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The average Nigerian artisan struggles to get consistent clients. This is not because they lack skills or experience. The real problem is that the artisan sector in Nigeria is not properly structured or organised.

Today, it is often easier for a tech professional or digital creator to attract clients than an artisan. This is surprising because artisans are actually in higher demand. People are constantly building, renovating, and fixing things. Yet, many people still find it difficult to get skilled and reliable artisans. Most end up relying on the usual roadside workers around certain areas without any guarantee of quality.

This shows a clear gap. Skilled artisans are available. Clients are also available. But there is no proper system connecting both in a reliable and organised way.

Practical Ways Artisans Can Get More Clients

Based on experience in the construction industry, here are some simple and effective ways artisans can attract more clients and grow their work.

1. Word of Mouth

Word of mouth is still the most common way artisans get jobs in Nigeria. But it does not happen automatically. You have to be intentional.

You need to tell people what you do. Do not assume they already know. Speak about your work whenever the opportunity comes. Let people know your skill, your experience, and the kind of jobs you handle.

Every conversation is an opportunity. The more people know what you do, the more likely they are to recommend you.

2. Referrals

Referrals are one of the most reliable ways to get new clients. When you do a good job, people will naturally talk about you.

After completing a job, ask your client to recommend you to others. Encourage them to share your contact. Good work brings repeat business and new opportunities through referrals.

3. Print Flyers

Local advertising still works, especially in your immediate environment.

You can print handbills and share them around your area. You can also place them in locations where people are likely to need your services, such as building material shops, estates, and construction sites.

This method requires some money, but it helps you reach people who may not be online.

4. Use Digital Platforms

Technology is changing how people find services. Artisans who take advantage of this will have more opportunities.

You can register on platforms like [www.jobman.ng](http://www.jobman.ng) where clients are actively searching for artisans. This allows you to:

Get discovered easily
Connect with clients near you
Showcase your work
Receive job requests directly

Instead of waiting for clients, you position yourself where clients can find you.

5. Promote Your Service Online

If you are not online, many people will not know you exist.

You should:

- Post your services on social media
- Share pictures of your completed work
- Join online groups related to property and business
- Contribute to discussions on platforms like Nairaland

The more people see your work, the more they trust you.


Artisans who promote themselves, do quality work, and make use of available platforms will always get more clients than those who stay hidden.

Let’s Share Ideas

If you are an artisan or you have hired one before, share your suggestions.

Let’s help artisans understand how they can get clients more easily and build a better system for everyone.

The average Nigerian artisan struggles to get consistent clients. This is not because they lack skills or experience. The real problem is that the artisan sector in Nigeria is not properly structured or organised.

Today, it is often easier for a tech professional or digital creator to attract clients than an artisan. This is surprising because artisans are actually in higher demand. People are constantly building, renovating, and fixing things. Yet, many people still find it difficult to get skilled and reliable artisans. Most end up relying on the usual roadside workers around certain areas without any guarantee of quality.

This shows a clear gap. Skilled artisans are available. Clients are also available. But there is no proper system connecting both in a reliable and organised way.

Practical Ways Artisans Can Get More Clients

Based on experience in the construction industry, here are some simple and effective ways artisans can attract more clients and grow their work.

1. Word of Mouth

Word of mouth is still the most common way artisans get jobs in Nigeria. But it does not happen automatically. You have to be intentional.

You need to tell people what you do. Do not assume they already know. Speak about your work whenever the opportunity comes. Let people know your skill, your experience, and the kind of jobs you handle.

Every conversation is an opportunity. The more people know what you do, the more likely they are to recommend you.

2. Referrals

Referrals are one of the most reliable ways to get new clients. When you do a good job, people will naturally talk about you.

After completing a job, ask your client to recommend you to others. Encourage them to share your contact. Good work brings repeat business and new opportunities through referrals.

3. Print Flyers

Local advertising still works, especially in your immediate environment.

You can print handbills and share them around your area. You can also place them in locations where people are likely to need your services, such as building material shops, estates, and construction sites.

