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Max International To Deepen Footprints In Ghana – Africa
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Max International Ghana, the producers of wellness and weight-loss supplements and products, is embarking on an expansion drive as it intends to open three more branches across the country this year.
This is aimed at expanding the reach and footprints of the company to the other regions in the country.
The Assistant General Manager for Max International Ghana, Ms Miriam Mahama, said this in an interview with the Daily Graphic after a press soiree in Accra.
“Because we don’t have branches in every region, it is sometimes very difficult to get products to our associates in other regions and we are hoping to solve this problem by expanding our reach,” she said.
“So we have opened an office in Kumasi which is serving the Ashanti and Northern regions and we are looking at opening other branches
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11 African Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the Business Landscape
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From hi-tech to fashion to branding, startups are transforming the continent and supercharging commerce.
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QNET Exposition Draws 50,000 Global Entrepreneurs Around Africa
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Prominent Asian Direct Selling Company, QNET created history with an unforgettable month-long ‘Absolute Living Expo’ that saw 50,000 attendees overall, and covered five countries in the African continent; namely Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Mali.
The Absolute Living Expo aimed to provide current and potential QNET Independent Representatives a chance to experience world-class products, and to learn first-hand about the life-changing possibilities of network marketing through QNET.
“Keeping in tune with our global Absolute Living campaign, the expo served as a great platform to create awareness about our holistic approach to health and wellness, based on the four key messages around our products – Eat Absolutely, Drink Absolutely, Breathe Absolutely, and Feel Absolutely.
The most popular of our products were the Swiss eLearning Institutes online courses and EDG3, our flagship health product under
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5 Hot African Industries Investors Should Be Watching
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As credit access and technology infrastructure improve, partnering with a multitude of African counterparts means business opportunities for you.
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Direct Selling – MLM Is Growing Fast In Africa
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Africa is becoming the next Direct Selling / MLM / Network Marketing hub, Global Wealth Trade Africa Summit became a smashing hit.
All the same Global Wealth Trade’s summit in Nigeria was a total hit with over 5,000 new guests poured in to Abuja, Lagos and Warri hotel rooms in one week to see the opportunity with this Canadian luxury designer fashion house.
“I was shocked by the number of GWT Luxury Consultants who were 10K Club qualifiers ($10,000/month) and even CAP CLUB qualifiers ($10,000/week)” explains the GWT Founder Ramin Mesgarlou.
Ted Nuyten had the honor to interview CEO Ramin Mesgarlou:
Ramin, your business is in 94 countries so explain the differences in building in traditional MLM markets and the new up and coming MLM markets like Africa.
It’s nice to expand to new MLM markets
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Solar Sisters Promote Energy Access Through Direct Selling
by Ramya Chandrasekaran • • 0 Comments
“Okay, so who here knows the company Avon?”
Neha Misra, Co-founder and Chief Collaboration Officer at Solar Sister, was trying to explain the structure of Solar Sister, the NGO she helped create—an NGO that counts Exxon Mobil Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative, UN Women, and USAID among its partners.
In response to her question, about half of the conference attendees confidently raised their hands and promptly began to chuckle at the attendees with both hands at their sides, bemusedly looking around. Surprise, surprise: Most of the attendees with a hand raised were women; those who didn’t recognize Avon were mostly men.
This all took place at a Millennium Challenge Corporation panel discussion on development initiatives that promote both gender equality and energy access. …So what does Avon have to do with energy access or gender-inclusive development initiatives?
Solar
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Remarkable Network Marketing Success In Africa
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AbdurRazaq Abdul-Aziz is a Top Network Marketing Leader in Nigeria, Africa. Presently he has a team of 3,300 distributors in 24 countries including Nigeria, Japan, Ghana, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, France, South Africa,Italy and USA.
This is what he had to say about his road to success which started in Nigeria:
“After completing my university education, I joined my father in our family business. We provide cleaning solutions for homes and offices.
My income was not enough to provide the kind of lifestyle that I desired for my young family and me. I began to look for other sources of additional income. Someone introduced me to Network Marketing. I had heard about it before and what I heard was not good. So I had made up my mind that I would never get involved
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Africa’s Solar Sister Empowers Women With Clean Energy
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An African social business has been leveraging on the direct sales model to help empower women with economic opportunity while promoting the breakthrough potential of clean energy technology.
Solar Sister is a social business that uses the direct selling model to distribute solar equipment in Africa. It’s been operating for more than five years and now works with about 1,500 women entrepreneurs in three countries. The women buy solar lamps, solar phone chargers, and solar panels at cost, then mark up the items at retail, pocketing the difference. Solar Sister provides training and support, helping the saleswomen reach their goals.
CEO Katherine Lucey explains the challenges the company has faced in that time and how Solar Sister hopes to continue to grow.
Lucey founded the business on the premise that women are the family members most likely
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Tanzanian MLM Rifaro Africa Launches Mobile Airtime Product
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Tanzanian network marketing firm, Rifaro Africa has introduced a service package that allows mobile users to generate income in the course of buying airtime.
The newly introduced service, launched this week in Dar es Salaam, comes in the wake of fast-expanding businesses, coupled with products and services opening up in Tanzania.
Mobile phone subscribers using various mobile networks will benefit from the new services, says Rifaro Africa Managing Director, James Gathonjia, adding that, “At the moment, Rifaro Africa uses direct selling methods to distribute Zantel products and services primarily and exclusively using an online platform.”
“At Rifaro Africa, in addition to selling products that people need, we sell products that everyone uses. It is evident that telecommunication companies spend billions of shillings on advertising and with our company, we simply save marketing expenses of billboards,