Hello everyonone. My name is Bodashee. I'm a fresh graduate and I just started my own business called TOUCH OF BODASHEE. It involves providing pastries (chin, coconut chips, coconunut candy, cookies, crusted groundnuts, etc) to people for events and parties, coporate compensation, individual requests, etc. However, I have a time job at a new web based tv station, and another hustle that involves selling female clothing and accessories.
My aim is to update the activities concerning TOUCH OF BODASHEE on a daily basis, challlenges, joys, its baby steps of growth towards a better future. And how my job and other personal activities affect this business.
Dear Nairalanders, I am a rookie, so your comments, observations, support and advice will be greatly appreciated. This business is now our collective baby. Updates start tomorrow night. God bless you.

You sound very enterprising...best of Luck.

@Koonbey thanks. A big hug for you. You're the first to comment on my thread.

Madam, I am really excited at the direction you are leading your life

A woman of virtue MUST be industrious, MUST be enterprising. How do you juggle all three business activities without any suffering? Personally, I like to have various businesses that revolves around my passions, interests, hoobies and specialised skills.Lol.

So, please talk about how you manage your time to deliver excellently on these activities, we can learn, share and most importantly YOU will be able to use it as a basis for evaluation, maybe check your focus level.

Finally, please STOP calling yourself a hustler, you are an entrepreneur.

@Spicy V, thankyou so much ma'am. You will make my head swell o *winks*. I definetely will update regularly so we can all teach each other and learn using my business as a case study.

i subscribe to this @bodashee. @spicee, going by your post, you must be a well-detailed enterpreneur. lets get the post flowing in. *humbling following*

Whew. Its been quite a day. TOUCH OF BODASHEE got her first ever order on Tuesday. 20 plates of pastries @ N400 per head for a birthday holding tomorrow (sunday). So I went to the market to get the pastries ready, buy cling film to cover the pastries in their plates, and pick up the stickers I asked a printer to make with my business logo and contact on it against tomorrow's job.

First to get the pastries. Check.

To go and pick up the stickers..........that's where wahala started. The dude said he didn't do it because I priced the stickers yesterday night. Isn't it just normal that he should have let me know if he won't reduce the price or not yesterday? Instead, he kept mum, so I assumed he wasn't going to reduce the price but would continue with the priniting. I was so angry because I knew tomorow is a sunday and there is hardly any chance that I can give anyone such a job today and get it tomorrow. So I left the shop, resolving never to do business with him again. Maybe God even wanted to help me save my money sef because he gave me a price of N2,500 for 200 stickers , and the picture quality of what he designed was way less than the logo I gave him to work with. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Next, I entered the Oke Aarin market to buy cling film and I acheived that without much ado, after which I took a bus back to Obalende so that a very tired me could link Yaba, and ultimately Palmgroove.

Now I'm home. I ate first, and I've finished wrapping all the pastries and kept them so that if any eventuality arises tomorow, it won't hit me to a point of not being able to deliver with punctuality.

And now I yawn. Tomorow, I'll let you all know how it went at the party.

Wow! Congratulations!!! Many more deals to you. Interesting day for you love. So how will you resolve the challenge of your contact card?

Smith: thanks, we MUST empty ourselves completely oh, before the Lord calls us back home

@spicy v and fhemmy. Thanks so much.

As per the issues of the stickers, ii'l see if I can do it this week, cuz its really importaynt

Hope you have made extra 5 to give away for free to a targeted 5 people. If its really yummy any of those 5 people will be saving your contacts with the other free hand.

As I prepared for the party, I just kept feeling incomplete without the stickers on my goods. And to make matters worse, the dress I wanted to wear was not ready, so I had to improvise. The whole thing was making me so uncomfortable because I'm a staunch beleiver in the power of appearance. I believe that if a product or business person looks shaby or is not well packaged, it sends a message to the client that you're hungry and they are doing you a favour by patronizing you. So I always aspire to look I-can-afford-my-own-services kind of good. And my products too must have a we-have-a-standard kind of look. Anyways, I'll do the best I can and put the rest in God's hands.

I got to the party around 3:00pm. Guests were sparsely seated. Handed over the already packed pastries to the celebrant's wife, who was overseeing the welfare of guests. Stayed there to celebrate with them for a while, and also observe people's approach to the pastries. Thankfully, lots of people enjoyed them, and some even came asking for my contact.

Left the place around 6:00pm, so I could get home on time and prepare for the working week.

I'm supposed to go to the celebrants office on Tuesday to collect the payment. I hope that works out welll, because I've still not thought of what I'll tell my boss when I'm going to leave the office. God help me. Till then sha.

