Wisdom - The Kreator

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Walahi, if 3 people are serious about making their first ₦1M before the end of the year, forget trying to find ₦1M clients in Nigeria. Go after dollar-paying clients. At roughly ₦1,500/$, you only need around $670 to cross ₦1M. That could be one $700 project, two $350 projects, four $175 projects, or a combination of smaller projects. The easiest way I’d approach it is to build a 3-man sales squad. Pick ONE service that businesses already pay for, then split the work. Person 1 handles cold email, researching companies, finding decision-makers and sending personalized emails. Person 2 focuses on Upwork, searching for relevant jobs and sending quality proposals. Person 3 handles LinkedIn and Instagram, finding founders, marketing managers and business owners, connecting with them and starting conversations. Then all three of you jump on Google Meet together every day for 3-4 hours and lock in. If you're broke, contribute money together for internet, necessary tools and anything else you genuinely need. You don't need an office. You need laptops, good internet, reliable electricity, Google Meet, a good offer and three people who are actually ready to work. When one person gets a client, the work doesn't necessarily have to be done by that person alone. You can split the workload between yourselves based on everyone's strengths. One person can handle strategy, another can execute, another can handle research, reporting or QA. The client doesn't necessarily need to know that three of you are working behind the scenes. What matters is that the person they hired communicates properly, the agreed work gets done and the quality is consistently good. Don't lie about your team if a client asks directly, but you don't need to turn your internal workflow into the main selling point. And don't only think about one-off projects. Try to convert good clients into monthly retainers. Instead of getting paid $300 once and starting from zero again, you could offer an ongoing service for $300-$500+ per month depending on the work. Two $400/month clients is $800 every month. Three people can share the workload and keep prospecting for the next client while maintaining the existing accounts. Create one Google Sheet and track every prospect: company, contact, platform, date contacted, response, follow-up date and status. Set daily targets. Something like 30-50 targeted cold emails, 10-15 strong Upwork proposals and 20-30 LinkedIn/Instagram outreaches between the team. Follow up with people who don't respond. A lot of clients won't reply to the first message. Your process should be simple: find businesses with a problem, identify the person who can pay you to solve it, reach out, start a conversation, get on a call, close the project, deliver extremely well, then ask about continuing the work on a monthly basis. But this only works if the three of you actually have the infrastructure and discipline for it. Good internet. Reliable electricity. Laptops that can handle the work. Clear communication. And most importantly, all three people need to be ready to lock in. If one person disappears every other day, doesn't respond to clients or doesn't do their part, the whole system falls apart. Don't spend the next three months preparing, taking courses and redesigning your CV. Learn what you need while you're prospecting. The goal is not to look busy. The goal is to create conversations with people who have money and a problem you can solve. Three people consistently doing this can generate hundreds of opportunities. You don't need everyone to say yes. You just need enough people to say yes.

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There was a reason ORide failed. There was a reason OCar and OExpress failed. And there is a reason other companies have struggled or scaled back their operations in Nigeria. So I wouldn’t look at Uber’s situation and conclude that the opportunity is simple The infrastructure may be here. The market may be here. But the business environment is also here. And that’s the part people often overlook. If you think the reason businesses fail in Nigeria is only infrastructure, you might end up following the same path. Government policies and regulations can completely change the economics of a business. ORide didn’t fail because Nigerians suddenly stopped needing rides. Its business model was heavily affected by regulatory restrictions on commercial motorcycles in Lagos. That’s the kind of thing founders need to think about. You can have the market. You can build the app. But if you don’t understand the regulatory environment you’re operating in, you may be building a business that the government can make unviable. Nigeria isn’t just a market to study. It’s an environment to understand. Before calling something a “good business opportunity,” I’d want to understand the policies, regulations, taxes, FX situation and government decisions that could affect that opportunity.

Uber leaving Nigeria doesn't necessarily mean more market or more opportunities. Uber didn't leave cuz they just felt like, they has a good reason to. And for Uber to leave Nigeria, you that want to build such startup should be ready to face hell and the devil at once

Me: Based on everything we’ve discussed, what’s your budget? Client: I don’t really have one, please state your price. Me: Okay, this would cost xxxxxxx Client: ahhhh!!! This is way above my budget. Me: So you had a budget????

Uber had left Nigeria

Once you start answering calls on loudspeaker there’s no going back

If you’re an undergraduate, especially in 200, 300 or 400 level, please try to learn a skill before you graduate. Don’t wait until NYSC or graduation before you start figuring things out. Learn something you can build with or make money from. Fashion, photography, video editing, copywriting, design, anything.

I have a serious question for those who pretend they can read while listening to music... Why are you lying?

Kind reminder: You aren't bad at that skill. You’re only early at it.

I’m glad that this conversation is coming from a twenty something young lady, atleast they won’t say it’s a mindset of a 40plus woman like me