How to Make Millions from Block Moulding, Welding & Carpentry — Didi-Omah Reveals the Blueprint

No industry is a poor industry. Yes, no industry is a poor industry. Now, there are people who are making millions from even the little or the lowest field in Africa.

By the grace of God, by default or by divine, I happen to be a businessman. I would like to tell you that there are industries that are in Africa, especially Nigeria, that are considered poor industries. Now, most of people will say, wow, why is this? I have this strong aim or call it desire to turn the poor industries in Nigeria to a wealth giant.

Yes, the poor industry in Nigeria, I want to turn it to a wealthy giant. From the area of Gas Turbine Extension, where we stay, you see a lot of block industries. If you arr going towards Akas junction or Aluu.

So many block industries over there. I say I want to move from that way to Aluu. You see so much block industries and welding companies.

Now, the question is, if you look at them, it looks as if they are poor, it looks as if they are suffering, right? Now, we in Africa, that is our block industry. Executive, I was like, oh, my God.

It's a poor job, right? But I sat down and I said, no, these are jobs. These are opportunities that someone can use to turn it to a big industry. Now, let's say for instance, you open a block industry.

And when I say block industry, I mean a block molding business. That's what I mean. Block industry means block molding business.

And your block molding business, you focus on concretes, right? Yes. You focus on full concrete. You focus on semi-concrete. And you put on a good price there.

And one of the things that I want to make, the point is, how can you make money from this block industry? You call in people to come and pay. Now, you take it to a way that you are able to secure high-powered machines, for you to make the industry to really be good, you focus on the environment.

Your environment must be professional, must be of standard. If the front is an administrative block, then the back is the industry. Perfect.

Yes. Which means if I come to an industry at the front and I'm seeing an administrative block, I'm seeing something like that, I will be asking, so what's at the back? The back is the factory. Now, it's going to make you look professional.

It's going to make you look perfect. And the other thing, I discovered a lot of block industries that they love limiting themselves. And as a block industry, you need to first, as the owner of the block industry, you need to first think first.

You need to first think like, where am I trying to go? What is the outcome of my industry? The next five years, the next six years, is this a poor industry or is it a wealthy industry? And you try to see that the idea of startup, because it is when you think big that you grow. And if you do not think at all, you're not going to grow. If you think small, you're going to shrink.

So that is why all these block industries are doing small. Where is my target? There are block industries outside Nigeria that the owners are millionaires. I did my research.

I studied. I was like, my God, why are these people making millions from this block molding business? This block molding business, if you go down the road, Executive, you might be like, it's a poor business. Just wake up one morning, go, you see me, suffering under the sun, mixing cement and all that.

I say, well, I discovered that is knowledge because it is knowledge that differs. And I say, well, if I venture into this block molding business, my block molding business is not going to be poor. It's not going to be poor.

It's been inspired by what? By knowledge, right? It's been inspired by knowledge. So truly, truly, before I even started doing all this research, from a childhood, I do see all business as rich business because of the way my parents brought us up, the way they trained us about business, that any business you want to do, do it. Do it because it is only God that blesses.

It is God that blesses you. Even from the Bible, “(Isaiah 48 vs. 17) Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.”

There are some people who are doing those businesses that you think they are rich businesses; and they are still poor, right? Yes, we have poor bankers and we have rich bankers. We have poor bloggers and we have rich bloggers.

We have poor pastors and we have rich pastors. We have poor traders and we have rich traders. So no business is a poor job just for you to just look at. We all operate by the level of our knowledge. When we have updated insights, we upgrade!

What am I going to do? Look at the strategies, look at the systems, look at the knowledge that's backing you up. That is it. Now, if you own the block industry, by the help of God, you are able to do a semi-concrete, full concrete, some blocks. Now, the distribution, you got to look at it.

You have to look at what next to focus on. What next to focus on? Doing some roadstone. With the cement, now you are able to do some roadstone.

You can be able to give it to the government by you applying. Now, this is time for you to now apply because you have all the product already. You manufacture semi-concrete, manufacture full concrete, manufacture roadstone and others.

