5 small businesses you can do to survive in Dar es Salaam City. Serving sea food

By Jumia Travel Tanzania

Fruits Business

Serving sea food

Offering mobile money and vouchers

To live in a big City like Dar es Salaam is very challenging especially when you do not have a reputable job to earn you an income. In order to be smart enough you have to determine what kind of a business could earn you an income easily.

If you are living or had a plan to live in Dar es Salaam, Jumia Travel  would like to advise you to try the following activities:

Retailing of soft drinks

Usually, Dar es Salaam city experiences a long season of summer and sunny days, a condition which lead to very high consumption of soft drinks. This is a great opportunity to entrepreneurs as people can’t resist their desire to quench thirsty with soft drinks such as water, soda or juice. It does not require a lot of capital to establish such a business, therefore anyone can do it.      

Retailing of fresh fruits

The city’s residents prefer fruits in every meal they take whether it is a breakfast, lunch or dinner. This is a profitable business to do as there is almost no place that produces fruits in Dar es Salaam, since most of them are imported from other regions. This business requires a small capital and it is easy to find customers in places such as along the roads, bus stations, restaurants or nearby offices.

Vending of newspapers

Newspapers are among the main source of information to majority of people in Dar es Salaam. Many of them find it very difficult to pass nearby the newspapers’ vendors due to the limited time they have. The only way to reach them is while they are on the queue in the vehicles to and from their work places, thanks to the long queues in most of the city’s roads.  

Serving sea foods

Geographically, Dar es Salaam is situated along the Indian Ocean something which facilitates easy availability of sea foods. Sea foods like fish of different varieties, octopus, and prawns to mention a few, are among the popular seafoods prefered by many people. Just like the above, this business venture also does not need a huge capital or an office and in addition the sea foods are retailed at lower prices that anybody can afford. Good timing for this business is during the evening in places like along the road pavements and bus stations whereby by most people pass by heading back to home from their workplaces.    

Offering mobile money and vouchers services

The advantage of living in a big city like Dar es Salaam is that almost all the big companies and organisations have established their head offices here. This provides a huge opportunity for people to become agents for the services they are offering to their final customers or consumers. The city is a headquarter to not less than five telecom companies which serve millions of users. Speaking of the telecom industry, many Tanzanians have employed themselves through reselling of vouchers and offering mobile money services to customers.

Above are just a few small scale businesses which will make you comfortably live in Dar es Salaam, whereby without a job one cannot survive. Hopefully, these business ideas have opened up your eyes and motivated you to venture into them.