Earlier this year, we introduced Tanzlite Host. This is not just another name in Tanzania’s web hosting services; we’re rewriting the rules.
Here’s how our unique approach to business is setting us apart and why it’s the most profitable model in the industry:
A Different Kind of Web Hosting Business
At Tanzlite Host, we’ve flipped the traditional model on its head:
Web Design First, Hosting Second: We’re fundamentally a web design agency that provides hosting. This means every website we host, we’ve likely designed. This approach ensures that we’re not just hosting your site; we’re invested in its success from conception.
Volume vs. Value: While many competitors chase volume, we focus on value. One corporate website project with us can be equivalent to years of hosting renewals. For instance, our corporate website packages start at Tsh 670,000, which matches the cost of our ESSENTIAL hosting package for 7 years. This model reduces the churn associated with constant sales efforts.
Why Our Approach is More Profitable:
Long-term Relationships: In Tanzania, where SMEs might not last long, our model ensures that even if a client doesn’t renew, they’ve already invested significantly in design and development. This reduces the pressure of constant new sales to maintain revenue.
Service Over Sales: Our business thrives on retainer services, one-time revamps, and additional features. This creates a more stable income stream than the volatile sales cycle of domain and hosting packages.
Exclusive Design-Hosting Bundle: We rarely allow clients to purchase just hosting from us if they’ve had their website designed elsewhere. This exclusivity ensures that our hosting service is tied to our design expertise, creating a symbiotic relationship where both services enhance each other’s value.
The Best Offer in Tanzania:
Understanding the financial challenges of starting a digital presence, Tanzlite Host offers an unbeatable deal:
Free Hosting and Domain for One Year: If you choose us to design your website, you get your hosting and domain for free for the first year. No other provider in Tanzania matches this offer. It’s our way of empowering you to start your digital journey without financial barriers.
Conclusion:
Tanzlite Host isn’t just about hosting; we’re about partnership, design, and empowerment. Our approach, focusing on design first and hosting second, not only aligns with the needs of Tanzanian businesses but also positions us as the most profitable model in the industry. Karibu!
Standing out on LinkedIn can be very challenging, especially when you are a beginner. But guess what! Building a top-notch profile will help you let those challenges be the past story in your journey.
LinkedIn is a professional platform where you can share experience, opinions, and expertise with hundreds of people within an hour.
Sharing your thought-provoking ideas will make you stand out, expand your network, maximize profit, and connect with like-minded professionals who will help you achieve your goals.
When I started actively using LinkedIn, I thought posting motivational content would make me stand out. Later on, I came to realize it was not going to make me the person I am today.
Want to Make Your LinkedIn Profile Stand Out? Here are step by steps.
Whether you’re a Student, Graduate, Founder, or Employee who wants to break the ice and tap invaluable opportunities, these are what you need to implement.
1.Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile
Your LinkedIn profile is where your potential clients or recruiters decides whether to choose you or move on to the next person. Optimizing your own LinkedIn profile increases your chances of standing out, making you more interesting to others and potentially leading to valuable connections or job opportunities.
A Full professional LinkedIn profile must have the following optimized.
Background image: Utilize an attractive banner that highlights your expertise. Incorporate compelling text, quotes, and professional images that align with your personal brand. The recommended banner image size is 1584 x 396px. Use tools like Canva and Adobe Photoshop in designing.
Profile picture: LinkedIn differs from other platforms like Facebook or Twitter. On LinkedIn upload a photo that is close to the camera, displaying your face clearly. The profile picture should be at leat 800 x 800px. Jane Deehan says your face should take up around 60% of the entire space.
Headline: This section reflects your authority and brand identity. Clearly state who you are and what you offer. Example; Graphic Designer | Adobe Photoshop Expert| Illustrator. I specialize in creating vibrant graphics that boost your brand Authority. You can use tools like Sharethrough to measure the quality, strength, impression, and receive suggestions for improving your headline.
Your headline enables recruiters and creators to find your name when searching for talents on the LinkedIn search bar.
About section: Highlight the pain points you’ve addressed for the past clients and explain how you can help your next client solve their problems. Avoid generic buzzwords such as “passionate,” “hard worker,” or listing irrelevant details like where you studied.
It’s like going on a date saying I’m handsome, smart, passionate”. But there is a better way.
Stevan Koncar.
2. Post at least three times a week.
When it comes to posting, keep in mind that the more you show up on the platform, the more people will notice your value and interact with you. Posting today and then two months later will cost you, as you risk being forgotten.
