With time I have come to realise that you can make good bank in Nairobi with a little scheme and some smarts. I want to highlight some few examples I have observed. The key things are
— being novel to cash in quickly before people play catch up
— taking advantage of the gynormous population
— affordable pricing in order to run the numbers
The best place that suits this scenario is the downtown area. It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you can incorporate those key things at once, you will be on the way to quick, clean success, while useless, brainless, lazy men keep saying “hakuna pesa.” What fuckery for a man to utter such bitch-shit. Move with the economy and adjust. No time to complain.
Everyone has seen the ujipower biz hapo Ronald Ngala street. Nobody has ever cared to stop and glee at the ingenuity. At peak hours they wring out masses of sales. The most a single client can do is take up 20 minutes. The food business has low margins, which is offset by volume to make a good profit.
Now couple that with daily consistency, low rent (a roadside stall that is paid to kanjo, not a landlord). Bam! Of course it’s a kikuyu owned entity as per the pochi payment, so you know who is running that silent money printer, while others complain like FAT STUPID BITCHES. Although anapigwa “compe” na immediate neighbour, it is not real competition since the market is too big na hajabranch out.
On this branching out situation, let me pose the different scenario. Hawa fruit vendors who are also priced similarly to the uji power —50 bob— are a recent phenomenon. The first one alikua pale Sheikh Karume road peke yake. What if he had branched out and multiplied in the city instead of waiting for the competition to copy him?
If he was making maybe profits of 4k in a day, why wouldn’t a man be ambitious and multiply that? Heri ukue na shida ya employee theft, than competition reducing your sales and profit. Sasa they will all have to contend with an average of 2k profits per day, since some are as close to each other in a difference of 100 meters.
I don’t think unaweza kosa wasee wa mboka unawapin every cbd kona wachonge, wakate na wauze fruits (you are just the boss unazunguka all points to keep an eye on the biz). Hapo so long as umecheza na kanjo as necessary, the 2k x 20 holes ni zako daily. Becoming your own competition, instead of letting others in.
Huyo jamaa wa uji power is slacking too.
On the brighter hand, there’s lots of invisible opportunities if you look hard enough. Key word, solve the problems of the poor/broke massess, yenye haimpigi dent mfuko, utakua fity. Just like the lipa pole pole people. They are swimming in money.
That’s the real hustling in Nairobi. That’s why nikiskia mtu anatusi hawker naonanga kumbafu ingine kubwa sana imeingiza kichwa kwa haga that the analsphere has seeped into the brain.
Economy sio mbaya, akili zako ndizo mbaya!
You can add some thoughts on that . . . .