Then say, well, you sent application to the government, you sent application to some industry, you sent application to some building sites; and you see they might say, well, are you serious about this? Okay, now let us give you an offer. Now, when they give you an offer, the first way to do is to deliver high quality goods at low price. Executive, Harry Ford, the owner of Ford Motor, he once said. He said deliver quality products at low price.

Delivering quality products at low price, at first, it may seem like you are bleeding your business. No, you are not bleeding your business actually. What you are trying to do, you are trying to build trust.

Let them feel, wow, his product are of high quality. The block, they are so strong. It does not break.

We kick it, it does not break. The stones, all this kind of thing. And we say, well, we need your product.

We need your services. And along the line, you keep maintaining that standard and you expand. And the other one I want to talk about, I want to talk about the welding.

Like, I do see people that say, well, welding, are you a welder? I was grow up around block industry, welding, carpentry, and I picture it and I say, well, this is a rich business. Now, a welder who made products from iron and metals, and who made this thing, just for you and me, there are people who are making millions from weldering. There is really no poor job out there. According to the knowledge of the truth, there is dignity in labour.

What you lack is the knowledge. Now, if a welder is able to weld quality product, quality goods, and deliver excellent services. Now you can bring it up to the others and say, well, look at what I do. You create your own, you create your own e-commerce platform or website.

You put your goods out there. You put your product out there. Let people access you through online.

And you start writing on any new updates and new formats that your welding company is releasing on your own welding company blog, including videos of new products on your blog and social media handles. You see, you are getting awareness over the internet. And people now start to look for you and say, wow, why don't you get this guy? He's a good welder.

I love that his gate, his gate is this. I love his door. He delivers a good iron works, he did a good security gate.

He did a good this. Now, you can see that will make you to start getting deals, start getting contracts. So, it's not about the product. It's about your visibility. Indeed a man without a vision is a blind man, and there is no future for a blind man.

It's not about one. Once you get the product ready, the next thing you need to focus is how valuable this product is. What is the solution this product is solving? What is the problem this my welding product is doing? Is it in the housing sector? Is it in the industrial sector? Or is it in the water, in the water resources sector? Yes, because some people do oil tanker, some people do water tank, some people do fuel tank.

So, just look at the area to serve and you put it out there in a good format, a good platform. And you can see. So, the problem is that most of them lack financial knowledge, marketing knowledge, and they hardly research.

They are being occupied with a lot of work, a lot of work. And that draws me to idea, that ideas are the greatest assets to wealth. Idea.

And I learned this quote from Harry Ford. Yes, Harry Ford, the owner of Ford Motor. Idea.

Why is idea the greatest asset? Now, if you look at the first billionaire, the first modern billionaire in history, which is John D. Rockefeller, the founder, the CEO of Standard Oil America. Now, if you look at what he says, it's better for him to earn 1% of everyone's 100% effort than for him to earn 100% of his effort. Why is idea? Because when you are all at work, you cannot be carrying cement on your head and you're thinking, no.

You cannot be carrying all the tasks, the hard technical tasks and you're thinking, no. Idea need a quiet environment, a sound mind, a strong body, and an active spirit. Your spirit must be active.

Your mind must be sound. Your body must be strong. And your environment must be quiet.

You are busy with thinking and reflection and imagination. That's where idea comes from. So it can be on the road the idea come into your mind.

Now, the problem with most people is that they are so casual that they lost their creativity. In every idea that comes, write it down. Every idea.

Whether you're talking to someone or you're cooking or you're eating, any idea, just write it down. Because that idea may be one of the things that will put you off somewhere to be wealthy. Some people, you can casually put it away carelessly.

Like I said, every idea that comes, write it down. You never know the worth of that idea. It's only God that knows the worth of that idea.

It's only God that knows the worth of it. So whether you're on the road, wherever you are, write the idea down. It can be wealthy enough at the end.

If you become casually enough or loose enough or freestyle enough to lose the idea. Maybe you don't write it down. And in the process of time, in some point of your life, you start looking that you're not moving anywhere.

And you start to say, why am I not moving forward? Now, because the idea that's supposed to put you forward, the idea that's supposed to make you prosperous, you never wrote it down. You just feel like, what is this? Someone has already created this. Someone has already done this.

Why? No. Yours may be different. Ideas never come fully until you embark on it.

