Startup HalfHour

The best time to start is NOW! Mary Joseph, a final year student in the Communication Arts department of the University of Uyo, talks about her redefined thrift collection startup, which she began as a second-year student. 

With all the money it takes to bring a new product or service to market, it's foolhardy to rush headlong into one.

Push marketing is simply a strategy in which a startup or company like yourself attempts to take its products to consumers. Although most startups seek to establish and nurture relationships with their customers or clients, push marketing is more concerned with gaining an immediate sale than with fostering relationships. The host @francisonuk gives insights on how startup founders can create a strategy.

As a startup player in the street food style restaurant, Charles Bassey Archibong started his business during the lockdown and has grown it to two outlets with plans to expand to the capital city in the coming months. He shares what keeps him going, tips and advice to others thinking of starting out.

We look at the last 3 years of the show, getting reviews from our listeners as well as the team.

Dreaming of starting a project or an idea is very easy. In fact, a lot of people do this every day but starting out can be quite hard particularly if it is your first time.

Ekemini Ita went past dreaming to start up her food product sales business and she shares her journey and tips to GETTING PAST DREAMING to STARTING OUT NOW with the host Francis Onuk today on the show for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs.

In this episode, the host Francis Onuk discusses with Vicky Bon where she shares an insight into how she started writing stories from her secondary school days, transitioned to being a storyteller on Facebook, and focuses on skincare business while using Storytelling as a powerful yet passionate way to tell stories about her products. 

Structuring helps entrepreneurs not to burn out.

Structuring involves;

1. Who is helping me make money? 

-what competencies am I looking for in my staff

2. who is helping me save money?

3. who is helping me have a name and look good?

structuring helps you build teams.....you can't give free roles and expect good results.

Structuring helps in the day to day running of businesses. When everyone knows their roles business will run smoothly. 

Have a vision, without this you can't raise a structure

See ehn, whether you open business for one unique industry or market wey plenty people dey sell the same thing, e dey very important to separate yourself from others so that you go win more people.

Utonne Ekefre wey be the Queen of Shoes go tell you how entrepreneurs go find a specific business niche to target and modify their market strategy to accommodate that audience with Francis Onuk wey be the host.

Having to get things all set before one can startup an idea or business most times leads to procrastination. It is popularly said that one has to make sure that everything is alright before doing something important hence the popular saying Look before your Leap.

Michael Umanah, an engineer & startup founder discusses the opposite of the saying - LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK: Starting out quickly

The baking industry has seen a rise in young persons starting out there. But apart from just mixing and getting barter, founders need to learn how to grow their business as well as leverage current trends in the industry. The life of a cake maker isn’t for everyone. It has demands and pressures like no other job.

Unyime Bonero Bassey of Bonero Cakes and events & host CAKEMANIA share his journey and some tips on starting and staying in the industry.