Lately, there has been a lot of racket about starting a computer business centre in this website. Questions are posted on this website on a daily basis. In this article you will know exactly the amount you will need to carry out the business, the amount of profit it yields and other factors that relate to the running of the business in Nigeria and other similar African countries where this article is highly applicable such as Ghana, Benin Republic and Kenya.

Photocopy shops widely known as computer business centre are shops that render services relating to documents and office or school work such as scanning, printing, photocopying, laminating and online registration. It produces a good income stream, it is especially profitable if it is located in a busy town or near an educational institution.

Please note it is different from a cyber café, a cyber café is where you pay money to browse the internet, some business centres do however extend their services to cyber cafes and instruct computer courses whereby you will receive a certificate at the end of the course.

Here, we will be talking about business centres where you photocopy documents. The data provided is based on the assumption you will run the shop during normal business hours every day (from 8am – 6pm).

Location: Get a Suitable Place
Location is of utmost importance in this line of business, sufficed to say it is easy to find. It could be located near educational or major government institutions, near a district with office buildings, inside university campuses is also a very good idea.

Computer business centre run successfully in any urban city or suburban town, as far as Nigeria is concerned Abuja and Lagos are the main urban cities of this nation. Others like Kano, Ibadan and Port Harcourt are just in reality really big towns when it comes to computer affairs. So if you live in a modest town there is always the need for these services among the populace, it is scarce in Nigeria except perhaps Lagos mainland where it is saturated there, you have to have an edge to beat off the intense competition, but anywhere else you will be making easy money.

Location is also key in determining shop rent prices, usually for a shop the size of a garage it starts from N50,000 – N150,000 Naira ($149 – $476) annually in some places and even more in Abuja city, but don’t be put off by that.

Although you should take heed, business centres don’t run well inside a market, because as a rule schools and offices are never built in a market. Preferably, it should be located outside the main market area, in a plaza or complex, and right smack in the middle of town.

Products and Services
Here is a complete list of all the services carried out by a computer business centre below;

Photocopying
Scanning
Typing
Printing
Spiral binding
Laminating (optional)
Online registration (optional)
Disc burning (optional)
Digital passports (optional)
These are all the essential services that are expected from a computer business centre. Some of the items listed above are optional means you can start the business without really offering that particular service or you could, maybe at a later date. Also ‘online registration’ is not a cyber café, this requires you to check exam results for people, fill online application forms, etc, and note that taking passports doesn’t mean you are now a photographer, this one implies taking passports and cutting them only, you cannot mix this job with photography.

List of Required Items
There are mainly of two categories of items; the ones that are capital intensive (e.g. printer) and those that need to be restocked every time they are finished. Here’s an estimate of all the items updated this year.

Items: Model: Price (Naira): More Information:
Generator Set 2.5KVA Sumec Firman 75000
Shop Rent (Annually) 50,000 -150,000
Laptop Computer Acer Aspire Mini--66,000 If you prefer a desktop computer, you should get a UPS.
Printer Bizhub C25/Kyocera 1128/Ricoh/sharp 236/Bizhub model series-----45000-120000 All-in-one purpose printer.

Printer HP 2055 --22000

Sign Post--5,000 By arts and prints in your locality.
Extension Wire---1,200
Furniture---Three plastic stools, one wooden table. 10,000
Wiring/Electric installation---8,000 For the generator input.
Laminating Machine--15000
Spiral Binding Machine--For simple plastic binding--17,000 Other models include ones for metal binds.
Digital Camera---Sony Cybershot model series. 17,000 – 21,000
Photo Printer----15,000
Plain Fabric White 1 yard--200__For passport backgrounds.
Fuel Container--500
External CD Drive--3,500##Since the Mini laptop doesn’t have a CD drive.
Stapler--300
USB Flash--1,500 4GB flash.
SIM Card--250 For data subscriptions.
Internet Dongle--4,000
Bio-metric Scanner--3,000##You won’t otherwise need it unless you are registering students for JAMB or other similar program.
Scissors --300

Capital to start business: approximately N260,000 – N363,250.

Expenditures (monthly): N45,000.

Profit Margin: 66%.

Potential customers: Students and office workers majority, and others.

Potential growth: Business can expand to other branches and/or cyber café.

Suitable location: Cities and suburbs.

Business hours: on average 10 hours daily, 8am – 6pm

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