Start foodstuff business in Nigeria without stress

Start foodstuff business in Nigeria without stress: There is a lot of businesses to dive into when the white collar jobs are not coming in handy.

People tend to wait for a long time before getting a job when they can equally start something small and become a boss of their own.

That way, they also create jobs for the teaming population of Nigeria.

Therefore, one need to find something small to start with and the one thing that comes to my mind is food stuff business.

It is true that every business has its own advantages and disadvantages, but have you tried something new recently.

Something people do not find lucrative like having a company for fuel, designer clothes, shoes and bags, CEO of high-tech companies, etc.

Don’t worry if you aren’t born with a silver spoon, you can create or manufacture one silver spoon for yourself.

Dive into this business like grains and other food stuff ingredients. We have different grains and other food stuff such as rice, maize, beans, and palm oil.

In this article, we are going to show you how to start the food stuff business without stress using the four items mentioned above – rice, maize, beans and palm oil.

Everyone needs to eat food and the items listed above are among the daily consumption in a typical Nigerian home.

Therefore, there is a market for this food stuff in your community or surrounding.

We need just little capital to start with. Since your capital is not huge, you have to be discipline, focus, hardworking and determine to success. Your saving habit must be apt.

You will again know that every single dime counts and so save a lot.

Plough back your profit into the business until you have gotten enough money to buy in large quantities.

How to start a food stuff business in Nigeria without stress

Start foodstuff business in Nigeria without stress with as little as N30,000 Naira

  • Yes! If not because of the hike in prices, inflation and economy downturn, amount less than N30,000 can start a business.
  • All what you need is to buy cheap grains directly from farmers in villages who are in dire need of money to meet their everyday needs.
  • Get rice, maize, and beans in rubber paint measure and sell in cups or “mudu” around your neighborhood. Don’t spend anything outside the profit. Just keep saving.
  • Thereafter get a pelican rubber of oil. Start with 10 litres. Also sell in small quantities first.

No household prepares food without oil. 

 Again, don’t forget to save. You have to be discipline and intentional about the business. After profits you can migrate to buying of bags. Bags of rice, beans, maize and a 50 litres of palm oil.

Currently, a bag of corn goes for N22,000

Bag of beans N43,000

Bag of rice (50kg) N23,000

Palm oil 20 litres N13,000

Importantly, minimize the number of people you give your produce on credit. The more your food stuff is sold on credit, the more you lose your capital because some may turn out to bad debts.

Unfortunately, irrecoverable debt may mean the end of your little business. Guide your business with all you’ve got. That is the real thing.

In our next article, we will show you how to make huge profit from the sale of food stuff in large quantities and how much to gain if you sale in small quantities.

The true business of selling books online and offline

The true business of selling books online and offline: With the emergence of technology and internet facilities, the business of selling books is minimal.

Considering that one needs to just surf the internet and get a good read from the millions of online books.

Needless to say that the internet has reduced the number of times people have to get to the library for reading. Many have resort to online reading to meet their needs for romance, politics, technology, and so on.

In a way, many freelances are seen publishing articles online and making cool money to help themselves.

However, not everybody can afford data to surf the internet and download beautiful books online.

The cost of one download can mean a lot to some people. It therefore means that there is hope for people selling hard copy books as a livelihood.

The disadvantage of reading online books is that it affects visibility of readers due to constant rays from the computer, phones and other gadgets.

The more people tend to use the internet for their everyday need, the less they patronize print medias and book stores.

Thus, the business of book selling is very much lucrative. This is because there are plenty of people that want to stock their personal library with seasoned books and collections for their generation to come and for reference purposes.

It is ideal to encourage someone who love books to start selling books as a passion.

Here are tips you need for book store business.

The true business of selling books online and offline

  • know your target audience, such as children, adult and retirees. When the target is in place, the issue of the types of books to be in stock is solved.
  • Know your customers’ expectation in terms of price and value. For starters, it is advisable not to over shoot profit by making the selling price very high.

This is to enable people buy the books in time and also a wide range of notification due to awareness by customers.

  • Kinds of books; it can be old books, children books, Christian or religious books, stationeries.
  • The location of the business also matters. Where there are more readers to the specific books you are selling should be where the demand is high.
  • Know the source of capital. The source such as personal savings, borrowing from friends and families is checked.

This is in order to know the quantity of the books to purchase for sale at a time. Be mindful of where to borrow money, especially the interest rate so as to gain more profit at the end of a sale.

  • Beautify the shelves to attract customers to patronize you. Have a catalogue of collections of books in the store for easy location of books.

Have shelves, show glass, counter, and canter. Arrange books in a given category like children section, or even author for ease.

  • Have a store map. This enable customer to navigate the store without any help.
  • Have a business plan. When you want to approach an organisation for help or grant, ensure you want a convincing business plan that will make anyone wants to help.
  • Get good suppliers both local and international suppliers (Alibaba, Konga, ibooks, smashwords, draft2digital, createspace, kobo, amazon, etc).

Ensure you stick to the terms and conditions of your relationships with your suppliers. It’s very important.

  • Create a niche. Don’t compromise on great service delivery and quality (not pirated) books.

And also ensure your particular line of books is unique to you and you enjoy selling those particular books. It could be books for adults only.

  • Advertise your books online, schools, offices, worshipping places, and sports centres and events centres.  

 Finally, there is a great niche in book selling and when done properly, it is very lucrative. Keep to terms, supply quality products at affordable prices. Stick to your words in terms of convincing statement about a book.