AfricaLinked.com is a business social networking tool in Nigeria that focuses on helping business people across the country discover potential business partners instantly just by searching the database. The directory includes products, companies and people with over 50,000 registered members.
Bertrams Lukstins, Founder and CEO, said, “We have taken a very simple concept of business directory but really added our innovation on top of it. No other directory lets users find companies the way we do and see detailed due-diligence information about the companies’”
The site lets people find companies by filtering on a sector, sub-sector as well as a business goal, such as companies looking for distributing partners. Accordingly, searchers can then see the company’s registration number, employees’ names and other relevant details. This site also lets users submit and search for products.
The CEO enunciated that, “Our mission is to connect millions of African businesspeople on AfricaLinked. We’re in the very early days in our quest and still looking to improve the user-experience to develop a truly revolutionary business platform. Our ultimate-goal is to be a point-of-contact directory, a place to find whatever one’s business requires.”
Thinking outside the box now, AfricaLinked.com introduced a chatbot advisor – this program functions in a pattern where it lets people speak to an artificially intelligent bot. The first of its kind in Nigeria, chatbot renders assistance to the user (s) by helping them understand and navigate the site smoothly.
Speaking on the chatbots, Lukstins said, “All of us at AfricaLinked.com are very excited about chatbots and the way they will influence interactions with web-platforms. We believe chatbots will find mind-blowing use-cases across the globe, especially in Africa.
African tech users like to be guided, to know what it is all about and how it can benefit them. Chatbots provide just that. We’re very happy to be the first to introduce this in Nigeria. It’s a unique application of a chatbot and it’s free to use, everything is free to use on AfricaLinked! We invite every Nigerian to check out the chatbot and AfricaLinked.”
AfricaLinked.com and all its functions serves as a simple, yet effective solution to help Nigerian businesses succeed by utilizing technology.
