20 WordPress Complete Beginner’s Steps

Majority of WordPress complete beginners often get confused on where to start learning WordPress, whilst there are many free WordPress resources.  This post will outline basic learning curve to understand WordPress for self hosted websites. In 20 steps you can learn all you need to know on how to use WordPress for people who have not used WordPress before. I am not leaving anything to chance considering a recent survey shows that about 70% of people have never heard about WordPress. 

How to Write a Better Email Sales Pitch than this One

Writing a sales pitch that converts 100% is the dream of every marketer but seldom is this dream realized. I have seen many great sales pitches either in my inbox, or online but I have equally seen several other terrible sales pitches like this one:

How Online Businesses Fail Terribly (Blog Model)

Many new online businesses in Kenya either fail within their first year or continue to give little or no profits at all. It is possible for online businesses to do very well in Kenya only for those who will heed to advice in this article.

Google Webmaster Tools Explained

Google Webmaster is a must have account for anyone who wants to be successful in online marketing. You can simply sign up for Google webmaster tools account to begin analyzing the performance of your website. You can achieve the following with your Google Webmaster tool account.

Why Your Next Employer will Google Your Name before Hiring You

Do you know Google is slowly accruing your personal details without your knowledge? Since the advent of Internet and Google, there are so many people who have published personal information that they would otherwise regard as private.

The Average Kenyan Online is a Troll: Change is Inevitable

I often get worried of the increasing number of idle Kenyans who are hanging out online to just troll, gossip and worse spread hate speech. I wonder when all the dust is settled and your political candidate wins will they reward you in any way for spending thousands of hours rumor mongering online.

Twitter Tip : I don’t beg People to follow Me Neither Should You!

When it comes to Twitter followership it’s like your favorite football club, religion or fantasy, you simply can’t go round begging to be followed on Twitter.  We all share one thing in common as humans, the passion for something no matter how bizarre it is.

Young Kenyans are Continually Using the Internet for the Wrong Things!

I personally like to imagine a world without Internet my life would just grind into a thunderous halt. Call me an internet addict and I won’t say a word to you…I think internet can really become an addiction. What I worry about is where my internet addiction leads me to!

Why OLX Became Household Name in Kenya that it Did NOT Deserve

OLX in Kenya is seemingly the new buzz word with all the roads leading there to sell and buy stuff. As I quietly watch this trend of amusement about OLX, I can’t stop wondering when Kenyan techies will wake up the innovative giant within them.

How to Make Money with Google AdSense in Kenya: Part 1

This is a series of posts that intend to inform, enlighten and give you practical approaches to how you make money with AdSense in Kenya. I have been asked this question by many people who want to start making money online in Kenya with AdSense severally. 

Is Kenya Ready for Digital Evolution?

I often wonder if anyone in Kenya takes bloggers seriously. We are at the brink of turning our country round from the analogue to digital systems virtually in all industries.

Kenya Social Media is the Newly found Oil!

Kenya social media usage is no longer for social purposes only. In fact the use of social media in Kenya for business is a rapidly growing trend that is expected to be even more vibrant in a distant future. The word soko in Kenya Social Media platforms has turned out to be the new gold.

Interview : Pesapesa New Online Donations and Fundraising Platform in Kenya

Raising money through donations can be challenging but many online platforms can be a good way to raise donations online, carry out fundraising for NGOs, nonprofit courses, sponsorships, hospital bills, wedding harambees, memorial funds and charity events in Kenya. Although there are many other ways employed previously to raise donations, online fundraising and donation platforms serves a wide audience and an ideal way to raise donations successfully online from all over the world. 

What is Google Analytics? Google Analytics Explained!

Google Analytics is a service that is used my millions of website owners to analyze the traffic that visits a website in real time detailing important statistics like the traffic source, conversions and sales.

How Business Blogs Can Help Small Businesses in Kenya to Grow Significantly

Blogging has been overlooked as a marketing strategy in Kenya whilst most small businesses can use blogging as a marketing strategy to promote their businesses. Authority business blogs tend to attract prospective customers or clients thus an important way that blogs can slowly begin to amass a following that will eventually turn to customers. The potential of marketing business online in Kenya remains vastly untapped. It is by far the cheapest way that businesses can reach a large audience and build prospective business opportunity in the future.

