I always had a thing for starting something of my own. There are no businessmen in my immediate family. All of us are doctors have day jobs so none of really tried to have a business of our own۔
Since the last couple of years the whole world has been stuck with Covid-19. Believe me or not, even now we still get Covid patients in hospital and only yesterday I read that there's a new variant of this virus that has come up recently.
Where Covid 19 took a lot of people's lives, it also provided a new life to a lot of other people as well. There's blessing in curse and there's good in bad. Let's read below how I managed to earn 300,000 in 2 months and I how I became a successful entrepreneur with a brand of my own. Here's my story:
SOGHAAT E HUNZA
June 2020, only a few months back, I had visited the northern areas of Pakistan which is famous worldwide for its beautiful scenic views. I traveled to a lot of different cities and villages in the northern areas and I bought some of the most famous things from there such as honey etc.
Fast forward to early June 2020, where Covid was at peak and literally all businesses had stopped completely, people were selling their household items to live and were going through the worst period of their lives, I received a call from a honey vendor from up North. I had purchased some honey from this vendor a few months ago and handed him my number in case, he wanted any help from me whatsoever. He called me and was completely devastated due to the current affairs. His honey business was dying and he told me he had nothing to feed his family. I consoled him and purchased 20 kg honey from him.
As the honey reached me, as I had bought it with a charitable good intention, I distributed all the honey for free amongst my relatives and friends. To my surprise the relatives loved the honey and asked for more. That is where my brother and I took a bold move and decided to turn this into a startup.
We ordered hundred kilograms of honey from the vendor to Karachi and then started selling it here in Karachi, keeping a good profit margin for ourselves.
It wasn't easy in the starting days. We had so many orders and all of them had to be delivered by us two brothers. The routine got extremely hectic. I would leave house at 9 am in the morning and return back home around 12 am after completing all orders of the day. After getting back home, I'd start making the next day orders and then the cycle repeated.
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The business took off in no time. In a few days we already had more than 50,000 in our hands. Now, that's the stage where a lot of businesses go downhill as the owners start enjoying the initial profits but we didn't do that. We invested that profit into getting more honey and this time we ordered a huge amount of 500 kilograms.
It was ecstatic. Obviously the workload had increased ten folds but I was enjoying it. When we started this work, a lot of our relatives doubted us , demotivated us with words like:
Look at these doctors, selling honey door to door. It's a shame.
We didn't care about what anyone was saying. We kept on doing what we did best. It wasn't easy. Not easy at all. One day, I remember, I was out delivering the honey and it started raining cats and dogs. Even though it was raining heavily I still delivered all the orders of that day.
In two months, our business had boomed. We were able to earn more than 300,000 rupees in a short period of 60 days. The people who kept on doubting us, started making us offers of investments. We expanded our work. Hired workers and started to sell honey all over Pakistan.
Now, after two years, I am proud to say that our business is very well settled as we have brought the places up north. There was a time when we used to buy honey and then sell it off but now we own the place and produce our own honey with our product being sold in Pakistan as well as abroad. Due to these achievements, I was interviewed by some news channels as well and was featured in different magazines.
The difficult thing is not to start a business. It's to have sustainability. Having a sustainable business is the real deal and if you're interested, do let me know, I'll tell you all the steps that I took.
Thank you
If you want to order our honey, you can directly order in the comment section below or can order through Facebook and Instagram
WHO IS HUZAIFANAVEED?
huzaifanaveed hails from Pakistan, who is an aspiring dentist, studying in one of the top notch universities of Pakistan, Jinnah Sindh Medical University.
he loves interacting with new people, making new friends and traveling the world, but most importantly he loves to make a change in this world through his actions and his words. He's an entrepreneur and a philanthropist who's been actively working with different Charitable Organizations in Pakistan.
His goal on Hive is similar, ie, to make a difference. He's here to mark his presence and he'll do it through his words. So lets be a part of his journey and show him support through comments, upvotes and reblogs.
