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Basic Phone rules for couples

1. Don’t make a habit of putting your phone on silent mode or turning it off each time you’re with your partner. It makes you look like you are hiding something.

2. Save your partner’s phone number using a special title like “Hubby”, “Love”, “Wife”, “Sweetie”. Or save using a title plus the official name. Using the official name only makes your partner look like just the other contacts on your phone.

3. Answer your partner’s phone call with loving affectionate words like “Hi love”, “Hey honey”. How a conversation starts determines how it flows. If you start warm, you two will enjoy talking with each other on phone.

4. End the talk on a high. Say “I love you”, say a joke, a compliment, a warm phrase before you hang up. Hang up with a smile.

5. It is OK to chat with friends online. But never chat with another person more than you chat with your partner.

6. If you will be busy, notify your partner you will not be able to pick up calls or reply texts promptly. Inform your partner what you will be doing and approximately for how long. This prepares your partner and brings peace because your partner will not feel ignored.

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7. Flirting on phone is good but only flirt with your partner.

8. Tell off people who try to flirt with you, entice you and charm you on phone. Let them know that you are taken.

9. Take lots of photos and videos together to capture moments. You will need those pics and videos in future as you look back.

10. When you go out on dates, keep the phone away, minimize phone use so that you focus on each other.

11. Don’t make a habit of walking away from your partner to answer phone calls. Your partner will perceive you are hiding something or having an affair. Love is about perception.

12. After the date and you don’t live together; man, call her up and check on her, tell her you got home safe; lady, send him a text, thanking him for a wonderful time.

13. Unless it’s an emergency, when you can’t reach your partner and you probably know he/she is at work or doing something; don’t keep calling and texting desperately. You will only look like a nag to your partner and that will make your partner detest phone contact with you. Relax, your partner will see your missed call
and text.
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14. When you see a missed call or text from your partner, please call back or reply as soon as you can. Put your partner at ease.

15. Save your partner’s phone number as an emergency number to be contacted in case something happens to you and your phone is locked.

16. Avoid fights and arguments over the phone, they are difficult to manage and leave a bad feeling when you hang up, thus negatively affecting how you two relate. Talk about serious issues that are volatile face to face.

17. When your partner offends you or you two aggravate each other, never refuse to pick up your partner’s phone call. That only makes matters worse. Keep the line of communication open so that you work things out. If you can’t talk at the moment you are hurting, just pick up the call and say “I can’t talk right now” and your partner will understand.

18. Inform your partner when and why you need to turn off your phone when you two are apart. Keep your partner from worrying.

19. When you two are having fun together, it is good to celebrate your love online but don’t post too much about your love life. Some things are best kept private. The world doesn’t have to know every detail of how you love each other.

20. When you two are having problems, don’t vent about your partner directly or indirectly on your social media posts.

21. Don’t let your partner get news about you from social media like your online friends. Tell the news to your partner first, and then post online.

22. If your partner tries calling you but your line is engaged, explain who you were talking to. If someones calls you when you’re with your partner, say who it was. Transparency and clarity enhances trust.

23. Remember it is both your role to communicate. None of you should feel he/she is forcing a conversation or is doing much of the talking. Communication takes two.

Man checking emails on phone woman looking annoyed
24. Put away the phone when your partner needs your undivided attention, especially in the bedroom. Don’t be intimate, holding your phone, more than you hold your partner.

Phone use can affect your relationship/marriage negatively or positively.

Be smart as you use your smart phone.

The Ultimate Guide To Making Money Online in Kenya 2015

Don't Just Sit There! Start Making Money Online in Kenya


Kenyans keep getting asking how you can make money online in Kenya? Well, if you have the desire to make money online in Kenya, then am going to teach you how. Let us step up a gear in your internet use to not only get information but to make money online in Kenya as well. Making money online is not easy but it’s possible. (In fact you can be able to make 10-30k every month). That’s why I have come up with this article to give you a head start for anyone who would like to venture into this business. Here you will get info that will assist you make the right decision on the way you would like to pursue for you to earn an income online from the comfort of your home.

Remember you shouldn’t think this venture as a get rich quick plan. You will have to put in a lot of effort to achieve success.

