ShadyContent
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Who here has a Brick and Mortar business and or sells physical items? Share what you sell and/or what type of business you own. Food, Clothing, knick·knacks ETC?
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MikeyMikey13
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- May 25, 2014
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I ran a custom jewellery "company" a few years ago, was more of a startup that never took off. Made a loss for 8 months so gave up on it. Products were sold online so idk if you class that as a non-digital company.
Matthew951
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- May 6, 2018
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Hello, I stumbled upon this website because of the need to research how i can promote our business and bump up our online presence. We are a small family owned tire shop selling new and used tires to the locals in my area. We opened Sept 01 2018. Since then our main promoting avenue has been Offerup. 8 months into the business and we have completely taken over the Offerup platform in our area. We are known as the tire shop that promotes on the app. I am now starting to look at Facebook marketplace and Facebook groups. I want to look into SEO but i don't have the time to do such and sometime the mental energy either, obviously would like to rank #1 in my area.
Matthew951
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- May 6, 2018
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This is why i joined BHW, brick and mortar isn't working out. Now i am looking at ways to supplement income online and/or new ways of promoting online to help our business. 8 months into it and have not seen profit mainly expenses.
accofranco
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- Mar 7, 2014
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I own a couple of business in diverse niches:
1. Women bags, shoes and dresses and its been doing well but I want to drop others and focus on just women bags which have less issues like sizing, etc.
2. I own a used computer retail shop where I sell Imported American used laptops and phones (iPhone and Samsung only). But seems laptop sell more due to the fact that cheaper Chinese version phones have flooded the local market here making people to reconsider buying high end phones like iphone and Samsung, so I want to focus more on laptops soon.
3. I own a Uber taxi business where I have few drivers who drive taxi for me and remit money, though handling the drivers has been major challenge, I may deinvest soon .
4. Local and international delivery company: I started a local delivery company last year to help online sellers here deliver to buyers on pay on delivery service since most buyers here hardly agree to pay before delivery, and it has been good but challenging.
I also help people ship items from China to Nigeria, USA to Nigeria and Nigeria to any country too.
Both are good but challenging due to poor facilities here.
Bartolomeo
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That's what I thought.
Digital is the way of the future. Thus, there is a fuckton of money to make on it.
Abudence
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Where do you live at? You have a lot going on.
Shoot I've had multiple jobs if that counts at all..
Did some lawn care, pool cleaning, wiring some things in homes, draft schematics blue prints, and also programmed some PLC's. Also installed a garage door for free. Flew a drone over and through a house and got paid for the footage.
accofranco
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Wow, that's a lot but won't earn one a dime here. I live in Nigeria. The economy hasn't been good since the last 3 years we had a new government without direction.
To make it big in Nigeria, you need to be super smart and diversified.
Brick and mortar business thrive here if you know what you are doing and have the capital to invest too.
Abudence
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Would a white guy from USA be able to travel and live in Nigeria. Maybe it would be okay to come and open a business. Maybe a car trade business?
accofranco
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We have lots of Americans, Europeans, Chinese, Indians, Canadians, etc living here for the past decade. I once worked with a British giyy, Jim Berry, a Canadian guy, Patrick Guird or so, and a German Schules.
Google: Victoria Island Lagos. Most people living there are Americans working with Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Agip, etc and many more that own businesses here too.
But car business is no longer as thriving as before in Nigeria and you know why?
Auctionexport, etc have made it easier for Nigerians to buy cars directly from USA instead of buying from local car dealers. Unless you have a way of getting your cars very cheaper, then u can compete but if not, forget it here, it won't fly well.
What sales fast here now are daily consumables. Fashion items; Chinese brands cos they are cheaper so if you have enough capital to import them and open a warehouse here, you will make a killing fast.
We have lots of unexplored business niches here....you can go into cassava processing produce flour, starch used by pharmeutical, etc companies.
Another business that thrives here too is used automobile spare parts business from USA.
You buy condemned vehicles; Toyota, Honda, etc and butcher in parts, load into a container and when it lands here in Nigeria, you can sell it off in less than 3 weeks and have over 50% ROI depending on how affordable you bought the cars you butchered there
Abudence
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This is very informative. Seems like all I have to do is go buy salvage cheap pre wrecked car or truck that still has good parts on it and break it down and then put it into a shipping container. Then when it's in Nigeria I'll have to sell it out. At the moment I'm not around the coast around a shipping dock but this sounds very simple to get done.
I've got a friend in Ghana who said to sell cars but maybe he was meaning break the parts down into a container like you are saying.
The unexplored niches are everywhere in Nigeria. So many ideas that could be done and tested but I would need to start saving my money for some future business like that.
accofranco
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- Mar 7, 2014
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Maybe your Ghanaian friend is talking about selling cars in Ghana which may work in Ghana because Nigeria is far ahead of Ghana in many businesses.
Car parts business may not thrive well in Ghana considering the fact that the number of car owners or car users in Ghana can't be compared to Nigeria.
Nigerians love cars, lots of individuals here own cars more than European celebrities, sounds funny but that's how much Nigerians love cars.
So with that statistics, you can see that car spare parts business will be a hot business here but the business requires you to have a guide here because we have major spare parts markets for fast sell off. I once helped a friend who lives in Spain, but European used car parts don't move fast here because Europeans overuse their cars and you can only get old model cars to butcher there which won't move here but Americans drive latest cars so their spare parts are in par with the cars being used in Nigeria.
$25,000 - #50,000 can startup the business.
When you are ready, I can assist you with more research and guide if needed. And I wold also suggest you visit first and spend like a week to visit the major spare parts markets to see things yourself before importing the parts.