This method requires some money, but it helps you reach people who may not be online.

4. Promote Your Service Online

If you are not online, many people will not know you exist.

You should:

Post your services on social media
Share pictures of your completed work
Join online groups related to property and business
Contribute to discussions on platforms like Nairaland

The more people see your work, the more they trust you.

5. Use Digital Platforms

Technology is changing how people find services. Artisans who take advantage of this will have more opportunities.

You can register on platforms like [www.jobman.ng](http://www.jobman.ng) where clients are actively searching for artisans. This allows you to:

Get discovered easily
Connect with clients near you
Showcase your work
Receive job requests directly

Instead of waiting for clients, you position yourself where clients can find you.

Final Thought

The main problem is not skill. The problem is visibility, structure, and trust.

Artisans who promote themselves, do quality work, and make use of available platforms will always get more clients than those who stay hidden.

Let’s Share Ideas

If you are an artisan or you have hired one before, share your suggestions.

Let’s help artisans understand how they can get clients more easily and build a better system for everyone.

Please who has an idea of the total cost of clearing a 2007 Mercedes Benz sprinter van from the uk?

Men heal from heartbreak by working on themselves and working harder for money while women heal from heartbreaks by having sex with other guys.

Stay woke kings

I once asked an ex how many guys she has dated since we broke up in late 2021 and she said 5 guys

Meaning she amassed 5 body counts within few months of separation and that’s the number she told me cos I feel it could be more.

Without wasting time I blocked her.

Avoid exes kings cos they’ve gone on a fucking spree while you’re healing your wounds.

Hey all
It’s been a while. Been busy with school and work.

More field experiences coming soon

A hot challenge

luminouz:
You delivered like a true mudafucker!!!

Nice.

One is a nurse in the UK too, disturbing my life for marriage get aunty has no home training and abused her mom in front of me. Did I say she likes 6 packs, 6 cars and a big dick yet mummy has a big ass tummy and grey hair. How dafuq can you be so choosy and think men will drool over you when you ain't even young or fresh anymore. Na nursing I go chop? Rude and entitled humans plenty o. She never get bobo for UK to marry her now sha.

I see a lot online here. Old ladies with fat tummy looking for 6 packs. If you can’t have a flat tummy as a lady then you don’t deserve a guy with a 6 pack

I met this British born 43 years old Nigerian on a dating site few days ago. When she knew I’m a Nigerian she got interested more. She would want me to call her or pick her call and talk throughout the day and night which I wasn’t ready to do. A lady living in a country like the UK but refusing to work and make her own money just depending on freebies from the UK government.

She asked me if I’m celebate or sexually active. She pretended she didn’t like sex cos she has had all the sex she wanted in her youth. She was very open about her sex life. She told me of some of her sexcapades from one night stands to toilet sex in the clubs to lesbians sex to aborting pregnancies because she doesn’t want kids. At a point she started teaching me about lesbians sex

According to her she is currently celebate and doesn’t like sex anymore cos it’s a sin and she has found Christ. Despite she not wanting sex she wouldn’t stop asking me to visit her in London or she can visit me.

Finally I allowed her to visit and she bought train tickets and came yesterday. First, she was older than the pictures she sent me and wouldn’t stay on her own without using her body to touch me (In mind, no be dis one say she dey celebate )

She traveled over two hours for the D.

Her story proved what we have been saying here over and over again.

I need pound ooo

Please how can a student build his credit score in the UK?

hustla:


Two people sharing one room?

I’m currently sharing a double bed room with 3 others. As long as the manager of the shortlet approve of it no problem.

It’s better than sleeping in the cold

Lexusgs430:
List yourself on deliveroo......... Snap catalogue befitting pictures and post ......

Thanks bro!

I could remember months ago when i would go through this thread and pray for open doors for me to be able to japa. Congratulations to me cos my dreams have come true.

I’m currently undergoing a postgraduate degree in the UK.

I sell all kinds of soups, stew, jollof rice, fried rice to students and workers who are too busy to cook for themselves. I am a guy though and I can cook.