I have never seen any idea that comes fully. Because nothing meaningful starts clearly. Truth.

Nothing meaningful starts clearly. I never gave it a standard. Abraham's work with God was not clearly at the beginning.

It was foolish, but it was meaningful. We are saying we are from father Abraham. His work was just leave your father's house and start walking as instructed.

Like, let us do this or more than this. What's that one? A spirit just come and working about, right? Apart from that, when Mark Zuckerberg got this idea of creating Facebook, it never started fully. Facebook, as it is now, was just only HTML and CSS.

HTML and CSS. And little by little, it was now getting clearer. So, no vision at the beginning is clearer.

No vision at the beginning is clearer. That's why every idea, you should be writing it down. And along the process of time, after executing on that idea, you start seeing the clearer picture of it.

So, like I just mentioned for the block industry, I mentioned from the welding. Let me go to the carpentry now. Carpentry is one of the business in Lagos and the business in Port Harcourt.

I see it as if well managed and well positioned, carpentry is the biggest money market when it comes to physical hand tools. When it comes to physical hand tools. How? Now, we have LifeMates.

We have LifeMates. We have Quality Mark. Now, these two I just mentioned are carpentry business.

They started from a small carpentry shop to a global billion dollar company. Now, if you see now, so that's the thing, there is no poor carpenter. The carpenter is empowered with what it takes to become rich in his field.

Yes, that is the reality of it. The carpenter is empowered with what it takes to become rich in his field. So, if you just look at it and say, well, because there is truth in it, to the best of my knowledge, there is no business that someone will venture in this 21st century that nobody has ventured before.

There is no business someone will venture in this 2000, in the 90s, someone has not ventured to it. So, nothing is new in this 2000. There is nothing new.

You are just trying to innovate the existing products and say, wow, you have done this new. You are not doing anything new. You just only innovate the idea.

You just change the way the product is being functioned and improve its services. So, that's why there are people out there that make great records doing that field and they made money from it. They made decent money from it.

So, if someone is struggling in the field and say, wow, I'm not getting customers in this carpentry business. I'm not getting this. You should watch out.

You should watch out. Where is your focus? Where is your market? What is your purpose? What is your purpose of this business? Now, if your purpose is, let me just survive. Let me make a living.

So, you can't make money from, you cannot make millions from block industry, from welding company or carpentry industry. When your focus is, let me make a living. No, you have to attach a purpose.

A purpose of, I need to serve Nigeria. Now, you are in Nigeria and you want to serve Nigerians with your block industry, with your welding, with your carpentry. Now, you have to first serve a state in Nigeria or you serve a locality in Nigeria then you move to Ghana.

But while you're serving that locality, you are thinking on how you can meet up Ghana market demand because no country is the same, every country have a market demand here and that is how you expand. You cannot enter Ghana as an ordinary person, if you are a stranger and you want to enter Ghana with your business, no, you don't need to go to Ghana for you to enter Ghana. You have to be in Nigeria, find a partner in Ghana.

First, you find who will buy, then you find who will sell. That's how you grow, that's how manufacturing company grow. First, who will buy, who will buy these products, who buy this, who buy that, who buy this metalwork, who buy this carpentry products, who buy this woodwork that I just did, that I just designed, that I just created.

Then once you get this though and you have buyers, Executive, then who will sell it? That's where you can expand to Ghana. Not necessarily you be in Ghana, you can go to Ghana by yourself and do the collaboration or you can be here and do the delivery, business move. Because in life, you don't go far in life by what you already know.

You go far in life by knowing more. So that is why you just need to keep improving and don't feel like, oh my God, I ended it all. No.

Even the hunting is a very lucrative business. The farming is a very lucrative business. So just for you to just find out what it takes to hit the gold, the gold in that business, what it takes to eat the good in that business.

And once you definitely hit the gold in that business, in the next 10 to 30 years, you are a mentor to some people. They will say, yes, this is my mentor. And, I love that guy.

That's my mentor. I want to be like him. He used carpentry to be wealthy.

So it's just about you getting something right and doing it right.

© Didi-Omah Augustine Chinazaekpere 

Founder/President, doac, Invest.