Now, let’s get down to business and make money online in Kenya.

There are various ways you can use to kick-start your earnings online in Kenya starting with zero investment.

Freelancing:
These are sites which offer online jobs posted by companies which want to outsource. The jobs are on various categories like data entry, writing articles, translation, transcription programming, design, copying and many others. It’s free to sign up and start bidding on the available jobs (for a freelancer). Some sites are, you can Google for others

  1.  Odesk.com
  2. Elance.com 
  3. Allfreelancework.com
  4. Freelancer.com 
  5. Guru.com 
  6. Rentacoder.com

A Kenyan sites that is offering work online are
1.       Kenyaplex.com
2.       Hivisasa.com
3.       Kenyayote

Blogging:
 A blog is a kind of site that you post entries of anything without the hassles of knowing any HTML and even paying for hosting or domain name. You just write your thoughts as they come and immediately after posting they can be viewed by anyone online. Blogs can make you money if you do it right. You will need to bring traffic to your blog and then you monetize the traffic (Read More on Blogging).

Affiliate marketing
If you have a blog or a website you can make money through affiliate marketing. Sites like JUMIA in good place to start (I will be writing an article soon about affiliate marketing in Kenya)

Revenue sharing sites:
 These are sites which require you to have a Google ad-sense code that they use it on your posts to bring in Google ads. When people click on the ads money is earned and it is then shared between you and the site according to their stipulated ratio like 50/50 basis. Sign up it’s free.

Now that you have ideas on how to make money online in Kenya with free ways, let’s look at one which will require you to have to have some money and learning to try it out.

Forex:
This involves the buying and selling of currencies through a broker. You will have to open an account with your chosen broker either live or demo. Live you use real money while demo which is for purposes of learning no real money is used

With these few guidelines, I think you now have a starting point which you can take to start you venture and make money online in Kenya. Keep in mind that you should start with one and once you start making money with it, you can try another. The key here is to be persistent and consistent.

Well, I wish you all the best as you try to make money online in Kenya. 

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The best Places to Start a Blog and Make Money Online in Kenya

Making Money Online in Kenya through blogging

The thing your friend does that you could do better. The hobby of the century. Your key to boss-less freedom and your cat’s one shot at fame. So do your homework with this list and start a blog the whole world, and your friends, will love and you laugh all the way to the bank as you make money online in Kenya

WordPress.org

Browse at WordPress.org 

Setup nowadays is so easy. WordPress requires no coding knowledge and is free software – it’s the domain name and hosting you pay about-as-much-as-a-cup-of-coffee-per-month for. It gives you a website like the world’s best and teaches you all about websites, too. For countless bloggers who do this for a living, WordPress.org is the best place to blog. Click here to watch our step-by-step setup video and join the largest blogging community on the web.




WordPress.com

Browse at WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a free blog-hosting site with roughly half the features of .org. The general idea here is less maintenance for you, but less control of the blog. Get a .wordpress domain name like “wiredread.wordpress.com” or pay to use your own domain name. Need a niche? WordPress.com sees 100,000 posts published each day so you’ll surely find like-minded thinkers. Not a full company website but a loyal companion for one. Write posts, try a free theme, set up social media buttons and learn blogging at WordPress.com.

Blogger

Browse at Blogger.com

Blogger is Google’s free blog-hosting site. More popular at the turn of the millenium, Blogger still offers a great service but the designs are a bit elementary. Login and publish your first post for free with only a Gmail account. Try Adsense “monetization”, design a new layout and even edit your first piece of code.

Tumblr

Browse at Tumblr.com

At a time when WordPress and Blogger were neck-and-neck for new users, Tumblr showed up as the 3rd guy to the party. They received lots of sign-ups from users wanting a totally refreshing take on blogging, and have grown ever since. Tumblr was recently bought by Yahoo, who has interesting plans for the whole blog advertising thing and you will make money online in Kenya

Goggle for other blogging platforms


For the purpose of these article we will use blogger


Now, if your choice is blogger you will have to sign up or if you already have a google account you can choose to use it for blogger. After doing that you can now sign in and create your blog. Of course you will not just create a blog just for the sake of it; you will need to think about what you will be posting in your blog. Because you want to make money with your blog, think about a topic that you think will be searched for by internet users. This is what is known as ‘Niche’. Note that you don’t want to choose a niche that is highly searched (one that could be having tens of millions of sites competing for that niche). For selecting your niche you will need to use a keyword tool and google adword:keyword tool which is absolutely free to use is a good one.

