The biggest event on the forum was the trip to Tete by the ZBIN Portuguese Group and we thank the Almighty that all went well. The group lead by Clara Mapfumo was in the Mozambican City for a period of 2 days and I hear they did well and will follow up in the coming two weeks.
After the Tete visit we shift our focus to Beira. We are still at planning stage and deciding whether to travel to Beira or Chimoio from the 28th to the 29th of December. More details will be shared with the forum members during the next two weeks.
Interviews
So we continue to unlock business information from Zimbos based in the Diaspora and to date we have given you interviews from India, DRC, Namibia, Canada, Dubai and Cape Town. Today we covered another interview with a sister based in Pemba a city which few Zimbos know about. I would like to thank Mrs Kapitawo for agreeing to be interviewed and sharing a lot of photos from a city which is hard to pinpoint where it is on the map.
I have secured another interview with a ZBIN sister based in Germany, a successful business person and an Accountant working in Germany who has interesting stuff for the ZBIN community. Expect this interview on Wednesday-another interview of a sister based in Kenya should be coming during the end of the week.
Why Interviews? The reason is simple, to help you get official information about other areas where vana vevhu stay and show that you too can do it. The interview with Mrs Kapitawo shows that she has opened a new company in Mozambique and as a member of ZBIN Baking she is going to get a lot of help from others who are in the business and she can also help inspire others. This is the founding principle of ZBIN, unlocking business opportunities through networking and business information exchanges.
Adverts Section
There are few takers for the free platform we have on the website where we are inviting members to place their adverts for goods or services for sale. This platform is much better than Facebook adverts where you have to compete with thousands of other advertisers. So use this platform for your own benefit.
Videos on the Platform
So I discovered a new way of putting Youtube videos on the forum this week and this has been helpful in telling the full story of any issue posted on our website. Kindly refer to Clara Mapfumo’s video on opportunities in Mozambique. We shot the video at our meeting held at Paramount a month ago. We invite members to improve in terms of marketing- in addition to photos, please shoot short videos and post on Youtube. If you have challenges in uploading on Youtube then send them to me during weekends.
Videos are going to help you explain fully your business story, they are going to help you identify new markets and potential partners. So make short videos and don’t worry about quality, we will improve with time. A two to four minute is good enough for a start. Iam therefore expecting my inbox to be flooded with videos every Saturday or Sunday and promise to upload them all. If you like to see the impact of videos then compare and contrast a newspaper and a television! So from mining,baking,poultry,online forex trading – Iam looking forward to your videos.
Research
As promised, we will be making follow ups on Vending Machines and Crowd Funding and will share information with you during the week.
Online Newsletter
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The 2017 National Budget
We hope to look at the National Budget that was presented this week and will look at what this means for the ordinary ZBIN member-those in business and those considering investment. We will look at possible scenarios in terms of business, if you like financial modelling then here is your chance to participate as we develop more models for use by the group. This will only be distributed via our newsletter.
Group Logo
Vote of Thanks to the ZBIN member, a hardworking and innovative youngster who developed our forum logo for free. We will feature him on the website during the week. May God bless you abundantly for the efforts.
Holidays and Parenting
Are you a parent? Do you have kids? If your answer to the two questions is yes, then here is something interesting we are going to be doing-we will be covering topics to help young minds to appreciate business. A couple of researches will be coming your way and the first one is creating of a vending machine, please refer them to the vending machine post and show them how to make one. It will help them in sharpening their research,teamwork,innovation and business skills. All you need to do is to download the video, buy the materials and then give them a task. We will come up with a comprehensive list of projects for them next week.
So till next week, WaMdala signs off
