I have been a full-time entrepreneur for over a decade now – and you know what that means;

No salary from any boss – for over 10 years now!

Everything was going on smoothly until sometimes in 2015 when I faced a major setback in my business and it started affecting every other aspects of my life…

In late 2013, I picked up the distributorship of a company to market their natural health products after confirming that the products were highly effective.

For several months, using the old model of marketing, I did everything possible to market but no reasonable sales were coming in until I took the business online.

Prior to that time, I have gathered some knowledge about selling online, creating a website using wordpress and so on.

This was also the era when Facebook advertising was really new to some of us in this part of the world and I started making a killing with it selling hundreds of thousands of Naira worth of these health products online on a daily basis.

Within a short period of time, I had risen to the top of earnings (the compensation plan) of the company and life was really really good.

This was the experience until I faced a major setback in 2015.

The company whose products I was selling had to increase their prices because of the Naira/USD exchange rate palava and that was a huge one coupled with Facebook nabbing everyone marketing health products on their platform then.

2 blows on my face at the same time

As a young entrepreneur then, I thought I had already arrived and life would continue that way. I was wrong!

Well, today, I know better – the lack of forward-thinking and innovation for future survival is the number one reason small businesses failed.

Sadly, I fell into this category back then.

Thank God that I know better right now!

The setback from the end of 2015 extended towards 2016 and the struggle continued until one particular day.

A pharmacist friend of mine was trying to introduce me to a new company that had similar effective products like the ones I was selling but now at cheaper prices.

That sounded good to me.

We booked an appointment to attend the company’s training session at their office in Ikeja, Lagos.

This alone was a major issue for me – it’s not going to be funny if other distributors from the other company saw me or my conspicuous jeep then romancing another company selling same products.

Well, I had to find a way to attend the training.

Na me know where shoe dey pinch me nah!

I am not so easy to be sold into signing up to market for any company though but this company had one thing that caught my attention – a mini massaging machine.

It was going to be a good thing to be added to the group of health products I was selling.

I immediately bought some pieces at N16,000 each. I was not even bothered about the PV (point value) – only the networkers will understand this.

So, I started selling and my customers liked it.

I was buying tens of this machine on a weekly basis and things started picking up bit by bit again.

One day, I was surfing the internet and I suddenly saw an image that looked like that massaging machine. I followed the link and it landed on aliexpress  – haha!.

I surfed and surfed and found out that it’s exactly the same machine except that it didn’t have the logo of the company selling at 16k.

That’s not all, the price I saw amazed me to my bone marrow!

I saw it for $13.66 each and shipping to Nigeria was $3.

This is $16.66 and that’s about N6,000 for one machine.

I bursted into laughter.

Then, I started ordering from there immediately.

See for yourself below;

Though, prior to that time, I had been buying stuffs from aliexpress but in most cases, I was buying personal stuffs.

It was after this era that I discovered more websites from China where we could buy at even cheaper prices than aliexpress and this marked the first breakthrough for me online – I just acquired a skill that will always be in-demand for ever! 

A skill that will never go out of date! 

It was this machine that marked the beginning of my first real money-making skill in mini-importation/e-commerce online.

Making N10,000 on each machine was a big deal for me. But the truth is that I was even making more than 10k because when I was buying at N16k, I was not selling at N16k.

What I did next was to stat researching more and more products to be bought and resell in Nigeria at profitable prices for me.

I didn’t have to be looking for customers then, I already have my customer base.

As at that time when many Nigerians did not know about this line of business, I had started cashing out big from it and the business is still very much profitable till today.

Just imagine yourself being broke one day to the extent that you have tried everything possible in your life and nothing seems to work out for you. 

You can’t feed yourself and your family. 

You can’t pay your house rent no matter how much you try.

Imagine you hear someone somehow talking about needing a product that could really help him/her solve a problem. 

And you are smart enough to know that if one person has one problem around you, there will be thousands, if not millions, of other people out there who have the same problem and are looking for a solution. 

Imagine you have the knowledge about importation and you borrow someone’s phone to search online for a product that can help this class of people. 

Imagine you are so broke that all you can borrow from your best friend for the last time is 5k because you have not been paying back the previous loans. 

Imagine you are able to get a product that can help these people for N500 each, import it down to Nigeria for N500 each too – that’s 1k for each product. 

Imagine you are able to sell each product for 5k, 7k or 10k? 

At 5k, you will make N25k in revenue and 20k as pure profit. 

You can help yourself with the other figures.  

All this can happen to you in 1 week. 

To sell 5 pieces, you don’t even need to market online. You don’t need a website, no extra expenses.

You can sell these 5 pieces in your church, mosque, shrine, school, office or anywhere else. 

As long as the product is unique and cannot be found in any shop or on Jumia, you are good to go and I will show you how to achieve that soon.