If you get your niche, you might want to use the keywords in your url and in the Title of your blog. If you can’t on your url, your blog title will suffice. This is primarily for search engine optimization purposes.

Once you have completed your selection, you can now go and publish your first post. Just click new post and type. This should be about your blog and a welcoming message to your expected readers. Always use your keywords in your posts but not too much-you will be penalized by search engines. Ensure it is also used sensibly. After finishing, click publish and view your post.

Getting your blog indexed

This is getting listed on the search engines for search results. If you take your url with the http and do a search, you will not find any listing of your blog. So how do you get your blog indexed?

First, submit your site to search engines. Just do a search on the search engine on how to submit a site and you will get directions.

Secondly, submit your site to internet directories. Use the free option and submit to as many as possible each day. This is one of the best way get your site indexed quickly.


Bringing in traffic to your blog

This is the most important aspect of getting your blog ranked by search engines. The higher the traffic to your blog, the more importance the search engines will give to your blog.

To effectively bring in traffic, there are things that you will need to implement.

1.    Use article directories. If you write good articles and post them to article directories, chances are you might get visitors to your site or your article will be republished on other sites giving you baclinks-which are very important in ranking on search engines and you will need many to even be ranked on 1.
2.    Comment on other blogs leaving your url on the option for-your website url but don’t spam.
3.    Use social networking sites to market your blog like facebook.
4.    Put lots of content on your site but it should be unique. Search engines love fresh content.
5.    Comment on forums related to your blog.
6.    Use yahoo answers.

If you get good traffic you can monetize(but you can also monetize prior to getting traffic) your site with google adsense, amazon or other affiliate programs like Clickbank, Paydotcom or a product that you have depending on the niche you had selected. Blogger already has monetization options for google adsense and amazon associates.

That’s it for now but check out other posts to see whether you can make easy money online in Kenya with a home opportunity.

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Incredible Home Remedies to Cut Belly Fat



Incredible Home Remedies to Cut Belly Fat

Every one on this planet wants to cut belly fat! Yes it is this great an issue. Belly fat not only gives one an ugly look but can be dangerous for your health too. The fat around your abdomen can lead to heart diseases, diabetes, stroke as well as dementia. When it comes to cut abdominal fat, the right foods are a necessity. They detox your liver and boost your metabolism so that your body can target belly fat. There are numerous fat burning foods and spices that can help you cut your belly fat. Here are some really effective home remedies to cut belly fat with the help of such foods and spices.

How to Cut Belly Fat with Natural Remedies

1. Drink Lemon Water to Cut Belly Fat
You need to detoxify your liver because a stressed liver cannot metabolize fat effectively and which gets deposited around your waistline. Lemon water excellently increases enzymes that detoxify your liver so that it may carry out its basic functions efficiently.
Get this:
  • Lemon- 1
  • Water (warm favored)- 1 glass
Do this:
  • After you get up in the morning, take the lemon and squeeze out its juice into the water.
  • While warm water is good to make lemon water for fat burning purpose, you can also use water at room temperature. This won’t stop lemon doing its job.
  • Mix well and drink this lemon water on an empty stomach everyday in the morning.
  • Do not eat or drink anything for at least 30 minutes after you have your regular lemon water every morning.
2. Have Fish Oil or Fish to Cut Belly Fat
Fish oil has omega-3 fatty acids in it. Omega 3 acids such as acids that help in breaking down fat while reducing fat storage around your waistline. If you can’t take fish oil, have fish rich in omega 3 fatty acids.
Do this
  • Have 6 g of fish oil daily. 6 g roughly equals a generously filled tablespoon which is on the verge of overflowing.
  • Alternatively, you may have such fish as salmon or mackerel two times a week. Tuna and halibut are also high on omega-3.
3. Have Ginger Tea to Cut Belly fat
You know that ginger is a natural digestive aid but did you know that ginger is a thermogenic? Thermogenic agents increase body temperature thus helping burn fat more effectively. Your belly fat may be due to one of the various reasons like overeating, age-related reduction of hormone, lack of exercise or stress. Ginger can practically solve each of these issues. Ginger is also said to suppress cortisol production. Cortisol is a steroid hormone essential for energy regulation and mobilization. So, have ginger tea daily to aid your efforts of losing belly fat.

