Business Ideas for Budding Entrepreneurs-Benjamin Zulu
If you’re a taxi operating or a rider, your main business assets are two; your vehicle and your mobile phone. With the first you carry your customers or their parcels, but with the second you connect with them. You can’t serve any customer before you connect.
So your phone is as important as your car or bike. But how many people are operating with a broken phone? They still take it like a personal effect when it has already graduated to a business asset. As for you, invest in a good quality phone. You can also get a spare one to make sure you’re never offline when the other one is charging.
These small extra things will set you apart from the competition. Also, keep your automobile always on full tank so that you can do many trips continuously. You can simply track your consumption by filling up on your way home.
If you’re operating a salon or barbershop, understand that your work is very personal. People’s hair is highly personal in that to work on it, you must get very close to them. For this reason, insist on high hygiene for your staff. A staff with a smelly breath will give your customers a very hard time and cost you business.
When someone is working on your head, their waist is very close to your nose, and so if their hygiene is bad, you will have a very difficult session.
One indirect but effective way to communicate these standards with your staff is to print the rules and expectations and hang them in their changing rooms. You can ask people to score themselves and each other during your weekly staff meetings.
The worst way to run a business is to set it up and disappear, expecting to just be receiving money into your bank. You’re abandoning your customers, and they will abandon your business, too. You should maintain close contact with them by occasional visits to the premises and getting feedback from them.
If you’re a plumber, electrician, or mason, be very punctual and honest with quantities. Even when your competency is only average, being trustworthy will win you more customers than you can handle. Most people in this industry are dishonest and selfish
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