Marketing Jobs in Zimbabwe: Join Our Sales Programme
This is not a salaried job. It is a commission-only affiliate programme, open across all ten provinces. There is no basic wage, no fixed hours, no contract of employment and no guaranteed income. You earn on what you sell and nothing when you do not sell. If you need a fixed monthly salary, this is the wrong page, and we would rather you knew that in the first thirty seconds than in your first week.
What it is instead: a way to earn real money introducing customers to a product Zimbabweans genuinely want, from wherever you are, with no capital, no stock and nothing to pay to start.
Are these marketing jobs in Zimbabwe, or something else?
Something else, and the difference is worth being precise about.
Formal jobs are scarce, and the picture is harder than the headline figures suggest. Public sector hiring has been frozen, and Zimstat figures cited by Afrobarometer put more than 2.5 million Zimbabweans aged 15 to 34 outside employment, education or training. Roughly four out of five jobs in this country sit in the informal economy — trading, commission, piece work — rather than in salaried posts.
That is the market this programme sits in. It is honest, legal, self-directed work of the kind most Zimbabweans are already doing. It is not employment, and calling it a job would be a lie you would discover on payday.
Three things that separate it from most “opportunities” advertised to job seekers:
- You pay nothing. No registration fee, no starter pack, no stock to buy. If a programme asks you for money before you can earn, walk away from it.
- You are paid on products sold, never on people recruited. We pay no commission for signing anyone up. Schemes built on recruitment always collapse on whoever joined last.
- You never handle stock or customer money. You introduce the buyer. We supply, invoice and deliver.
Where in the country can you work?
Anywhere. Affiliates operate from Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Masvingo, Gweru, Kwekwe, Chinhoyi, Bindura, Gwanda, Marondera and the farming areas around all of them.
Some of the best-performing affiliates are not in cities at all. A person in a rural service centre who knows every household running a fowl run within twenty kilometres has a better list than someone in Harare with no farming contacts.
A number work entirely by phone. Others are outside Zimbabwe altogether, selling to family, church networks and former colleagues back home, and arranging orders for relatives who keep birds.
What matters is who you can reach, not where you sit.
What would you actually be selling?
Day-old chicks and the products that go with them, to farmers and households nationwide.
The demand is real and it is large. The Zimbabwe Poultry Association has put national output at around 90 million day-old chicks in a strong year, and estimates that smallholders account for more than 70% of all chick sales. That is not a niche market. Poultry is the country’s most widespread livestock enterprise, and most of its customers are ordinary people running fifty to five hundred birds behind the house.
Your customers are:
- Township and high-density households wanting a batch of broilers for the December market
- Communal and A1 farmers across the resettlement areas
- Commercial growers ordering in thousands
- Schools, churches, clinics and community groups running poultry projects
- Anyone already buying chicks from far away and paying for the journey
- Returning diaspora money — relatives funding a poultry project at home
You are not cold-calling strangers about something nobody asked for. You are telling people who already keep chickens, or want to, where to get good stock.
How does the commission work?
You earn commission on every confirmed, paid and delivered order that comes through you.
| How you earn | Rate |
|---|---|
| Standard commission per chick | [your rate] |
| Bulk order rate, above [X] chicks | [your rate] |
| Repeat customer, second order onward | [your rate] |
| Monthly volume bonus above [X] chicks | [your bonus] |
Commission is calculated on order value, confirmed once the customer has paid and taken delivery, and paid on a set day each month.
Why repeat orders matter more than first orders. A broiler cycle takes six weeks. A farmer who buys once and does well buys again, six or seven times a year, for years. The affiliate who looks after ten serious farmers earns more, and works less, than the one chasing a hundred strangers once. Your income compounds if you build relationships rather than transactions.
How do orders outside the Midlands get delivered?
This is the honest operational question, and you should have the answer before you promise anything to a customer.
We are based in Gweru and run our own delivery across the Midlands — Kwekwe, Redcliff, Shurugwi, Zvishavane, Mvuma and Gokwe. See our delivery routes.
For customers outside that radius, [set out your own arrangement here: which provinces you can reach, whether you work with partner hatcheries or transporters elsewhere, what the delivery charge is, and what the realistic lead time looks like].
The rule for you as an affiliate is simple: log the order, do not promise the delivery. We confirm what is possible to that area before anything is quoted to the customer. You are paid on any order that completes, regardless of who carries it.
Distance is not just a logistics question. A chick travelling several hundred kilometres arrives more stressed than one collected locally, and that shows up in the buyer’s first-week losses rather than on the invoice. Being straight with a distant customer about that is what earns you their second order.
What could you realistically earn?
Take the arithmetic seriously rather than the promises. Work out your own figure from your own rate.
Your monthly commission = chicks sold × your rate, plus any bonus.
Three realistic pictures of what “chicks sold” looks like:
Starting out. You sell to family, neighbours and two or three people from church. Perhaps 300 to 500 chicks a month across a handful of small buyers. This is pocket money, and it is what almost everyone’s first two months look like.
Working at it. You have fifteen to twenty regular farmers, you follow up when their cycle is ending, and new buyers arrive by referral. Perhaps 2,000 to 4,000 chicks a month. At this level the income is meaningful and fairly predictable.
Doing it properly. You cover a defined area, work with two or three commercial growers ordering in thousands, and keep a WhatsApp list people actually read. Above 10,000 chicks a month. This is a full-time occupation and a small business in its own right.
