On a weekly basis, our forum compiles a newsletter for our members. The newsletter targets more than 10,000 of our members on our Whatsapp groups.
In this latest edition:
-Source of Opportunities
-Forum Hack and Recovery
-Welcome to Hydroponics
– Jah Prayzer and Digital Marketing
-Recipe of the week
-Mbira Video of the week
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Truck drivers have the most information when it comes to opportunities! They transport the most wanted goods within the country and what is more? Across the borders too including the region…
They know changes in goods being transported and also share stories of what they will be carrying with fellow drivers. What is Zimbabwe transporting to Beira and back? Durban to Kinshasa and back?
They have a wealth of information on opportunities which is unparalled! This is why we gave more time to our member based in Tanzania at the February meeting in Chitugwiza.
In future newsletter editions, we will include a *Gonyet Driver Opportunities Tracker* to monitor latest opportunities from the trucking sector
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Forum Hack and Recovery
What a scare yesterday, woke up and got shocked to see our forum hacked with admin changes. Our Facebook is one of the key pillars of the forum as we have close to 70,000 members with the rate of growth of 300 new additions everyday.
Formed 6 years ago, the forum has a wealth of information which is a key asset to the nation. All opportunity discussions are there, we have covered every sector.
Of late we had also witnessed an upsurge in the number of views per month with numbers nearing 800,000 meaning a great market place for forum members.
We are glad we managed to get help and would also like to advise our members to use the two-factor authentification on Facebook. It allows you to log into Facebook using an sms key submitted to your phone.
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Hydroponics Opportunities
Climatic change is reality and this has serious repercussions on food security across the continent. How should farmers cope?
Welcome to hydroponics which is a method of growing plants in water based, nutrient rich solution. It does not use soil, instead the root system is supported using an inert medium such as perlite, rockwool, clay pellets, peat moss or vermiculture.
Sounds Greek and Not Interesting? Yes in Zimbabwe we generally resist new things until a sufficient number of people have joined and making great profits.
Visit Hydroponics in Zimbabwe Facebook Page and be inspired by Accountant turned farmer, Venencia Mukarakati. Visit Youtube too for many case studies.
Opportunities to grow crops for exports too given that the EU is importing fruits and veges from Zimbabwe.
Capital? This is where Crowdfarming comes in. Once you set up a structure, its difficult for anyone to then say the structure was stolen. The good thing is farming can be conducted in urban areas allowing ease of monitoring and also access to markets.
Watch out for Hydroponic crowdfunding initiatives in the coming months.
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Jah Prayzer and Digital Marketing
He released an album titled Hokoyo and it has been doing well on Youtube with record views. He also made history by releasing 7 great videos from the same album.
Did you notice this? He invited fans to post their videos dancing to their favourite songs. You will agree some of the videos are top quality. Some of the videos have gone viral…Zim has talent!
What should be of interest to Digital Marketing Students is the involvement of *users* in the video marketing experience. Those who produces great videos benefit too as their videos also go viral and exposing their talents to millions of viewers.
In your marketing initiatives, are you just uploading videos on Youtube and folding your hands? Food for thought.
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Recipe of the week
🥮 *Rich Chocolate Cake* 🥧
*Author: Runyararo Bake-It*
*0772 906 271*
*COURSE: Special Occasion or Dessert.*
Ingredients
#2 cups of flour
#1/2 cup of unsweetened Cocoa Powder.
#2 cups of sugar.
#1cups of buttermilk.
#1cup of warm strong black coffee.
#2 teaspoons of vanilla essence.
#2 teaspoons of baking powder.
#1 tablespoons of baking soda.
#1/2 cup of oil.
#1 teaspoon of salt.
#4 eggs.
Method
1. Mix and sift all your dry ingredients together.
2. Mix all the wet ingredients together except the black coffee.
3. Add all your wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and start mixing.
4. Gradually add the warm black coffee till your cake batter is well mixed.
5. Bake at 180degrees fan oven for about 30mins.
6. Us a cocktail stick to poke on the middle of the cake to see whether it’s ready.
**Bake-It*
*Taste the difference**
https://www.facebook.com/bakeIt88/
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Mbira Video of the week
Moyo Yavo Yakaoma: African Mbira Drums
The video of a truckdriver with his truck on auto-drive whilst he was busy dancing to mbira music went viral on social media around February. We searched for the song on Youtube and found it. It is magical, if you want a jiti experience then this is the video for you. Immense talent from youngsters featured in the video. How about the drums? Zimbabwe has had great drummers from the late Jethro Shasha, former Black Spirits drummer, Sam Mataure, Obert Gomba from Mberikwazvo but those who appreciate drums will give the drummers in the video a world cup!
Great song but do not get addicted!
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Telegram Account
We opened a Telegram Account which is similar to Whatsapp in functions and the good news is unlike Whatsapp, Telegram allows us to add up to 200,000 members. This means one big market for the forum. Do look out for the forum link and join hundreds of others.
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Zim Business Ideas and Network
No 34 Quendon Rd, Monavale, Harare
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