Chidi Ejesi is from Aguluzigbo in Anaocha Local Government Anambra state. Born in November 1, 1986, he had his primary and secondary school education in Aguluzigbo, Further Hope Nursery/Primary and Secondary School, Aguluzigbo. Then he went up Federal Science and Technical college, Awka where he concluded his basic secondary education.Then he got admission at Federal University of Technology, Yola, to study Electrical Electronics Engineering. Right from when he was a kid, he had always had a knack for fixing electrical appliances and constructing things. This was what inspired the parents to channel his educational experience towards engineering.
Chidi Ejesi, though a
born engineer, also nursed an entrepreneurial heart and did not spend a second after youth service looking for white collar or blue collar job. Rather, he came down to Nnewi, the Nigeria’s entrepreneurial melting pot he enrolled himself on apprenticeship to learn GSM repairs for 9 months. This was because of the rave GSM as an electronic gadget gained in the country. He envisaged the high demand for GSM repairs would be sustained over time and therefore decided to invest his time and energy in acquiring the skills. Afterwards, given that the financial capital for starting his own GSM repair outlet was not readily available, he attached himself to his elder brother’s PHONE PARTS shop in NNEWI and started offering GSM repairs in a booth inside the shop as his brother sold GSM phone parts.
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| Chidi Ejesi www.kingstechdevelopers.com |
It took Chidi 3 years of toil to raise enough capital to set up his own shop, Kingstech Communications,Nnewi, where he repairs, ‘pimps’ as well as teaches other young people how to repair and pimp up GSM phones GSM phones, tablets and laptops as well as selling of phones and phone accessories. According to Chidi, GSM repairs should be a part of Electronics Engineering but sadly, it is yet to be taught in formal institutions of learning, irrespective of the fact that the knowledge empowers immensely.
Ejesi observes with dismay that GSM phone engineering is yet to be taken seriously by the educational policy makers who are yet to make it part of school curriculum and yet they pay lip service to achieving functional education in the country.‘When I started GSM phone repairs, I had practically nothing and knew nobody, but as time went on, I started gaining popularity and financial stability, all thanks to GSM repairs. When you do a good job for people, they will pay you. As long as you know what you are doing in GSM repairs, you will definitely make money.’
Chidi Ejesi also observes that a lot of young people don’t give themselves to proper training before setting up shop as GSM phone repairers and they end up spoiling people’s phones. He therefore advised that people give themselves to proper training under the auspices of a widely acclaimed phone repairer.
From his experience, Chidi gleans that big things start small and most big phone companies started as small GSM repair outfits. His own firm, Kingstech Communications is a case in point which has in two years become an employer of labour with 7 people on his payroll and 23 GSM phone graduates to his credit and 6 trainees. He proudly pointed out that the he has kept tabs with his graduates and they are doing well for themselves.
Social skills and entrepreneurship:Kingstech Communications CEO identifies, from personal experience, that an entrepreneur needs to acquire and exhibit certain social skills if he wants to be successful. The primary skill is sincerity, he says. Without sincerity, you cannot retain customers. Most of the people that started repairing phones with me have gone bankrupt today, Mr Ejesi intimated. This is simply because they were not sincere with their customers.When people give such personsphones to repair, instead of doing the job or referring them to someone that can help them, if they cannot do the repair, they would swindle the individual, or even steal some parts from the customer’s device. When customers find out they have been swindled, they stop coming.
Another social skill Chidi considers as one of his cutting edges in his field is calm disposition towards customers. "There are bound to be disgruntled customers who would want start making a scene over one issue or the other. You don’t need to shout back at the customer. What I do is to stay calm and take time to explain the situation for the customer. This has continually paid off well as I have made long term business pals using this attitude.Such customers still go ahead to refer other people to me because they are happy with my attitude towards them."
According to this young entrepreneur, he invested more in acquiring the right working tools when he started earlier. He also made it a point of duty to network with other GSM repairers from far and near. These were the two steps that have kept him on top of his game.
Money habits: when he started on his own was to reduce his spending level and save on a daily basis. This was because he had envisioned what he wants to achieve. If you spending more than what you get, you are going nowhere, he advised.
Talking about his aspiration, Chidi said that he aspires to expand Kingstech Communications to the point whereby it will have a standard training outfit for training young people in GSM repairs.
How to manage competition: Knowing that he is not the only one in the business, Mr Ejesi keeps up with researches online to keep abreast with new devices and the new securities attached to them. He studies the network log and hardware aspect of every device that comes into the market so that whenever any GSM device is brought to him to repair, he would be able to handle it.
Kingstech communications customizes phones, repairs all kinds of phones and laptops, sells phones and accessories and laptops. The CEO advises engineering graduates and everyone to start from somewhere no matter how small it is, be good at what you are doing, practice what you read in school, and save as you earn.
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