Three Ways To Get a Job Opportunity By Nightfall TODAY!

Affiliate marketing should be one of the best words to the ears of any Kenyan currently looking for gainful employment. It is a sad mantra fed to us by government; over 12 million youth under the age of 35 in Kenya are jobless. That is the government statistic. The fascinating thing about this statistic is not so much the numbers, but the number of people who pass up amazing opportunities waiting for a salaried job completely oblivious of this statistic.

To begin with, with over 25% of our active and employable population jobless, the lack of jobs is not a problem the government will solve anytime soon and certainly not in your lifetime. Even if it annoys you, the truth is, you will have to get yourself a solution. Quit waiting for the government. 

Here is the math; we churn out about 500,000 graduates annually. In 2012 we were able to create the highest jobs ever a staggering 503,500 jobs. In short, we had only 3,500 jobs above average number of graduates. But that notwithstanding, let us imagine that annually, all 500,000 graduates were absorbed into employment. It will take 24 years for all the currently jobless to be absorbed into employment.

Here it is in other words; assuming you are 25 today, and you graduated last year, if we were to absorb people in order of graduation, you will be 49 before the government finds you a place. And that is possibly helping the Chinese to build the Nairobi-Sudan highway or something.

So, having put that foundation in perspective, how can you find yourself a paying job, a well paying job actually, by dinner time tonight?

Although the heading says tonight and ‘by dinner-time’ nothing great comes without an investment of time and effort. So in truth, the heading should read ‘start a job developing idea by dinnertime tonight’. That is exactly what this article will give you. 

1.    Go Round Businesses And Offer To Sell On Their Behalf
This immediately sounds untenable particularly if you are shy. But here is the thing; every day new businesses come up. If you can approach a new or struggling business and offer to enhance their sales, they will set you up on a commission in no time. All you need to be sober about is how to track your sales, and how to collect your commissions.

This is the very simplified meaning of the term ‘affiliate marketing’. In short, it is to turn your skill in sales and marketing into profit. If you know you have a flair for selling and or influencing people, shop around for a company, promote their products for them, and earn a commission against those sales.

Recently, I had a discussion with a friend. What he is into is selling furniture. And he sells some really fabulous pieces. His business module is very simple; he identifies exquisite furniture and then outsources the carpentry to a fundi. Once the carpentry work is done, he sells off the pieces and gives the fundi his money.

Now, my friend is in street language a ‘broker’ and in more value-based language, he is an affiliate to the carpenter. In other words, he helps the carpenter sell his wares and gets a commission from his troubles. Does it pay? Oh, yes!

2.    Start an Affiliate Marketing Site
Although you will find the sentiment repeated all over this site, let me repeat it here that a paying affiliate marketing site is one of the easiest online income platforms you can create. By easiest, I mean that the idea behind it is very straight forward.

You find companies online who pay you on commission for sales or jobs done that are relevant to their marketing interests. There are two ways of creating a selling site; outsource someone to do it for you and two hire a coach to help you set it up.

3.    Offer Your Services As a Paid Apprentice
Some things sound foreign in Kenyan, but it is not the foreignness of the idea that matters, like the income value of it. A paid apprentice is a very possible work environment in this country. A paid apprentice is a skilled worker who sets up a symbiotic relationship with a company. In the relationship, the worker offers their skills at very minimal wages and the company benefits from their professional skill.

How to Get Started
What it entails is to listen around to family, and friends who have companies and would benefit from your specific skills. Let us say for instance you have a Degree in Business Management and are jobless. You can approach a friend and/or relative who has a non-performing business because they cannot afford trained personnel.

Over time, quietly study where their business is failing from discussions you have with them and comments they make. Put out a well planned strategy, and even put it in writing, on steps they could take to enhance their business success.

Points to Consider
Two pointers: first, put yourself and your input at the heart of the proposal. Do not create a solution based proposal that can be handed over to anyone else and they execute it with ease. Draft it in such a way that you MUST be there for the program to work.

And second: keep the costs low. If you make suggestions where you are trying to spend money you have no idea about, without first showing how the money will be made, then you make your idea irrelevant before it takes off. Focus on how the money shall be made, what enhancements shall be done with 30% of the new money, and how the company will benefit in a year to three years.

At the end of your proposal offer to do the work at a minimal monthly wage. In fact, you can even put the ideal professional fee and make your offer thereafter. If they are smart business people, they will see the chance to hire expert personnel at low investment.

What Will Make This Work
Now here are critical points. Note that YOU do the research. Do not wait for the family or friend to contact you and offer you a deal. Swim out to your boat.

Also note YOU are the one who needs to package your skills to show how working with them will benefit their organization. Remember, you are asking for money outside their planned budget so your strategy has to be extremely compelling.

Once you get such an opportunity, please do not blow it. Make yourself so useful in the company and you could very well become a business partner some day. But be patient — Rome was not built in a day, this strategy will not work overnight.

In truth, you can offer this same service to more than one company and comfortably set yourself up as a consultant in three years charging mind-boggling fees. All you need from this strategy is a portfolio to sell to the next business. So give the opportunity the honor it deserves.