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Simbels:
Selling products has been made easier than ever, once you have a quality product and you are given the opportunity to display it to millions of prospective buyers, then your chances of making huge sales is very high.

You can sell your products to large numbers of people, without renting a shop or running a Boutique. There are two basic channels you can use in selling your products and they are:

1. Online
2. Offline

Online: Selling online is one of the simplest and cost effective ways of selling your designer clothes, this offers you the opportunity of selling at higher price than selling offline, thus translating to higher profit. There are several platforms in Nigeria that provide millions of prospective buyers, for your products at no upfront charge but commission is charged after each sales. Some of the notable ones are

A. Konga: Selling on konga is quite easy, go to their homepage, on the top right side, you will find "sell on konga" button, click it, then on the landing page click on Register; fill in the necessary information, after that, a link should be sent to your email address to verify, then you should be taken to your dashboard as shown below.
https://simbels.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/konga-dashboard.jpg
In the dashboard, you have to do the following:

a. Go through the orientation guide

b. Complete the orientation assessment, by answering some questions relating to selling on Konga which are in the orientation guide, you have to get 90% before moving to the next stage, you can try the test multiple times.

c. Upload Valid I.D- National I.D Card, Driver's License, International Passports, Voters Card etc.

d. Upload a profile picture

e. Register for Konga Pay- Fill in Account details, as this will be used for remitting your money.

Then Finally, you have to attend a training at Konga office at Ikeja, before your store can go live, a message will be sent your email to that effect.

B. Jumia: Jumia comes second in the online shopping business arena after konga, they also have millions of potential buyers lurking around their site. Just like konga, you have to create seller account, go bottom left of their homepage, you should see sell of Jumia. then click on the 'start selling now' button the page, then on the next page go down and answer 'if your business is in Nigeria'. Then fill in the necessary information in the spaces provided. An email will be sent to you for verification and You have to pass Jumia assessment test to gain access to your dashboard. Below is what your Jumia seller dashboard will look like:

https://simbels.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Jumia-seller-dashboard.jpg

2. Offline- You can also sell offline without owning a shop or boutique; bulk sales, by distributing to boutiques and clothing stores would have to be adopted, and for your products to be accepted by clothing stores, it has to be of good quality, in terms materials used and finishing. They also buy from you if the price you offer them is okay. So, you have to bring your price down, since you will be selling in bulk, and don't make the mistake of trying to sell one by one to them, because they won't buy, they buy in bulk.

Boutiques are allover, if you are able to capture like just 10 boutiques ordering 10 pieces every 2 weeks, with N700 profit on each, then you have N70,000 Every 2 weeks and N140,000 every month and if you can capture more, then do the maths.

Now combining both Online and Offline channels to sell your Designer clothes, imagine how much you would be making with less than 100k.


See you next time, Discussion continues.....

A very big thank you for these free lectures. This is exactly what I needed. Will definitely contact you. Kudos