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SMS has not become irrelevant and will not in the near future, but leave alone that SMS database and the bulk SMS services that you make use of to send company updates, Christmas messages and news and think about mobile web/apps.  Your company needs to provide more room for communication and easy accessibility of company information to your clients and users through mobile web/apps.

Tech companies like Ericson, Huawei, MTN, Orange, Samsung to mention but a few are strategically delivering Smartphone and tablets for sale on the Uganda market. Despite of this, the end user has not  yet tapped into these gadgets full potential since many brands have not taken chance to make use of mobile web/apps in reaching their clients.

Even as use of these gadgets for some services has grown, we should note with concern that, these smart phones and tablets are not only sold for Facebook and Wikipedia access but your company/brand can also use the Smartphone penetration as an opportunity.

As the MD, CEO, Sales or Marketing manager, how would you feel when you found out that 10,000 users have your mobile portal as their browser homepage on their devices or have your brand app installed and made use of daily?

Uganda companies should make use of this flexible and cheap means of communication to deliver information to the people and keep brands interactive using mobile apps. Your users will share your content, promote your brand and eventually that interactivity will turn into action and hence cash.

Food for thought, recently, the entirely social “Microsoft Social Office 365”, “Your Office, Your Terms” campaign garnered 5.8 million overall campaign impressions and this was four times more traffic from social sharing than the typical Microsoft campaign. Majority of devices used in the campaign were mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

What are you waiting for! Contact HiPipo Digital media experts to help you develop a multi functional interactive mobile website or application and make use of all avenues to win your clients, even more.

You are indeed in love; your hearts are all for one another, but all you do is weaken them every other time when you want to be happy together. You want to take her to noisy clubs, cinema halls etc. Do something that is environmentally friendly for your couple, you will taste the difference. Below are 10 tasted ideas of how you can have an environmentally friendly date;

Play Board Games

When the roads are muddy and it is cold since it rained, have sometime home together. Stay in your house, play board games you enjoyed when you were a Kid, Games like ludo, draft , chess are great for a couple.

Visit a Craft Shop

You fear CPS for nothing, hey, that road has gold on it. Take time and visit the craft shops at that place. You will see amazing creations your couple had never imagined. You have good time touring your own city, but learning great tips to keep you happy. Better still; visit the national theatre shops on a Saturday afternoon.

Plant a Garden

You don’t need to plant a huge garden; it can be small in tins. Get those nice flowers you liked from childhood, plant them together and make it a point to take care of them together regularly.

Have Breakfast at Sunrise

How often do you get up and enjoy the sunrise? In Uganda, many people leave home early at 6 am and return late at 6pm daily. On a Saturday morning or public holiday, prepare breakfast for your loved one and get him/her from bed just to take it together out at the sunrise.  You’ll feel like you are on vacation in Bwindi Game Park!

Check out the Library or Bookshop

If you enjoy reading, watching still pictures, get sometime and visit a bookshop or library. You don’t need to go and buy. You can even read a whole book from Nakumat or Arisitoc for feel. A friend of mine told me, he has read more than 30 (500 pages) books from a bookshop in K’la for free! Why not have time together there with your love?

Visit a Prayer/Worship Place

This best works for couples that share a religion/belief, once in awhile, have time together, go into that church or mosque. Make your couple promises midst evident GOD presence. You will never lie to each other.

Go to a Kids Park

I know this sounds a little childish, but I mean it. Just make sure kids don’t find you at their play park. For instance, Uchumi has a good one around town. Don’t mind what other people think; play as long as you both like the idea. It is all at no cost to you.

Play Tourist in Your Own Suburb

Kampala is so small, but so congested, you need to know your place. Visit the different corners of Muyenga, Bwaise, Nansana, Buzinga wherever you stay. Make sure you do this on foot, you will learn more things you never knew about your residence and people.

Visit a Local Market

You can decide to visit Owino this week and go to Nakasero next week. Go visit those markets with second hand shoes, clothes, etc, even if that’s not your class. Just to learn and have fun seeing those people doing business. You can also visit a farmers market to buy some fruits, vegetables etc.

Go to a beach or Park

Almost everyone thinks of the beach first when they want to take their loved ones out. But this is specially for a couple to have good time and talk as they look at the amazing flowing water waves, eat fish and enjoy beach chips. You can also visit a game park once in a while.

With these 10 tips, you will have 10 weekends of your relationship well utilized, with lots of lessons. 

