Introduction

Pukena.NG is a leading on-demand platform that connects people, households and corporate organizations with highly trained, pre-verified, and insured service professionals across different service categories. Right on Pukena, you can hire highly trained artisans, drivers, event vendors, tutors, and several other service professionals to serve you right in the comfort of your home.

Pukena provides a great platform for these professionals to showcase their skills to the thousands of people visiting their site on monthly basis. Founded in August 2017, Pukena has, in less than 12 months, garnered a lot of goodwill from Nigerians including a memorable visit of His Excellency, the Vice President of Nigeria. Pro Yemi Osibanjo, who posed a question to the CEO during his visit, “You mean if I need a Plumber to come fix something in my home, I can get a good one from Pukena?” (See the picture below). He was impressed with his answer.

Pukena is currently a beneficiary of the Lagos Innovates Workspaces Voucher Program, designed by the Lagos State Government to support startups with monthly workspace vouchers which can be redeemed from any of the top workspaces in Lagos. Pukena has enjoyed this patronage for the past 5 months having moved to Vena Business Hub, Lekki Phase 1, where we have a high concentration of your target market.

Joining Pukena as a professional is sure to improve your business visibility and expose your business to these high end consumers in dire need of personalized and top notched service.

How to Become a PukenaPro and Start Making Money

Step 1: Create an Eye Catching Work Profile on Pukena

Creating an eye catching profile on Pukena is the first steps towards selling yourself to the thousands of visitors coming to the site to search for service providers. They check for your company description, your work experience, your previous jobs, previous reviews from customers, etc. You have to settle down and properly fill this form to capture all you unique selling points.

Most people don’t take this initial step seriously. Nobody will hire you if they don’t see a display picture.  And we, as admins, won’t take you serious if you don’t upload all your required documents. So it is your responsibility to enrich your work profile with your personal and professional details.

To create a work profile, click here: https://pukena.ng/servicepro/register

Step 2: Pay an Annual Membership Fee

This is not a criteria to creating a profile on Pukena. You can still create a profile on Pukena, only that it won’t be featured on the Home Page. People won’t have to directly hire you from your profile. You can only get jobs when people fill a job order form anonymously and the system sorts the job details and send you alert. But preference is usually given to the featured service providers.

The logic is this, Pukena is largely a marketplace and we spend a lot of resources driving huge traffic to the site. You benefit from that huge traffic and get jobs from them.  The annual membership fee of N5,000 is assumed to be your contribution the marketing investment made to keep the marketplace going.

The benefit are enormous: a featured listing on our website and across our social media pages, up to 3 job alerts per week, a complete branding kit including a set of 100pcs of business cards, a membership card that gives you access to our training courses. This payment can be made directly to our bank account, Pukena Concierge Services 0265110004 GTB or you can use the "Make Payments" on the top right hand side of the home page to pay with your debit card. Once payment is confirmed you will be immediately invited to start your orientation training so you can start working. You might still be invited for the course even if you don't pay but making this payment will fastrack your onboarding process.

Step 3: Go through the Training Courses

Once your profile is complete, we will contact you for a 1 week Orientation Course at any of our training centres closest to you. Due to the volume of registration we process and the limited space we have, this training is in batches but within 1 week of registration, you will be contacted. So sit back and relax. We will contact you.

Step 4: A Proper Background Check is Carried Out on You

While the Orientation course is underway, your details will verified by an independent team of experts for authenticity and clean criminal records. If at this stage, we discover some misnomer in your application, you will be rejected immediately and your membership fee refunded to you in full. Please ensure to submit your two guarantor forms.

Step 5: You Start Getting Jobs

Once all the above steps have been completed, you begin to get jobs alerts. If you registered as a driver for Taxify/Uber, you are then given a car to start making money.

CASE Study 1: A Driver on Taxify

An driver on our platform driving on Taxify/Uber makes an average of N120,000 weekly. If he remits N40,000 weekly to us, that leaves him with N80,000 weekly income. The only maintenance cost he incurs is fuel. So let’s assume he buys fuel for a week for N10,000 (which is on the high side), that leaves him with N70,000 weekly income. In a month that is N280,000 monthly income.

CASE Study 2: An event decorator/ Caterer

Every weekend, we get orders for event catering. Assuming you are contracted to provide a catering services for a wedding of 300 guest, the average cost for that order on Pukena is from N500,000. After Pukena commissions are deducted (10%), you have N450,000 gross income. Usually, our caterers have up to N200,000 in profit at the end of the job.

And the list goes on and on.

The annual membership is nothing compared to the benefits of becoming a PukenaPro. The benefits far outweigh that initial investment. Get started today and get your business on autopilot