Business Startups Production Business

Introduction 

The toilet paper manufacturing business has been reported as being one of the fastest growing manufacturing industries in Africa today. Toilet paper is a soft tissue paper used in homes, offices, schools, hotels etc. to maintain personal hygiene after human laxative or other organic processes.However, it can also be used for other purposes such as absorbing spillage and decorative purposes. the product differs in texture from other tissue, and is formulated to decompose in septic tanks, whereas some other bathroom and facial tissues do not.

Benefits/Advantages - 

- Simple manufacturing process.
- Easy administration (very few product lines and variations).
- High demand for product.
- Easy to market.

THE OPPORTUNITIES 

In order to encourage local production of the product and create the much needed employment.
The federal government of Nigeria banned the importation of finished toilet roll, serviette and face tissue in 2004. though local production has long commenced, the demand is still very high, superseding the supply by wide margin.

About 800 million units of the product are required annually by Nigerians out of which local production can only meet about 105 million units. this wide margin in supply provides investment opportunity for savvy investors like you and I to exploit.

Opportunities also exist for the exportation of the local finished product to other countries.
Nevertheless, one could also make money recycling waste paper into jumbo reels used as raw material for the production of toilet rolls.

THE PRODUCTION PROCESS 

THE PRODUCTION PLANT 

The toilet roll production plant is a stationary one to be sourced locally. the plant is made up of the core cutting machine, core gluing machine, jumbo reel winding machine and band saw cutting machine.
The plant would be sourced from an experienced fabricator of plants in Nigeria.

Toilet Roll business, is a big business and a secret money spinner. Do you know that a unit cost per Toilet Roll cost just about 20.00 Naira (Twenty Naira), and you will sell between 150 to 200 Naira for Jumbo sizes,
which means 80% profit per tissue.

All you need is for this business are:

1) Toilet Roll Rewinding Machine, fabricated in Nigeria and very efficient too,

2) Toilet Roll Cutting Machine, fabricated in Nigeria,

3) Giant Jumbo Tissue Roll, either imported or made in Nigeria, very good quality

If you are concerned about durability you can look into importing these machines


You can make a whole lot of profit from inside your home... 

These additional information is contained in the book "Toilet  Paper Production in Nigeria".

Tissue Paper Book

It is a comprehensive  guide (e-book) that will set you miles ahead of others in the sector.

Book Guide costs: N2,000, and If you are among the first hundred who intends to begin Toilet Tissue Paper Business, by purchasing this rich Guide, then here are the extra free benefits you will enjoy:

• I will design a free business logo for your new Tissue Paper business.
• Yes I will keep to my promise and do them for you because I want to see Nigerians succeed

Get across to me on: thinkysolutions(at)gmail(dot)com

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Business Startups Services Business Student Business Ideas

Introduction:

There are so many Nursery, Primary and Secondary (High) schools in Nigeria, and a fair number in every city in Nigeria. On Average, There are about 200 pupils and students in these schools. This Business is about creating an avenue to take students out on Educational Trips across cities, states in the country.

You will agree with me that in our primary and secondary school days, we always looked forward to the days where we would go out together as students to some fancy cities with our pen and paper, taking notes and snapping pictures. This is basically the Idea of a Student Excursion Business that I am selling to you now reading this post.

Like I mentioned in my profile, I have spent more than 5 years researching business opportunities in Nigeria, and I came up with this as a very profitable niche in the Educational business sector. I shared this Idea 3 years ago with an Abuja based business woman, whom I believe is fully into it now. Here is all you need to know about the basics:

How it Works (10 Steps)

1. Locate Unique Educational Tour Sites in your city or state or country
2. Approach Schools
3. Have an agreement with the schools
4. Fix a date
5. Take the pupil/students out for hours/days/weeks depending on your arrangement
6. Bring the pupil/student back safely
7. Get paid
8. Perform Steps 1-7 again for different schools
9. Get paid more.
10. It is this easy

Things to know before setting up Student Excursion Business in Nigeria

Basic knowledge is needed in any sector you wish to establish in else, failure is inevitable. The following must be known before you can establish this business in your city:

• Educational sites around your city, state and outside your state
• You should build solid relationship with school owners
• Study businesses already offering this service and how you can improve on their services.

Requirements, Equipment and Materials Needed

• A Registered Business name or company so as to be taken seriously
• A Standard Coaster Bus or its equivalent (or you can partner with transport companies if you cannot afford bus)
• An Office in a good location to receive customers and attend to enquiries, complaints, etc
• A License/Permit to carry out educational tours in the state (optional, but you can check with your state education board to know if this is a requirement)
• Business Cards, Letter head papers

Capital Requirements

To effectively start the education tour business, here is the breakdown of your capital needs. This might vary depending on some factors:

• Office space: - varies/depends on your city
• Minimum 18 seater Bus: - varies/depends on the bus of interest
• On the Average, measured by my preference, you will not spend beyond less than N900,000 to acquire the two items listed above

Marketing, Advertising and Customer Care

The quickest way to gain ground in this business sector is to:

• Build Relationships - Build a working and active relationship with school owners and principals.