How to make ginger lemon honey tea?
Get this:
  • Water- 4 cups
  • Ginger (peeled and sliced)- 1-2 inch piece
  • Lemon- 1
  • Honey- 1 tbsp
Do this:
  • Boil the water.
  • Add ginger to the hot water and simmer for 5-10 minutes.
  • Remove from the stove and add lemon juice and honey to this.
  • Mix well and have a cup of this ginger tea in the morning.
  • To regulate your metabolism, stimulate your digestion and reduce your cortisol production, have at least 2 cups of ginger tea throughout the day.

4. Use Garlic to Cut Belly Fat
You might know that garlic is good for your cardiovascular system as it reduces both systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as triglycerides apart from increasing good cholesterol. You might, however, not be know that garlic has excellent anti-obesity properties too! Every minute our body cells die and our body makes new cells to replace them. Adipocytes (also called lipocytes and fat cells) are the cells in our body which primarily compose adipose tissue (body fat). In the adipose tissue, there undergoes a process wherein pre-adipocytes are converted into full-fledged adipose tissue or fat. This process is known as adipogenesis. cells. So, you might well like to add garlic into your daily diet. However, raw garlic is more beneficial when you want to cut belly fat!

Get this:

  • Garlic cloves- 3
  • Lemon- 1
  • Water- 1 cup

Do this:

  • Squeeze the lemon juice into the cup of water.
  • Chew 3 garlic cloves and then drink the lemon water
  • Repeat every morning on an empty stomach.
  • You will start losing belly fat within 2 week’s time.


5. Herbs Infused Water to Cut Belly Fat
There are many herbs in your kitchen that you don’t even call herbs. You use them daily in your cooking or in salads etc. but you are unaware of there effects on your body fat. Some of such herbs include ginger, mint, and cucumber. These herbs when combined with the excellent fat burner lemon can do wonders to get you rid of belly fat. Consisting of water and dietary fiber, cucumber is a great food to cut belly fat. It cleanse your body from deep within and help you cut weight. Ginger is a great fat burner which allows blood vessels to expand leading to better blood circulation. It also boosts metabolism. A study suggests that people who eat ginger can cut 20% more weight than people who don’t eat it. Due to its rich contents of vitamin C and antioxidants, lemon boosts your energy apart from burning fat. Mint not only calms down your cravings but also soothes tummy after you indulge in foods. Water keeps you hydrated and this flavored water will also detoxify your body. So, here’s the recipe of what you might call a flat belly diet drink.

Herbs Infused Water to Cut Belly Fat
Get this:

  • Water- 2 liters
  • Cucumber (sliced)- 1 medium
  • Ginger (grated or pressed)- 1 tsp if grated; 1-2 inch piece if pressed
  • Lemon (sliced)- 1 
  • Mint leaves- 10-12 sprigs

Do this:

  • Soak all the ingredients in water overnight.
  • Once they are infused for the whole night, drink this water throughout the day.


6. Have Cinnamon to Cut Belly Fat
Don’t go by the sweet taste of cinnamon, it won’t increase your fat. In fact, cinnamon will help reduce your overall body fat including the belly fat. Cinnamon is a thermogenic. It means, cinnamon tends to produce heat through metabolic stimulation. Thus cinnamon makes you burn your fat. So, include 1 tsp. of ground cinnamon to your daily diet in order to increase your metabolism. Take ground cinnamon and not the cinnamon bark oil which may lead to ulcers, mouth sores and mouth burning when consumed. Cinnamon is one spice that you can cook with any food.
Ways to have cinnamon to loose belly fat

  • Sprinkle a tsp of cinnamon on top of your beverages like tea, coffee or even milk.
  • Add cinnamon on top of your toast, muffin etc.
  • Add cinnamon powder to your breakfast cereal.
  • Sprinkle it on your salad, dips, and sauces.


