No errand too small

ERIC Wanjohi is a man on a mission – a mission to make it big, really big in life and not settle for anything less.

Mission Impossible, you might say. Discard those sceptical thoughts, dear reader, because Wanjohi’s mission is possible and doable.Like many other entrepreneurs, Wanjohi has been thinking of big bucks since his schooldays.While studying at the University of Namibia, he registered a business known as Dimples Media with the Ministry of Trade and Industry.Dimples Media deals with public relations and consultancy.Realising the stiff competition from established companies in this line of business, the youthful Wanjohi was not disheartened, but this challenge of how to prop up his business gave rise to a different idea of how he could generate income.”To establish myself in the public relations industry, I realised that the company needed something else to sustain itself.I did research and came up with something that could fit into the market and was also rarely available.”This gave birth to a petty errands service, PES, which started operating in March.Wanjohi says PES is a division of Dimples Media.PES specialises in delivering and collecting any packages, as long as its contents are legal, and also pay bills for customers.These services are rendered for anyone and carried out anywhere in Windhoek and Wanjohi says business is done ‘within the boundaries of the law’.The service charge is N$15 per delivery weighing less than 80 kg.A beaming Wanjohi says he is happy with the way things are progressing, explaining that since he started a few months ago, the number of people requesting his services has been growing by the day.”I am very happy with the results.I have heard that a business can’t break even within a few months but I have proved that theory wrong.It works if one can break the human restrictions that are always set by others.”He says the job has taught him to be tolerant and patient because of the many different people he meets with every single delivery.Wanjohi says he easily copes with the many orders by sub-contracting to trusted colleagues who help to run errands.He says he will not let anything put him down and will live to see the business growing into an international courier service and to expand Dimples Media into a multi-media production company.”It has always been my dream to run my own business.I worked for different companies before this and I was never satisfied.I wanted to tackle the challenges out there on my own and try and accomplish what my heart desired.I am glad I am living my dream.”Discard those sceptical thoughts, dear reader, because Wanjohi’s mission is possible and doable.Like many other entrepreneurs, Wanjohi has been thinking of big bucks since his schooldays.While studying at the University of Namibia, he registered a business known as Dimples Media with the Ministry of Trade and Industry.Dimples Media deals with public relations and consultancy.Realising the stiff competition from established companies in this line of business, the youthful Wanjohi was not disheartened, but this challenge of how to prop up his business gave rise to a different idea of how he could generate income.”To establish myself in the public relations industry, I realised that the company needed something else to sustain itself.I did research and came up with something that could fit into the market and was also rarely available.”This gave birth to a petty errands service, PES, which started operating in March.Wanjohi says PES is a division of Dimples Media.PES specialises in delivering and collecting any packages, as long as its contents are legal, and also pay bills for customers.These services are rendered for anyone and carried out anywhere in Windhoek and Wanjohi says business is done ‘within the boundaries of the law’.The service charge is N$15 per delivery weighing less than 80 kg.A beaming Wanjohi says he is happy with the way things are progressing, explaining that since he started a few months ago, the number of people requesting his services has been growing by the day.”I am very happy with the results.I have heard that a business can’t break even within a few months but I have proved that theory wrong.It works if one can break the human restrictions that are always set by others.”He says the job has taught him to be tolerant and patient because of the many different people he meets with every single delivery.Wanjohi says he easily copes with the many orders by sub-contracting to trusted colleagues who help to run errands.He says he will not let anything put him down and will live to see the business growing into an international courier service and to expand Dimples Media into a multi-media production company.”It has always been my dream to run my own business.I worked for different companies before this and I was never satisfied.I wanted to tackle the challenges out there on my own and try and accomplish what my heart desired.I am glad I am living my dream.”