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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by Coldie(m): 8:52am On Nov 16, 2019
KayCee92:



So you lend money to a girl, a woman of a lot creature you gave a lady shocked.....bros you strong o. More grease to your lending power shaa grin
This na woman o, no be girl single mother.

The day I knew my money was gone was when I went to her house for the money and she started acting like she want to seduce me, she came sat close to me and started rubbing my body.

I just left her house, but to show u how shameless people can be she is owing me 60k she came and met me to borrow her 40k at once so it would become 100k.

Imagine

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by pilarnig(m): 8:52am On Nov 16, 2019
ultron12345:
It was Fraudulent staff.
I learnt my lesson never to trust Nigerian staff again, especially with anything having to do with money.
Since then, I only put Nigerian staff in non-sensitive roles. All roles where there is access to company money are given to Indians.

Indians have been incharge for almost a year now and not a single kobo had gone missing. Unlike when Nigerians were incharge, there was no week we didn't experience deficits and shortages and even inflated invoices.

What type of business is it?
Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by Resurgent2016: 8:58am On Nov 16, 2019
Noel1:


N100k may be difficult to start a major business in Nigeria of today.

Why don't u put it in a fixed deposit account? I think some banks would give u up to 4.5% monthly interest on it. That's like N4,500 interest first month.
Then roll it over and u gain more interest based on compound interest.

Alternatively, u can buy Federal Government Treasury bills.

No bank can offer 48%+ interest pa. The best he can get is probably about 16% (tb rate) from wallet operators n mfbs

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by ghettochild(m): 9:05am On Nov 16, 2019
ThisisIkemefuna:



I have 100k for it. Wow just need something to do to double the money. Not sure what's viable anylonger in Nigeria
Make I give u sure two odds

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by SaxadResources: 9:06am On Nov 16, 2019
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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by Nobody: 9:07am On Nov 16, 2019
Village people shocked

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by A305: 9:09am On Nov 16, 2019
Nigeria is a jungle. It's tough for start up here in Nigeria. Even tougher if you don't have a skill. Any business that survives the very first 3 years in Nigeria and still flourish is worth investing more into. However, I can beat my chest and say, aside the harsh business climate in Nigeria, Majority of business failure in Nigeria is due to lack or poor MANAGEMENT.

In the ehailing thread, one man in the monker of Dru23 will continue to be a hero for turning his business around and giving hope to other investors in the ehailing thread, All what he hammers on is management and maintenance period.

By the way I still have my CHEAP SIENNA available down my sig

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by Jones4190(m): 9:10am On Nov 16, 2019
ThisisIkemefuna:


I'm not sure there's bike anywhere for 100k o
there is oo my brother, infact that is my business, don't even go for the one of 100k, look for the one of 50k, buy two and give aboki to be delivery 6k each every week.

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by crafteck(m): 9:11am On Nov 16, 2019
Rats

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by BeLookingIDIOT(m): 9:12am On Nov 16, 2019
mrgoodd:

Use the money to buy bike and give it out they will be paying you 2k daily
What about giving out a bus,how much will I be getting daily

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by ecclize: 9:15am On Nov 16, 2019
henrixx:
gbagam. I was in darkness. During that period i spent time reading motivationals.

I realized that these everyday morivationals aren't it. It will tell you never give up or you are almost there. but i tell you my brother theres a time to stop, theres a time to give up and fight another day. It was a dark experience for me.

The set of people i hate the most are motivational speakers...
they are like pastors... and most of them eventually venture into ministry

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by Mujtahida: 9:15am On Nov 16, 2019
eventsmallchops:


to always signed a proper legal agreement when entering into business with my money with terms and conditions properly spelled out
Anything you do particularly business or buying of land, always involve a lawyer but una no go gree because of the money you'd pay as legal fees but eventually when things like what happened to you happens, you'd lost more than the money you would have paid for legal fees.

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by Mujtahida: 9:17am On Nov 16, 2019
ecclize:


The set of people i hate the most are motivational speakers...
they are like pastors... and most of them eventually venture into ministry
Our pastors are all motivational speakers and self help coaches. They have long abandoned the gospel.

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by ecclize: 9:19am On Nov 16, 2019
ghettochild:

Make I give u sure two odds
i need the two sure odds... how do i get it ..

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by patjane(f): 9:21am On Nov 16, 2019
That woman Dey mad, inf’t she be witch undecided..
Coldie:

This na woman o, no be girl single mother.

The day I knew my money was gone was when I went to her house for the money and she started acting like she want to seduce me, she came sat close to me and started rubbing my body.

I just left her house, but to show u how shameless people can be she is owing me 60k she came and met me to borrow her 40k at once so it would become 100k at once.

Imagine

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by NGRsenate: 9:23am On Nov 16, 2019
Mine was aggregating and selling locally made shoes.

