NNAMDI EZEIGBO, THE BRAIN BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF TECNO AND INFINIX PHONE COMPANIES.

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Nnamdi Ezeigbo is the founder and CEO of SLOT systems limited, and also the brain behind TECNO and INFINIX, the fastest selling phone brands in Nigeria
. Many people are not even aware that these popular phone brands are the brainchild of a fellow Nigerian. His success story is a very remarkable one.

Nnamdi Ezeigbo studied Electrical Electronics Engineering at the Yaba College of Technology in 1988, and got a Higher National Diploma (HND), before serving his country, Nigeria, during his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) year at Guinness Nigeria PLC, in 1996.

After completing his youth service year, Nnamdi Ezeigbo tried to no avail to secure a job with a company in Nigeria. With no promising signs of any potential employment, he went on to work as an apprentice learning how to repair computers. After which he launched out on his own to repair computers for individuals.  Since he didn’t have any cash at the time, he had to squat with a friend of his at Ikeja, who owned a book store. His customer base grew, largely because of his honesty and the premium he placed on customer service.

The mutual trust and good relationship with his customers, was what gave him his first break in business.  One day, an old customer he knew from his days as an apprentice, came to his little shop to see him. He told him he would love him to continue fixing his computers, but would prefer he operated from a larger and more serene environment. To help him out, the customer brought some printers for Nnamdi to sell, from which he used the proceeds to setup a new shop for himself. He paid for the store at a then price of 180,000 Naira (He later bought that same store many years later for 100 million Naira).

From his new store, he began to sell computers. As his business grew, a lot of customers started to both demand for slot stores in areas close to their vicinities, and to ask if they sold mobile phones. With a keen eye to spot opportunity when it presents itself, Nnamdi Ezeigbo immediately expanded his business to also cover the sale of mobile phones.

With no real knowledge on how to manage a growing business, Nnamdi decided to enrol for an MBA program at the prestigious Lagos Business School. He also began to attend many workshops on entrepreneurship, and that helped to sharpen his business acumen and develop his legendary entrepreneurial prowess.

During this process, he and his team decided to take a 5 year route to build a strong reputation for their brand. By the time the projection had elapsed, the Slot brand name was the most reputable mobile phone retailer in the whole country.

The rise of telecommunication networks created many opportunities in the Nigerian market. Their poor services caused many Nigerians to purchase more than one mobile phone, so they could try a different network when the other was bad. Nnamdi realised this problem early on, and approached Nokia in a bid to convince them to manufacture dual sim phones for Nigerians, so they would carry only one mobile phone at a time instead of two. They refused to listen because, seeing people carry more of their phones meant more phone sales for them.

According to his interview with Nairametrics, Nnamdi said;

“So I went to China and got a guy who had worked with a company called Bird then. Bird was into phones but they got choked and lost market share. I met with the guy and asked the guy to let us do something. I came with that name and I registered it here and brought the guy to Nigeria. And that was the high point of our business. We came together and I designed the first Tecno phone, Tecno T101. We started it but the market did not accept it and we also had problem with the dual SIM not working together and we had to make corrections and we came with Tecno 201 and that was a bit accepted by the market. But we were basically giving marketers on credit to sell the phones and then pay us later. And I was funding it all alone.”

After some while, he got affiliation with infinix after he'd expensively paid some knowledge and herculean impact on tecno brand. Slot is now on the breed to make his international personal brand.

Nnamdi Ezeigbo is an entrepreneur, computer scientist and technician. He is of the finest entrepreneurs in Nigeria with a net worth of $22 Million.

Thanks to Nnamdi, mobile world wouldn't have been this better.

PAUSE AND BREATHE....

To make alot of money, you must have made alot of impact. If you don't produce something worthwhile for the community, no one will be convinced that your riches was made out of your tireless and workaholic efforts.

Achieving a brain feeding success needs some unconscious and awareness of one's passionate dreams. It takes one's life and weak to attain anything called breakthrough.

Moreover, if you want to breakthrough, you must think through!

Nnamdi Ezeigbo started in the inner corner in computer village, Ikeja, now he'd rose to national and international recognition. He believed in an untrue dream, in a clueless future but it brought forth the things he never thought of. REAL FULFILLMENT bore from ILLUSIVE DREAMS!

Walk ahead and build your success story! There is no recommendations to a project yet ascertained.

I trust you!
You can do it!
Tear the obstacles with a crazy passion!
You are near it!
I mean your success!
Somebody would write about you someday! Do you believe?

Researcher : Harry Ogbeide.