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How to Run Online Ads in Kenya: Platforms, Budgets, Duration and Results
Choose a platform based on how customers find your offer, set a spend limit you can afford, and measure enquiries or sales—not impressions alone. This guide explains how to plan and improve a small-business campaign.
17 Oct 2026
How to Start a Salon Business in Kenya: Costs, Equipment, and First Customers
Opening a salon is not just buying a dryer and renting a room. The business has to match the people who can reach it, the services they come back for, and the cash available to keep operating between busy days. A compact neighbourhood salon offering dependable wash, blow-dry, braiding, and...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Restaurant in Kenya: Costs, Licences, and Finding Customers
“Restaurant” can mean a small lunch spot serving workers, a nyama choma place with evening trade, a café, a takeaway kitchen, or a full-service dining room. Each has different rent, equipment, staffing, stock, and customer expectations. Choose a format by observing a particular catchment...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start Poultry Farming in Kenya: Costs, Housing, and Finding Buyers
The first decision is not how many chicks to buy. It is what product you plan to sell, to whom, and on what schedule. Broilers, layers, indigenous chicken, chicks, and manure have different production timelines and customer requirements. A household buying a few birds is not the same buyer as...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Boutique in Kenya: Stock, Startup Costs, and Sales
A boutique is easier to plan when it serves a recognisable shopping need: office wear for nearby workers, occasion outfits, affordable everyday pieces, children’s clothing, plus sizes, or carefully selected second-hand fashion. Your customer choice influences location, sizes, price range,...
11 Oct 2026
How to Advertise Cars for Sale in Kenya: Listings Buyers Can Compare
Car buyers compare several expensive options before they contact a seller. If a listing hides the year, mileage, transmission, engine size, import or local history, or known faults, it may receive attention but will produce avoidable questions and mistrust. The most useful advert is not the...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Barbershop in Kenya: Equipment, Costs, and Customers
A barbershop often depends on regular visits, so the best location is not automatically the busiest road. Think about where your clients already spend time: an estate entrance, a market, a stage, a shopping row, or a route between home and work. Visit at different times and days. Count likely...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Hardware Shop in Kenya: Stock, Costs, and Suppliers
A hardware shop serving homeowners doing small repairs will not need the same depth as a supplier near active building projects. Identify the customers you can realistically reach: fundis, small contractors, landlords, estate residents, farmers, or walk-in renovators. Ask local tradespeople...
11 Oct 2026
How to Become a Real Estate Agent in Kenya and Find Your First Clients
Property deals involve large sums, ownership documents, tenants, deadlines, and personal information. They are not a suitable place to learn through improvised promises. Before advertising yourself as an estate agent, check the current requirements of Kenya’s Estate Agents Registration Board...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Bakery in Kenya: Equipment, Costs, and First Orders
A home-based preorder bakery, a neighbourhood bread counter, and a celebration-cake studio are different businesses. They require different space, equipment, packaging, delivery, and marketing. Decide which products you can make consistently and which customers will buy them: daily bread and...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Phone Shop in Kenya: Stock, Suppliers, and Sales
A phone shop can focus on new handsets, used devices, accessories, basic setup support, or a combination. Each route ties up a different amount of capital and carries different customer expectations. A shop that sells many handset models needs cash for stock, secure storage, and a clear...
11 Oct 2026
How to Advertise Land for Sale in Kenya: Documents and Listing Details Buyers Need
Before you publish a parcel online, establish who has authority to market it. If you are an agent, obtain a written mandate from the owner or authorised representative. If you are selling jointly owned or inherited property, confirm who must consent and what documents are needed before making...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Mechanic Garage in Kenya: Tools, Costs, and Customers
A garage that accepts every vehicle and every fault may look busy but can become difficult to equip and manage. Decide what you can competently service: routine maintenance, brakes, suspension, diagnostics, tyres, bodywork, electrical repairs, or a defined mix. Consider the vehicle types in...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Grocery or Mama Mboga Business: Stock, Costs, and Customers
A grocery business is built on freshness and convenience. Watch the intended location at morning, lunchtime, and evening: who walks past, where people are coming from, and what they carry home. A kiosk near homes may depend on small daily purchases; a larger outlet near institutions may need...