I got a website, ran ads that ran into thousands of naira. Got my branded shoe boxes and nylons down.

But the thing is MOST Nigerians will not buy locally made Nigerian shoes that costs more than N20k. Even N15k was difficult to sell too.

The shoemakers were always adamant whenever we tell them to adjust their prices and that’s partly because they just make the shoes, put it inside a show glass in front of their shops and put it up on their WhatsApp statuses. I did most of the advertising; Facebook, Instagram, jiji. So it wasn’t their business how the prices of their shoes were affecting running my business.

Another thing is trust. Someone will ask for price and ask me if I truly feel the shoes will last up to a year after paying N25k to buy.

Eventually the business packed up. Branded shoe boxes and nylon was thrown away en masse.

I think the lesson there is for local manufacturers to be weary of price and how they price their products. And let them forget about attributing luxury status to their products until they’ve actually blown. Even people at lekki sef are usually skeptical about buying expensive locally made products when the maker is still a nobody, no offense to hustlers reading.

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by ghettochild(m): 9:25am On Nov 16, 2019
Authortee:
Was stupid I entered a farming business. I was lured into it after visiting an elderly friend’s farm and seeing him selling hundreds crates of eggs and counting hundreds of thousands of naira. I got greedy and entered the business with doing research. It was the worst business I ever did and within six months, it affected my health so bad that till today, I suffer from this health challenges. The painful fact was my mentor sold me the baby chickens and sold me the feeds and sold me the drugs and gave the workers. The man made insane money from me. Before I know it, 10million naira was down the drain.
My mother even left her own business and tried to salvage the business and lost her life in the process.
The only thing I made from that business was the land I bought for it which is till today still along a busy road. Sadly the land is not even up to 10 million naira in value till today. Most of the time I just tell people, entrepreneurship is not worth it if you are not stealing money from somewhere to back it up like Otedola, Dangote and co. If not you are on a long thing.

Moral: don’t let anyone push you into any business because they are doing well. Most of the time, the successful business man you envy is a smart criminal who will finish you if you fall for this tricks
From all this... I deduced that ur problem had nothing to do with the business dying..it was of a spiritual thing.. U said ur mum even died....n it still affects ur health
See, that's shows its a spiritual thing..
Also at the outset,u were able to make profit to afford a land..
Plz what killed ur business was not lack of management

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by hefelove(m): 9:25am On Nov 16, 2019
NGRsenate:
Mine was aggregating and selling locally made shoes.

I got a website, ran ads that ran into thousands of naira. Got my branded shoe boxes and nylons down.

But the thing is MOST Nigerians will not buy locally made Nigerian shoes that costs more than N20k. Even N15k was difficult to sell too.

The shoemakers were always adamant whenever we tell them to adjust their prices and that’s partly because they just make the shoes, put it inside a show glass in front of their shops and put it up on their WhatsApp statuses. I did most of the advertising; Facebook, Instagram, jiji. So it wasn’t their business how the prices of their shoes were affecting running my business.

Another thing is trust. Someone will ask for price and ask me if I truly feel the shoes will last up to a year after paying N25k to buy.
Try selling through Jumia. But make sure u have more than 30 different types from there u will get more orders
Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by SOFTENGR: 9:26am On Nov 16, 2019
ThisisIkemefuna:
I'm considering mini importation but do not know how viable it is considering that ordered goods often arrive very late and I am using my last cash to venture into it
Buy from wholesale market, perhaps from big time importers.

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by xpresseeve: 9:29am On Nov 16, 2019
Jones4190:

there is oo my brother, infact that is my business, don't even go for the one of 100k, look for the one of 50k, buy two and give aboki to be delivery 6k each every week.

Bros you could be the one sent to deliver me.

I found a thread on Nairaland about bread distributorship and tried it out with very wonderful results. I make about 2k daily from selling the 50.00 type just in my locality alone.

Now I need to expand and would like to do that with bikes. I project that I can make about 10k daily with two bikes. They only need to work like 4 hours per day.

Can you arrange two functional bikes for me at 50k each?

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by henrixx(m): 9:30am On Nov 16, 2019
ecclize:


The set of people i hate the most are motivational speakers...
they are like pastors... and most of them eventually venture into ministry
bro i stopped taking those motivationals serious. They could be misleading. Yeah theyre beautiful on the eye but realistically one shouldnt apply them in life.

Follow your heart and follow situations the way they come.

Nothing like 5 things to do to become rich or 10 things successful people do blah blah

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by NGRsenate: 9:31am On Nov 16, 2019
hefelove:

Try selling through Jumia. But make sure u have more than 30 different types from there u will get more orders

Even at that, it was still too expensive. One shoemaker will insist he wants 25k, nothing less and if we add our own percentage the price blows up. Let’s not forget delivery again, the best shoemaker i had was living somewhere after Ojo, 1k wouldn’t deliver from there to us and then to the buyer.

