Date: August 2019 The day begins with confirming the perspex design for the Zoot Tube. After signing off on the designs, we meet Alexis, our marketing consultant, at a coffee shop. This chat is about locating a Digital Marketer. It’s…
Date: July 2019 We meet the landlord agent. The agent has been sent with the lease for our new shop in Mason’s Press, for a reasonably large space. You can tell this particular person has been there done that and…
Date: June 2019 After settling on a design for the brand, setting up the blog, we need to hire a freelance writer. Eventually, we met a writer called Andrew. He’s a bit of a whirlwind of a man. He arrives…
Date: February 2019 After deciding that our business name was going to be Zootly and had a version of what we were selling, it was time for us to hire someone to help us with the branding. This was one…
Date: October 2018 - January 2019 A few months into setting up the business we officially had a name, Zootly. The name came about from Chris’s hometown Knysna. In the sleepy Garden Route town a Zoot was a joint. We…
Date: Mid 2018 After reading Tim Ferriss’s Four Hour Work Week, it dawned on me that there’s a real need to take all my business opportunities online. I needed to learn digital marketing, e-commerce, and even how to source stock…
Date: Early 2018 My cousin Mark came to me with an idea, “Why not grow weed in Zimbabwe? It’s legal now!” Excited at the prospect of getting into a new business venture, I dived straight into it. Mark and I…
