10 Christmas business opportunities

December is celebration month mainly due to Christmas day,Christmas means a lot for catholics as they believe that the king of the world was born on Christmas day 25 of December. This day is also very important for entrepreneurs and business men/woman.

Many research and report from business experts and analyst shows that there is increase in sales during Christmas season for smart people.

If you think about making business in Christmas or increasing sales during Christmas below are useful business ideas to implement.

1. Design and sell Christmas cards

When Christmas is near, people buy and exchange Christmas greeting cards with their friends, relatives, and customers. This explains the reason why the demand for Christmas cards start booming wildly anytime from December 1st.

If you are a creative artist, you can design beautiful greeting cards and put them up for sale. You can design them either by hand or with a computer. Either ways, there’s a lot of money to be made. If you don’t have the required artistic creativity, you can buy greeting cards in wholesale quantities and sell theme.

2. Sell goodies and sweets

Because almost everyone loves treats, you will be going in the right direction by making and selling sweet food products like cupcakes and cookies. If your treats are very good, you will get an amazing number of orders during Christmas. If you are not skilled enough to make these treats yourself, partner with someone who has the skills or buy from them in large quantities and sell to customers

3. Pack and sell gift baskets

The good side of this business opportunity is that you don’t have to make the food to be placed in the baskets. Just visit a grocery or food store around you, buy various foods and fruits, and place them nicely in a basket. To make the baskets even more attractive, wrap them with beautiful Christmas-branded wrapping sheets. You can sell your gift baskets to office workers and other interested customers around you.

4. Sell gift items

People exchange gifts during Christmas, and this explains why reasonably priced items like shirts, fancy jewelry, and other exchange gift items sell very well during Christmas period. To record even more sales, try to sell cheap products. You can sell these items in offices and bazaars. And you can offer to wrap the items for an extra fee. Most buyers would gladly accept this offer because it would spare them the hassles of doing it themselves.

5. Sell children’s toys

Children’s toys also sell very well during the Christmas season. In fact, they are most abundant in the market during this period. This business is very easy to put up because children’s toys are very cheap, and they are very profitable. If you have the creativity and know-how, you can make the toys yourself and put them up for sale.

6. Render food-catering services

Starting a food-catering business is another smart way to make huge profits during the Christmas season. The demand for catering services boom during this period because many people are too busy to prepare the delicacies they want. So, would rather pay to have their preferred foods cooked and served for them during Christmas.

8. Sell gift-wraps

As is the case with other festive seasons, people exchange gifts with their friend, relatives, colleagues, and customers during Christmas. And as one would expect, these gifts are wrapped in beautiful, Christmas-branded gift wraps. So, you can make a lot of money off of the Christmas season by selling gift-wraps, which people use to package their gifts before presenting them to others.

9. Organize musical shows

If you are a musician, or you have a band or dance group, you can make money during the Christmas season by organizing musical concerts or featuring as guest artistes at concerts. Even if you are not an artiste yourself, you can collaborate with famous artistes and organize a musical concert aimed at celebrating Christmas.

10. Sell Christmas items online

If you are a blogger with a large online followership, you can make money during Christmas by selling various items as an affiliate and getting commissions from each sale.

Those are top ten smart way to make business this Christmas, I would like to here from you how you think about coming Christmas in business view.

Causes of Death of journalist Waweru Mburu

Death of Journalist Waweru Mburu

Veteran journalist Waweru Mburu, famous for his show ‘Yaliyotendeka‘ on Radio Citizen, died on Wednesday at MP Shah hospital in Nairobi.

The veteran broadcaster is reported to have succumbed to cancer related complications.

The Royal Media Service confirmed the death on its website and on the news bulletin on Citizen TV shortly after.

“Royal Media Service Ltd Chairman Dr SK Macharia, Vice Chair Mrs Gathoni Macharia and Group Managing Director Wachira Waruru condoled with the family terming Mburu’s death as a blow to Royal Media Services and the media industry,” the announcement on Citizen Digital explained.

Waweru Mburu rose to celebrity status for his pithy commentaries on his show ‘Yaliyotendeka‘, that ruled the airwaves for more than a decade.

The show earned him admirers, critics and an almost unrivalled audience in radio.

He was also a panelist on “Cheche Show“, a weekly political talk show on Citizen TV.

The hoarse voiced presenter, whose unique narration style earned him popularity, was rumoured to be on the verge of joining politics.

Blackberry will end it own phone making

It's the end of an era for BlackBerry. The company, famous for making cellphones with physical keyboards that were once so popular people nicknamed them Crackberries, has decided to stop making its own devices.

