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. 

1) Kenyans don’t understand Internet home based businesses: the world has embraced the potential of internet home based businesses; Kenya is still lagging behind possibly due to low internet accessibility. We can expect to see more Kenyans making money online when Internet becomes accessible to all Kenyans.

            Solution:  You can solve this problem by learning from various programs that are freely available on how to make money online.

2) Limited Tech Skills: To make money online, one needs to beyond being tech savvy, there are a variety of skills that are important for anyone to make money online with. If you want to start blogging for profits, you obviously should know some basic skills like creating a blog, optimizing and writing. These skills are limiting factors to majority of Kenyans who would wish to start a business online.

           Solution:  There is always room for improving your tech skills, you can begin to slowly lean how to make money online and acquire the skills you require to start making money online.

3) Kenyans in Disbelief: A Good Number of Kenyans don’t believe it is possible to make money online not even earn a living. This trend is slowly changing with more Kenya business opportunities coming up.

Solution: I advocate for a change in the perspective of Internet business and you will slowly begin to see you can make money online.

4) Internet Accessibility: Internet accessibility is a major challenge to Kenya business opportunities online. In fact, the lack of good internet accessibility in Kenya is the major fact that is driving ecommerce in Kenya backwards.

Solution: there are many Internet offers that are coming up by different ISP in Kenya, in particular, you can make use of the mobile data offers to start learning how to make money online.  

5) Cost of Setting a Home Business: The cost of starting a home internet business may be relatively high to Kenyans who are starting out. At least one needs a high speed internet connection, a good computer, internet marketing software and some spare cash for emergency if you are doing it full  time and have no other job.

Solution: You can start this internet based business as a part time business and slowly grow this business to a full time business. There are several online marketers who did this when they were starting out their home based internet business. Kenya is no exception; you can start an internet based business that outgrows your garage, bedroom or house to become a real physical business.

Wondering how you can start an Internet based business in Kenya today?

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