7. Sip Green Tea to Cut Belly Fat
Having 4 cups of green tea daily helped people cut more than six pounds within a period of eight weeks. Green tea contains a type of a catechin called epigallocatechin-3-gallate, or EGCG. It is a natural phenol and antioxidant with many therapeutic applications. When you sip green tea, EGCG in it boosts your metabolism. Have 3-4 cups of green tea daily. Make it fresh every time or store it in fridge to get an iced green tea each time you need to speed up your metabolism. Here is a fine recipe of fat burning green tea for you.
How to make green tea to cut belly fat?

Get this:

  • Green tea leaves or pearls- 1-2 tsp OR Green tea bag- 1
  • Hot water- 1 cup 
  • Mint  
  •  Lemon juice- ½ to 1 tsp
  • Honey (optional)- 1-2 tsp as per taste

Do this:

  • Add green tea (or tea bag) and mint to the hot water.
  • Cover and steep for 5-10 minutes.
  • Strain and add lemon juice plus honey if using. 
  •  Mix well and sip your green tea.
  • Have three to four cups of green tea daily, preferably after meals.


8. Lean Meat to Burn Fat and Cut Belly Fat
Foods that have thermogenic properties burn your calories as you eat them. Protein is highly thermogenic. Animal proteins are more thermogenic than vegetable proteins. Thus, lean meats are the best calorie burning food. When you eat lean meat, you burn about 30 percent of the calories it contains within it just by digesting the food. So, if you eat a 300 calorie chicken breast, you will use about 90 calories to digest it. It’s wise to include some protein in each of your meal. This can be lean chicken, beef, or pork, especially in dinner so that you burn most of the consumed calories through digestion at a time when your body’s metabolism is slower. Just remember, do not fry your lean meat!

9. Hot Peppers to Cut Belly Fat
Hot peppers contain capsaicin which has thermogenic effects. It boosts your body’s heat production and thus uses more energy or calorie. Spice up your foods with hot peppers to cut belly fat. Eat peppers raw, cooked, dried, or in powdered form. Red peppers contain different amounts of capsaicin, making some peppers hotter than others. Don’t be shy to add as hot sauce as you can to your soups, eggs, gravies and meats.

10. Coconut Oil to Cut Belly Fat
Don’t be surprised. Although it is a fat, coconut oil can actually help cut your belly fat! I’ll tell you how. This oil extracted from coconut has a unique combination of fatty acids. It has a positive effect on your metabolism too. Coconut oil is high on medium chain triglycerides. The medium chain fatty acids are metabolized differently from long chain fatty acids. These fatty acids directly go to the liver from your digestive tract, where they are used in one of the two ways- either as energy or are converted into ketone bodies. Ketone bodies are three water-soluble biochemical compounds that are produced by the liver using fatty acids when you fast or reduce your food intake. These are used by body cells as energy instead of glucose. So when you want to follow low carbohydrates diet to cut fat, coconut oil can help you a lot.
Coconut oil is also a thermogenic and burns fat. Many studies have shown that medium chain fatty acids when compared to the similar amount of calories from other fats, can improve feeling of fullness. Thus you automatically reduce calorie intake.
A study has shown positive results about coconut oil in reducing abdominal fat. In this study, some women were given 2 tablespoons of coconut oil and some other women were given 2 tablespoons of soybean oil for 28 days. Both the groups lost about 2 pounds but the group taking coconut oil also reduced their waist circumference while those on soybean oil had a mild increase in belly fat. The coconut oil group also increased HDL (good) cholesterol levels. However, mindlessly having coconut oil may in fact increase your weight, after all it is a fat. So, keep the following tips in mind when using coconut oil to cut belly fat.
Tips to use coconut oil to cut belly fat

  • Do not add coconut oil to the existing oils that you use daily. You must replace other cooking oil with coconut oil.
  • Do not have loads of coconut oil. Just 2 tablespoons a day is sufficient.
  • Remember, coconut oil is to aid your efforts for losing fat. Your primary diet should always be whole, nutritious foods.