Optimizing your profile doesn’t guarantee that opportunities will come your way automatically. Instead, you need to actively participate by showing up every day and making your name memorable to your audience.
If you reach a point where people start mentioning your name both online and offline, know that you have done something right. That’s how the journey of standing out begins.
At times, you might struggle with what to post on LinkedIn while others finish their day with 2 or 3 posts. Yes, managing that level of consistency can be challenging, but it’s essential for maintaining your presence on the platform.
3. Showcase your Expertise.
Share content based on your experiences that resonates with your prospects. Be yourself; avoid copying and pasting others’ ideas (CTRL+C and CTRL+V). People want to hear your opinions and understand the unique value you can bring to them. If you’re sharing the same content as others, believe me, you will not stand out.
4. Like, Share, and Comment
Make an effort to interact with other creators in your niche to gain more exposure and establish new connections, fostering long-term relationships that may lead to client opportunities.
Make an effort to interact with other creators in your niche to gain more exposure and establish new connections, fostering long-term relationships that may lead to client opportunities.
You can attract attention to your profile by leaving thoughtful and meaningful comments on others’ posts. Other people have gone far promoting their business in the comment section of someone’s post just to get visibility.
Engagement on other creators posts increase your visibility, and people will also start paying attention to your post. Remember, people will not continue engaging in your posts if you’re not showing love to their posts. Birds of the same feathers always flock together.
5. Personalize Connection.
Send personalized connection requests as much as possible to individuals in the same industry. Utilize the LinkedIn invitation feature—”invite” “invite” “invite” until you hit the limit. Follow people who inspire you and choose three or four of them to act as your role models.
Draw inspiration or messaging vibes from them and find ways to communicate with your target audience. As mentioned earlier, avoid copying and pasting; instead, share your thoughts.
Conclusion.
Your LinkedIn profile is like a CV where employers and clients get to know you better and decide whether to call you for an interview or move on to the next person.
In building a strong profile, ensure that your profile answers these questions:ur profile;
Most young individuals often fail to grow and become successful in their careers simply because they lack someone who can guide them, share the DO’S and DON’TS, and provide insights into the potential outcomes of their current doing.
To understand the facts, kindly gather five young college students and ask them one by one, “Who is your mentor” and listen to what they say. You might be surprised to hear that some of them don’t even know what does the word mentor means.
A mentor is an individual who has already successfully walked the journey you want to go through.
Me as Anthony Charles, without a mentor I could be somewhere completely unknown, unable even to write this piece.
“A mentor transfers their knowledge, studying and experiences to your mind and literary change the course of your life” – Bob Proctor.
Successful people have no problem with teaching you how to fish. Whether in business or tech. Here are ways to find your mentor.
Ask Friends
The people you spend time with might have the answers to where you can get the right mentor for your career. You just have to ask them, “Who is the best successful person in this career?”,
“ Hello! Shaatmelau,
I’m currently seeking someone to guide me on how I can achieve 1, 2, 3. Do you know anyone who can be my mentor?”. Probably he will tell you.
Then you have to research more deeply by looking at them on YouTube, Google, IG, X, and LinkedIn. Then, choose wisely who could be your choice.
It can be difficult for you to find the right mentor by asking your fellow if they don’t know well your career and goals. Ask people who can really help you meet the right mentor.
Follow-up and Stay Connected
Mentors aren’t meant only those whom you can physically come into contact with, but rather anyone who can inspire and provide you guidance regardless of the location.
The quickest way to get the right direction from people who could be your mentor is to connect with them on social platforms be it on LinkedIn, YouTube, or X. Here is the thing, people who are successful in their career have no problem with sharing how they achieved their success.
They share DO’S and DON’TS that when you’re committed to following up and implementing them, you become the better role of yourself. If you’re consuming content you don’t implement you’re not learning anything.
Good mentors don’t look like mentors, you will be inspired by their work
Warning. The Internet has many rude people who claim to be nice. As I said before, make sure you research first a person you want to be your mentor. Be cautious to people over the internet who are sharing googlable tips and say “DM me for more”.
Yeah, there are some of them who can help you as your mentor using this approach but in reality they do not.
Engage in their posts.
Shaatmelau asks in his post on LinkedIn, where can the fresh undergraduate find a mentor if all the potential “mentor” does is posting “motivational”, “sensational”, and “I’m excited to/thrilled that” content?.
The answer is simple you can not. Find someone who shares the burning point, problems, how things works and how to go about.
