What a unique year—3 months to go? And this Covid-19 is now the norm but look at the devastating impacts. The good news is South Africa new cases are going down, hoping to witness similar trends this side.
What new strategies can you employ for the remainder of the year:
- The futures is basics—align your business model to Food, Accommodation, Transport, Education, Health and Energy.
- The future is entrepreneurship—your business model should support entrepreneurs or enable others to make money
- The future is solid relationships—our forum groups facilitate networking, take advantage
- The future is digital—if you mentioned the importance of digital platforms last year, few would take interest but the Covid-19 accelerated the adoption of digital strategies
- The future is exports orientated—unbelievable returns by a small clique of Zimbabweans farming for exports to Europe
- The future is crowdfunding—get experience of working well with others on digital platforms, effectively using them to raise capital and form businesses.
Learn new languages—Portuguese, French, Mandarin and Swahili
Learn new skills—Baking cakes, events management, hat making, carpentry, farming, digital marketing, app development, website development, cyber security, data science etc
Empower your kids—school is not enough, do not leave your children on empowerment, trainings, books etc
Read new business books—financial literacy, critical thinking, entrepreneurship etc
Farming: Get your business plan for the next farming season ready, the time is now—do not wait for December or January to begin preparations.
Exit and Join meaningful groups—Do not clutter your phone with meaningless groups. Select at most 5 key groups. Effectively participate but if the group is full of meaningless groups, then press exit at the earliest convenience. You are hanging with the wrong crew!
As a forum, we are not going to be creating new groups, infact we will be closing and consolidating groups so that we will only have a few effective groups. Every Thursday there will be a key presentation by members . Our next one is on Hybrid Paw Paw growing and we only have space for 70 members to fill up the group.
Launches
We will be launching our Women’s forum on the 5th of September: A great initiative on women empowerment.
We will also be launching our Borehole Crowdfunding initiative on the 6th of September and the initiative seeks to raise capital to buy borehole machinery that will drill boreholes for members at an affordable cost.
We have a small helpful handbook on Ponzi Schemes which chronicles the history of ponzi schemes in Zimbabwe, the tricks used and how to identify future ponzi schemes and action you need to take.
We have also started compiling our 2021 Business Opportunities Book. It is our 6th book and follows the same model of previous ones of focus on practical opportunities and Zimbabwean experiences. It should be out by early December 2020.
So pause-review how operations have gone to date from January and craft an injury time strategy for the rest of the year.
Muito Obrigado
