There are three levels of recharge
card business and each of these level or category offers profit that is
proportional to the investment capacity.
1. Recharge Card Retailers – Retailers are recharge card business persons who buys
from wholesalers at cheaper price and sell to end users at the cards surface
price – the price written on the card. They make average of N5 per N100
denominated cards and earn total profit of N500 to N1,000 daily.
This type of recharge card business is best when combined with other business or if the retailer is in a place with high traffic and huge demandfor recharge cards. N10,000 is the perfect capital
for this.
2. Recharge Card Wholesalers – These ones buys directly from the Dealers at reduced
price and sell to the retailers who in turn sells to end users. Wholesalers
make average of N5 per N100 cards and sell high quantity of cards daily. As a
result, they make more profit base on much sells. Average profit they make per
day is between N5,000 to N15,000.
Reasonable start up capital for
wholesale is from N100,000. This way, your profit will be appreciable. If you
are good in business and have N100,000 I’d recommend you start with wholesale
level. Recharge card business at this level is very good and profitable with
the potential to earn you N150,000 monthly.
3. Recharge Card Dealers – These are recharge card Franchisees or merchants who buys
both the cards and PINS in large quantity directly from the mobile operators.
Or from another company that has direct franchise with the mobile operators.
This category comes in various forms, there are dealers and there are mega
dealers.
Dealers sells directly to the
wholesalers who then sells to the retailers. You will requires millions of
naira to enter the dealership level, starting from N10 million.
Now that you know what GSM Recharge
card business in Nigeria involves, let me know your preference among these
categories. Make a comment below stating the level you wants to start from and
possibly why.
Ask questions base on what you would like to be
included in the next articles. The next article on recharge card will be
according to your interest.