11. Exercise to Cut Belly Fat
Yes, you cannot spare this. You must exercise too. All the natural remedies to cut belly fat and good food and lifestyle habits will go waste if you don’t exercise. This is the eternal truth. The fast you understand this, the early you will cut your belly fat!

  • Do whole body workouts- Losing belly fat just by spot exercising stomach won’t do. Exercise your entire muscle groups in whole body workouts.
  • Do cardiovascular exercises- Walking, jogging, running, cycling, aerobics etc. increases your body’s capacity to burn more calories. 
  • Do Strength training- Along with cardiovascular exercising, do strength training too. It will build your muscle tone to help you get rid of overall body fat.


12. Easy Lifestyle Changes to Cut Belly Fat
Sometimes you exercise adequately and adopt a host of natural remedies to cut belly fat but still you can’t. If that’s what happening with you, you need to analyze your lifestyle and make some small changes. These changes are very small but may need a while to convert into a habit. If you really want to get rid of your abdominal fat, you better start bringing these lifestyle changes from now itself.

  • Sleep adequately- Lack of sleep is one of the prominent causes for belly fat accumulation. When you don’t sleep, you crave for sugar and fatty foods. It also spikes your cortisol hormone which makes you insensitive to insulin. As a result, you cut your body’s bio-rhythm. So, sleep well. 
  • Reduce or stop alcohol consumption- Alcohol is full of calories but when you consume alcohol you don’t feel full. Binge drinking in particular deposits fat around your waistline. It’s better not to have alcohol but if you can’t do that at least avoid binge drinking and also reduce the quantity and frequency of alcohol intake.


13. Develop Right Food Habits to Cut Belly Fat
Yes food can get you rid of belly fat, if you are eating the right food though. Here’s how you can develop good food habit and cut your belly fat.

  • Choose snacks intelligently- What you call light snacks do more harm. Burgers, pizzas, French fries and all that junk food is not good for your body. Eat less of them as also sodas and processed foods. Foods indicating low calorie, low fat or sugar free too can contribute to belly fat. Artificial sweeteners in these foods may induce your body to store fat. Avoid them and opt for healthy snacks like fruits, nuts etc.
  • Reduce sugar in your diet- Sugar is one of the main causes of fat. Instead of sugar, have complex carbohydrates. Your body converts complex carbohydrates into sugar and they are beneficial for you. 
  •  Have more good food- eat more of protein, vegetables, fresh raw fruits, whole grains and nuts. Remember canned fruits and veggies can further increase your belly fat so avoid them.
  • Have more of good fat- Omega 3 fats help cut belly fat. So have more of foods having this good fat such as salmon. Low glycemic-index foods such as beans too are beneficial when it comes to losing belly fat. 
  •  Consume more vitamin C- It must come from natural sources like lemon, orange, kiwi fruit etc.
  • Don’t skip meals- When you starve your body, it gets into survival mode and starts storing foods in the form of fat. So, have your breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Keep your meals small and snack on healthy foods in between these main meals.

All the best to you in your efforts to cut belly fat!

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Top 7 New Business Ideas For Kenya - You should not miss

