuahia

5. Imustexcel - Sokoto

6. Bigdan3550 - Makurdi

7. Biggal - Port Harcourt (Abuloma)

8. Ebukasoso - Asaba

9. Yoyostic - Lokoja

10. WonderIyke - Port Harcourt Rumuola/Rumuokuta

11. Homoviator - Ilorin

12. Chinzzy - Lagos (Please specify preferred location in Lagos)

13.Gentle Silver - Abakaliki

14. Samogbo1 - Ebonyi (Please specify your preferred town)

15. Hobat4cash - Uyo

16. Thanks4idias - Ibadan

17. Ebukasoso - Asaba

18. Mumels - Ilorin

19. Sauchy - Lagos (Satellite Town)

Please post whatever observations you may have so that we can resolve it as it goes on the excel sheet.

At this point, I would like to state here clearly that the whole intention of this exercise is not to compete with the existing distributors who are mostly located in the major markets in the large cities of this country.

Neither are we going to sell the better known brands. We are going to CREATE a new channel of distribution that will be our own and if managed well will transform into a platform for the sales of various products. This is a long haul and there will be no room for greedy folks interested in making fast money.

If you don’t have staying power, then my advise is that you don’t even bother. The real rewards for this investment are in the future but when they start coming they will never cease and can only increase phenomenally.

We will set up rules that will be predicated on the interest of the group members and we will follow these rules religiously. The rules will however be anchored on already existing sales and distribution principles that will be re-emphasized from time to time among group members.

So what products are we looking at?

We are going to define the products as we proceed. As a start-up we will not sell brand names so products from the stables of multinational conglomerates are out of it for now. What we will sell at inception will be non-brand names that are as good as the advertised brands. These are products made by smaller players in the industry that are better quality wise and in terms of value than the imported or popular variants.

An example will be in place here. Just let me think of something.