And the best way to have these kind of people as your mentor is to engage in their posts before you start DM’ing them. Be the first person to like, repost, or comment and try to support them on whatever they do that is how you’re allowing yourself to be noticed.
By the time you send them a DM, you will be receiving quick responses because they already know who you are. Remember, these people receive a lot of messages in a day which they cannot afford to answer them all.
Some of them have a lot of things to do, so putting yourself out there increases the chance of getting that person and being your mentor.
Schedule Meeting
After having a good relationship, you can organize meetings that can be done online or physically depending on the location you two are in.
But before you schedule any meeting, make sure you have read their work, books, and business so that you can not seem to be boring asking the same question they have answered a hundred times.
It can also happen accidentally meeting with them at events or seminars. Once you’ve that chance be curious for at least ten minutes asking some relevant questions.
Seek for advice.
Never go the first time to mentors and ask for support such as promoting your work or asking for money. My Friend I don’t know if you will achieve that mentors aren’t like coaches. Ask for advice on how you can promote your work, how you can do it right, and how you can become more successful in your career.
Even Moses was listening guidance from God why not you? Have a good day.
If you’re struggling to come up with ideas for what to post on LinkedIn, you’re not alone. Many people find it challenging to get ideas on what to be consistently posting on the platform.
But don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. In this article, I’ll share some tips and strategies to help you generate ideas and keep your LinkedIn feed active.
First of all, it’s important to define your goals on LinkedIn. Are you looking to grow your LinkedIn audience, promote your products, establish yourself as an industry expert, or connect with potential clients? Knowing your objectives will guide the type of content you should be posting.
Without wasting your time let’s take a look at the following resources.
Draw from your daily experiences.
The best ideas often come from your own life. Think about your achievements, failures, and challenges you’ve overcome. Extracting posts from these experiences will not only resonate with others but also position you as someone who understands their pain points.
Sharing your experiences on LinkedIn may vary according to your goals. For those who are looking for clients make sure you share what problem you encountered, how you solved and how will you help your target audience overcome such a problem.
But if you’re to grow your brand, you can share achievements from your jobs, studies, and daily normal life.
Read books and articles.
In books, articles, and other written documents, is where untaped ideas are. For example, the book Mbele ya Muda by Shukuru Amos written in Swahili helps you come up with great ideas based on building Brand Authority, recognition, confidence, and thought-provoking content.
Learning from the success stories of industry leaders, and exploring different perspectives on relevant topics will give you the confidence to take a step ahead. Reading different books helps you connect the dots between the concepts in books and real-life experiences.
Do not read and share exactly what is written on books just show your opinion concerned to what you have read in connection with real life experience based on your area of expertise.
Find inspiration from others.
Engage with posts from other creators on platforms, Linkedin and Twitter. You might come across gaps in their content or have insights to add. It’s very important to provide credit and never copy and paste someone else’s work. Instead, use it as a starting point to develop your ideas.
You may sometimes get stuck on how to shape your content ready to publish on LinkedIn yeah, simple! find out three or two people who inspire you in the way they’re creating content. For example Shukuru Amos, Justin Welsh, Ndubuis Ekenkwe, and you name it.
Taking notes.
Don’t let those brilliant ideas slip away. Carry a note-taking app or a physical diary wherever you go. Capture insights and observations that you can later turn into thought-provoking LinkedIn posts. This habit will not only help you generate content but also improve your mental clarity.
A note-taking app can be ColorNote, Google Keep etc that you can use without carrying any physical diary and pen.
Everyday conversations
Pay attention to the topics you discuss with friends and colleagues, not that serious!. These conversations you had daily can be a goldmine for ideas to post on LinkedIn especially when you’re talking with people above your level, someone with higher knowledge than you.
Be curious, listener and ask question where possible. But be cautious not to turn intimate stories into public posts that may compromise your brand authenticity.
These sources of inspiration will provide you with a constant stream of ideas to fuel your LinkedIn presence. Aim to post at least three times a week to maintain consistency and engage with your audience.
Quality content that adds value and sparks discussion is key.
Now, you have the tools to overcome the challenge of finding ideas to post on LinkedIn. Start creating and watch your brand flourish on this professional networking platform.
The content you consume, the people you talk to, and the videos you watch heavily influence the person you are and how you think.
It may sound like a simple observation, but in reality, it has profound implications for you. Let me explain.
Habit build character
If you spend so much time watching half-naked videos on social media means you are training your mind to think about nothing but objectifying nakedness. This is the kind of mindset and focus you are likely to carry into your life and ultimately pursue.