Wait – did you just say impossible?

Well, continue reading to see where I have the video of a live case study of such product I personally sell. 

You will see how much I buy it live and how much I sell for. 

Imagine you were the first to sell any of these in Nigeria;

How much would you have made?

How rich will you be right now?

Well, before you start doing some mental financial calculation, it is not that easy – and that led to the next phase for me.

It is very likely that you are not reading about mini importation or e-commerce for the first time and it is possible that you are even into it. 

However, what I am really sure of is that amongst other challenges you may be facing or will face in your importation business, the 4 I have listed below will be toping the list and that’s why most people that do the business fail in this part of the world. 

Now that everyone is teaching and learning about mini importation and e-commerce, it has become tougher for newbies to go into it.

In fact, everyday, I receive email from people who are into this business but are not making anything good out of it and below are some of the challenges they are facing, amongst others;

1. Inability to know hot/best selling products to import
2. Market saturation for a particular product – before the newbies will bring in a hot product, the big boys have brought it in and sold like 1000 units already and cleaned mouth. By the time you bring your own in for say N10k, the product is already listed on Jumia or Jiji for N2,500. Then you will be making adverts and no sales.
3. Problem of deliveries within Nigeria and payment
4. No skill about internet or social media marketing to market and sell their imported/e-commerce products fast. In this business, SPEED is the rule of the game. Even if the profit is not much, you want to make it fast!

These 4 are the major challenges.

In fact, it was facing the number 4 challenge on the above list that led me to the Second Skill I learnt that liberated me even further in my journey to success online.

At times, we feel we know something but we do not know it enough.

In fact, knowledge about doing business online is the type you need to keep updating every day.

One of the major setbacks I faced again with mini importation and e-commerce was – Social Media Marketing.

Because I have been selling online for years, I thought I knew it all – but I was wrong.

Because of the little holiday I had when I was looking for a way out of the primary problems in my business, I did not know Facebook has changed a lot about their policies.

O NO! This period marked another very stressful period for me in my life.

These guys kept flagging my ad accounts anyhow with any little mistake. 

In fact, my ad accounts, portals and payment cards were all flagged then. 

I kept reapplying for ATM cards from GTB almost every week then claiming I lost the cards.

I also remember using other people’s cards as well – meeennn!

It’s not a good experience at all!

As if that was not enough, when they didn’t flag my account, my ads would not just perform for reasons I did not know.

At a time, I even thought it was village people … and I am really serious right now.

Like, isn’t this thing what I used to do so easily before?

What has changed???

But why will village people be following me? Do they know about Facebook again?

After all, I could see other people making it BIG with their own ads – so, why me?

I kept asking myself until I decided to seek for help from friends, Google and Youtube.

I had to start my lessons about Social Media Marketing all over again.

I bought courses, ebooks, attended physical trainings, did one-on-one, consumed a lot of youtube videos and so on.

Some were good, some were outrightly bad while some were just there.

I sieved the knowledge and took the one I needed.

I moved on and I started applying little by little.

This time, it’s like I was starting all over again but I didn’t care.

Then the turnaround came at last!

I was not getting a good result because my knowledge about Social Media Marketing was simply obsolete – out of date – and I didn’t even know.

I kept fighting a battle that has been lost before even starting.

This is exactly what many people are going through in trying to sell online today.

When I started applying the new lessons I learnt, I started selling so much of my stuffs online again that I could not believe it.

CASE STUDY

OVER 200K DAILY REVENUE

With time, I started realising something very important was missing again.

Anytime I brought in a product or have anything to sell and I needed to design my advert banners or creatives, it’s always a war between my graphics designers and I.

I am sure a lot of you can relate.

If they say you will get your work in 24hours, just add “0” at the back, you will get it in 240 hours and that’s about 10 days.

Imagine you have something unique to sell and you don’t want to use the image everyone else is using? But one lazy designer is delaying you!

That’s not all, there were times I wanted to give free ebooks for my lead magnets or as an added value for my customers but creating the ebook as well as the ebook cover was a war.

As usual, I found a way to learn graphics designing as well as ebook publishing and ebook cover designing.

It was not so easy but I did it.

Today, I design all my social media creatives myself across all my social media pages.

I design my creatives, ebook covers and banners myself and this has really boosted my sales online. 

Not only that, the ability to be able to brand myself online has given me a unique opportunity to grow fast. 

The amazing thing I have found out after learning these 3 basics skills of mini importation/e-commerce, social media marketing and graphics/ebook designing is that – it has made succeeding with every other online business so easy for me.

Except you want to start duping people online, there is no other way to make it online than giving values, i.e. selling something – it could be a physical product or a service.

And to do this, you need to learn how to market online – especially, social media marketing. 

