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Barthley:
How much do you sell

SanniOluwafemi:
At Maplewood Furniture, we design with a difference.
INTEGRITY,
FLEXIBILITY,
EXCELLENT SERVICE DELIVERY ARE KEY.

Patronize us and make us grow!

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Attached is a testimony from a client base in the U.S.

tipan:
Our product range includes; Gloss, Emulsion, Textured, Matt Emulsion, Satin Silk Emulsion, Flex Emulsion, Vanish, Patula filler, Road Mark/ Floor Paints, Bright Aluminum, Red oxide Primer and POP Emulsion.

Note: Our Buffalo line of paints is similar in quality to the likes of Dulux, Meyer, President, Berger paints and at pocket friendly prices.

Contact us today for any of your paint purchase and painting jobs (individuals and corporate organisations) within Nigeria. We will supply at factory price nationwide with free delivery to most regions.

You can also use the service of our company painters to get accurate bill of quantity (free quotation) for paints required and we can do the painting works if desired.

Engineers, builders, painters, architects, contractors, procurement officers are welcomed for more detailed conversation. A trial will convince you as we establish a business relationship.

Thank you.

Aforxzy:
I saw this staircase and I wonder how can someone construct this for human use.

Aforxzy:
And this TRUST should be "TOTAL" The contractor should trust that the client will pay as agreed, the client should trust that the contractor will deliver in quantity and quality as agreed as well. The contractor should also trust that the sub-contractor or artisans will deliver as agreed also in quantity and quality. If this happens everyone is happy knowing fully well that what you paid for is what you will get.

NGpatriot:
Tinubu never return from the first UK, but according SR Fake News Network, Tinubu don return to Nigeria and heading back to UK for more surgery.

Surgery for what.? Your fake news sources did not tell you what surgery or what he's suffering from.?.


These fake news clowns no dey even hide their fake news idiocy anymore...


God Bless Asiwaju Tinubu..

spyder880:
TRUST!

If only we know how strong these five letters are in this world. Those five letter are the foundation on which most successful businesses are formed, and retained. Everyone needs trust, trust builds goodwill, which is one of the essential ingredients for success in every business transaction. The contractors and workmen needs trust, the clients needs trust, the suppliers needs trust also.

The big question is; how do we know who to trust?

Trust is such a tricky trait that many people fake it, suppliers of materials can be supplying you with genuine products until one day, Blam! Out of the blues, they hit you with a severe fake product, or run away with your money entirely. Happens with contractors and clients too.

Many of us are products of the trust people reposed in us, I have been working for many years as a contractor, there have been good clients we worked for. In fact, excellent will be a better description. I was lured out of my full time well paying work at a popular multinational company by a client from this forum. The client convinced me to come and build his house in 2013, he paid me even before I started the work, and when I failed with the quotation going against me, he saw it as my inexperience in working in riverine areas, and promptly asked me to redraw a budget, then he paid me again to complete the work.

This same client was there to help me with every bit of information and advice, even technical skills as he was also in the engineering industry. My second and third major projects here were in that same estate, connected by the same client. I remember the day he convinced his colleague to transfer a huge amount of money to me for another new project, the client was afraid, but he told the client that if I defaulted, he will pay back the money. Such trust was rare, and I know it was God's love working. I just resigned from my then employment and went full time, building houses. I am eternally grateful to this young man, and have called him in the past to always express my appreciation for his helping me to start strong.

I have also trusted in my subordinates, the young professionals I brought into the industry, the young graduates I hired to work with me, the skilled workers who did every bit of work. Some turned out good while some, well, did what they wanted. Some old workers of mine walked away with my money in a site this year, but it's his own loss, not mine. I have brought and guided the ones that I can trust here online and many of them are actively building houses and practicing here and elsewhere, some very successful already.

I won't deceive myself to think it's just luck, or hardwork. I think its because of the help of the almighty God, the author and finisher of our faith. He is all able, almighty and the all and all.

Clients could be very difficult, but like I was taught in a Super-management training course in my former company, the customer is always right. We should only be careful not to lose money while observing their rights, we should try to please them in every way, and when we fall short of pleasing our clients, we should be open and ready to amend the situation. We are all humans and although its difficult, we can at least get a pass mark for our services.

We should also be honest, and upfront with the services we intend to render, if I am painting a house for a client for instance, I will ask for details of who goes home with the empty drums after painting, or what happens with the used planks and wood after the project is finished. These details will help in sorting out issues in the future. And when all else fails, if taking some small loss in the project won't kill us, let's take it and walk away far, to avoid problems. Such small losses will pay our tuition fees for the next few jobs, teaching us in vivid terms, how to avoid more losses.

I have taken a fair amount of losses in this field, sometimes big, sometimes small, but I always try to stay within the budget. My family will never forget April - July 2011, when I used my 4 months salary from my day job to be doing a clients work because I under quoted, and I wanted to complete the work. We went hungry and didn't have food in the house. I have also been saved from taking serious beatings when costs go against me. God bless all my clients, they have sometimes come to my rescue, paying up hundreds of thousands when it's clear I misquoted, or the market turned against our agreed budgets. God will bless you all.

I also remember paying back hundreds of thousands of naira, even millions in some cases, when I am overpaid by mistake. The client I completed his 6 flats this year in Enugu East, overpaid me by over N740,000 for some groups of jobs in the finish of the house, I called him and asked how much he paid, my Oga was sounding annoyed and insisting that he has completed the payments, I called him again to please check the amount he paid, because he paid for everything in the list, even when two of the items on the list are options to the others, when he realised he has overpaid me, he was very happy that I pointed it out, because a lot of people will just pretend they didn't see it, and go ahead and spend the money on themselves. This happened again this year, on the tall bungalow I am building now, this one is an overpayment of N366,900. I pointed it out and the client just added it in the next payment and deducted his money, with thanks. Honesty is a very good policy. The best policy in fact.

I urge all the young people in our midst, and indeed all of us, to approach business with honesty, both contractors, suppliers and clients, the most enduring businesses I have seen while growing up, were the ones where people can trust the dealer, and leave a lot of money in their business till when they need it. And the businesses use the money wisely, returning value to the investors and customers whenever they need the goods, or their money back. I want to leave a business name that my children will grow up and inherit, I want my children to stand up and say with pride, "I am the child of Spyder880".

May God grant us health and happiness while we work to achieve all these, may we get more clients and customers that will understand us, and work with us like we are their blood relatives. Amen.

somehow:
When you harden a good paying/performing client/contractor
What you get is more bad clients/contractor
What do we get in the long run?
A chain of bad looking clients and artisans /contractors

In the end, the market becomes difficult for those who earn their daily meals from it.

Remain good to those who are paying/performing and don't take their being different for a fool. It won't end well for you if not now but in the nearest future.

Some of us just don't want to join in destroying the little trust left in the society.