Similarly, if you surround yourself with people who value reading books, writing, and watching thought-provoking movies, you will naturally begin to embody those same habits – whether you like or not.
Repetition really converts
People might be telling you, “Hey Anthony, let’s start gambling.” Initially, you might refuse, knowing the negative outcomes of such activities.
But as they keep telling and sharing their winning, they come back to you with tales of victory – “Today I won 50,000/=, the next day 200,000/=” and still you’re in that bond, slowly you’re convinced to give it a try, once you begin you are done.
The thing that holds us back is the desire for belonging. We all want to fit in and be accepted by our peers. We constantly kill our creativity by comparing ourselves to others, thinking, “How will my friends me if I do this? I want to be like someone”.
Not bad! but question yourself, is that what you want to be associated with? Will it help you make a step ahead? People who do their things without caring the other side as long as what they do is right are the ones who kick the five stars.
Be Yourself. Everyone else is already taken~ Oscar Wilde
Don’t get me wrong, there are some jobs, and activities that are safe, good, and need to be done in a team so, you just have to balance the equation.
Living the life you want sometimes requires making difficult decisions to mold the future you want to live in, no matter how painful it is as nobody will come and live your life. You’re the one to decide before things go wrong.
How your brain functions
Your brain is like an AI that produces outputs based on the inputs it receives. If you constantly fill it with false information, misguided influences, and negative associations, it will produce the same too and vice versa is true.
What makes you stand out?
Think about this, if everything you learn and absorb can be easily learned and mastered by others, then what sets you apart? How will you stand out if you’re just following the crowd and doing what everyone else is doing?
The key to standing out lies in seeking out knowledge and experiences that are unique and uncommon. Understanding this will give you another test of being in a lifelong learning mode.
The key takeaway here is to choose wisely the environment you associate with. Surround yourself with people who align with your goals and aspirations. Seek out a community that supports what you do and how you think.
You do that, you create an atmosphere that propels your growth.
Becoming who you want, starts by identifying what do you want to be known for? Which skills do you need to have? What are the goals you want to achieve? at what time?
Knowing who you want to be is crucial for personal growth and self-development though many young individuals often overlook the necessity of proper planning while their blood is still young.
I asked this question to many students and the answers were almost the same “You know the future is unknown, I will do whatever comes in, tomorrow will care about itself”. Yes, The future is unknown, but relying on “tomorrow will care about itself” may lead to total failure.
The future is in your hands
Nobody holds your life, you’re the builder and destroyer of yourself. In this era of confusion and frustrations its better you set up clear goals and prepare for opportunities you wish to delve into, so you can navigate the job market with confidence and achieve your desired outcomes.
Assume you want to be a graphic designer, dedicating yourself to it and letting it become a part of your identity wherever you go after two years of consistent dedication, you’ll find that your proficiency as a designer speaks for itself.
One of the biggest mistakes many youths make is not having a clear vision of who they wish to be. They often attribute the uncertainty of life as a reason for their lack of direction. Many come to understand the power of knowing their title early as the sun is approaching to its sunset.
I argue that life is unpredictable, but that should not hinder you from calling the title you want for your future. Believing in yourself, discovering yourself, and actively working towards them, you become that person regardless of the challenges you may face even if is not, you will have something to begin with.
Difficulties of the job market is not an option.
The job market can indeed be complex, but it is not an excuse to leave your future to chance. You must break free from the mindset of living day by day like chickens mindlessly pecking at the ground. Instead, you should adopt a proactive approach, and shape your own destiny.
It is said that luck happens when opportunity meets preparation. This rings true when it comes to planning for your next step. Preparing yourself through side hustle, tinkering, and learning new skills you become ready to tap opportunities in stressful job markets when they arise.
You become who you wish
Ask yourself, “Who do I want to become?” Visualize the person you aspire to be, and then make more efforts to reach that destination. To get what you want requires commitment and passion whether you do or die fighting.
Having multiple titles before you master the first one will not help. Today you’re a hacker, tomorrow you’re a DJ, and the day after tomorrow you’re BF SUMA agent. In this way you will end up saying things are too time is not enough and it will.
Find mentors where necessary
The most important advice many youth should adhere to is finding mentors in their own field. Mentors will provide valuable insights and advice to help you navigate the job market and make informed decisions about your future.
No matter how smart you are, mentors will help you become the true version of yourself. It’s not necessary that a mentor must be the one who you meet face to face but anyone whom you’re inspired by.
