captalex: Hey acid,

ideas on How to run a mobile-Kitchen in lagos, would be much appreciated, keke napeps attached to carts would be used to transport the food-items from location to location,also help to advice on it's viability in locations like ikeja,v,i,ikoyi...

thanks.

10Billion: Hello acidtalk.
I intend going into a supermarkt biz, so I nid ideas, guidelines, advice & any info dat can make my bussiness to be sucessful.
I even started a thread on dis topic but there wern't any reliable info.
My major problem now is my source of goods. I need contact wit a trustworthy supplier who will be giving me good @ an affordeable rates. I sent u an email asking 4 ur mobile number 4 direct contact but it didn't deliver.
Pls send me ur number to JUDGES080@GMAIL.COM. Tanx 4 d wounderful work u re doing, God will surely bless u for us.

sugar 001: Best Thread ever!.... Pls i want to go into buying and selling bissness(ladies lingerie). I stay in ph and i have no intension of traveling to buy my stuffs. Thinking of shopping on line. Please any suggestions@reliable websites?... Thanks.

Buchika: acidtalk more grease to ur elbow, i went in to agric and cultivated over 4 hectares (100 plots) of cassava hoping to process and sell as garri or starch. At end of the day the loss was terrible. Processing took away all the money. So please can you advice on a better way of processing cassava especially peeling of the tubers or how to make the cassava business profitable. Waiting 4 ur reply

acidtalk:

Sorry for the loss.
But you should have considered all those aspect before the harvest of the cassava.

I won't want to promise a feedback on this and dissapoint you.

What I will suggest is for you to find out major cassava farmers/dealerls and distributors and genuinely seek their advice, believe me, most of them will tell you even if you will have to pay a few cash for it.

All the best. But when I have something beneficial on this, I will certainly let you know.

10Billion: @Acidtalk, my main problem now is where & how to get in contact wit my suppliers, did u have anybody or did know any body who can direct me to them (suppliers)? Will u mind posting ur number so I can give u a call? Or can you pls call me so dat I will call u back? 08095777857 my mobile number.
Tanx alot.

acidtalk: THANKS


Will try and what out a detailed proposal that will suit your need.

2sexy:

Would you like free nation-wide advertisement? Try article marketing but make sure that you have a website in place so that people will be confident enough to do business with you and I hope you are good at what you do. I would have loved to expanciate on article marketing, which only a very few Nigerians are using now. Infact, this is how I planned to do my small business while I am at NYSC camp. You may book me to design your website for you free if you will pay the hosting which is N5,500 for one year. I will not charge you for the design and set up of the website. Infact, I will be doing one for a fellow member here(newacca) and we have agreed to a month from now when I shall be free from school wahala. I will also go a step further by helping you on how to use article marketing to pull through free advertisement while clients contact you from every corners of Nigeria. Who knows, you may be given contract from anywhere in Nigeria from this alone because many eyes will see your article.

Do you know the smartest thing? How many people have you seen that are doing this,specifically in your niche? Almost non! I have read newspapers almost everyday at school and I am yet to see people doing it and those that are doing it are very few and non in your niche. I type all this via mobile since my modem is broken but when I get a new one, this forum will feel me real good! But project things first.

lordtq: Great!!!please can i have same template too but we are not in the same line of business but i can at least have an idea

innocent chuks: wow! a nice trend, i am a business onwer a fish farmer and computer technicain. the thing is that i have not been able to develope a good cash flow that will take me out of cat race, i need a brain storming idea that will help me generate enough cash to support my business. what is the best way to do it?

DueTime:

The very first thing a businessman needs to do when his profit margins are so low is to reduce costs - overhead costs, fixed costs, etc. Look at areas you think you can cut back on without affecting the bottomline. If you propound your own fish feed, maybe replacement of maize with wheat (or the other way round) will save you some costs; maybe using fish meal of 65% will probably give you the same value as using the more expensive 72%. Just look for ways; there are always ways.

Note that if your profit margin was barely 5% and you manage to cut costs by 5%, you would have doubled your profit, just like that!

After you've cut costs, you can then think of increasing revenue by increasing capacity. This will surely increase your bottomline since most fixed costs will remain the same.


Nice one.
And some people will go cursing to high heavens and blaming Banks and other organizations for downsizing.
Just my 2Naira!