Watching World Trends Online
Posted by zi.editor on August 21st, 2008 in Websites & Blogs.
Manufacturing in Zimbabwe is not dead. For Zimbabweans whose supermarket shelves bear no local goods at all, this is almost a blasphemous statement.
Ok, perhaps it is very nearly dead, but you won’t see many of the goods produced here sold locally.
They are being exported to South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and further afield to countries across the oceans. That is the only way these businesses can make a profit- export and get paid in US dollars. But that’s not the point I want to make…
For any business that is interested in selling its products and services around the world, it is important to know what world trends are in the particular market you are selling to and it helps a great deal to have an idea of what world trends are.
I came across an interesting website that does just that, track world trends. They produce a monthly briefing which is published on the site and sent out to their email list. The briefing is available free of charge.