BlackBerry said on Wednesday that it will rely on partners to manufacture the phones, which will still have BlackBerry's look and feel.

The company announced a joint venture with an Indonesian telecom company that will start making them. BlackBerry plans to turn its attention to software, a move it has made gradually in recent years as sales of its phones have slid.

Shares of BlackBerr (BBRY, Tech30)rose 4% in early trading after the announcement. But the stock price is well below its peak from several years ago.

BlackBerry was once the phone of choice for Wall Street traders, politicians and celebrities, thanks in part to its well-regarded security system. President Obama was spotted with a BlackBerry. So was Kim Kardashian West.

But the company was too late to the touchscreen game, and customers left in droves for Apple' (AAPL, Tech30)iPhone, Samsung' G (SSNLF)alaxy and other devices running on Google' An (GOOGL, Tech30)droid system. Even Microsof has (MSFT, Tech30) moved ahead of BlackBerry with its Windows Phones.

CEO John Chen has tried to turn the company around since joining in 2013. But even as he has pushed BlackBerry toward mobile and security software, apps and the plethora of connected devices known as the Internet of Things, BlackBerry has bled red ink, posted sharp sales declines and lost customers.

Chen has even done what was once unthinkable, opening the BlackBerry to other operating systems. The company now sells phones that run on Android. It also killed off its BlackBerry Classic line of phones this summer.

So Chen deserves credit for stabilizing BlackBerry and refocusing it on higher growth areas.

The company is also no longer in danger of going under, a legitimate concern investors had before he took control. BlackBerry now has about $2.5 billion in cash and investments on its balance sheet -- money for a proverbial rainy day.

BlackBerry will need all the cash it can get. The company also reported Wednesday that its latest quarterly sales fell about 30% from a year ago.

And BlackBerry said that it expects to break even this fiscal year at best. That's still better than the loss analysts had forecast.

But if Chen can't get the company's sales growing again and return it to profitability, there could be more pressure on him to sell BlackBerry.

That's exactly what Chen has done in the past. He sold the struggling software company Sybase to SAP (SAP, Tech30) for a hefty premium while he was CEO of Sybase.

There has been chatter about a BlackBerry sale for years.

The rumor mill may start turning again, though. BlackBerry also announced Wednesday that CFO James Yersh was stepping down and that he would be replaced by Steven Capelli, who worked with Chen at Sybase.

Chen and Capelli also worked together at Pyramid Technology in the mid-1900s, a company that was sold to Siemens under their watch.

So BlackBerry investors might be hoping that lightning will strike three times and Chen and Capelli can pull off another sale.

How to make money on Instagram by selling products

how to make money on Instagram

If you’re a retailer who hasn’t tried to make money on Instagram, you’re missing out on some serious potential. Instagram has more than 500 million users, 300 million of which are daily active users. The photo editing and sharing app has a huge user base that is also actively engaged. Every day, users “like” more than 4.2 billion photos and share more than 95 million images.

So if you have products to sell and you’re not on Instagram, you better think about tapping into this massive community. Ready to get started? Here’s a guide explaining how to sell on Instagram and the benefits of a robust platform.

How to make money on Instagram

In order to effectively make money on Instagram, you’ll need to make sure your account is up to par. Creating a profile isn’t enough to get you followers, let alone sales. So even if you don’t think that hashtag is necessary, think again.

Bio

Your Instagram bio is your chance to introduce yourself. You have 150 characters to explain what you do and why your audience should care. As you write your bio:

• You don’t need to write in complete sentences.
• Use two to three keywords that relate to your industry.
• Feel free to use emojis.
• Include your unique selling proposition and/or product differentiation.
• Include a call-to-action(usually to click on the link in your bio).
  

Pretty simple, right? All of that information is highly beneficial, and your customers will thank you for taking the time to include it.

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Bio link

You only get one active hyperlink on Instagram (all other URLs are inactive), and it’s in your bio. Use it wisely. Add a link to the next piece of content you want your ideal shoppers to see. That could include a link to a coupon, free opt-in, feature products, shop page or more — whatever it is, make sure it relates to your business.

Captions

If you want to make money on Instagram, you need to use your captions as an opportunity to describe your products, tell a story, attract users to your page, and engage your audience.

Plan your captions. Don’t rush this process because it’s more important than you think. Make them punchy. Engage your audience.

Don’t shy away from using lengthy Instagram captions. Experiment with writing longer captions that act as mini blog posts that share useful and/or entertaining information.

