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Please,

roselynbas:
With the demands of my job and running my business, it was just too much to handle. One had to give, so I opted for my business. I resigned.

Resigning from my job was not going to come with any benefit save my last salary so I had to start from scratch.

Since I had already started from home with a little clientele, I took the risk and went on the lookout for a shop in the market. This is another story on its own.

Please, note that while I was still working, I went round to the shops selling and repairing phones to tell them I could repair laptops and had some for sale. They collected my fliers and business cards. (I made some good money from these referrals).

I was even offered a seating position in one of the shops with a table to work with. The shop owner was so gracious he allowed me split the money we made, we had a sharing formula of 80/20. 80 for me and 20 for him. God bless him.

I saved up, with some gifts from friends then, started looking for a shop. This shop hunting took me 6 months to achieve. Started in March and got it in September 2021. The agent I gave money to get me the shop ate my money and still didn't get it for me. I had to raise another money to get the shop then gave him some time to refund my money which he did.

Anyways, the shop eventually started, more with scraps (used laptop parts which can be used as replacements for working systems) and about four laptops. It wasn't much but I began.

I had referrals from friends, neighbours, church, schools, my former colleagues, etc. I went cold prospecting, got some clients. I even got a contract to supply laptops to a social media organization which gave me quite some money which was added to the business.

I have since added social media marketing to enable me reach more clients. Now, most of my customers I don't even know physically but they send people my way. I supply my fellow technicians and engineers used laptops because I have some good suppliers that provide used clean laptops that look almost new.

I have even seen someone buy a used laptop, packaged it like new with the carton, wow! A lot happens.
The used laptop market is a very huge one and if you can take the risk ( really it is risky. I have bought some systems that worked for some days and stopped working, the advantage in this is that you can scrap the system and sell it as parts or you can get the motherboard or the bad part and replace them). That is why it is good to buy in bulk and spread the cost so that you can still have a profit if this happens and your biz does not fold up.

To be cont'd!

Please Roselyn, can you complete the Story