Children’s party is one of the most dearly event for a parent. It could be for various occasions like the birthday party, baptism, graduation, and other such events such as the festive season which the parents may want to celebrate. The key aspects of a children’s birthday party are the Decoration, gifts, entertainment and food & drinks. One may choose to do this business covering all the three aspects and may call himself as an end to end organizer of parties. The other option is to just specialise in any of the three and have contacts with the party organizer and grow the business thru various party organizers.

MARKET:
The market for the party are wide range of parents who want to just enjoy with their kids and are too tied up to make arrangements. It will be an ever existing market and it is difficult to size it as every household may differ in amount they want to spend on each party.

CLIENT:
The client are the kid’s parents interested in availing this service. As it is a service oriented business, client satisfaction is a key in the business. Also it is very important to ensure that the clients call up repeatedly for more business and refer to others for organizing the party.

Requirements for Children’s party business:

Following are the list of mandatory elements for beginning the business:
Business License
Photos of party themes
Business Phone and Cell Phone

Following are the list of optional elements:
Franchise connection: This is not critical. Having a franchise helps in getting the knowhow of the business. There are quite a few firms who run as a franchisee.
Vehicle with Cargo space
Shop or Office of choice to show case the party themes.

Apart from the above, one needs to have lots and lots of creativity.

How to go about the business:

– Develop business relationships with vendors, suppliers, caterers and entertainers. Negotiate a standard fee of using their services.
– Plan and collect themes that would be offered to clients. Fix the prices of the themes which would have to be competitive to the market rates.
– Ensure that the unique selling point of the business is identified and communicated to all the prospective clients.
– Plan the games and gifts in line with the themes so as to make the event memorable.
– Innovate and try to perform something new in every party so that the clients don’t see repetition every time.
– Initially pitch on to various existing business owners who may subcontract the party organizing activity during their busy schedule. This would lead to having the first set of clients. The clients may thereafter refer to other clients wanting to organize the party.
– Understand the requirement of the client and the budget within which the party has to be conducted.
– Focus on maintaining good relationships with the clients and the other business owners.
– Attend all the party and enjoy with the kids. This will show the level of engagement and seriousness in the party.
– Promote the business by every possible means i.e. through flyers, facebook or Youtube etc.

So we have reached 10,000 visitors on our website? Excellent stuff, thank you very much forum members for the support getting website hits is not an easy thing especially when it’s a website that majors on business. Business by its nature is normally a hard-sell on social media forums. So getting 10,000 visitors in 18 days is an impressive record with an average of 500 visitors per day.

ZBIN Newsletter: We are currently working on designing a newsletter that will summarise all ZBIN Forum discussions, file them and distribute to all of you on a bi-monthly basis. An opportunity created for all of you interested in adverts and having business news in one place. In future do look forward to a ZBIN App that enables all members to have up to date business information at a click of a button. The App should be coming in the next 3 months.

Rabbit Week

You may have seen my advert inviting members to join the ZBIN Rabbit Group, yes we have formed a Rabbit Group and all members who registered will be added to the group by end of week. We are hoping to revive interest by Zimbos is raising rabbits on a commercial basis. One area we are going to closely work on is the market for rabbit meat. We hope to help publicise and create new markets for rabbits. We are hoping to work together as a group in creating demand and also provide supply of rabbit meat.

Mozambique Group

All is in order for the Mozambique trip in a few weeks’ time. We already have a checklist to help members in the preparation of the trip. We have 25 forum members travelling to Tete for business explorations. Thanks to Clara Mapfumo and the rest of the Moz Opportunities group. We are no longer accepting applications for space on the travelling team.

After the Tete trip we will arrange another trip to Moz and it maybe to Beira or Chimoio. All logistics for the second trip to be done after the Tete tour. The Chimoio trip might be a day trip where we leave Harare at 3:00am arriving at Forbes Border Post at 6:00am and be in Chimoio by 8/9:00am. We will spend 4/5 hours before coming back and be in Harare by 10:00pm. The aim of the trip will be for forum members to appreciate business developments in neighbouring countries, doing so with the aim of taking advantage of possible business opportunities.

Online Forex Trading

We are going to have a forum competition on dummy operations. All members are encouraged to have opened dummy accounts where we are going to have a competition and the winner will be featured on this website. The aim of the competition is to enable members to develop confidence in the operation of Meta Trader 4 App which allows members to trade online forex. Our Group policy remains that members must trade  online forex on their own. No middlemen allowed to trade on behalf of anyone.

Cape Town Group Revived

We are planning to have a meeting for all Zimbo Capetonians in mid Dacember. Registration of the members is in progress and Rodwell Maoneke is in charge with logistics for the second ZBIN meeting in the Mother City.

Upcoming Posts

1. Truck Inn Opportunities along Zimbabwe’s Highways
2. Rabbit Market
3. Source of Second hand vehicles car parts
4. Shire River Port
5. Interview with a sister based in Pemba, Mozambique
6. Sugar Beans Farming
7. Peri-Urban areas opportunities
8. Indian Start Ups
9. Tourism Opportunities
10. Import Substitution Opportunities.

ZBIN Networking Event

We are holding a ZBIN Social gathering event this Friday at Paramount in Hatfield, Harare.  No fees charged you just get in touch and we will socialise and discuss business. I will be providing you  with more details about this event during the week.