Zi.Report  looks at how one innovative Zimbabwean company has used online marketing to fuel its growth and profits.

Left: Milton Kamwendo, Managing Consultant of Innov8

On Wednesday 11th February 2004, the first issue of an electronic newsletter entitled “Unleashing Greatness” went out.  This was a pioneering move from a pioneering young business called Innov8 whose mission was to motivate and inspire people to achieve the best they could in life. (more…)

Newly formed online marketing firm, Lists of Africa, today (7th August 2008) launched an innovative new service to enable Zimbabweans to advertise for free by email. The new service, an email group called SuddenlyZW will enable anyone who signs up to send short email messages advertising goods and services to thousands of potential customers.

The service will be offered for free and Lists of Africa has not indicated how it hopes to benefit from this service. (more…)

Remember our story about the ZOL Internet Unit (ZIU)? Well the people at ZOL have expanded the ZIU currency- sorry- concept.  Their customers can now pay in Old Mutual Shares and, hear this, fuel coupons! (more…)

One of Zimbabwe’s leading Internet Service Providers, Zimbabwe Online (ZOL), which suspended its billing system a few weeks ago as it could not cope with all the zeroes, has come up with an innovative billing system. It has introduced a new way of charging their customers- the ZOL Internet Unit (ZIU). (more…)

Econet Wireless Holdings (”Econet”), a Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed telecommunications services company, is pleased to announce the launch of its new investor relations section of the Group website on www.econet.co.zw. (more…)

Lessons for Zimbabwean companies from the heart of an Asian success story

When the business boom began in Mumbai India perhaps a decade ago, the transport, water and electricity infrastructure was falling apart. Potholed highways, frequent power cuts, inconsistent water supplies, etc were some of the challenges that businesses had to deal with. Sound familiar? Today, things have changed a great deal- but civil infrastructure is still many years away from being adequate. (more…)

Technology counter Celsys Limited’s printing subsidiary Celsys Print has commissioned a new re-charge card printing and labelling machine worth 250 000 euros that arrived from Ireland in April.

Celsys Print is in negotiations with Econet for recharge card production using the new equipment and has already started producing scratch cards for both Net*One and Telecel. There are also some very promising export leads in the region. (more…)

On 25 March 2008 at its analyst presentation in Harare Zimbabwe, Kingdom Meikles Africa Limited, the largest local conglomerate listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange announced the launch of a new investor relations website: MeiklesAfrica.co.zw.