Imagine our mobile shop at your door step
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| The chocker and the big necklace are from the Maasai tribe in Kenya |
One of the thrills of being a hawker-A person who travels about selling goods, typically advertising them by shouting -I mostly shout through social media-facebook, twitter, instagram and now working on ways to venture onto the video sharing platform You Tube and horn my arrival in the arts and craft market- is that, you get to interact with your customers at a personal level.
They are able to share with you their ideas of how they would like their piece of traditional, western items be made. With custom made products, my customers have the freedom to design their piece, choose size, color and length. Of course the higher the demand of work spent on an item, the higher the price of that particular items. The other expensive staff in my shop currently is the Maasai jewellery. These are originally made in Kenya apart from their artistic beauty that makes them worth the price, they travel from far to get to us in fact according to Google the distance between South Africa and Kenya is about 4816km and 67 hours drives that is about 2 and half day on the road.
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| An invite from MTN Head Office staff in Johannesburg, South Africa |
My friend shared a bit about why I would be helping her and the team if I came to with my shop to their offices. I remember, they booked a boardroom table for display and in minutes we had people surrounding the tables and looking excitedly at the items we had brought. There in my first visit, I notice some of the people who were keen to buy did not have cash on them. Going to the ATM would chow a lot of time for them as they were also pressed against time. But I noted the lack and need to have a speed machine so that people can just swipe products they want. It took me months before I could finally invest in a speed point and so happy that things will now be easier for both my customer and me.
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| This speedpoint machine will make all the difference in my business. But I am happy that I have finally made the decision. It is hard to ignore that esistand siyakhula. Ewe sifundile lol!. With this machine the mobile shop- a door to door service which we offer our clients who are based in Johannesburg central and northern clients when they buy over the price of R1000- will also function smoothly. This area and servicing cooperates are still need to grow, so far we have had MTN and Mango Airlines staff booking us to sell. |
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| One of the international visitors at the MTN headoffice. She was amongst a group that attended training in the company |
To book the Mobile shop is easy and it has financial benefits too. Lets say you and your friends or colleague went through our catalogue and liked what you saw. You can total the amount of your item together, if the sales are R1000, the person who book us will get 10% of that money back. Should your colleagues spend more than the initial order of R1000, you still get the 10% of the total sales made that hour or two. Soon after we total the money made through your efforts, we give you 10% of it back. So if lets say, our sales are R5000 in total. You will get R500 cash back.
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| MTN staff trying a dramatic piece Please note, one of the reasons we ask for the order to be at least R1000, is for us to be able to cover amongst other things, petrol and pay our casual workers who are only called when we need assistance. |
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| This Wakanda Godess piece has been a hit. The other way of making money through us, is when you buy our items for resale in other towns your own area. I'm sure by now you have noticed that most of our items are much cheaper that the prices in the market already. Please note the quality of all the items is of high standard. We can even claim that we meets the international standards when it comes to our products. But our prices are still lower. One of the reasons for this is that we also cater for the people-majority women- who by in bulk from us and resale in their areas. Their buying price is much lower than a walk in customer. |
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| This piece was won in Nigeria recently, again another MTN staff If you also want to start this, it is easy, tell us in advance the items you need. Give us a few days to make and we will post them to you using, Pick n Pay Aramx, Post Office and even the bus services. We still making inquiry on transporting our goods out of South Africa as we have had inquiries as far as Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe about shipping. |
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| Mango airline staff, trying our Ndebele neck piece The cooperate gigs normally last for less than one hour most. |
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| A MTN staff with our bags |
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| Mango Airline staff trying to choose from the variety of jewellery we had for them. To book our mobile shop or buy in bulk for resale please call us on 0763607744 follow us on twitter on ndabenik facebook Ndabeni Creatives Instagram Khanyiswa2 |
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