Put the most important info at the top. Always highlight vital info at the top where users are most likely to see it.

Include a call-to-action. Tell users what you’d like them to do next, which might include commenting, liking the photo, tagging a friend, or visiting the link in your bio.

Use up to five hashtags. Hashtags are important. They help users find your posts through search (more on that later in this article).

Also, make sure your captions are easy to read. No one wants to be greeted with a wall of text — that’s hard on the eyes, and people will bounce faster than you think.

You can’t add line breaks while writing copy directly through the Instagram app. Write captions in a notes tool then copy and paste it over to Instagram to add line breaks.

Photos

Photos are at the core of an Instagram presence, so as you share images, create a signature look that matches your branding. Choose a filter, color scheme or theme that runs throughout all of your photos and makes your profile feel cohesive.

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Use geotagging when relevant. Geotagging shows the location of where your photo was taken, which creates another searchable lead back to your images.

Don’t make your account all about your products

Even if you create your account just to sell products on Instagram, your profile needs to be more than that. Think of your Instagram feed as a branded publication. Share editorial content that is interesting and useful to your audience as much as you share ads that promote and sell products.

Hashtags

Use the right hashtag strategy to engage users and help them find your content.

• Use a database like Hastagify.me to find popular hashtags related to your industry.
• Create your own branded hashtags that guide users to see more from your brand or topic.
• Use hashtags at the end of your captions, so they are out of the way but available to help with search.
  

Stories

In early August, Instagram took a page out of Snapchat’s book and added a story feature to the app. Instagram Stories allows users to upload a series of photos and videos (and edit them with text, drawing tools and emojis) that are visible for 24 hours.

Engagement

To make money on Instagram, your profile can’t be all about you. You must engage with other users and connect with them in authentic ways.

Follow users that use hashtags related to your industry. Users with similar interests will be likely to follow you back.

Use a geotag search to find users who are near you. When you geotag a location, you can click on it to see photos from other users who have also tagged that location. Follow or engage with this list to build relationships with nearby users.

Comment on other photos. Don’t write generic, copy-and-paste messages. Write authentic notes that relate directly to the user’s post.

Run contests that focus on user-generated content. Get your followers involved by asking your users to create content around your brand and then sharing their content through your page.

Plugins and add-ons

There are also additional tools that can help you make money on Instagram.

LiketoKnow.It— Retailers can add a LinktoKnow.It link in a photo caption. When a user double-clicks on a photo to like it, they receive an email with information about the product. This is only useful for connecting with users who have a LiketoKnow.it account.

Have2Have.it— Like LiketoKnow.It, this tool makes it easier for users to follow a path to purchase items from an Instagram feed. But Have2Have.it does not require the user to sign up for an account. Have2Have.it generates one URL (that should be placed in the bio link field) that takes users to a page that looks like the Instagram feed and includes options for purchase.

Instagram Layout— Use one Instagram post as an opportunity to showcase multiple products with Instagram Layout. The free tool allows you to create grid layouts to show multiple angles of your photos, tell a story, or create an interesting look.

Boomerang— Another tool from Instagram that helps create extra-interesting content, Boomerang enables users to create mini videos that loop back and forth.

Instagram advertising— The tips in this guide primarily relate to what you can do to make money on Instagram without spending advertising dollars. But you can also take it one step further by using paid Instagram advertising to connect with the platform’s 500 million users.

There you done! You have understand how to make more money on Instagram, it's to build your community now. If you need help about putting your business online and make more profit contact our expert using information on Contat us page.

Ms Tanzania: A spying android application which has going viral in social media in Tanzania

Ms Tanzania has become viral in social media especially in WhatsApp group chat where many people are asking the validity of the application. Some people have shown their interest in this application since the application is said to be able to spy other users chat messages in WhatsApp and other messengers application.

The application is claimed to help to reduce the number of people who are not faithful in their relation ship especially in marriage as users will be able to follow how their partners communicate in socila networks.

Here are some coated description from some websites about the application.

“The description of MS Tanzania

Iwapo kama unahisi mume wako au mke wako sio muaminifu anawasiliana na wapenzi wengine. Download application hii itakusaidia kufuatilia simu yake pasipo yeye kujua”

Here is a screen shoot of users review in Play store

In facebook some people have making some post blaming their fellow for spending to much time online to download and spying their partners chat.

Here is one post which has touch the heart of many Tanzanian in Facebook.

Have you try this application? What is you views about this application? Share with friend in comment box below.