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The market is really shrinking, I am not talking about the financial market. Maybe I should throw some hints into that too. It is not also favorable anyway. Many things are happening with a lot of sieving. Much of it may be attributed to President Donald Trump's moves to revamp the Us economy. There is a bloodbath in the crypto-space in the process. Bitcoin has left all-time high positions soaring above 100K to positions dropping near 75K.
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Indeed a shocker, when the strong man is tired down, the entire  house is left for plundering. You should see what I mean from the image above and looking down at the follow up image below, there is indeed a rollercoaster. For the past one month, there has indeed been no breathing space fr bitcoin. The highest according to this source is 88K. I know! I know!! No cause for panic, we have been here before. Markets die down to rise again. Easy to say and very difficult to put into action. We keep repeating our fears and annulling history only to end up in 'had I known'.
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So, what's your opinion, buy the dip or pull out, you've had enough. Hive and Leo token is down. Personally, I never expected Leo r to dip below $0.015 cents. That's the market for you. Anyway, it also presents an opportunity.

That was by the way, my concerns today is about how high cost is turning customers to sourcers. What do I mean here? Ok, let's begin from where it all started, the Nigerian economy is becoming a hot wire for entrepreneurs. You have to strategize and restrategize to meet up. The market is really shrinking, finding a customer base to do business daily is a big task now for entrepreneurs. Remember, everyday you don't meet targets, it does not elude expenses. It's always a funny thing how expenses are a constant in business; be careless about it and you will end up in bankruptcy.

I am having some issues balancing business requests and enquiries. The best way to run a successful delivery is to be handed over everything from scratch. I he reverse is the case now. Entrepreneurship has hierarchy, we have the producer/manufacturers, middle men, local sellers and final consumers. I happen to fall in between  'the middle and local sellers. What I am saying here is that for instance, in the case of branding, we do not produce the T-shirts but have to order them from big manufacturing companies to service our customers. 
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What then happens when customers decide to buy directly from manufacturers/producers?. How did it get here? Cost cutting is in the minds of everyone. Running a successful occasion is becoming very difficult, the cost of pulling one out is very high. Customers have to find ways to make sure they meet up with their little budgets. It is not that they actually enjoy the process but because they don't have much. I am also understanding this with them yet it comes with consequences. The entrepreneurial market will be shrinking causing a lot who are in the middle and retailer region to fade off.

This leads to another high rate of unemployment, something we are working to resolve at the moment. I just feel our government should understand more about what is currently at stake. If the Small and and Medium scale market dies out we are going to enter into a lot of troubles. I don't need to be a professor of economic to predict this. 
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The entire solution is to revamp the economy to a point where affordability is a standard of living. I was just discussing with a client and she talked about the rumored idea of introducing N5000 as a note. It has been a proposal that has been pending for long. While I am thinking of how the country's highest denomination should be N500 naira or even less, this guys are aiming higher to create more economic troubles. How will this fit in with balancing market price with USD?

To conclude, let me add, there are so many inconveniences going on in the Nigerian economy. Ofcourse, there is no place currently where the economy is settling yet others seem to be too ahead. I am just imagining how things will turn out for upcoming entrepreneurs in this country. Will it end up a waste venturing into it. If it is, how unsafe will the entire country be with high level of unemployment?.






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