To get something to sell (going by the way of physical products which is way easier for newbies), you also need to learn how to get something really hot and fast-moving to sell.

For you to sell it properly and uniquely, you need to learn about creative designing.

This is where I pity newbies that want to start achieving success online and then going to start from the top – the advanced level!

The rate of failure will be so high of course because no one will sit you down to tell you that you need some basic skills before you can make it in the business they are marketing – they will tell you that;

How many of such lies have you bought into?

Truth is – if you ask those selling those stuffs to you, they did not make it as newbies with ZERO knowledge or just knowing how to copy and paste alone.

They have been hustling and learning some skills and failing over time before jamming their own jackpot online.

It does not happen the way they make you see it.

So, you need to give yourself brain if you don’t want to keep enriching other people while you remain broke and broken!

It’s not even about the money now!

I have been able to regain my entrepreneurial self-confidence.

I have been able to relaunch myself and my businesses with the right set of knowledge and skills.

I have learnt my lessons as well.

Now, even if I am not running my own businesses;

Today, I have thriving businesses in different sectors ranging from e-commerce, production, natural health and wellness, beauty, business/SME consultancy, training and so on. 

Now, I am a highly sought-after speaker and trainer on business, investment, leadership, youth and organisational development.

I get hired by different Corporate Organisations, NGOs, Higher Institutions and so on to facilitate trainings on topics relating to entrepreneurship and business development.

I recently featured in the FATE Foundation Aspiring Entrepreneur Program (AEP), training about 40 entrepreneurs on Entrepreneurship 101 and Business Model Canvas (BMC). 

Each of the trainings was a full day class. 

See pictures below;

This means I have one or two things I can show you too when it comes to building a profitable business online and offline. 

If you allow me, I am ready to open your eyes to the 3 important skills and opportunities that can liberate you too and launch you into success fast, no matter your level of expertise right now.

I do not know how much you have tried to make it online without success.

I do not know how much money you have spent or wasted in trying to survive as an online entrepreneur. 

As for me, I know what I went through. 

I know how this struggle almost ruined me financially – but I’m happy today that I had the opportunity to retrace my steps, started again the right way and now winning. 

So, in your own case, what are you willing to do now?

How much will your life change if you are able to learn;

1. How to import good quality products at very cheap prices and sell them at higher prices online?
2. How to promote and sell anything online the easiest and the most profitable way?
3. How to render creative design services to individuals and businesses online, do it at ZERO cost in less than 10 minutes and charge them like 5k, 10k, 20k or more?

• Have you been hearing about E-COMMERCE/MINI IMPORTATION and how profitable it is but never had the opportunity to learn about it?
• Have you gotten your fingers burnt with e-commerce/mini-importation by learning from those who don’t even do it?
• Perhaps, the inability to determine hot selling product to import has been a great challenge for you?
• Do you have products. services or offers that you have been struggling to market and sell on Facebook or Instagram?
• Have you been getting your Facebook Ad account banned because you keep violating Facebook ad policies?
• Have you seen how others make money with Facebook and Instagram ads but you always wished that’s you making the money?
• Have you always desired to learn how to create beautiful ad banners and creatives for your products and services but the graphics designers are billing you fees you can’t afford?
• Have you always wished you knew how to design beautiful Ebook covers?

IF YOUR ANSWER TO ANY OF THE ABOVE IS YES…

In this intensive course, where I teach you everything you need to know about;

1. E-commerce/Mini Importation
2. Social Media Marketing (Facebook and Instagram)
3. Graphics Design (including ebook cover design)

WITH…

With any of the 3 SKILLS that I will be teaching you in this course.

I hold nothing back from you!

Any of these 3 skills ALONE can liberate you financially if you know how.

Not even to say when you learn all the 3 from someone who does not just teach but practices what he teaches.

As the founder of strictlybusiness.ng, the 3 skills I teach in this Masterclass are some of the same skills I use to make money online daily as you have seen in the video above!

Social Media Marketing

Have you ever seen an advert of a product or service online where the advertiser is getting a lot of orders and you wish that’s you?

With my Social Media Marketing training, I will pour out all my knowledge of digital marketing of over 5 years into your head.

You will be able to avoid all the mistakes I have made and move straight to profits mode like most of my students.

With my Social Media Marketing Course, you will be able to place profitable ads o both Facebook and Instagram to sell whatever you want – whether products on services.

Social Media Marketing Course Module

Plus extra tips on how not to get your Facebook Ad Account Banned.

If you account has already been banned, you will learn the simple strategy I have used to get myself multiple Ad accounts legally with Facebook. 

Learning Outcome

Read What Some of the Participants of My  Course Have to Say About Me and My Social Media Marketing Training Below;

You can’t get it better from anyone or anywhere else!