December changes everything. Demand peaks for the festive market, and farmers place orders in September and October for November chicks. An affiliate who works those two months properly can earn more in that window than in the preceding four. See timing broilers for the festive season so you can tell customers exactly when to book.
Who does this suit, and who does it not?
It suits you if:
- You already know farmers, or you live where farming happens
- You are comfortable approaching people you do not know
- You follow up without being told to
- You have another income, or savings, to carry you through the first two months
- You want something you control rather than something you are told to do
It does not suit you if:
- You need guaranteed money this month for rent
- You want fixed hours and a supervisor
- You dislike phoning people back
- You expect income without sustained effort
That last point is where most people fail, and it is not a character flaw. It is arithmetic. The first month is slow because you have no customers yet. People almost always quit in week five — one month before the follow-up work starts paying.
What do you get from us?
Product training you can actually use. You cannot sell chicks credibly if you cannot answer a farmer’s questions. This website is the training manual — what to check when buying day-old chicks, brooding day-old chicks, the cost of raising 100 broilers, broiler feed, why chicks die in the first week and a hundred FAQs.
A referral code and link. Every customer you introduce is tracked to you, whether they order by phone, WhatsApp or through the site.
Sales materials. Price lists, WhatsApp-ready images, and a printable flyer carrying your own contact details.
Backup on hard questions. When a farmer asks something technical you do not know, send it to us. You are never left guessing in front of a customer.
How does tracking and payment work?
Tracking. You get a referral code. Customers give it when ordering, or use your link. Orders are logged against you the moment they are confirmed.
Confirmation. Commission is confirmed once the customer has paid and the chicks have been delivered. Not when they say they will order. Not when they express interest.
Payment. Paid on a set day each month by EcoCash, InnBucks or bank transfer, whichever you choose. Affiliates outside the country can be paid to a local account or a nominated relative.
Visibility. You can see confirmed orders and pending commission before payday, so nothing rests on trusting our arithmetic. If a figure looks wrong, ask, and we will show you the order behind it.
What are the rules?
A short list, and all of it protects you as much as us.
- Do not promise what we have not confirmed. Never guarantee a price, a delivery date or a hatch date without checking. The affiliate carries the customer’s trust, and one broken promise costs that customer permanently.
- Do not quote prices from memory. Chick prices move with feed costs, import duty and season. Check the current list every time.
- Do not take customers’ money for stock. Ever. Customers pay us directly. This rule exists to protect you from an accusation you cannot disprove.
- Do not give veterinary advice you are not qualified to give. Point people to the guidance on this site or to their veterinary officer.
- Be straight about what you are. An independent affiliate, not an employee. Say so if anyone asks.
Break the first three and the arrangement ends. These are not bureaucracy; they are the reasons customers keep buying.
How do you apply?
- Send us a message on WhatsApp or by phone saying you want to join the affiliate programme.
- Tell us where you are based and roughly who you already know who keeps chickens. No CV, no interview.
- We set up your referral code and send the price list and sales materials.
- You start. Your first commission falls due on the next payout day after your first confirmed delivery.
No cost, no test, no waiting list. The only thing we ask is that you intend to work at it, because a code that never brings an order helps neither of us.
Unsure whether this is for you? Read the cost of raising 100 broilers. If that page makes sense and you can picture explaining it to a neighbour, you can do this.
What we see on our own farm
[Replace this block with two or three sentences of your own, specific to this article’s topic. Something you have actually observed in your own batches: a figure from your records, a mistake you made and fixed, what a Midlands customer told you, what changed between one batch and the next. Two honest sentences here outweigh five hundred words of general advice, and it is the one part of the page nobody else can copy.]
Frequently asked questions
Is this a salaried job?
No. It is a commission-only affiliate programme. You are not an employee, there is no basic wage, no fixed hours and no contract of employment. You earn only on orders you actually bring in.
Can I join from anywhere in Zimbabwe?
Yes. Affiliates work from all ten provinces, and some work from outside the country selling to family and contacts back home. What matters is who you can reach, not where you sit.
Do I have to pay anything to join?
No. Joining is free, with no registration fee, no starter pack and no stock to buy. Any programme that asks you to pay before you can earn is not one to join.
How and when do I get paid?
Commission is paid by EcoCash, InnBucks or bank transfer on a set payout day each month, once the customer’s order has been paid for and delivered. You can see confirmed orders before payday.
What if my customer is far from the Midlands?
Log the order anyway. We confirm what delivery is possible to that area before anything is promised to the customer, and you are paid on any order that completes.
Do I get paid for recruiting other affiliates?
No. You are paid on product sales only. We pay no recruitment commission, because programmes that reward signing people up rather than selling goods collapse on whoever joined last.
Sources and further reading
- Afrobarometer — Unemployment is the foremost policy priority for Zimbabweans — Survey evidence on how Zimbabweans rank unemployment, and Zimstat figures on young people not in employment, education or training.
- Zimbabwe’s unemployment crisis: official rates against the reality — Explains why headline unemployment figures and lived experience differ, and how much of Zimbabwean work sits in the informal sector.
- ChickenPrices.co.zw — day-old chick price guide — Regularly updated Zimbabwean chick prices by category and province, plus a breeder directory.
- NewsDay — Poultry industry grows 32% — ZPA data on national day-old chick output and the smallholder share of it.
- World Bank — youth unemployment data for Zimbabwe — The underlying ILO-modelled series for youth unemployment, updated as new labour force surveys are published.