11 Oct 2026
How to Open a Pharmacy in Kenya: Requirements, Costs, and Compliance
A pharmacy is a regulated healthcare business, not an ordinary retail shop with medicines on the shelves. Before signing a lease or buying stock, confirm the current requirements with the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) and the relevant professional or county authorities. Requirements can...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Private School in Kenya: Requirements, Costs, and Enrolment
Begin with the learners and families you intend to serve. Are parents seeking early years, primary grades, a particular curriculum, a day school, or a school in a growing settlement? Speak with families, teachers, community organisations, and nearby schools. Ask what parents value, what they...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Car Hire Business in Kenya: Vehicles, Costs, and Bookings
Self-drive hire, airport transfers, corporate transport, wedding cars, and monthly fleet arrangements are not interchangeable. They involve different insurance, driver, maintenance, and customer-screening needs. Decide which customer you will serve and what journey you will sell. A vehicle...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Daycare in Kenya: Requirements, Costs, and Parent Enquiries
A daycare in a residential estate may serve parents working nearby; one near a market or hospital may need different opening hours. Talk to parents about the hours they need, ages of children, feeding expectations, school runs, transport, and how they currently arrange care. Ask what would...
11 Oct 2026
How Electricians Can Find Local Clients and Explain Their Services
Electrical work is often urgent, but a vague advert saying “all electrical services” can attract jobs you cannot safely or lawfully perform. List the work you are competent and authorised to do, such as fault diagnosis, lighting, socket replacement, small shop fit-outs, or defined...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Cosmetics Shop in Kenya: Stock, Suppliers, and Sales
“Cosmetics” covers skincare, makeup, hair products, fragrance, tools, and accessories. A new shop cannot be equally competitive in every category. Choose a customer and a buying need: affordable daily skincare, makeup for a specific complexion range, professional beauty supplies, or a curated...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Car Spare-Parts Shop: Suppliers, Stock, and Fitment Details
The phrase “spare parts” covers thousands of components across different makes, model years, engines, and trims. A new shop that tries to stock everything may spend heavily and still lack the part a customer needs. Decide whether to focus on common service items, a group of vehicle makes, a...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start Dairy Farming in Kenya: Costs, Production, and Finding Buyers
Dairy is a daily routine, not a one-time purchase followed by occasional sales. Before choosing cows, identify who will buy the milk, how often it is collected, how it is measured and cooled, the quality conditions, payment timing, and what happens when collection is disrupted. Potential...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Building-Materials Business: Stock, Suppliers, and Contractor Orders
Building materials range from cement, steel, timber, roofing, blocks, plumbing, and electrical items to finishing products. Each category has different storage, transport, capital, and customer requirements. A small retail shop near estates may sell repair quantities; a depot near active...
11 Oct 2026
How to Become an M-Pesa Agent in Kenya: Requirements, Costs, and Setup
Mobile money agency is a controlled arrangement, not a service anyone can offer simply by displaying a logo. Contact Safaricom through its official channels to confirm the current application route, eligibility, required business documents, outlet conditions, staffing, minimum float or...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Tailoring Business in Kenya: Equipment, Pricing, and Orders
Tailoring can mean school uniforms, alterations, office wear, event outfits, traditional garments, curtains, or made-to-measure fashion. The work differs in skill, machine, fitting time, and risk of late delivery. Choose a first category where you can complete work consistently and where...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Cake Business in Kenya: Pricing, Photos, and Orders
A cake business may specialise in birthdays, weddings, cupcakes, celebration boxes, or simple everyday cakes. Begin with products you can make reliably in the oven and workspace you have. A detailed fondant design may photograph well but require hours, specialist tools, and a delivery...
11 Oct 2026
How to Open an Agrovet in Kenya: Requirements, Stock, and Customer Trust
An agrovet may sell seed, fertiliser, animal-health products, crop-protection products, tools, or feeds. Different items can have different registration, storage, handling, and professional requirements. Before leasing a shop or buying stock, contact the relevant Kenyan regulators and...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Car Wash in Kenya: Location, Equipment, and Costs
A car wash needs more than road visibility. Check reliable water supply, drainage, power, vehicle entry and exit, waiting space, security, and the effect of runoff on neighbours and public areas. Ask the landlord about water use and modifications. Before paying a deposit, contact the county...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Gym in Kenya: Equipment, Costs, and Finding Members
A gym can serve strength training, group classes, personal training, rehabilitation-adjacent exercise, or general fitness. Do not lease a large space just because a full gym looks impressive. Ask residents, workers, sports groups, and nearby organisations what training they want, what time...
11 Oct 2026
How to Start a Driving School in Kenya: Requirements, Costs, and Enrolment
Driving instruction involves road safety and regulated training. Before buying a vehicle or advertising lessons, contact the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) and other responsible authorities to confirm the current approval process for a driving school, instructors, training...
11 Oct 2026
