Author: Uko Mfonobong
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Do This to Price Your Product Properly as a Business Owner
Pricing is one part of business that new business owners tend to get wrong. You’ve found a great idea, you know people will buy from you, how you set your prices is what will make or break your business, whether you like it or not. Here are two rules of thumb to help you get…
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How to Stop Losing Sleep and Still Make Sales
There’s a special kind of excitement that comes when someone sends you: “How much is this?” Or… “Do you have this in blue?” Before you know it, you’re replying to dozens of messages, answering the same questions over and over again, and you even lose track of time. The funny thing is, those conversations feel…
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How to Create Your Online Store on Stores
Creating your online store on Stores is where your business journey really begins, because from this one place, you can do it all. Build your store, add your products, and ship your first order in under 5 minutes. Yes, five minutes. How much easier can it get? In this article, I’ll walk you through it…
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What Vendors Get When They Sign Up on Stores (A Guide for Partners)
If you’re referring people to Stores as a content creator sharing your link, a logistics company routing merchants your way, an agency setting up stores for clients, or a vendor referring other business owners, you’re offering them a real solution. A solution to one of the biggest problems small businesses face, logistics. The Problem You’re…
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The Issue of Logistics for Small and Medium Businesses in Nigeria
Across Nigeria, business owners keep running into the same wall: logistics. Sometimes a customer can’t afford to receive their order because the delivery fee costs more than the product itself. This usually comes down to distance, the farther a customer is from the vendor, the more they pay to get their item delivered. When that…
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How to Become a Partner and Turn Your Audience Into Recurring Income
Logistics is booming. More businesses are springing up every day, and many of them want to reach customers beyond their local area, or simply ship goods without the usual stress. But not every logistics company can handle that. It takes experience, reliability, and a real understanding of what business owners actually need. That’s where Parcelflow…
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How to Receive Payment in Different Currencies on Stores
More Nigerians in diaspora are looking for authentic products from home, and global consumers are increasingly discovering and falling in love with Nigeria’s unique offerings. This is fast becoming a trend. Data from the NIS’s Migration Information Data Analysis System (MIDAS) shows that 3,679,496 Nigerians left the country in the last three years. As more…
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How to Ship to Nigeria from the UK for Small Businesses
Getting your goods directly to your customers is the backbone of running a business, and if you can’t do this well, you limit your business’s capacity to scale. Tolu recently relocated to London and runs a beauty business, selling skincare products to her customers back home in Abuja. She got her fingers burnt trusting a…
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9 Ways Stores Help Vendors Build a Shop and Ship Products EasilyÂ
Adaeze woke up to 98 unread WhatsApp messages including orders, complaints, and delivery issues. She ran an advert two days ago, and the link led to her WhatsApp DM. Now she needs to attend to all these issues before noon. However, by noon, she had missed 10 urgent sales and refunded 8 customers for an…
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6 Best Delivery Companies in Nigeria (+best use cases)Â
If you run a business in Nigeria, you already know how important it is for customers to receive their products in good time and in the right conditions. Therefore, choosing a delivery company that suits your business and its demands is just as important. This straight-to-the-point article is meant to help you choose the best…