We started with adding 20% and cut it down to a measly 1.8%. Another thing is the quality. There are very few small time shoe makers who actually make solid shoes, very few I promise.

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by Nobody: 9:33am On Nov 16, 2019
Noel1:


N100k may be difficult to start a major business in Nigeria of today.

Why don't u put it in a fixed deposit account? I think some banks would give u up to 4.5% monthly interest on it. That's like N4,500 interest first month.
Then roll it over and u gain more interest based on compound interest.

Alternatively, u can buy Federal Government Treasury bills.

Please don't invest with wonder banks. There is no bank in Nigeria that pays 4.5% per month on ANY deposit/investment. It will be difficult, even, to get anything above 10-12% range per annum as of today.
It is a deliberate policy of CBN to discourage savings but encourage people to put their money into active use.

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by Dre555: 9:39am On Nov 16, 2019
I gave mine to a friend to handle and it collapsed.

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by okazuu(m): 9:40am On Nov 16, 2019
mine was location, the business was sited in a wrong location and have really learn from it.

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by namiji2598: 9:42am On Nov 16, 2019
ThisisIkemefuna:



I have 100k for it. Wow just need something to do to double the money. Not sure what's viable anylonger in Nigeria
use it and play 3 sure odds
boom 300+ thousand naira
Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by hefelove(m): 9:43am On Nov 16, 2019
NGRsenate:


Even at that, it was still too expensive. One shoemaker will insist he wants 25k, nothing less and if we add our own percentage the price blows up. Let’s not forget delivery again, the best shoemaker i had was living somewhere after Ojo, 1k wouldn’t deliver from there to us and then to the buyer.

We started with adding 20% and cut it down to a measly 1.8%. Another thing is the quality. There are very few small time shoe makers who actually make solid shoes, very few I promise.
How about going to different companies to advertise? I know someone that does this
Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by Nobody: 9:44am On Nov 16, 2019
Well, mine is not having enough patience but will you blame a 20-something year old who doesn't want to be a lazy pumpkin ?
After i left my job in January and new jobs were not forthcoming after two interviews, i decided to embark on ehailing (Uber & taxify).
I have read rave reviews about Toyota corolla, Camry, Hyundai Elantra and Honda Civic cars for the business because they tend to withstand abuse and can wiggle their way for long on our dreadful roads but i couldn't afford any of those cars, the least being 2003 Honda Civic cost 1.3m.
I brooded about the cost for a while and the people i met told me not to buy Nigerian used vehicles unless the owner is selling it off to upgrade, if not i might fall into depression visiting mechanics. There was no way i could raise 1.3m, the savings i had was 400k and my Aunt gave me a loan of 600k to-be paid back (15k weekly) when i start the hustle.
After going back and forth with no headway, she contacted her pastor who introduced the younger brother (a car dealer) and narrated my ordeal . He said i can't get a 2002 Tokunbo car for less than 1.2m and the Nigerian used he sells are way expensive than what i was looking for.
Long story short, he got me a Tokunbo 2001 Ford with a sound engine and a very eye catching leather interior but the front shock absorber was bad and the AC wasn't working when they brought it.
I have seen hell using that car for the past 3 months, need i say, i have spent a whooping 200k to fix (2 oxygen sensors, radiator hose, shock absorber, brake pads, AC compressor, evaporator and blower ,serviced transmission engine ,fuel pump and other minor repairs i cannot account for). At a point i was looking for buyer, still looking for it though because i am scared of what might happen on the road but when its in good shape, its wonderful to drive, the performance , speed and handling is superb couple with the attractive interior but it is not the conventional Uber car which i had premonition of before accepting to use it but i thought i was smart enough not to put it on the road more than 7 hours 5 days a week.
This is my story!

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by PHIPEX(m): 9:45am On Nov 16, 2019
Liquidated a thriving business to fund my wedding because I had a standby salary. Very painful decision .

It has taken me 2 years to restart

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by namiji2598: 9:46am On Nov 16, 2019
hefelove:
Since I'very lost close to 100k with building a sales page making Facebook advert to sell online around 2013, local man haven't been able to rise again cry But God dey smiley
local man is tired

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by namiji2598: 9:47am On Nov 16, 2019
majamajic:
everyone is avoiding the topic

if woman fall someone business , how do I write it ?
which English should I use to describe it ?
ahhhh, Angelina !!!
it's enough we have understand

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Re: What Lead To The Collapse Of Your First Business? by NGRsenate: 9:49am On Nov 16, 2019
hefelove:

How about going to different companies to advertise? I know someone that does this

Did all that. Lol even sponsored a fashion show back then in school with locally made sandals for ladies.

Use yourself as an example. Let’s say i come to meet you with shoes, locally made and i tell you it costs 28k. Even if you have the money, will you just buy it?

Tell me in detail what will go through your mind?

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