How to start your own cold room business.
RESEARCHES
AND BUSINESS SURVEY: if you want to invest in this line of
business, it is important to do some researches within your environment, look
for existing entrepreneur, find efficient means of getting your raw materials
at good rates, make findings about the managerial requirements of the business
and other vital information needed to start the business.
LOCATION:
Your business location can either make you or mar you. You need to make sure
you have a strategic location with few or no prior competitors to enable you
make customers easily. The size of you space should also be enough to contain
your business scale and have room for expansion.
DETERMINE
PRODUCTS TO SELL: you need to be aware of lucrative food
items and products that will sell quickly in the market before investing. It is
no brainer that chicken, turkey and some specific type of fish sell better and
faster compared to some other products. You need to invest more in products
that would generate profit in a short time.
ALTERNATIVE
POWER SUPPLY: in order to keep your products fresh and
well preserved, it is important to have a constant source of power supply
everyday of the year. This will help reduce business loss or reduction in the
quality of your product to the barest minimum. Inadequate power supply can run
you out of this business in no time.
BUSINESS REGISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT
APPROVALS; since you will be dealing with consumable products,
it is necessary to register your business and get approvals from appropriate
government agencies.
ADVERTISING
YOUR BUSINESS; adequate publicity and advertisement can
help promote your business. The use of flyers, handbills, internet and even
mouth to mouth method of advertising can go a long way in promoting your
business.Cold room business is a viable business in this part of the world as there is need for constant preservation of some types of food products before they are consumed.