Business Ideas
201 articles on business ideas from the Markaz blog — page 1 of 17.
What a CDC account actually holds, the two ways to hold one, what you need to open it, and what it does not protect you from.
The KSE-100 is 100 companies, not the whole market. What the level means, how the weighting works, and why a rising index can mislead.
The dates between a board approving a dividend and cash arriving, why the ex-date decides who gets paid, and what yield does not tell you.
Screening tests the balance sheet as well as the business. Why a permissible company can fail, and why compliant status changes.
Why the reason you hold shares changes the treatment, which value you use, and how deduction at source fits in.
What jewellery costs at wholesale in Pakistan, what drives the price, how to judge plating quality, and how to buy with no minimum order.
Yiwu is a market you walk, not a site you browse. The routes that replace the trip — agents, 1688, local markets, landed no-MOQ stock — compared honestly.
Temu and Shein have no MOQ, which is why resellers use them. Here is where they break as a supply chain, and the no-MOQ sourcing routes that hold up.
Alibaba's MOQ and landed cost stop most Pakistani resellers. The alternatives that work — 1688 via agent, DHgate, Yiwu, local markets, landed COD stock.
1688 has no single replacement. The alternatives Pakistani resellers actually use — agents, Alibaba, DHgate, wholesale markets and landed COD sourcing.
AliExpress looks cheap on the listing and costs more once it lands. Take a landed cost apart, then seven levers that cut it for Pakistani sellers.
MOQ is a supplier's rule, not a law of importing. Four ways to buy a single unit from China into Pakistan, what it lands at, and when bulk is smarter.