Mistakes Small Business Make: Mistakes in business are something very normal. When it comes to starting a business and managing it, it can take a toll on anyone even when you may feel well prepared, and that could lead to mistakes if not handled well. 

  When starting a business, mistakes should be part of the general things that small business owners should prepare for because a mind that is ready to accept that mistakes are natural would definitely be ready to learn from them and fix them as soon as they do.

 3 common mistakes small business make.

Nevertheless, there are mistakes that can be avoided by learning from other businesses and very common mistakes. With knowledge of these, common mistakes can be prevented when starting and managing a small business.

   Let’s talk about three common mistakes that make many small startup businesses and how they could be prevented.

 Lack of market research.

It’s extremely alarming the rate at which a percentage of small business owners dive into a new business without doing their research on the market they are delving into. Depending on friends and family to give you an insight into what that business entails should be secondary. Market research is more complex and isn’t something that should be rushed due to excitement.

 Solution:

Before starting a new business venture, you as an owner need to take responsibility to do market research yourself. In this age and time, researching a market has become easy because of the advent of the internet and social media. So taking the time to look through your industry and write down your findings, make comparisons with different sellers and analyze your findings. The next blog post will be extensively on marketing. So you’ll have a better insight. 

    No Business Plan

Naturally after making a market research, making a business plan comes next. Using the analytics from the market research. The initial idea a business owner gets about his/her business is usually just the spark and motivation into getting that business started. Making a business plan though is what assures the kickoff and stability of that business.

 Solution:

  A lot of business owners feel they have made a business plan, just right of getting the idea and it is what leads to numerous mistakes in the business that eventually leads to the failure of the business. The secret to making a business plan is to use the research findings of the market research. 

Failing to invest in marketing

Absolutely no product or service just sells itself. Every business, old or new needs marketing of some kind.  The mistakes new businesses make is that they mostly do not invest enough in marketing. While drafting out a business plan, the financial aspect included, making room for marketing should be a top priority, marketing could take 2% to 20% of the financial revenue, of course this all depends on the industry of the business. 

Solution:

There are  easy steps like social networking, SEOs that should also not be disregarded, as easy as they are, they help ramp up any business. Social Media marketing, such as Instagram and Facebook ads are great platforms to carry out marketing and these platforms allow you get creative.

Mistakes Small Business Make

 Steps To Get Your Daily Tasks Done: Ever wanted to get a plumber to fix your sink, or a makeup artist to fix you up from the comfort of your home but find it incredibly hard or just impossible? We definitely know how incredibly difficult it is to find service providers that can deliver a home service that is efficient and well-vetted. 

That is why we have provided these five easy Steps To Get Your Daily Tasks Done;

STEP 1:

PICK DESIRED SERVICE(S)

   Head on to your browser and type in https://www.vhjobs.com/classics  . You are presented with the vhjobs home page, here you can navigate to find whatever service you intend to hire. Do you want a hairstylist, or a manicurist, a fumigator, a plumber? You need to get that task (tasks) done as quickly as possible. Find our vetted professionals under the various services we provide and make your pick.

STEP 2:

SELECT A PACKAGE

      After selecting your preferred service(s) you move on to selecting a package. Depending on what you want, there are various packages to select from. 

STEP 3:

SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT

  You then fill a form after selecting your package, you input your details and then schedule an appointment with your service provider. This appointment will have the preferred date and time you want your service provider to meet up with. 

STEP 4:

MAKE PAYMENT

  Paystack is one of Nigeria’s secured online payments. With this platform, you have various options for payment, like; “payment with card”, ” bank transfer”, “USSD” and many more and they are all secure, definitely not compromising your bank information.

STEP 5:

RELAX

After making payments, sit and watch the efficiency of Vhjobs service providers. We deliver as promised.

There you have it! Five easy steps to get your daily tasks done and not one step requires you stressing over where to find service providers or stressing over their possible efficiency. Make those few clicks and let us take over. (Wink)

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How To Get Clients

How To Get Clients: In a perfect world, the marketplace would be easy-going and customers would find sellers and service providers easily, there would be no doubts or competition, just sales, and more sales.

As much as every new seller has imagined this and would want this, we really don’t live in a perfect world, this is why when it comes to reaching the goal of getting clients and securing more profits for yourself in the marketplace, there are some steps that need to be taken for that to happen. 

Go Digital

  A lot of new entrepreneurs these days think starting a business is the hardest part, so after they launch their business they relax and get lazy. Being a seller means knowing your market and your competitors.

To increase your clients you have to know the common things that your potential clients like, where they are, what they mostly do!. Because it is no longer by owning a store or getting an office space.

With the internet, especially social media, you as a business owner can can make a lot of moves. You only need to do a market survey, check out your competitors online not to be envious of them but to learn.

Utilize social media, if you do not have enough knowledge on how to increase your customers and increase sales for your business, hire a professional digital marketer, and watch social media do its magic.

Discounts! Discounts!! Discounts!!!

 Being a new business is exciting and nerve-wracking, so to make sure your launch attracts potential customers. Do a little slash of the price for a particular number of your first customers or even for all your customers, you could get the discounts running for a few days, just enough time for word to spread about you.

    Discounts can be very effective especially when the customers know that product(service) usually goes for a higher price, so it definitely motivates them to buy more and to tell more people. So never underestimate the power of discounts.

Spread The Word

  As old fashioned as we all see it, it is definitely still as effective as it is old!. Never stop talking about your business, find ways to create compelling content that suggests your business every time. Tell a friend to tell a friend, suggest ways your business could help (try not being rude or intrusive).

Talk about it so much that when people see you coming, they refer to you as the person that owns this business, they’d say stuff like; ‘Anh! Na that Makeup Artist o’ or change your name to what you do ‘We invited Oga Caterer’. When people start doing this it’s because they identify YOU as YOUR business. So make sure to never stop spreading the word.

In the next blog post, we will be sharing more tips on how to get customers and increase sales for new businesses. Remember knowing it isn’t enough, so put in the work.

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