50 + Online Business Opportunities or Ideas to Start in Kenya

This post details more than 50 business ideas that you can implement online and grow your business to reputable business both online and offline. The reason of writing this list is to help people asking me questions about different ways to make money online. These small business ideas or opportunities can be implemented online in Kenya.

What is Content Marketing? Content Marketing Demystified!

Content Marketing seems to be the new buzz word in the realms of internet marketing and online business promotions. Indeed this is true since Google is paying more and more attention to creative content creators, curators and marketers.

15 + Things to do Immediately you Launch your Business Blog

In Kenya business blogging or corporate blogging has been seriously underutilized as a marketing tool. Business blogging is one of the best ways companies can increase web presence and get to reach a wide range of audience.

How to Know If Your Business Idea is the NEXT BIG THING!

Regardless of what your business sells or what services you are offering to customers a new idea to existing business should always be evaluated on its feasibility. Evaluation of new business idea in a startup business becomes more important than in existing businesses. You probably have heard the quote ‘There is no point of climbing a ladder leaning in the wrong wall’.

Starting Web Hosting Business in Kenya with Only $19

Starting Web Hosting Business Cheaply in Kenya:Web hosting is one of the most lucrative businesses opportunities you can implement in Kenya. Web hosting providers in Kenya simply use reseller accounts save for only a few who own their own servers.

What is Alt Tag? Alt Tag Demystified

Alt tag is another term popularly used in SEO which is synonymous with Alt attribute which is a phrase that simply tells the search engines about the content of a certain image. Alt stands for alternative for the image.

Content Marketing Ideas for Businesses: Overcoming Writers Block with Free Writing

Writer’s block is one of the most serious problems any content marketer or blogger can suffer from. Writing content for the web requires you have flowing fresh ideas that will keep your readership informed, engaged and entertained.

What is Keyword Density? : Keyword Density Demystified

One of the jargon you will come across in the process of optimizing your content for search engines is Keyword Density. So what is this keyword density? When you are writing content like blogs, articles and creating video content you should pay attention to keywords for your content to be found by search engines, advises Google’s Matt Cutts,

Making a Choice between Working for Money or Letting Money Work for You

The hardest decision you will ever make in your life involves how to make your money. It even becomes harder for those of us who cannot make a decision until it’s too late in the day; they have wasted time in the wrong career, stuck there because of job security and benefits. It is the most important step you will take towards financial freedom.

Back in the Day: How I Learnt to Code HTML in a 3 Days

HTML is one of the simplest web markup languages anyone who wants to create a successful business online, should bother to learn. For me it was a crash course that I remember today after years of learning this skill. 

Orange Kenya New Bundle offer Ideal for Freelancers in Kenya

One of the most serious problems of getting started to make money online in Kenya is the lack of a reliable internet connection. This was a serious problem back in the day when we were starting out. Today freelancers and bloggers in Kenya are drowning in options of the choice for an internet service provider.

Quick Guide of Withdrawing Money from PayPal to Equity Bank Account

In the past opening a PayPal account was easy and receiving money to your PayPal account was easy too. The problem was how to get your money to your bank account in Kenya.  I previously highlighted other methods that you can get paid when you work online. Now the recent Equity bank PayPal partnership makes it possible for anyone working in Kenya online to get paid on PayPal and withdraw money to their Equity Bank account. So how do you withdraw money from your PayPal account to Equity Bank account?

5 Steps to use QR codes for Business Website Promotion

Most Kenyan business owners are yet to know what QR codes are and their use in business marketing. QR codes are similar to barcodes used for encoding information in two dimensional spaces such as magazines, physical places, advertisements, TV and Websites.

Possible Reason Mobile Marketing is Underutilized in Kenya

It’s been more than a decade since cell phones came to Kenya. If you asked me what I think about the decade of mobile communication in Kenya, I would not hesitate to say Kenyan businesses have achieved little in terms of using mobile marketing strategies especially for small and medium businesses in Kenya.

One Easy Tip to Make Money Selling Tweets!