 
Top 7 Small Business Investment Opportunities in Kenya
1. Laundry services
This business thrives well in any economy – recession or not. There’s a large market to cater to, as many Kenyans are busy with their day jobs and have little or no time for laundry. To start a laundry business, all you need are a washing machine, pressing irons, and a few other items. So, it’s very easy to start, but very lucrative.
2. Open an Entertainment center
There are a lot of expatriates in Kenya, especially in Nairobi; and these expats (Kenyans included) definitely need a place to wind down in the evenings and on weekends. You can cater to these needs by setting up an entertainment hotspot such as a hotel, bar, restaurant, cinema, casino, fast food joint, night club, etc. In fact, the list is endless. Just choose a entertainment business you are passionate about and give it a go.
3. Setup a security guard company
After the 21st September 2014 deadly terrorist attack on Westgate Shopping mall in Nairobi, there has been an increased security awareness throughout Kenya. Unfortunately, the police and military cannot do it alone; thus creating an opportunity for smart entrepreneurs to make profit while providing an essential service.
You can setup your own security guard company, train able-bodied men and women, deploy them to companies that need to protect sensitive infrastructure and make your money. It is as easy as ABC but you must bear in mind that your business needs to be license with the assigned regulatory authority.
Now if setting up a security guard company is too capital and management intensive for you, you can still profit from the increasing security consciousness of Kenyans by starting any of the businesses listed below:
·         Import and retail security products such as CCTV, security cameras, metal detectors, etc.
·         Import and retail self defense products such as pepper sprays, mace, batons, etc.
·         Start a seminar brokerage company and organize workshops on security and safety.
·         If you have been in the police or military, you can start an executive protection agency and provide escort services to important personalities and high profile individuals.
·         You can also setup a vehicle tracking company, if you have the capital, technical know-how and manpower.
4. Daycare center
One thing about businesses in Africa is that there fundamentals are the same. When it comes to raising children alongside earning a living, there is really a big global problem especially for mothers. In Kenya, just like there worldwide counterpart; mothers are too busy and don’t have enough time for their babies.
Now there is an option of getting a house help or maid but with increasing number of reported cases of house helps maltreating, abusing, or even selling babies left in their custody (child trafficking is a big time illegal trade); mothers are left with no other choice than to take their kids to childcare centers.
If you think you are up to the challenge, then you can take a leap into this business and reap tremendous reward. However, it is important that “caring for children” should be your passion and don’t forget to hire seasoned nannies and babysitters.
5. Education
Just as in other African countries, there is a growing need for quality education in Kenya. Ghana has taken the lead in West Africa and now has some of the best universities in the continent. You can start by opening a primary or secondary school. Your school does not have to be gigantic in size, you just need to have a high quality standard and you will break even.
6. Traveling salon
As people live longer, there's an increasing need for senior services of all sorts. And not all are related to health care. One such service, a mobile salon that travels to customers' residences to do their hair or nails, has nothing but growth potential.
7. Smartphone repair
Smartphones have become indispensable for both business and personal use. But have you ever tried to get one fixed? It can cost as much to as it does to buy one. Smartphone-repair services are starting to crop up around the country, but for now, this market is wide open.

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Cabinet Secretaries
Michael Kamau
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Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would ... buy
monkeys for 1000 bob. The villagers started catching the monkeys. The man bought thousands of monkeys
at 100 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he
would now buy at 2000. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys
again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer
rate increased to 2500 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a
monkey, let alone catch it! The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at 5000! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell
them to you at 3500 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for 5000." The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!

Moral of the Story - Welcome to the "Stock" Market !!!!


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Interesting facts about kenya

A few random observations and interpretations based on my recent visit to this exotic equatorial country.

1) Even though the Kenyans are predominantly meat eaters, they have some very tasty vegetarian dishes like githeri (maize+potatoes+beans), irio (mashed potatoes with greens), ugali (steamed maize cake) with greens, mukimbo (pigeon peas in Swahili coastal style) and others.

2) There is no middle class in Kenya. Either people are really poor or really rich.

3) The Kenyans of Indian-origin form the richest group of people in this East African country. They own everything from shopping malls, hotels, key industries and shops to prime real estate.

4) Ki-Swahili, the national language of Kenya has a lot of words from Hindi and Urdu in their dictionary owing to deep Indian influence in their culture and their history with the kingdom of Arabia especially on their eastern coast. For e.g., chai (tea in hindi), chapati (Indian whole wheat bread in Hindi), kachumbari (mixed vegetables or Kachumbar in Hindi), safiri salama (have a safe journey  or safar salaam ho in Urdu)

5) Kenya is a very expensive country even though the people here are very poor. Cabbage, bought from a farm is 100 Kenyan Shillings (roughly 66 Indian rupees) and the daily newspaper costs 50 Kenyan Shillings (roughly 33 Indian rupees). There are a lot other such instances.

