Welcome to Frontier Ideas NG.
Here, we break down uncommon but high-potential business ideas designed for the Nigerian environment: agriculture, logistics, local industry, health services, education and more
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@Ol0ye Attention is great for virality. Knowledge still builds economies, health & power.
Modern visibility (via social media) makes popular entertainers more prominent, but it doesn't prove a societal shift away from knowledge
Visible trends ≠ civilizational collapse.
The next time you go to Computer Village in Lagos, pay attention to something.
There are guys at the entrance.
They'll ask you, "Bros, wetin you wan buy?"
You tell them. They take you to a shop. Then they disappear.
What most people don't know is...
Before those guys brought you to that shop, they had already agreed with the seller that whatever you spend, they get a percentage.
Some of those guys make ₦15,000 or more in a single day.
That's close to ₦500,000 a month.
They don't have a shop.
They don't have a warehouse.
They don't own a single product.
They just connect people who want something with people who have it. And they collect a commission.
This is one of the oldest business models in the world.
Uber does it. They don't own cars.
Airbnb does it. They don't own houses.
Amazon does it by connecting customers to vendors.
None of them own what they sell.
They just own the connection.
And the beautiful thing is you don't have to stand under the sun on a street in Lagos to do the same thing.
You can do it from your bedroom.
1. Find a hot product people want and are willing to pay for.
2. Promote it.
3. Get paid.
It's that simple.
If you're interested, I've shown over 30,000 people how to do this, and I've seen many of them change their lives with it.
You can find out how by clicking on the link in my bio.
@ick_real Start saving and Investing a little bit of money. Aim to grow it as large as you can. I am not making any promises here. Just treat it as though it were a game.
Cocoa is now down to N2500 per kg in ipele.
Markets today were a bloodbath. Demand has collapsed. Crop processors are enjoying a bonanza
Coconuts dropped from N700 to N300 each
Traders begged buyers to collect plantains on credit to avoid spoilage
Value addition is king! 👑
There’s an unfair advantage to become crazily successful that many people simply neglect.
Think about this:
Herbert Wigwe & Aig founded Access Bank. Before that they were directors at GTB.
Before Moniepoint became a unicorn, the founders had worked at another unicorn called Interswitch.
Before Steve Jobs started apple, he had interned at HP.
Coincidence? No.
Exposure is an unfair advantage.
Do everything you can in this life to get into rooms where your dreams are the norm for the people there.
See what is possible.
Get into those circles by any legal means necessary.
You’ll never be the same. Something will rob off on you.
Yesterday I needed to replace a headlamp in my car.
The mechanic was very polite and kept apologizing about how expensive things are these days.
Later, I checked the actual price of the headlamp and realized I’d been overcharged.
And the funny part is even if he had charged me twice that amount, I would still have paid.
That moment made me reflect on how often we underprice ourselves, not because people can’t pay, but because we judge their ability to pay through the lens of our own situation.
It’s the same reason many of us hesitate to go after bigger goals.
We evaluate what’s possible using the limitations in our lives now.
This is why you must move with winners, when you see what is possible - you will want to attain it too.
I remember helping a video editor friend of mine some time ago. He targets churches that have low social presence.
So we would use Google maps to manually compile a list of all the churches within a specific location + Nigeria.
Let’s say Ontario Canada + Nigeria. Then send them personalised emails with an offer one after the other.
It didn’t take long he employed over 5 staff and launched a training.. Your skill can build you generational wealth if you learn this sales & marketing i keep talking about. ❤️ GM 🙌🏽
In 2024
People abused me here on X when I said Nigeria will lead the African AI race
Because we will have the biggest data centres in Africa.
People who don't know how data centres are run were asking lane questions like " with which electricity?" As if any big data center in the world uses their national grid
It's so sad to see that many Nigerians are blatantly pessimistic about the growth of Nigeria.
MTN will rival starlink - Abuse me
Nigeria will lead African AI - Abuse me
In 10 years Nigerian states will improve by far - Abuse me
When I tweet " Nigeria is dead and has no hope of growth" - You applaud me
Are you people sane in the mind?
Why do you so much want your country to be destroyed or be useless?
There was a point in my career when I wasn’t sure if I should accept a certain gig.
So I reached out to someone I respect on this space and he said just one thing: “Look at your current situation.”
That was all I needed.
I took the project, delivered it, and before launch the client asked us to build the V2.
Now I get paid 3× for adding just a few features to the V1 I built on a small budget.
Sometimes you don’t need perfect conditions you just need to start somewhere.
I enrolled a girl from unilag to handle my biz while I was away. I paid them what you guys are paying now for graduate back in 2018. COVID came and we went under the bus. I helped her dust her CV and she got a job in à bank. Next year, she took a loan for me to restart biz
Morning everyone 👋
I took my suit to the cleaners, who wanted to charge me £20. I gave my suit to the charity shop next door. They cleaned and pressed it and put it in the window. I bought it for £4.50! 😂
@FrontierIdeasNG@gkbalogs i like how you're focusing on solving real problems for smes. it's crucial to identify those daily headaches and find efficient ways to overcome them.