Other ways includes:

• Word of Mouth - Talk to schools, parents, teachers about what you do, and what you can do that your competitors are not doing yet
• Use Business Cards - A school owner/Principal/Headmaster you talk to now may not be interested in what you have but may be tomorrow, so you will need a business card to leave behind with each of your prospective clients so that they can reach you when they require your service.
• Build Testimonials - Any time you take students of a school out on an educational excursion/tour, do not forget to ask the school for a testimonial. This testimonial will help you when you are attempting to get a new school as your client. School owners will be better interested if they know that you have done something similar somewhere else for someone else.
• Offer Unique Tour Sites - Be careful when choosing tour sites. Some schools may be sceptical if your proposed site is too far, or if it is a common place. 
• Handle the Pupils / Students with great concern - Do not be too engrossed in activities and planning and forget about the safety of your clients (Pupils/Students). Their safety means more tours in future with you, because quality customer service builds trust in your customers.

Projected Income

Here is an estimated pricing from one excursion trip with a school having students of about 200 with the excursion taking place outside the city/state

• 1 student pays N1,000
• 50 interested students pay 50 * 1,000 = N50,000
• Average of 3 schools in a month = N150,000
• Average Income monthly is N150,000

Here is an estimated pricing for one excursion trip with a school having about 500 students, with the excursion taking place in the city/state

• 1 student pays N500
• 200 Interested students pay 200 * 500 = N100,000
• Average of 3 schools in a month = N300,000
• Average Income Monthly is N300,000

You are only limited by your marketing plan. So go out and get this started.

Additional Information

*If you need additional Information, you can get across to me on thinkysolutions(at)gmail(dot)com. I will be glad to help out.

If you have decided to start this business, I can make you a business logo and a business card design. Cheers!

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Business Startups Services Business

Laundry is the washing of clothes with water, Dry cleaning is without water
170 Million Nigerians wear clothes daily, irrespective of age. 40 percent of this population are very busy persons; some in Government, some in Civil service, some Business persons, some Students, and some Lazy.
These persons do not have time. You will have to agree that the task of washing, rinsing, drying, and ironing clothes is so tedious and time consuming that even the average house wife would consider buying a washing machine for this purpose. Due to the poverty level in Nigeria at the moment, and the poor power supply rate, most homes will not be able to afford a washing machine..

For these reasons, laundry and dry cleaning business has become a top and lucrative venture in Nigeria. Last week, I was in Lagos and stayed in the house of a friend whose father owns a laundry. He really din't tell me how much his father earns monthly, but he told me about a laundry a friend of his who works in that makes N900,000 monthly.


Dry cleaning / Laundry business is not a capital intensive business, and you can start from your home till you get an office when the money begins to pour in. Ms Uloma Ibeawuchi, of Clean Yard Services Limited spoke to Punch Nigeria Newspaper about how she started the business with just N20,000 in 2010.

Stuff to Know before Setting out a Laundry Business

• How to Wash different fabrics
• How to dry clean
• How to Iron different fabric materials
• Folding
• Packaging
• Marketing
• Business development

Equipment and Materials Needed

• Register a business name so you will be taken seriously
• Get an office or use your home as an office
• Basins and buckets (small scale)
• Industrial washing machine (Large scale)
• Generator (optional)
• Staff (One to wash, another to market and deliver garments)
• Ironing table
• Stain removing chemicals
• Pressing irons (Electric and Manual)
• Hangers, Tags, pegs

Marketing, Advertising and Customer Care

• Home delivery - Offer to pick up dirty fabrics and return finished ones back to them.
• Move Around - Have marketers that move around neighbourhoods asking people if they need laundry services.
• Don't fail to deliver before deadline
• Customer preferences - Some customers need their clothes to be handled in certain ways, do not forget.
• Offer unique Services - Look at what your competitors are doing and what they are not doing, and improve on what they are not doing, while doing what they are not doing.
• Offer better Prices - Offer a fair and standard price for a high service quality.
• Get to know your customers - If possible, remember their birthdays and message them. They will feel loved and will love your business.
• Print Fliers, Handbills and Business Cards - You never may know where it will get to
• Brand your Finished Products - Have a branded packaging for every finished work you are about to deliver to your customer. You will never know who will pick up the packaging after it has been discarded.

Projected Income

Here is the estimated pricing for laundry where I live:

• Shirt - N200 per one
• Trousers - N150 per one
• Suit - N1000 per one
• Bed spreads - N500 per one
• Bed Blankets - N1,500 per one

If you wash 10 shirts, 5 Trousers, 2 Suits, 1 bed spread, 1 Bed blanket daily, you will be making:  

2000 + 750 + 2000 + 500 + 1500 = N6,750 Daily, equivalent to N202,500 Monthly

More Information

Additional Information you may need if you intend going into this business on a full scale:

1. Where to get  Industrial Washing Machines in Nigeria
2. Steps to build your first set of customers
3. How to get more customers by washing free for them and make more money
4. Capital requirement breakdown including cost of each of the facilities and equipment needed to start up.
5. How to survive in the midst of trusted competitors
6. How to source and buy dry cleaning equipment
7. Standard Prices for Laundry and Dry cleaning work in your location
8. Detailed personal interviews from already established Laundry and Dry Cleaning business to enable you learn from the experience of others
9. How to go about branding of your laundry packaging paper
10. How to Wash different fabrics
11. How to dry clean different materials

These additional information is contained in the book "Laundry, and Dry Cleaning Business in Nigeria".

It is a comprehensive guide (e-book) that will set you miles ahead of others in the sector.

Book Guide costs: N3,500, and If you are among the first hundred who intends to begin Laundry and Dry Cleaning Business, by purchasing this rich Guide, then here are the extra free benefits you will enjoy:

• I will design for you a Business card for free.
• I will design a free business logo for your new Laundry business.
• Yes I will keep to my promise and do them for you because I want to see Nigerians succeed

Get across to me on: thinkysolutions(at)gmail(dot)com

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