What makes a business small? What keeps a business small? How can a small business airvolve into a global giant?

1. TheBiglieof
SmallBusinesses
Why we should do more, how we
can do more and a little bit of drama.

2. Morethan95%
That’s the percentage of businesses
considered to be small and medium
sized in Nigeria. If these businesses
employ 1 person each. We would
have another kind of employment
crisis; Over-employment.
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3. What makes and keeps a small
business small?
What Does a small business need?
• An address (either physically or remotely.)
• A product or service.
• Access to markets or customers.
• Access to resources(financial and mental)
• Wide, sophisticated and robust distribution network.
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A lot of factors affect businesses adversely, like access to
resources, limited access to markets, lack of skills and
skilled personnel etc.
If you notice, we struck out access to finance. Well we did
so because all a business needs is start up capital and once
the initial investment has been made, a business ought to
be sustainable. So since we are talking about existing
businesses that have already gone past the start up phase,
finance shouldn’t be a factor.

4. We want to power a Million businesses?
www.airvolve.com.ng wants to help one million Nigerian
businesses overcome the basic hurdles limiting small
businesses in Nigeria and help create a long chain of jobs,
employment and prosperity.
Airvolve seeks to move businesses
from where it is now, to where it
should be by providing the following:
• An Address from where the business can operate.
• Enormous and unhindered access to a market of
100,000,000 customers.
• To provide a robust distribution network for free, easy
and cost effective movement of goods.
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5. The How
Websites for everyone? Easy to say but then websites are
expensive. Chiefly for the following reasons
• Cost of servers(40% of the cost)
• Cost of Top-Level Domain names(5%)
• Cost of Skilled manpower (40%).
• Maintenance and security (15%)
And this is approximately $250
Leveraging on the shared economic
model.
Airvolve has created multiple algorithms that ensures that
multiple websites can share server space and still run
independently and smoothly too, as they power each other.
So when resources are not being used in one, it is being
used in another, and when all the resources are called to
service, a back up is pulled to the rescue and all these
happen automatically in split seconds without notifying
anyone or casing any hindrance to existing or future
processes. What all these means is that Airvolve can host
even a million websites comfortably.
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6. What we intend to achieve
Our aim is simple, Knowing that Every business is a
technology business. We want to go out and give our people
the competitive advantage by further lowering the start-up
bar. Websites make it so much easier to do business for the
following reasons:
Do you know 100,000,000 people?
• Having a website for business gives you access to the
100 Million internet users in Nigeria.
• You have no closing hours, you are not limited by time
or space. This is not ubiquity. This is Omnipresence.
• Its cheaper than a physical structure and way more cost
effective(Airvolve even simplifies things further).
• It is the quickest way to expand businesses beyond Edo
state.
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7. 1000
naira/Month
This is how much an Airvolve website
complete with all features and an
android app would cost.
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8. Comparison
Why Airvolve to digital?.
Digital Business
• Low start up barrier, in terms of cost and general effort.
• Has no regards whatsoever for time and space. This is
not ubiquity, it is omnipresence.
• Not limited by geography, the quickest route for
business expansion.
• Digitizing businesses will happen to us, whether we start
today or not
Brick and Mortar Business
• Very Expensive to set up.
• You are limited by timing, you have a set time for
opening and closing .
• Limited by geography. Your customers most times have
to come from your vicinity.
• Expansion means planting even more branches and that
is so much money and personnel.
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Even banks are getting one E-branch, schools are
becoming E-campuses creating more lands for
residence and agriculture. Everything is thinning out
and finding its way into our smart phones… Its not a
mistake.

9. The Power of a million
Having a website is not enough. You need people to know
what you do so they can patronise you. So faced with that
reality, we sought for solutions and came up with Airvolve
Social. Airvolve social is free for Airvolve users, its open and
it depends on the Airvolve network, as each person will be
able to advertise on the other person’s site. So if we have
10,000 sites on Airvolve for example, Your advert can be
seen by 9,999 people (worst case scenario)
Ubuntu: I am because you are. That’s
the philosophy of our social
Airvolution
• Its free for Airvolve users.
• You earn advert points from referrals.
• Its self-sustaining.
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10. 10
Can Airvolve drastically reduce cost of
starting and maintaining Business?
Oh Yes it can… Oh yes!!
Can Airvolve Help one million businesses get their
own websites and transact over long distance?
Yes we can. And yes we will!!

11. ThankYou
Matthew Osetohame Agbonyeme
+2347034656453
matt@airvolve.com.ng
www.airvolve.com.ng