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Land snails enjoy plants, fungi, algae, and fruits. They particularly love watermelons. Experiment with different types of vegetables such as lettuce, dandelion greens, cucumbers, and carrots to see what your snails enjoy eating. Please note that once the food begins to rot, you should discard it and introduce fresh ones.
Did you know that Moringa leaves are also very good for snails?
No, snail farming is not labor-intensive. Snails are generally neat animals and farming them is not as laborious as other livestock.
It is essential to give serious consideration to the environment where you build the pen for your snailry. Snails go into dormancy if they are not in ideal environments. An ideal location would be a way to, if not out-rightly prevent, at least reduce dormancy in your stock.
When a snail gets sick, they usually do not want to eat. They most times produce bubbles from their mouth.
You can tell by inspecting the edge of the snail sole. Snails will no longer grow once their sole becomes firm. It means they have reached maturity and would not grow any bigger.
The first step is to understudy and understand your competitors; what their service offerings are, and what their strengths and weaknesses are. Once you know these things, then you decide if you want to fight or flee.
If you intend fighting, then offer the same services to a market segment they may not be able to attend to due to the sheer size, then dominate that segment with products or services that do not currently offer.
If you intend fleeing, then stay clear of their service offerings.
According to Wikipedia, dropshipping is a supply chain management method in which the retailer does not keep goods in stock but instead transfers the customer orders and shipment details to either the manufacturer, another retailer, or a wholesaler, who then ships the goods directly to the customer. As in retail business, the majority of retailers make their profit on the difference between the wholesale and retail price, but some retailers earn an agreed percentage of the sales in commission, paid by the wholesaler to the retailer.
Yes, dropshipping works in Nigeria. We do have a lot of people dropshipping in Nigeria, and also drop shipping from Nigeria to other countries.
Dropshipping in Nigeria is actually a very plausible venture; the issue is that most Nigerians do not know how to get started.
With the number of wholesalers in Nigeria, it is actually a worthy venture and more cost-effective to go into dropshipping in Nigeria than to join the importation and wholesale bandwagon.
Yes, Shopify works in Nigeria. I actually just started a new site today on Shopify, through Oberlo. I should get it working in no time. You may wish to check it out – Ourbabybasket. My plan with the site is to ship items into Nigeria, and also ship Nigeria baby ready items to other countries.
Read the entire content of this article and you should be in a position to start your business. I have taken the time out to list how much it would cost you to start dropshipping business in Nigeria. Please go to the section below.
Yes, read my article on putting structures in place to help your businesses, here.
On tools, you would need some scrapper tools to fetch you the winning products to enable you know the right products to sell, read more on my article section for tools.
300% (Three hundred percent) is the expected Return on Investment (ROI) on bottled water business.
Until recently, industry analysts have opined that profits, after all the production, packaging and advertising costs are taken into account, mostly stands at about 40 percent, but with the recent climate change, and other factors like the ban on Okada riders in most part of Nigeria, profit margin on bottled water business is expected to be at about 60% depending on other operational efficiencies put into the business.
Take note however, that you make more returns on producing large sized bottles than producing normal table size bottles.
