My name is Uti Peace and just a few months back I was exactly like you. In fact if broke-ness was a person, it was ME

And here is my story...

"I would rather die than sell my body for money", I screamed as I ran out of my friend's room crying like someone who had just been beaten up by Edo cultists.

Did I just say, my friend?... No, he wasn't, well before the incident I thought he was.

His name is Joshua but I called him Jay. I met Jay in the church I attended in school. Jay was my Christian brother. One I would run to whenever I was depressed or having any challenge and he would preach to me and give me some bible verses to help me through my trying times. I told bro Jay every single thing about myself.

He knows I'm from a struggling family and could barely keep up with basic needs like food. It was that bad but became worse in 2020 during the lockdown plus the ASUU strike.

I couldn't go home because my dad was in serious debt due to many businesses that went wrong and every day was drama with different angry clients.

My mum would cry endlessly every night. I always heard her. I couldn't bare the sight seeing her cry so bitterly and that's why I decided to go back to Uyo where I school to maybe "find something to do"

I tried everything I could think of. I started helping a neighbor sell beans and he would pay me 1k at the end of each workday. 1k ooooo, azin one thousand naira.

I didn't complain because it was better than doing nothing not until the day I was accused of theft. My boss misplaced 12,500 and accused me of taking it. I've never been that embarrassed all my life. I couldn't defend myself so I had to repay the money I didn't take with the little money I managed to save up.

I cried my eyes out.
It was really tough for me.

Since offline wasn't working quite well, I decided to try some of the online gigs I'd been hearing about. To be honest, I didn't have money for any capital so what I did was to help some people advertise their products on my WhatsApp status and if I get lucky and someone buys, I get paid 15% commission.

Lol, yes what you're thinking is correct
I was doing suffer head method of affiliate marketing

I didn't last in it because I was tired of people asking "how much" and when you tell them the price, they will say "I will get back to you" and disappear forever. It was frustrating.

Mteeeeeeeew.
On top of my many pains, oga landlord was on my neck as my house rent had expired for over 7 weeks.

I didn't know what to do. I cried out to bro Jay, my supposed Christian brother who I thought would maybe help me or lend me some money and he had the guts to suggest that I give his boss a try
His boss?
Somebody that clearly wants to sleep with me and use me?... God forbid

I refused his offer though the amount he was offering was mouth-watering but I was raised better.

In fact, one of my principles Is that "I WILL RATHER STRESS MY BRAIN THAN OVERWORK MY PUSSY"

I no dey form hard girl. I will do anything for money but selling my body is not on the list.

One night I was scrolling through Facebook (thanks to *406#, MTN night sub plan), and I saw a post by one random guy saying "If you want to learn how to make 100-300k monthly, type I AM INTERESTED in the comment section and I will DM you"

When I saw the post, I first laughed, followed by a very long Buhari - befitting hiss. In my mind, I said " Na them, scammers everywhere"

I scrolled past but the poverty in me said "Why not try it, who knows?".....then I scrolled back and reluctantly typed I AM INTERESTED and by the time I woke up the next morning, I saw a long text explaining a business model called E-commerce

Mumu me, I read and ignored the chat till after like 7 months. See ehhhh village people are real o

I saw an old friend posting flashy lifestyles way dey enter eyes upandan on Facebook. I asked him to show me the way and when he finally replied me (unto big boys level na) he told me all he did was basically to import cheap products from overseas and sell them online.

Ah ah
Just like that?
And you bought a Lexus worth 4.5M at just 23?
Omooooo

Think I'm making this up?
His name is Vincent David, you can check him out if you want to

That was the day I swore that I would do all it takes to learn about e-commerce and that was when I remembered the chat I ignored over 6 months ago.

See ehnnn...may you not be standing face to face with your breakthrough and not recognize it. Better say Amen o

Kai, if only I had known

Anyways, it wasn't late

I started reading, learning, researching, buying courses, and implementing.....2 and half months down the line I made my first 730k
It would have been less than 2 months oo, but I went through hell before I was able to raise the money to import my first product and I will show you how it happened.

See ehnnn, ignorance is truly a disease. Worse than corona and Ebola

I learned to play my cards right and soon I realized that most of the people who post big figures aren't lying after all. I just had a small mind, a mind of lack

I thought making 100k monthly was a scam but here I was, making 730k in gross profit on my first trial
,
Tell me a soap greater than this

I cried at the possibility that stood before me all this while without me being aware of it.

After my first hit, all that came out of my mouth was "FACEBOOK NA WINCH".....In fact I am tempted to want to call Mark Zuckerberg a beast

Like whatttttttttt???
Nigerians can actually pay over 20k for a product even in this Tinubu scarcity regime?
Amazing!!!,

This is the reason I put together THE 0 - 1M ECOMM ROADMAP