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Do not despise your days of little beginning. I was just writing this article and well I just remembered when we started this business some years ago. A small four by four ceiling shop and that was where it ALL began. People will just pass by and begin to imagine if they should actually trust these young lads with their clothes. It was those days of just praying to have a shop jam-packed with cloth since that was the mentality to drive trust.
People start trusting you with a few hundred naira and it moves to the unit thousand, the tens of thousands, the hundreds of thousands and then follow the million, millions and so on. I had to take time to analyze this because you are left to build your worth. No one will bundle thousands to you without either trusting you or knowing your records of trust.
We’ve moved on and expanded and our laundry section has been the most trusted and we can't doubt since it was where it all started. Sewing, branding and other things have come in and the customer base is changing lanes. Aside from just customer influx, we are talking of them viewing us to be more responsible and that's what business is mostly about. Should I trust this person? It gets much easier to answer when the ‘person’ turns to a ‘brand’.
It gets very easy to close a deal from here since you can see the brand and its growth yourself. Aside from just business premises, people begin to know and refer to you as a business man. It has been driven by a mindset of determination to be productive even when profit was going against odds.
I have a couple of articles I will be touching on one after the other. I thought I was going to be able to send out this article much more than this, but I got choked up with activities to cater for. I first of all have to admit that I have seen many positive changes around me just three months into this year.
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It all started with a desire to improve and I can say, when desire comes, then comes opportunity to manifest it. I wanted to grow, learn, get exposure, improve myself and there the Journey kick started. I first got an opportunity to attend a high skill mentorship session; something that I don't regret spending that money on.
I learned a lot in the process, it is something I am still gradually digesting and at the appointed time, I will delve into its execution. Talking of improvement, I have seen improvement in delivery. Having to manage a multipurpose business comes at the cost of filling in the blank spaces. What happens when demand is high and the working force is little. I had to find a way to fit in.
In the process, I had to improve upon my sewing asides from being dependent on workers. Let's just say, converting every extra time available to a productive one. And well, adding to that, trying to save some extra bucks for the company. It has also made my contract worker pick interest in showing up knowing he will concentrate on one thing while I focus on the other.
In conclusion, anyway, I am not saying that it is compulsory to join the working force but until we are capable of employing more, the production floor needs my assistance. It was one of such timingly deliveries today. I am happy we could beat the customer’s imagination to deliver although it came at the cost of me reaching the planned meeting today very late. The take home here is, give yourself consistently to develop yourself and you will be surprised how far you can go in a few months.
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