A recent study by HubSpot found out that businesses that actively maintain their blogs draw as much as 7 times more visitors to their websites than businesses which do not have blogs. What does this mean? Does your business depend on getting many visitors to your website? Or, would it benefit your business if your […]
[Continue reading…]How To Monitor Your Brand Online For Free
February 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Monitoring what people say about your business online is very important. Everyone and anyone can talk about your business on their blogs, twitter or facebook. However, the very nature of the internet means that what people say about you online can reach millions of people in a few weeks, a few days, or even a […]
[Continue reading…]Online Business Done Right [Interview]
February 4, 2010 by 8 Comments
For the readers that don’t know, Wainaina is the brains behind Corporate Staffing Services, an innovative recruitment agency that delivers! He is also one of the partners behind the massively popular Career Point Kenya. The really interesting bit, though, is the fact that Wainaina uses the power of the internet extensively in his work. A […]
[Continue reading…]We’re Off!
February 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Biashara 30 has officially started. We look forward to some good times with a group of motivated and ambitious individuals. What will we be doing? We’ll be doing something along these lines, “I think we need to pool all ideas together. Pick a couple of them that are achievable in the short run (I personally […]
[Continue reading…]So, You Want To Start A Business?
January 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Here is a nice (long) video in which Mr Edward Hess talks about starting a business. He starts out talking with the most common causes of start up failure and ends with taking questions from the audience. The whole talk is filled with interesting and insightful comments by Mr Hess. Throughout the talk, he stresses […]
[Continue reading…]Starting Your Own Business [Interview]
January 28, 2010 by 6 Comments
For the readers that don’t know, Crystal is the one and only “3CB”, a popular blogger and prolific writer. She is the brains behind ThreeCeeBee, a mother, and a rock lover. Crystal recently quit a well paying job to start her own biashara as a freelance writer. Today she’s going to share with us her […]
[Continue reading…]iHub: Nairobi’s Tech Innovation Hub
January 27, 2010 by 2 Comments
As a young, mostly technology business in Kenya, our main challenge was getting was getting a good enough working environment. We badly needed a place where we could get cheap internet and a “tech” environment. I suspect that many, many Kenyan tech. start ups out there face this same problem. What if you could get […]
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