My location is Colchester, Essex.

Kipaji:
Great herbworks! I remember you, particularly your two posts about the path of the average Nigerian man from struggling years to being married to a used up woman.
What are you studying?

Applied Data Science

Hey guys
Been trying to upgrade myself thus the reason for my long absent from this thread. Well, truth is I’ve just relocated from Nigeria to the UK for my masters program and I’m still trying to get accustomed to the UK style of study.

Rayban25:
You're talking off point....does that still change the fact that men are the highest consumers? that there is free porn dosent mean that men still dont subscribe to premium content..let men stop subscribing to porn and onlyfans and see how the industry will suffer...stop trying to argue about what you have no full knowledge on

You don’t talk like someone that has full knowledge too because you’re seeing porn and only fans from the male perspective. Women pay for porn sites as much as men same way a lot of women are involved in sport betting like men.

AlterEgo00:
Any Reasonable Man with Morals whether Bluepilled or Redpilled would know that the Golden Rule is "No Matter How Beautiful She Is,Never Sleep With Another Man's Wife". It's a Deadly Trap For Fuccks' Sake,not all that journeys into it live to tell the full story

Who made the golden rule? Does the golden rule allow married men to fucck people’s fiancées and serious babes?

j

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Field Report LOL

So I recently traveled to my home state,
Few days ago, I was on the queue at the bus station when I heard an argument at the front. I saw the woman selling the bus ticket pressing a man’s head to the bus cos he was trying to enter the bus. According to the man, the seat were already occupied so he wanted to enter the bus to join those standing but the ticket woman refused even though she allowed some others in. The man kept forcing while the woman kept pressing his head. Suddenly, the woman brought out a cane and starting flogging this grown up man (should be in his mid forties).

So another guy on the queue got angry at the woman for flogging a grown up man like a kid and this second guy hit the woman and there was an outburst. Other women including a guy bounced on the second guy for hitting a WOMAN. The woman started dragging the second guy to the floor and I knew if they’d succeeded, it would have been disgraceful so I ran to the front and hit one of the women.

I asked the guy supporting the women how he thinks his wife/babe will feel if another woman starts flogging him like a kid. The people kept saying that no matter what a woman does he shouldn’t have hit a woman. I got angry and told them that they’re all mad for thinking a woman has a right to flog a man but a man shouldn’t hit a woman.

I have always knew that there’s a gang up against men but I didn’t know it was that obvious. Women want to do rubbish and get away with it. Women want to live wayward lives and still marry the best men, women want to be single moms and still get married to men reserved for virgins.

Some men fight for women that are not their wives or mother or siblings not because they want to but because they’ve been conditioned to believed that a man that can fight and die for a woman is a real man.

Shalom

Onos3053:
You can't k!ll me. I am a man of God- Apostle Johnson Suleiman speaks after surviving an assassination attempt in Auchi, Edo state today October 21

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53pTi_4naag

What makes your video different from the post or you just want us to hear your cockroach voice?

You people are thieves and part of Nigerians problems. Why charge 705 when dollar at the bank rate is 436? You’re here shouting cheapest. How can you make profit of a whole 269 per dollar? What stops you guys from adding 50 naira?

Mtchwww

Confession time

A girl will f*ck three kinds of guys:
- Naughty/funny guys
- Hot/cute guys (gym guys)
- Rich guys

And each of those guys have their purpose in her life.

A girl will always be a girl

The reason why it seems guys are behaving like dogs and running after every beautiful gurl is cos girls nowadays are dressing half naked portraying their shapes. Imagine if guys with big Divks starts wearing tight trousers or guys with six packs starts walking without shirt on?

Haven’t you watched the recent cucumber pranks and how girls behave when they see a big dick? If you want a girl to frolic with you even if she’s married or in a relationship tell her how big your D is and how you will take her to cloud nine.

Most girls are starved of good sex

ProphetJeroboam:
There’s this ongoing discussion about Nigerian women and their obsession with food dates. Personally I’ve observed the same thing with African American women.

