The MyTreda Journal
Practical tips and strategies to help Nigerian traders manage their business better, track debts, and grow their profits.
Your shop has a padlock, burglary proof and maybe a night guard, and it holds stock. Your phone holds your customers, your money and your records, and most traders leave it wide open.
You have run your shop for years. If someone asked what you earn from it, could you answer? Most traders cannot, and it is not because they are doing badly. It is because of how the money is arranged.
The customer asked for price, got "DM," then silence for three hours. By the time you sent your account number they had bought elsewhere. Here is how to fix the buying process, not the marketing.
You know roughly what you sold. You know your prices. So where is the money? Most of the time it was not stolen. It left in forty small pieces, and every one of them made sense at the time.
Running out on 20 December and still holding Christmas stock in February are the same mistake. Here is how the Nigerian trading year actually moves, and when to buy for each season.
A step-by-step guide for Nigerian shop owners: how to get your business on Google Maps for free, what Google's video verification actually asks for, and the one thing that stops most traders before they start.
Tired of juggling exercise books, WhatsApp and memory? Here's how Nigerian SMEs manage sales, stock and debt properly, without hiring an accountant.
Nigerian business owners who pay well still get stolen from. Here's why salary alone doesn't stop theft, and what actually does.
An honest comparison of MyTreda, Vendloop, Klakpad Sella and Zoho for Nigerian traders: what each costs, and who they actually fit.
Staff theft is one of the biggest silent killers of Nigerian trader businesses. Here's how to spot it, prove it, and build a system that makes it nearly impossible.
Running a provision shop in Lagos is fast money, but only if you manage it properly. Here's a complete guide to stock, sales, expiry dates, staff, and profit for Nigerian provision shop owners.
Paper records are costing Nigerian traders real money, lost to theft, rain, bad memory, and dishonest apprentices. Here's why, and what actually works instead.
Selling on credit doesn't have to cost you sleep or money. Here's a practical system for tracking customer debts, following up without awkwardness, and getting paid.
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