Guyana Business Link: Bringing buyers and sellers together

Farhaud Amin 

Having given up the corporate rigours of an influential directorship of a family shipping company, Farhaud Amin has assumed a quieter, though, arguably no less important role in the local business community as the sole owner of a new enterprise through which, he says, he hopes to contribute to “galvanizing business” in Guyana.

Guyanabusinesslink.com is one of several new internet-driven mass media that provide a fast-growing advertising option for buyers and sellers of goods and services. Like other inves-tors in the emerging sector Amin has opted to seize the opportunity afforded by the steady growth of the local information technology industry to seek to rival the more traditional forms of information dissemination. A month after launching Guyanabusinesslink.com he is entirely satisfied with where his new service is positioned and excited about its potential for growth.

Guyanabusinesslink.com. would probably not have happened had Farhaud not investigated his first preference, that is, employing the print media as a tool with which to bring buyers and sellers together. The idea of a high-quality, full colour magazine dedicated to