Merits and demerits of a Hawking business.

[TOZZIBLINKZ]

A hawking business is a small scale business where an individual physically carries his or her business products either by hand or by head moving from one environment to another or from one neighborhood to another seek to sell the product to interesting individual so as to make profits . A hawking business is also considered to be the lowest form of a small scale business, and can only be profitable according to the zeal and determination the business owner actually have . In Nigeria which is my country , there are a whole lot of people engaging in hawking business , and in every major road and traffic lights stand , hawkers are definitely every where . The is absolutely nothing wrong in being a hawker thereby carrying your business products from one neighborhood or environment to another , and In fact you get to meet your customers and clients face-to-face and get to convince them as well , also you don't dwell in one business environment to market or sell your product since you are also change location from time to time .

But yet there are some demerits to a hawking business , most time a hawker get to be a subject or victim to road accident since their business also involves chasing vehicles to market their business products to a sitting passenger . Secondly female hawkers can readily become subject and victims to rapist , miscreants, arm robbers and kidnappers since the are most likely to stray into remote areas of the town to find customers and consumers for their products and services .

 

[CALVINDOL]

There is nothing bad for an individual to Hawk his or her business from one place to another and in fact majority of people in West Africa engage in this kind of business and to some extent is seems to be profitable and successful for them . There is no doubting the fact that a hawking business is considered to be a small scale business which is totally considered to be profitable but only depends to how determine the business owner totally direct and moves the business .

It is absolutely very true that a Hawking business has a whole lot of advantages as well as disadvantages and some of the advantages include the fact that you get to meet your customers and clients face-to-face and also convincing them to buy your product on the other hand the major disadvantage of a Hawking business is literally the fact that individuals who engage in this kind of business are so prone to road accidents and since this kind of job is mostly done by females they also become subject to sexual harassment by members of the public since their job also means going into remote areas to find customers for their products .

 

[niche]

Though hawking is not considered a very prestigious job, most hawkers are making far money compared to those who work online and only get paid from online customers . The hawkers in India are not very educated, yet their customers will pay them since it is very convenient to purchase the goods from the customers. The work is also not very mentally stressful.