DEBUNKING THE MYTHS SURROUNDING RECHARGE VOUCHER PRINTING

BECOME YOUR OWN BOSS 

1. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS SURROUNDING RECHARGE VOUCHER PRINTING

Sorry for my long absence. Did you miss me? Welcome to this new series of  information brought to you free of charge. in this series, you shall learn a lot about some business lines worth venturing into. Also, you shall learn from some common mistakes made by some folks when attempting to establish a business line. In this first series, your eyes shall be opened to the truth behind RECHARGE VOUCHER PRINTING, the myths, mistakes and ways of overcoming the hurdles for profit maximization.

INTRODUCTION

In this IT era, vast opportunities abound for those that really want to make it in life. The present IT revolution – invention of mobile phones and IT gadgets, has opened up a vista to the world of entrepreneurship that had hitherto been limited. Today, with minimal capital, you can virtually become your own boss, working from the comfort of your bedroom. One of these areas is RECHARGE VOUCHER PRINTING.

You have probably come across this subject on the internet. Some would promise you a “Shangri lar” world of business with neither sweat nor risk; a situation of all profit and no loss. Misinformation can be very frustrating and has been the doom of many a business. In this material, the whole truth would be opened up to you. You shall see the risks associated with this kind of business, and the common mistakes people make based ludicrous assumption, and then prepare yourself for them.

Before now, printing and selling of GSM recharge vouchers had been a business reserved exclusively for the big distributors. But now all that have changed, it’s all about who is interested. You may consider this: a recent survey showed that recharge cards are the fastest selling product in the country - only second to “pure water” consumption. With the insatiable demand for more cards each day, imagine how lucrative investing in the business could be. As such, you have no need to fear loss – the demand is never dropping, and you can always control your market.

Like every other business, it has its risks, but you can always overcome he risks by following these guidelines.

TOOLS FOR GETTING STARTED

Before you start, you’ll need a computer, printer, and software that generate the pin numbers. Or, if you do not have any of these, you can print yours with the use of an ORANGE BOX.

Your computer need not be connected to the internet. You can always go to a cyber café and copy the PINS that will be sent to your inbox from your dealer.

As for the printing, you can use colored or black and white printer. To even add variety, you can designate a particular colour of paper for each network.

When you register with a dealer, you will be given the software among other tools for this business. Some dealers do give out the software free, whereas others sell it. So, in choosing a dealer, you have to take this into consideration also. Sometimes, the softwares can be gotten free at business seminars and presentations. These softwares are always secured with a LOGIN and PASSWORD feature. However, you have to be careful if you are using a shared computer, to avoid password hacking.

On the other hand, you can print recharge vouchers without a computer or the software mentioned above. There are dealers out there that can issue you an orange box with which you can print your vouchers. This machine looks similar to those used in fast-food

centres like FOODAFFAIRS, MR. BIGGS, etc, to print receipt. This machine can operate with battery; hence you can print the recharge vouchers without electricity!

GETTING STARTED

After you had got you computer and printer ready, you can choose a Dealer around you. However, before you choose a leader, you have to look for one whose terms and conditions would be more favourable to you. Some Dealers only sell a minimum of 1000 units of pins for any particular denomination of card, whereas some may sell as low as 500 units. So you have to take cognizance of these because this would determine your startup capital.

For instance, if a Dealer’s minimum sale is 1000 units, and you would want to start with N100 MTN, then you’ll need at least N100, 000.00 as startup. Remember, in order to make maximum profit out of this, make sure you have enough startup capital hat would allow you to make a considerable profit margin. Most seminar facilitators would promise you bliss and super ordinary success with capital as low as N10, 000.00. Here, I can not promise you that. Do not be misled; misrepresentation of information can be very frustrating and is the cause of fall of many a business. You have to invest big for maximum returns. Budget a minimum of N200, 000.00 if you really want to make something out of this business.

After you have chosen your Dealer, you can then proceed to go online and register on the Dealer’s website. They will provide you with the necessary setup tools and technical advice.

You can then pay for the pins. After payment, the PINS shall be sent to your email address. Copy them and save in a Microsoft word or notepad in your flash drive or desktop. Thereafter, you can print the PINS using the software you have been provided with. The software usually has a USER GUIDE to take you through the process of printing. It is very easy to use. You may inscribe your business name on the voucher.

MARKETING

Now that you have printed the vouchers, you have to strategize means of selling off your cards. Now, you are becoming a sub dealer and a wholesaler and even a retailer (if you want to). Though recharge voucher demand is ever on the increasing, there is still some competition. You know the skepticism that follow when a new salesman tries to introduce some services or products to you. Do not fear, the market is wide open for you, and you can have an edge over other sub dealers and wholesalers that have there before you. Just follow the following tips.

Ø  First, you have to make a thorough market survey in your area.

Ø  Know the rates at which sub dealers in your area are offering their vouchers

Ø  Then try to reasonably cut your own price. For instance, if the sub dealers in your area are offering a pack of AIRTEL N100.00 in your area for N960.00, you can offer yours for N950.50. You do not lose by this. If make N3.00 per voucher, then in a month, you can make minimum of N30, 000.00 by selling 1000 vouchers (i.e. 100 packs) a month.

Ø  You can even use special paper colours for your vouchers. For MTN, you can use yellow paper, Airtel can go for pink, etc. You never tell such huge effect this strategy can have on customers.

