Interview by Bobieh Ansah

I love to see students find a clever way of doing business whilst at university and last week I was back at my old university Kingston. I was fortunate enough to be able to interview Emmanuel Oladokun Sekumade .

He is an aspiring entrepreneur who runs a removal business (Kingmaker transport) for students in the Kingston surrey area. I remember having this problem, not having anybody to help me move.

Emmanuel Has found a gap in the market.

So, Tell me about you?

My name is Emmanuel Oladokun Sekumade, from Nigeria and Kingston University, I will be starting my second year in September (2010) and I study Chemistry and Business Management.

Tell me about the whole movement, what’s the name and how did it get started?

Basically I’m into moving students and Luggages,  I run a business called Kingmaker Transport.

About a year ago, I went to Portsmouth Uni and after seeing my cousin moving into halls and realising how many students move in and out of halls, I thought, hold on a second, there’s a big market here.

I live locally in Kingston, I have a driving licence, and I thought if i could rent a van or get a car i could move students moving out of halls into storage or from halls to back home. I even do the storage myself.

What has been your main influence or inspiration?

The person I look up to is Richard Branson and the Whole of Virgin. So, I hope to be as big as virgin who knows.

So how Long have you been Running Kingmaker Transport for?

I only started this summer, I got my first customer on the 31st. It’s a new movement. I will be targeting Kingston University and Neighbouring universities.

So what’s the difference between you and a mini cab service?

The differences between myself and minicab services is that I offer really cheap services to students, being a student myself I know how it feels to be exploited by older people and I can related more closely to my customers because I’m a student I also help the student moves their things like I’m doing right now. But the mini Cabs drivers don’t help you move your things so, it’s more customer focused basically.

So how do you plan to balance your studying with you business when semester starts?

This kind of business is seasonal it’s not an everyday thing. And I’m not moving for everyday people I’m just moving for students so, because students only move at the end of semesters I’ll have nothing to do.

So where do you see you business in 5 years time?

In 5 years time I see myself with 5 mini vans (laughter) hopefully, I just see myself doing a lot better than this you know. Serving Brunel Uni and all the neighbouring universities in Kingston.

What’s the overall dream?

The dream is to be as big as Richard Branson to be a major competitor in the market. Who knows Kingmaker Airways Lagos to Heathrow, but yea that’s the dream.

Money or Love?

Love is important you know…. what kind of love are we talking about? (Laughter)

The love for whatever you’re doing, the passion should I say?

Oh yes the passion for what you’re doing .Money is not a good motivator. I’ve driven all around the country it’s the love, I like to drive it’s my hobby and hopefully the love brings money.

So how can people find out about your business?

I have a Blackberry group called Kingmaker transport and i also have a group on Facebook called Kingmaker transport group and you could also find us on Kingmakertransport.blogspot.com

Thanks for your time emmanuel.

‘Jobstart’ – the ultimate graduate jobseeker training day next Tuesday 15th June (9.30am- 4.30pm)!

350 Kingston new graduates have confirmed/booked their places

This is an excellent opportunity to maximise your potential in what is still a very competitive job market! The day is jam packed full of sessions that will equip you with the essential skills for your future career and job success…. sessions include: how to network and work a room to build contacts, how to brand yourself, guide to psychometric testing, body language, practice interviews and much more.

For more information and to reserve a place please email g2b@kingston.ac.uk with the following information….

· Name

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· Mobile number

· Subject studied

· Level (e.g. MA/BA/BSc)

· Date of completion (MM/YYYY)

· University attended

A Student at the University of Kingston studying business has created a website that offers online copyright, he re-launched the site today “TheRightcopy.co.uk”.

It offers free online protected copyright for a number of intellectual properties such as:

Design Registration (Graphics, logo, photography, paintings etc)
Visual Registration (Film, Documentaries, Animation, Plays etc)
Audio Registration (Sounds, Music, Musical Works, Recordings etc)
Writers Registration (Books, writings, poetry, Memoirs, Blogs etc).

Every major Studio in the UK music industry is Buzzing with support and praise for the “sheer Genius” of The RightCopy. It has given up and coming artist the much needed protection they need and with relative ease, you can copyright your material in three easy steps.

I have a lot of friends in the music industry and i noticed they kept sending their work to themselves by post via special delivery, I thought i would cut out that process, where they could do it easier, faster and for free, fully protected, for those who want their original work, we can also send it to them for £3 on a CD.

I tried to make the signup process as smooth and simple as possible with only three process, you know: Signup(Enter your details) Upload(Upload what you want to copyright) Certification(and then you get your certificate, which means your work is copyrighted and you can sue anyone that uses it.

Rarely do i come across an entrepreneur not following the crowd, rarely do you get the odd idea or start-up, so simple yet so efficient, although only people from the valley are regarded as gurus or web entrepreneur but i think this is something to go home to think about.

Universities, Poetry communities and even art galleries are directing their members to The RightCopy, “protection at your fingertips”.

The Buzz and interest has been so huge that over a thousand users singed up in the first week and about 70% are actively using the site. It has even caught the eye of a major record label that are looking to use the website exclusively, keep in touch via their blog, we will spill the beans once we’re legally allowed to do so!

My initial target market were students, but after the launch, i have seen that publishing companies, record labels and other big companies might be very interested in the website, so that’s interesting, i believe anyone doing stuff online should really be copyrighting their work.

The Buzz has also been great, the response has been fantastic, we’ve been promoting it mostly online, just via facebook, twitter and word of mouth and i have also been spending a lot of time on the phone convincing friends that i knew it would benefit to sign up and refer their friends also, We’ve mainly got lots of poets and music artists signing up but we are looking to get more people to know about it. Most of my friends are in uni, i am still getting them to spread the word around as well.

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