Help me setup an business outsourcing portal.....again

Entrepreneur

About Me

I'm a husband and father of beautiful twin boys. I'm also the owner of African Center for Internet Marketing which is a leading internet marketing company in Kenya. You can find my personal blog at http://alexmaina.org. We are the first internet marketing company in Kenya and are proud to have introduced the concept to more than 100 individuals in Kenya alone.

I just love learning new things. I'm self taught in programming, web design and internet marketing. Right now I'm learning how to create organic fertilizer from earth worms. I'm trying to figure out how to set up a small home organic garden that produces quality food for my family and neighbors. Probably will have to teach my neighbors too when its successful. Thanks to Zidisha I introduced some 5 farmers in Kiambu to earthworm farming and you should see their success sometime next year when their worm farms have matured.

However, my main business is internet marketing and I live for it. Been doing it for close to 10 years and couldn't have been happier.

I love seeing change around me and change for good. That is probably why I joined Zidisha as it sounds like a very interesting concept and will use it as a case study to show others what can be done when you start small but have great ideas.

My Business

I provide internet marketing services to SEO companies worldwide. We earn our revenues through owning various blogs such as http://dumisha.com, nairobihost.com and others offering SEO services to larger SEO companies or to direct consumers, training and consultancy.

With the right partners I shall be able to achieve the dream of operating a full service internet marketing company with various authority websites in the African region.

I intend to use any loans to buy assets such as computers and also invest in good software to run the business more efficiently. This will allow me to employ more people and grow the business faster.


The current expenses are

1. Hosting Servers
2. Operating expenses such as rent and part time employees
3. Internet and others

These amount to an average of $1200 per month

Our revenues are currently at $2000 per month

As such we are currently able to service a loan which allows us to make long term asset buys.

Loan Proposal

Thanks to Zidisha, the first two portals were set up and are actually doing well after a year. In case you forgot them, they were http://dumisha.com and http//:alexmaina.org

The next project is bigger and will take a longer time to establish. So all your help will be very welcome.

This project is aimed at creating a service portal for the SEO Industry online. Most SEO companies outsource their work worldwide. Countries such as India and the Philipines have benefited greatly from this. In order to tap into this market, I'm going to create an online portal that offers the following services:

1. Content Creation
2. Link Building

This will help my community greatly since I'll be able to get online jobs for those in my area. I have trained quite a few but their problem is always sourcing the work straight from the SEO companies. Most of them use sites such as Odesk to get this work. Since I'll handle all the marketing for them and have done it before, they should be able to get consistent jobs and a consistent income.

To do this my costs shall be in the first month

1. Web Design, hosting and domain name acquisition - $500
2. An online CRM to track customer orders and customer care - $30 a month
3. Advertising costs in SEO communities - $100 a month

Our target is at least 20 orders in the first month and increase this over the next year to a minimum of 1000 orders a month for our services.

I have most of the above costs covered but every little help I can get from my Zidisha community shall go a long way to making this next nutty dream come true.

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