MARGRET ASUQUO
QNET, a lifestyle and wellness focused direct-selling company, in collaboration with its logistics partner, Transblue Nigeria Limited, has restated its commitment to deployed the direct sales approach method to expand the lifestyle and well-being products across Nigeria to increase sales through retail customers or a team of independent representatives.
The firm which is known for providing top-tier lifestyle and wellness, aims at fostering entrepreneurial drive through its FinGreen and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Speaking at the product exhibition in Lagos on Wednesday, the Managing Director, Transblue Nigeria Ltd, Mr. Akeem Ajisafe, remarked that QNET has made impressive efforts to improve and implement youth empowerment initiatives.
According to him, “The ongoing “Say NO! Campaigns to raise awareness about the dangers of fraudulent job offers used by scammers to lure victims into human trafficking has been crucial in highlighting the urgent need to protect youths from falling prey to unscrupulous individuals and organisations.
"Hence, debunking misconceptions about QNET in Nigeria by promoting transparency, and fostering innovation among youths by empowering them through education and training."
Speaking further, Ajisafe added: “Such initiative is the signature financial literacy program, FinGreen, which has equipped over 1,350 youths in local communities across Nigeria with employability and entrepreneurial skills to achieve financial independence.”
He asserts that the interactive workshops and train-the-trainer approach had empowered 25 FinGreen ambassadors to educate over 750 youths in crucial financial principles through the peer-to-peer module.
He explained that the direct selling industry represents and offers an innovative alternative to traditional retail which does not require a brick-and-mortar approach in conducting as this cuts out conventional retail space with the inculcating of technology to operate in an online platform. essential skills and knowledge for safe navigation of the job market.
In her remarks. QNET Senior Legal Counsel, Sub-Saharan Africa, Theodocia Nana Quartey, asserts that since the establishment of Qnet in Hong Kong, there has been a rapid expansion of the company.
She said: ”We have grown to have a networking marketing app which ensures that individuals who are interested in building businesses out of our product to promote our products and can earn commissions when they can promote product purchases”
She, however, buttressed that commissions are made only when products are purchased by individuals who are introduced to the products of the company through the direct selling method approach engaged by the industry.
“We have engaged in educational products, and educational campaigns with several other institutions. We currently have a running agreement with the Federal Ministry of Employment and Labour where we have educated some youth on the job market on how to tell fake job offers from real ones, equipping them with the necessary knowledge on the job markets. Hence, elevating youth from poverty and trying to move people from poverty into a state where they can fend for themselves and help raise others."
QNET product training officer, Olugbemiga Ogunlela, highlighted the importance of some of the firm's wellbeing products with the Chi Pendent 4- a device that safeguards the wellness of people, manufactured by QNET.
“The Chi Pendent 4- has several minerals put together to get the particular design with a flower of life inside with a geometry that helps ensure that the harmful radiation that should have affected us from our gadgets and devices does not get to us as there is a shield that energises us on the go," he said.
