Become an Accessories Wholesaler: Supplying Other Shops in Your Town
Already selling phone accessories? Here’s how to grow into supplying other shops in your town: who to sell to, pricing, credit rules and the capital you need.
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Top 10 Apps Every New Smartphone Owner in Ghana Should Install
Just bought your first smartphone or upgraded from a small Tecno button phone? Congratulations — but staring at a blank screen full of app icons can feel confusing, especially if nobody showed you where to start. Whether you picked up your new Tecno or Samsung from our shop in town or you’re setting up a…
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How to Extend Your Phone Battery Life in Hot Ghanaian Weather
If your phone battery drops from 100% to 20% before lunchtime, you’re not imagining it — and it’s not always your phone’s fault. Between the Accra and Kumasi heat, hours in your pocket under the sun at the market, and constant charging during dumsor, Ghanaian weather puts real stress on your battery. Here’s what’s actually…
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Can Fast Chargers Damage Your Battery? Myths vs Facts
Walk into any phone shop or market stall in Kumasi, and you’ll hear it: “Fast charger dey spoil battery, use the small one small.” Meanwhile, your phone is at 12%, and you have a delivery to make in ten minutes. So who’s right — your uncle who’s been “using phone since Nokia days,” or the…
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Fake Chargers Are Damaging Ghanaian Phones — Here’s How to Spot One
If your phone battery drains faster than it used to, or your charger gets hot enough to fry an egg, don’t blame your phone just yet — the real culprit might be sitting in your hand right now. Every week, we see customers walk into the shop with swollen batteries, dead charging ports, or phones…
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How to Know If Your Phone Battery Needs Replacing
You charge your phone to 100% before bed, and by the time you get to the trotro station in the morning, it’s already down to 60%. Sound familiar? Before you assume it’s dumsor messing with your charging routine or blame MTN for “using your battery,” it might simply be that your battery has reached the…
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Common Phone Problems in Ghana and How to Fix Them
If your phone has ever died right before an important MoMo transfer, refused to charge during a dumsor blackout, or started acting up after you bought an “original” charger from a trotro station, you’re not alone. Every day, customers walk into our shop in Kumasi with the same handful of complaints — and most of…
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How to Choose the Right Charging Cable for Your Phone
You’ve bought three cables this year already, and here you are again — standing at a trotro station stall or scrolling online, trying to figure out why the “original” cable you bought last month has already stopped charging. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Half the cables sold in Ghana’s markets today are counterfeit…
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Best Car Phone Chargers for Ghanaian Drivers
If you drive for a living in Accra or Kumasi — whether it’s Bolt, Uber, a trotro, or your own delivery business — your phone is basically your office. It’s your GPS, your MoMo terminal, and your only way to reach customers. So when your phone battery is crawling toward 5% in traffic on the…
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Bluetooth Earbuds Under GHS 200: Top Picks in Ghana
You’re at Kejetia or scrolling through a Facebook Marketplace at 11 pm, and every pair of “original” Bluetooth earbuds you find is either GHS 350 you don’t have, or GHS 60 and dead in two weeks. If you’ve been burned by fake earbuds before, you already know the frustration — and you’re not alone. Here’s…
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Do You Really Need a Screen Protector? Here’s the Truth
Walk through Kejetia or Kumasi Central Market, and you’ll see it everywhere — a cracked screen held together with tape, or a phone with a spider-web crack right across the display. Every single one of those owners will tell you the same thing: “I was going to put a screen protector on it, I just…
Should You Get a Business Mentor? Pros, Cons and Costs
Is a business mentor worth it when you’re starting a shop in Ghana? An honest look at what a mentor does, the pros and cons, free and paid options, and how to choose one.
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The Rent Advance Trap: How Shop Rent Kills New Businesses in Ghana
Landlords in Ghana often ask for one or two years’ rent upfront. Here’s why the rent advance sinks so many new shops, and how to negotiate and budget for it.
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