Tomorrow I'll start scouting for a printer who will print out my stickers for me.

Till then.......

May the new week bring us all good things.

kolokolobi: Hope you have made extra 5 to give away for free to a targeted 5 people. If its really yummy any of those 5 people will be saving your contacts with the other free hand.

Great idea talk about being etched in the memory of a customer.

keep it up dear....im inspired!,started something too....and almost gave up......

Great one! I prophesy into your week:

Lines are falling unto you in pleasant places.

This week the Lord will order your steps, He will lead you in the way you should go and teach you to profit.

You shall function in His wisdom and prosper in ALL your doings.

Btw: I hope you are in synch with Christ oh, dis one wey I don kabash for your head so!

spicyv.....you try well well,on behalf of the op,i say thank you.......e no go reach myside....thats one of my fav scriptures

Who will be the 1st person to get bodashee referrals this week

cheksbry: spicyv.....you try well well,on behalf of the op,i say thank you.......e no go reach myside....thats one of my fav scriptures

Who will be the 1st person to get bodashee referrals this week

of course e reach your side! Infact it has enveloped, encompassed and enraptured you! Your life is a perfect expression of that Word

Ooops, enough virtue has gone outta me

Thanks dear spicyv!...shebi bible said,that he that watereth shall be watered! ...i wish you an eventful week ahead
sister bodashee....no vex say i come dey dance skelewu for your thread.....more updates abeg!.....

Oga cheksbry , y I go vex na. U soppose even dance azonto join.

@my madam @ the top, spicy v, thanks for the prayers. May all our prayers be answered ijn.

Meanwhile, nobody has answered oga cheksbry's question. If anybody has referals for me, I can be reached at abodashee@yahoo.com.

Stay tuned people. Same time, same station, more updates

Be sure to get a call saying I reccomended you.

I've always known dat d hardest part of any business is in d starting...Once u start all oda things will gradually fall in line...I'm currently serving and started a little biz here and it's been rewarding,....More power to ur elbow Bodashee and i've been inspired truly...

@ Gamboh thanks so much. May God continue to be your strength.

@kolokolobi, thank you so much sir. My oga at the top. I really appreciate. God bless you sir.

Today's update coming sir.

Welldone Oga K.K.B

Congrats sister, waiting for the update

Today was quite uneventful. I spent the whole day at home. I didn't go to work because I was asked to use today to do some work which I had already done during the weekend.
Around afternoon, someone called me to prepare samples of my pastries against friday so he could show them to someone for me.
I made some calls, still scouting for a printer who can give me a satisfactory deal on the stickers.
I also started ruminating over the idea of doing the chin-chin in quantities that could sell for N50 and giving that to shop owners around me to sell for a little monthly fee.
Lots of people are owing me from my business and its really disturbing me because its tying down the capital I should be using to grow TOUCH OF BODASHEE, sending samples out to people and all that. Its quite discouraging but I know God is in control.
I'm preparing to go and collect the payment for sunday's deliveries tomorow.

I pray God be with me. And with all of us as we go about our businesses. May the new day bring us all good things.

There's a small indoor reception on 23rd in mainland lagos. Can you deliver snack packs for 30. What's the unit price. Upfront payment to be done.

Bros i dey hail oh ....very good of you to encourage our sis!

kolokolobi: There's a small indoor reception on 23rd in mainland lagos. Can you deliver snack packs for 30. What's the unit price. Upfront payment to be done.

bodashee......as fhemmy has pointed out ....what kind of printing,do you want.....hope the packaging will be a lil extra normal
my dear,your business can only be profitable when you can scale it effectively......so you can get good returns for your time and monies invested...

@ Olorogun KKB! Na you biko *dancing skelewu and azonto mixed together with yahoozey*. Three gbosa's for you sir!!! Thanks so much. I'll send you a pm sir.

@ fhemmy thankyou sir. The debtors are from the clothes business and you are very right. I will do my best to heed your advice. The printer I'm talking about is those people who print handbills, complimentary cards, etc.

@cheksbry sir, thanks for the insightful reminder about the packaging. I am doing my best to ensure that the packaging is on point. And concerning the scaling, etc, I'll keep learning as I go, although to a large extent , I have a good grasp of it.

Pls dis one that Ma'am Spicy is MIA tonight, I wee cry o.

Bodashee.......don't keep your customer waiting......

my business line is 08087437919 sir. I can't Pm you yet, the operator says I've sent too many anonymous mails via nairaland and I should wait a little longer.

Will do.