6) In spite of being an equatorial country, Kenya has pretty cold winters in most of its provinces. Some places see multiple seasons in a single day (cold mornings, warm afternoons and evening showers).

7) A very high percentage of the Kenyans speak good English.

8) Even though the Kenyans drive on the left side of the road (right hand drive), they have a US like driving system with a wait, yield and go policy.

9) Kenyan drivers are very patient. Even when stuck in morning and evening traffic in Nairobi.

10) The roads of Kenya are pretty much noiseless. People honk only when someone commits a mistake while driving. A true relief for the ears for a lot of us.

11) Marabou storks (a scavenger bird) nests on top of trees in huge numbers right in the busy part of Nairobi.

12) A lot of Kenyans are unhappy with their government.

13) There are a lot of places in Kenya, which the local himself avoids owing to safety reasons.

14) Nakuru is the theft capital of Kenya. All it requires is a momentary lapse for you to lose your belongings including your car.

15) Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have a open roads policy. This means that vehicles of these 3 countries are allowed to drive on roads of all these countries provided they have the right passenger papers.

16) The ‘Lunatic Line’, the railway line from Tanzania and Kenya to Uganda, which took a lot of lives is hardly used these days. In fact, I hear that they use it only for irregular trips between Nairobi and Mombasa. And since they are very expensive, the locals give it a miss.

17) Kenya has hardly any road-based public transport system. This holds good for both inter and intra city transport. Matatu (a van that seats 13 people) is what is used by the people for mass transit. These are run by private players.

18) Kenya is highly corrupt. One can easily get out of an offence by paying a bribe.

19) The Chinese are building most of Kenya’s roads.

20) Maasai Mara tourism, single-handedly accounts for a huge chunk of Kenya’s GDP, but in spite of this benevolence, the government doesn’t want to lay a road to Masai Mara from Narok (roughly a 2 and a half hour  bone-rattling ride).

21) Kenya has the world’s largest tropical lake in Lake Victoria, which it shares with Uganda and Tanzania.

22) Kenya has Africa’s second highest peak in Mount Kenya after Mount Kilimanjaro.

23) It is in Kenya’s Rift valley that mankind originated.

24) Tea is grown on a high plateau in Kenya unlike most of the other tea growing areas in the world where it is grown on slopes.

25) A Giraffe can be regularly seen grazing near the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at Nairobi.

26) Toyota has more or less a monopoly in Kenya. Nissan comes a very far second.

27) Indian car brands – Maruti, Tata and Mahindra and Mahindra are considered pathetic automobile brands by the Kenyan locals and are frowned upon. 

28) In spite of Kenya being a democratic country, its citizens face the government with awe and believe that something bad will happen to them if they complain about the government.

29) The Maasai tribals believe that the Maasai Mara is their home land and birth right. They do not like any other tribe entering their space and take key positions. A lot such inter-tribe animosity can be seen regularly.

30) Race bias is very prevalent in Kenya. A person’s surname can be easily mapped to their tribe. Hence, a lot of students today want to register only their first names in school and colleges.

31) On reaching the age of 18, a male belonging to the Masai tribe has to undergo circumcision. If he sheds a single tear, cries or shouts during this event, he is banished forever from the community.

32) A Masai boy has to kill a lion to become a man.

33) Polygamy is pretty much the norm in all of Kenya’s tribes. A chief of the tribe is known to have a huge harem.

34) The Kenyan law supports its women in all domestic matters! There are no questions asked. If a man is hit by wife and he complains, he is thrown into prison.

35) Most of the Kenyans are scared to break the law because of the extremely shoddy treatment meted out in its prison.

36) The Kikuyu tribe has the prettiest women in Kenya.

37) During the annual wildlife migration, the entire masai mara landscape looks like it is crawling with ants. That is how many animals that are dotting the horizon. In fact, few people will ever see more animals (wild or domestic) in one spot.

38) Kenyans love bargaining. Most of their bargains are done in good jest.

39) Some places in Kenya have unbelievably straight roads/highways.

40) Kenyan tribal women are more hard-working than the men, much like their lionesses.

41) A lot of Kenya’s athletes train in the high altitude zone of the central highlands. They can be regularly seen running and cycling on the highways here.

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