Over the past few years there has been a growing boom in the Internet market seen with several entrepreneurs setting up classifieds websites.  Classified advertising is a form of advertising which is particularly common in newspapers, online and other periodicals which may be sold or distributed free of charge. For so many years, classifieds advertisements in a newspaper have been typically short, as they are charged for by the line, or column. The internet makes it possible to overcome the paper limits and have classifieds with photos, video, and maps if needed.  In the USA and worldwide http://www.craigslist.org is the major classifieds website that happens to be among the top 10 USA websites.  In UK http://www.gumtree.com/ is one of the leading classifieds website and is among the top 50 UK websites.

In Kenya http://dealfish.co.ke/ has seen significant growth having about 117 600 ads as of April 2012 and ranking among the top Kenyan websites. Dealfish with a vision to be the leader in several African markets has seen lukewarm growth in Uganda and Tanzania.  On the other hand Google trader for Uganda and Kenya is seemingly gaining ground with a visit to the classifieds portal showing active recent posts for autos and housing among others. http://kampalamart.com with over 3500, posts as of April 2012 is the other active player. Several other players that opened shop in Uganda do not seem to feature much growth in terms of number of classifieds posts.

In general the classified business is still seeing slow growth in Uganda. May be one of the reasons could be the culture of Ugandans that tend to be more trusting of the seller if they visit a shop physically or when they see an advert on paper. Many may still be a little skeptical about the validity of online classifieds and their effectiveness. Nevertheless the growing trends on Google trader and Kampalamart in Uganda are a good sign that more Ugandans are going to embrace this way of selling and buying. 

Biggie is a man of surprises and often pulls off shocking moves.  Tanzania’s Hilda and Julio and Zimbabwe’s Teclar and Menata Housemates were up for eviction on Sunday just before they could settle in the house. Julio moaned that “It’s unfair, We’re just getting acquainted”. The nomination for eviction this time round was done by the new random nomination mechanism

Meanwhile the housemates are plotting to get naught and looking for ways to hide from Biggie’s cameras. They want to set up so called safe spot for which they suggest names such as ‘Shagging Spot’, ‘Dark Spot’ and ‘Black Hole’ .

Could it be love in the air? A Namibia and Kenya Hook-Up, Malonza and Junia Kiss

From their Diary Session, Jannette and Kyle are hoping the housemates don’t punch each other by the end of the first week citing a case where housemates were headed to blow up over diamonds argument. Seydou and Zainab Fight

Diary Session, Jannette and Kyle

Many times people tend to misunderstand happiness and richness. Majority think that money is source to all sorts of happiness, but some rich people that have made the much money don’t necessarily live a great life of happiness. This could be due to natural, social, physiological and spiritual factors among others. Below, I explain the different situations of happiness, wealth and unhappiness.

Happiness

Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or enjoyable emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

Money

Money is any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context.

Huge Money can be accumulated through different channels such as hard work, innovativeness, discovery and implementation of new great ideas, luck, gambling and crime. Above all, the blessing of GOD though this doesn’t come without hard work.

Money usually comes to those who are prepared and have worked for it.

Who is rich in Uganda?

In Uganda, the rich are classifieds into many groups and the abilities of the rich also differ from one class to another as there is a big difference between the richest and the normal rich.

Anyone who owns a business, car, house, and can pay bills such as school fees, hospital can be considered rich in our community. But this doesn’t rule out the fact that there are those individuals who own mansions in different estates, fleets of cars, businesses and their daily earnings are millions of times greater than the normal rich Ugandans.

Unfortunately, happiness is not for all the rich, contrary to the state of the richness, it is true that many poor Ugandans live a happier life than the rich, much as the rich have more power and influence to do things the way they wish.

It should be noted that, richness is sometimes a concept measured according to one’s initial dream of success.

What makes the rich unhappy?

Many rich people take time in the coolest places such as hotels, bars, beaches, casinos to have fun etc but they never seem to get happy, maybe because they earned money through crime or those that worked hard to earn the money, become busier since they need to maintain their success and others never seem to get satisfied with the levels they reach at.

In the short run, the gamblers and criminal earners become happy since they didn’t work hard for that money, but have no plan B, after loss of money. Most times they end up in court, prison and dead when they are discovered.

The rightful earners remain striving for more riches instead of enjoying what they have earned and end dying before enjoying the fruits of their sweat.