Nigerian girls just want to go on food dates and post monthly photo dumps. It’s a hustle, the main guys fvcking them don’t take them to Radisson Blu to eat Chicken Pasta bolognese. It’s you who wants to impress them that shoulders the responsibility of feeding the less privileged. Your reward will be a side hug while she posts photos of herself with you obviously missing from said photos. A girl that truly loves you will not ask or hint to you that she wants an exotic food date.

This brings me back to my old write-up about demographics and location affecting women’s choice in mates. In a financially unstable community, the women gravitate towards mates who can feed, clothe and take care of their financial needs. In a financially stable community, the young women fvck guys based on appearance, raw feelings , game etc

I have been in both situations and this is facts, not a theory. The white girls in my city will fvck you because they think you’re cute, funny or just straight up sweet and nice. I have never in my interactions with them spoken about food dates nor do they obsess about food dates, you will never hear bullshit like “my love language is food or see I am a foodie“ boldly written on their social pages, you’re dealing with hungry girls in Nigeria and I am not shaming them, it’s the reality, they’re not used to eating good so food becomes luxury.

I quickly noticed that the Nigerian girls in clubs in my city go home with guys who spends the most on drinks in the club and the White girls go home with the guy who dances with her and gives her a good time inside the club.

I am not in anyway glorifying white girls, I am just pointing out some notable differences. I hope y’all get the chance to experience the best of both worlds. I have some friends who got white girls for serious relationships and in a month or two you’ll see the whites girls learning how to prepare Nigerian dishes and trying to communicate in pidgin English, all they care about is making you happy. I’ll mention, just don’t get caught cheating on them

Blame it on the guys who thinks a date should involve food. Most of them are scared of inviting girls to their houses because these same ladies have made it seem like it’s a crime for a guy to invite them to his house when they truly want to know where he lives in order to ascertain his wealth.

Girls will give you the side of her she wants you to see. I had a colleague that was dating a military officer. This girl happens to be in the prayer unit of her church so the guy sees her as a church type (that what she portrays) even though they’ve had sex just once in their almost 2years of dating. One time she was having malaria and I naughtily told her that her problem is konji and she laughed and said that her boyfriend even said so. Though even if she decides to have sex it won’t be with the boyfriend. So I jokingly told her to come let me f*ck malaria out of her - she laughed.

Few months later my company decided to send some of us to Lagos for a presentation and she was added to the team and one other man. Because our company was on a tight budget, it was agreed that I and the other man will share a room while she will have her own room. I noticed while in Lagos she became clingy to me.
Later that night I went to her room to try and prepare more for the next day presentation. After going through our presentation we started talking naughty and next thing clothes were flying around

This is someone that her guy has fixed December for her introduction. Not that she didn’t want sex but she has made the guy think she’s a godly type and didn’t want to expose her other sides to him.

See ehn! That girl you’re seeing as a good girl probably has her bad side she only shows to a guy that makes her know he’s bad. Another thing is that girls in a serious relationship tend to cheat more because she already has a man who has made it plain that he can’t live without her. So she uses the opportunity to frolic around and if the guy is unlucky she gets pregnant outside and put it on him.

If a girl sees you as a simp she will still have sex with you but not as regular as she does with her fuckmate. The reason is that if she gets pregnant from her shenanigans, she won’t be able to pin it on a guy she hasn’t f*cked.

2dice01:

We saying the same thing

It was posted on a sex community I belong to. They organize sex/home parties too tho

Another one

JESHAL:
Right at the epiphany phase.
When she's about the hit the wall.
Her sexual market value is going to drop.
Women are not delusional, they understand their mating strategy to well, she is looking for the beta bucking component of Hypergamy, in her prime years she was giving her body to nobodies for nothing, now she expects men to pay full price for what past exes, players and badboys got for free, it doesnt make sense to commit to post wall women, they have been used, they have been pumped and dumped, it's at that age they now decide to settle down because their SMV is low.

Smart guys don’t runaway from 30+ women. Promise them commitment and collect money from them to settle your life.