The year is slowly moving to the end and we are just 2 months shy from 2020. What a difficult year characterised by a tough economic environment for Zimbabweans. There have been too many swings in the economy and we hope 2020 will be more stable.
What has been taking place on the forum lately?
1) Beira Tour: Great tour and an eye opener. We are compiling a video of our findings and it will become the first official video of business opportunities in Beira
2) App Development: This is groundbreaking! We will soon have a mobile app for the forum that helps to connect all of our forums and be available at a click of a button. The biggest buzz on the forum which will result in a bigger market for our members. We officially will become the first business forum in the country to have members connected to a mobile app.
3) Malawi Tour: On the 3rd of November, a few members will head to Lilongwe for a business tour in the Warm Heart of Africa.
4) Public Lecture: We carried out a public lecture on entrepreneurship at Bindura University of Science and Education. Well received by staff and students. We have a follow up to create a group of college students and incorporate it to our forums.
5) Bootcamp for Young Entrepreneurs: We host a training workshop for school and college leavers in December. A new initiative for entrepreneurs equipping college leavers with the 4th Industrialisation skills.
6) Crowdfunding initiatives: Apart from our mobile app, this is the most successful project of the year where we are pooling resources for farming operations. We have already formed a company and identified land for operations.
7) Two books: Our first book unfortunately leaked with an estimated half a million copies circulated. Bad news of the leak but shows our book became the most pirated book on social media last year. We have another one-better one coming out by end of year. We have also entered the South African market with our debut coming again at the end of the year.
8) End of year party: Do not miss out on our end of year party to be held in December. A great opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs. We held a mid year party in August which saw a lot of our members participating. We are expecting more than 150 members to attend including some based in the diaspora.
In terms of numbers, we are doing exceptionally well with 47,000 members on our Zimbabwe platforms and 67,000 on our South African platforms. The SA platforms attracting and incredible 1000 new members every week.
Our Zim Facebook platform doing extremely well with almost half a million views of posts on a monthly basis. It has become the key portal for small businesses in Zimbabwe and the launch of our mobile app means better connection and sharing of resources.
Do not miss out on our new Whatsapp groups on Financial Literacy and Young Entrepreneurs where we have added more than a thousand members.
For forum inquiries, do contact our administrator on +263774081808.
Awesome stuff! Let’s keep the momentum…
Many Thanx