In this digital era, it’s common to see imperceptible ideas turn out to be worth thousands or millions of dollars. In internet marketing so many ideas that you would often pass off as ineffective turn out to be the most powerful ideas worth several thousands of dollars. In the advent of the social media only a few marketers thought about the value of growing social media following for making money or marketing businesses.

Creating Your Personal Brand Website (Dot Com) Cheaply in Kenya

You probably have heard about personal branding as a strategic marketing plan. If you are a budding entrepreneur, a publicist or a professional, the value a personalized brand image brings to your business is immeasurable. So, what is a name?

Creating Your Business Website for less than 10K with WordPress in Kenya

A business website is a powerful marketing tool that any business in the digital ear cannot afford to ignore. While writing this post I have noted with concern that most small and medium enterprises in Kenya do not have a functional website. For those who have a website is it redundant and is not regularly updated. The main reason for this problem is the notion that websites can only be managed by professionals.

Must Read: 5 Important Professional Lessons Learnt from a Mole Catcher

Growing up in the village was a great experience; one of the most memorable times in my boyhood was trapping moles that often invaded our neighbor’s Shamba. This was one of the most coveted boyhood skills especially during weeding season since the moles would multiply and destroy crops at a high rate. It’s been a long time since the last time I saw a mole but recently I learnt an important entrepreneurship lesson from a mole catcher I came across.

Making Money with Ad Sharing Websites

Ad sharing websites are those that allow publishers to monetize the content they publish on their profiles. The ad sharing websites have a way of sharing the revenue they generate with advertisements placed on websites. Ideally they require users to publish content on the websites then they place ads on the content you publish and therefore share the revenue with you as a publisher.  

What is Cost Per Mille?

Cost per mille is a regular term used in online advertisements and ad networks that simply means the amount you are paid as a publisher when you get 1000 views on your website. It is alternatively called the cost per thousand and does not only apply to websites only but even to traditional media like radio, TV and print advertisements. Most Ad networks doing internet marketing will pay publisher based on a CPM budget.

How much does it Cost to Design a Website in Kenya

The cost of designing a website varies depending on the website functionality and the number of pages you require on the website. However, there are some basic costs that remain the same for all websites. If you have a business you wish to have a website designed you will require to two important things for a functional website:

•          Web Hosting
•          Domain  Name

How to Start a Blog in Kenya on BlogSpot

Yesterday I received an email with this question. I decided to make it a blog post for everyone who wants to know how they can start their own blog. Here is a quick tutorial on how to start your own blog.

5 Considerations for Creating and Selling a Website for a Fortune

As I wrote previously about making money selling websites in Kenya and highlighted a story of how Steve sold a website for a fortune. Today I would like to share 5 important tips on how you can create a website and sell it for good cash. I would like to use this post to respond to questions emailed to me on where to sell a website, how to evaluate a website for sale and how you can create a website that you will sell for a fortune. I hope this post helps you appreciate the creating and selling websites as one of the many online business opportunities that you can use to make money.

Choosing a Profitable Topic to Blog and Make Money

Today it’s exactly 20 days since I started writing this blog on a cold chilly morning of June. I have managed to gather momentum and I expect to roll out more informative content, tutorials and online money making guides in the future. Since I started writing this blog, I have received numerous emails (at the moment 37 emails) with questions on the different ways to make money online in Kenya and from abroad. 

It’s Possible to Earn a Living or Make a Fortune from Blogging in Kenya

When I first started working online I was doing it on a trial and error basis what most Kenyans do. I did not think I would ever make any serious money online in Kenya. I was shocked to receive an email from a friend who told me he had just sold his first website for a fortune. Then (August 2011), selling a website seemed to me to be one of the weirdest dreams that you can imagine of as a Kenyan struggling to barely make money online. I was amused when I learnt of my friend’s success in creating a website and selling it for a fortune within 12 months.

GUIDE TO MAKING KSH 50,000 - 100,000 PER MONTH : Ultimate Money Making Guides Part 1 - Released

The Intention of writing this blog is to inspire, educate, motivate and support you on your journey of making money online, earning a living online, establishing your business online or marketing your existing business online.

In this context, I have unveiled a new way of making my blog readers get solid knowledge on how they can make money online. The new way of sharing this valuable information is through short STEP BY STEP eBooks that are in the form of PDF easy to download and read.