With these, among other strategies you can come up with, retailers you would see retailers from far coming to patronize you. It is as easy as it sounds. But, you have to work really smart. You can sell as a wholesaler, or even as a retailer.

Customers will never be lacking. Millions of people buy recharge cards every day. People need to communicate, and so far, the easiest way of doing this is via phone calls. Recharge voucher unlike a perishable product that you would fear spoilage. You can sell it from the comfort of your home, office and school. As a student, you can invest in this and be making huge profits to carter for your fees, books and general maintenance. Take this move today and see your financial story change for good. Remember, “a little sleep, a little folding of the arms…, and poverty creep up on you like a highway robber.”

 

I hope you found this information useful. If you till need more information on this, like the names and address of dealers, their rates and conditions, just send comment below with your contact info. We shall reach you as soonest as possible. Thank you.

HOW TO INCREASE COMPUTER SPEED

Have you ever wondered why your computer becomes slow as the day goes by, suddenly your programs take longer time to come up, it can be really frustrating. This is caused by so much junk files in your temp folder; recycle bin, temp internet files and cookies. The second is that your computers virtual memory needs to be increased.

Just follow these simple steps to increase your computers speed:
1. Cleaning temp folder, cookies, temporary internet files, and performing disk clean up. These locations take as much as 2GB of your disk space and your ram needs to run these programs instead of running the important programs you use to for your work.

To clean up these files double click on my computer icon, drive C:, document and settings, select the user profile folder that you are using, open local settings, if you don’t see local settings click on tools menu, folder option check show hiding files and folders, click apply and then ok to show all hiding files.

By now you should see local setting folder nowOpen the folder, open the temp folder, you will see the files that it contains. To view the size of the temp folder select all files using CTR + A, right click on any file and click properties you will see the disc space that its occupying, close the property box and delete all the files. If some files refuse to delete, it may be that the computer is making use of those files at the moment, do same clean up for the temporary internet files and cookies folder, after deleting these files do same for other user profiles in your computer. When that is done you have to use the disk cleanup to clean those files from recycle bin any other location where they may be. Now click start, point your mouse to program files, and to accessories and to system tool click disk clean up.

Select the drive where you have your operating system click ok, it will scan the files and show you a dialog box, check the boxes with size above 0 kb then click ok and another dialog box will open asking you if you really want to delete these files click yes. In addition, it will clean all the location. After cleaning including recycle bin your computer should faster than before.

2. Increase your virtual memory. A virtual memory is an area of the hard disk that the computer uses as ram. If the virtual memory of your machine is low, your computer will become very slow when you try to use some application simultaneously. To increase the virtual memory of your computer will also increase your system speed, Right click on my Computer, click properties, click advance tab, click settings under performance option, click advance tab on performance option, click change, now change the number there to close or the number that the machine has. Click set, OK and closes the dialog boxes. Now restart your machine you will notice that the speed of your machine has increased.

How to partition your hard drive with FDISK

Have you ever seen a computer with one hard drive but when you boot the computer you always see two drives. This is usually done using FDISK. FDISK is a utility that let you partition your hard disk. It is also used to delete a partition.Before you can format your hard drive, you must partition it. Most drives only have a Primary partition, but that partition can be split into an Extended partition which can be further divided into Logical Drives. The C: drive is normally the Primary partition. The logical drives after that can be labeled D: E: F: etc. To partition the drive you'll need a boot disk. This disk (sometimes called a Startup Disk) will contain the FDISK utility. We recommend downloading one from bootdisk.com to match your Operating System, or you can get windows 98 bootable CD. You can use FDISK utility.

Creating Partition

Once the boot disk has been created, insert the disk and reboot. You will eventually wind up at the A:/ prompt. Type FDISK and hit enter. You will be taken to a screen with the following options: or you can use windows 98 bootable CD

1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive

2. Set active partition

3. Delete Partitions or Logical DOS Drive

4. Display partition information

5. Change current fixed drive

You will choose option one first, then when asked if you want to use the entire amount of space for this you will say Y if you have no intention of partitioning further, or N if you want to create an extended partition (recommended). Your extended partition must take up the remaining space on the disk. You will then be able to create Logical drives.

Your Primary partition should automatically be set as the Active partition. If not, you may need to go to the option 2 to designate it as such.Keep in mind that there are some restrictions on partition sizes. You may need to partition huge drives into 64 gigs or smaller.

Deleting Partitions

Before creating partitions on older drives, you will have to delete the current partitions. Backup any important data because all data will be lost after deleting a partition. To avoid losing data, you can use non-destructive partitioning software such as Partition Magic--but it's wise to backup just in case.If you have an NTFS partition on a drive FDISK will not be able to remove it. You'll probably see an error like this NTLDR is missing. Press any key to restart. You can use a utility called delpart.exe to remove the NTFS partition. This is also available at bootdisk.com.

Hard Drive Utilities

Most hard drive manufacturers include partitioning and copying software with the new drives. This will be a disk similar to a boot disk that will provide a graphical interface that walks you through the process of transferring files from one drive to another and partitioning the new disk into the FAT 32 or NTFS format. This is by far the easiest way to go. However, it is still recommended that you know the differences between a Primary, Extended and Logical drive.