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5 Online Business Opportunities For The Zimbabwean Youth

Technology has allowed people to earn money from online businesses. There are a few things you need to consider when choosing what type of online business to pursue. You first need to identify your community or target market’s needs, it’s always easier to succeed when you follow your own passion in your business and it’s crucial to have an interesting and captivating brand.

Here are some of the online businesses that do succeed in Zimbabwe to help you decide on what to pursue.

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1. Local internet marketing

With more people warming up to using the internet in their purchasing process, this is a great business opportunity that only requires you to be strategic to be able to return the investment you need. You can use social media marketing, targeted online sales promotions and local directory listings.

2. Advertising

Instead of giving companies free space on your website start charging for it. If your website has a growing number of visitors per day, have companies and advertisers pay you for their adverts to be seen on your website.

3. E-commerce

A strategy where services and products are sold directly to the consumers using B2B, B2C or consumer to consumer using computers connected to a network. E-commerce allows you to sell other people’s products on websites that you manage, but with none of the risk.

4. Leverage your Social influence

If you have a huge following on social media who click on your links, you can leverage this asset to make money by sending out sponsored tweets. With marketplaces like Sponsored Tweets and PaidPerTweet which allows you to post offers, you are able to find offers to promote products that are relevant to your community of followers and won’t kill your social media credibility.

5. Complete micro-tasks in your spare time

You can make a business out of micro-tasking, businesses often need help with scrolling, finding images, clicking, evaluating data, dragging, writing five-word descriptions or copy-pasting and you can do it in your spare time. Micro tasking is highly scalable and  doesn’t require too much of your attention.

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