Kenyan Business Owners Should Think Hard about Using Internet for Business Growth

I have been writing this blog for the last few weeks, I must admit am happy due to unwavering support, growing following and important encouragement,  I have received since I started writing this blog. In this post I would like to emphasize why Kenyan businesses need to take internet seriously as a good medium of marketing business and growing innovative business ideas. 

Social Media: Are Kenya Businesses taking Social Media Marketing Seriously?

Social media in Kenya is a vibrant growing trend that is marred by numerous political debates and gossips; I keep wondering when Kenya businesses will start taking social media seriously. To just try and illustrated what I mean; there is little activity in Kenya’s Social Media scene that is economically driven.

 There are many Kenya business opportunities that you can turn to fully fledged online businesses but who are ready to take up these opportunities. I have been writing this blog to enlighten Kenyans and fellow Africans the digital trend that the world is headed to.

5 Reasons Why Small Number of Kenyans are Making Money Online: Are you among them?

After writing several posts on how to make money online in Kenya, I would like to take a few minutes today and evaluate 5 reasons why Kenyans are not making money online. I will evaluate each of these problems and suggest a possible solution for each. I hope this gives you an idea on how to solve the teething problems associated with starting an  online business in Kenya. 

Does Kenya Daily Post Make KSH 25,000 Per Day? Quite an Overstatement, See the Facts

A while ago there was a heated debate on Kenya blogosphere on who owns the controversial blog; Kenya Daily Post. Some quarters, suggested the blog is owned by Dennis Itumbi others refuting the claims said it’s  owned by Robert Alai, to cut the long story short, the owner of this blog that is ‘thought’ to receive massive traffic was reported to be Timothy Obare Rioba by Ghafla. 

When I read the claim that Kenya Daily Post is clocking 25 k revenue per month, I thought it would be such a cool idea to own such a 'filthy cash cow' not until I took a pen and paper. I would like to issue a disclaimer before you start calling me names. This post is purely written to help you get better understanding of how to make money with Google AdSense in Kenya.

10 Kenya Business Opportunities Online: Are you taking Advantage?

Practical Online Business Ideas for Kenyans

I previously wrote a post about Kenya Social media business opportunities that are slowly shaping how business is done online in Kenya; now let’s highlight a few online business opportunities that you can implement in Kenya. This post is intended to cover the scope of Internet based business ideas that have been tried, tested and proven to work well in Kenya. When you read through to the last letter of this post; you should gear up to start implementing one of these online business ideas.

Important Role of Social Media in Making Money Online in Kenya

Small businesses on Social Media in Kenya is the most important trend of rapidly growing online business activity in Kenya that we cannot afford to ignore. In fact there are several social media pages that are driving substantial business since their inception. I have been carefully following business development and opportunity in Kenya social media and I have the following tips to share with anyone who intends to create business using social media in Kenya.

7 Ways to Make Money Online in Kenya Writing

How to Make Money Online in Kenya as Writer:

One of the easiest ways that you can start making money online in Kenya is writing. There are different kinds of writing assignments that you can accomplish for clients and get paid. It is however important, you have interest in writing or wiliness to learn how to write good content for clients. I advocate people who are neither web designers nor programmers to try writing as one of the ways they can get started making money online. In this post I am going to highlight the different kind of ways you can make money with your writing skills right from your home.

20 Reasons : Why Writing is Still the Best Way to Make Money Online

I have been asked before why I recommend people who want to get started making money online should try writing. I would like to respond to this question with 20 of the many other reasons that makes writing a good way to start making money online.

     Why Writing?

Before we look into depth the various ways you can make money writing online, it is important I stress out the reason I highly recommend people to learn how to write and use writing skills to make money online. The following are 20 obvious benefits of making money online as a writer:

My Birthday Anniversary : The 10 Important Success Lessons in LIFE

Today marks my 29^th birthday and I have a lot to share with my readers on what I have so far learnt in my 29 years of life. I have summed up all my life experienced in entrepreneurship, social life and work. I think these are some important considerations for anyone who endeavors to be successful in whatever task, work, career or business they undertake. This is my own philosophy of what I think works: