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BusinessOpportunities.co.za is a B2B platform that connects buyers and sellers, builds supply, value, and logistics chains to help start, build and grow businesses. Each opportunity acts as a means to connect buyers and sellers. It is a lead generation platform to post and reply to buy, sell, offer or obtain service, hire, rent, barter, and network ads. It assists with sourcing and selling. It is where small business buy-leads, sell-leads, sourcing, and supply converge.

The platform consists of various micromarketplaces that link supply and demand in real time. As the platform grows and markets become more and more targeted, we want each market to act as a framework to complete a project.

For only R100 for a month you are able to post up to 10 ads in the relavant market as well as get access to good deals that we found.

What is a "business opportunity"?

Many people have different definitions of a business opportunity, most assume some kind of package deal or equipment with contract, most don’t understand the term and assume its some kind of passive opportunity. Any business opportunity needs both hard work and competence to execute. And we haven’t even gotten to capital requirements.

Most - if not all - South African’s looking for real “turnkey” opportunities simply cannot afford it, the only real opportunity with a high degree of success is a franchise with brand cachet and market reach; petrol station on a busy road, major food brand in a mall. Then you looking at R5m to R10m of unencumbered capital.

Many people have a problematic view of a “business opportunity” as they incorrectly equate it with easy money. Unfortunately most people views have no basis in reality and that is why they often fall for scams.

The further along you “buy into” an opportunity the more it will cost. Individual equipment and materials will cost less than a "startup kit", which will cost less than a franchise with market research and business plan which will cost less than an established business.

Some define a business opportunity as "a consumer need or want that can potentially be met by a new business". While others say "a business opportunity is a packaged business investment that allows the buyer to begin a business".

We simply define a business opportunity as "any opportunity to make money", this is important as while our opportunities are cheaper to start they will potentially involve more work both to build into a business and to take to market.
The opportunity is created in the market attached to the business where you can post buy/sell leads. Let us explain: if someone is offering or seeking something that is in itself an opportunity. But a single person can post both a buy and sell lead for the same item to create an opportunity. So they can source and sell from the same marketplace. People looking to buy immediately can then buy from them.

Anatomy of an opportunity

We use a framework to come up with business opportunities. We examine supply value logistics chains for opportunities, gaps in the market, untapped niches. It is your job to come up with a plan that suits you. No plan downloaded from the Internet will help you. Read "not for you" for more information.

Each business opportunity has a single structure:
The opportunity
Sourcing
Business Model
Selling

This can be interpreted in many ways but we keep things simple:
Source > Add Value > Sell

Those three things is all you need to take a product, service or business to market.
The "add value" can be a simple "transformation in space," getting the goods closer to the customer, or "transformation in form," packaging and repacking, and more labor-intensive processing or manufacturing. While others engage in "transformation in time," storing and agglomerating and then selling at the ample opportunity (at the right time or when they have the right amount).

The selling: marketing is probably most important, advertising and sales is usually the hardest starting out.

How we work & why

We study supply, value and logistics chains of businesses looking for opportunities to connect supply and demand if there is supply but not enough demand we look for ways increase demand by exploring various angles so our members can make money.

In South Africa, a few big players control the mainstream market, making it very difficult for small businesses to get traction. The best is to find a niche with a clear path to profitability. Our goal is to establish markets (link supply and demand) for anything legal, no matter how niche. We will try to create new markets as well by maneuvering supply and demand. If something was too expensive, difficult, or dangerous to do before, we might make a plan to make it happen.

We intend to unlock any opportunity for South Africa's struggling population so long as it is legal, and we look forward to helping marginalized people get out of poverty.