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BUSINESS FACTS

• 90% of your business is from cosumers who live in the business base of operation 

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  There is no such thing as enough advertising .From large companies such as Coke,General Electric to Safaricom continuosly advertise themselves not only daily as a marketing principle and rule in ittself to stay in the mind of their consumers .
   

 

MachaLink is currently on its campaign of registering business across Machakos ,Kajiado and Makueni Counties. 

WHO WE ARE?

We are a business advertorial paper published once a month to cosumers in the region of

Machakos ,Kajiado and Makueni Counties. 

We seek to bring together business in these regions from small business who have no opportunity of advertising their buiness to Large corporates while building their visibility at the same time network them with the right market .

Our vision is to make the regions a business hub by bringing together all calibre of business ,market them to their potential consumers at the same time bring increased walk in customers thus building their revenue flow through our Newspaper .We seek to be the business and ICT paper of these these regions in the future and provide a stable network of business partners and readership as potentials to every business involved in our paper .

 

Welcome to MachaLink

Zuhura Eba Lupita Amondi Nyong’o Buyu

 ART BY :  SYDNEY OWIYO SINO- owiyosydney@yahoo.com ( 0736 029 614 )-Lupita nyongo-DRUM.2009.

Her full names in full are Zuhura  Eba  Lupita  Amondi  Nyong’o  Buyu .Born March 1, 1983 in Mexico .She chose to go with the name Lupita when she joined Loreto Convent Msongari in Standard one , a few years after the family returned from Mexico ,the country of her birth .She was to stay in the school till Standard five ,from where she joined Rusinga School in Standard Six  ,after which she joined the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico to study Spanish . She would later on return home to Join ST .Mary’s School in Lavington , where she did her International baccalaureate . After completing this ,Lupita went to the US,where she she was caught up with the idea of either majoring in theatre or film where she later picked the latter ,but her heart was in theatre and she also wanted to act .

Back home she had been involved in plays and at the age of 14 years had played Juliet in the classic play Romeo and Juliet at the phoenix theatre in Nairobi. Lupita attended Hampshire College in Amherst ,Massachusetts, for her undergraduate degree in film and theatre after which she applied to do her masters in a number of universities . A natural class act ,and go getter she auditioned at the New York University to study for Masters of Fine Arts In Dramatic Acting and was a natural being accepted after her first audition .But she would turn it down with pride and regret because of her vision and dream  to study at Yale .Many famous American actors have studied in Yale including Angela Basset ,Meryl Streep ,had been students of Yale . Not only did she get in , but she was awarded a scholarship, of  which she began her Masters in August ,2009 ,all this without an official college transcript ,just  sheer  talent  being at the age of 26 then .

 

Lupita has been making her mark in the Film world long before the Oscars and other awards from her role in the movie 12 years a slave, which has been her coronation to glory . As part of her final thesis at Hampshire she released In My Genes , story sharing seven’s people’s Individual experiences living with albinism in Kenya .The documentary received high acclaim at various International festivals, including the New York Africa Film Festival ,where she was the youngest filmmaker at that time .It was voted as the Official Souvenir Selection at the Africala Film Festival in Mexico ,and the Best Film 2008 and Best Documentary 2008 at the Pioneer Valley Five-College Film Festival in the US. Until In My Genes she was more into fiction, but then realized that Kenya had not fully exploited the potential of documentaries, yet they are cheaper to make .

 While working on In My Genes ,she was part of the team that created ,pitched and won the opportunity in a Pan-African music video-making competition to produce one of Kenya’s music video ,Little Things You Do, performed by Wahu and Bobi Wine . During her early years she had also spent some time in New York  , where she worked as a model .While working as a model  in New York ,she had landed a gig for Nike posing as a track athlete..When she returned home,Lupita entered the Miss Malaika pageant .She went on to become the competition’s first winner .Lupita also worked as an assistant production manager of Maisha , a screenwriters and directors workshop in Uganda . in 2008 and starred in the Kenyan television series Shuga .She also worked as a post-production intern with Miraba Films in New York , a production assistant for the award-winning movie ,Contant Gardener , as well as a presenter on Metro Television’s Kilele . She worked also as part of the production crew for  films such as, Mira Nair's The Namesake and Salvatore Stabile's Where God Left His Shoes .

Asked ,the three people she would have to dinner ,she replied Barrack Obama , Afro pop Singer Salif Keita and Oprah Winfrey, I guess because she like her does great things .With her win she has put belief in Kenyans following the Arts as a profession .Those who had their KCSE results should not be limited to sciences and business courses ,and parents should not limit their children to them as Lupita has shown that there is value in the Arts .

 

 

Film is a foreign concept to Africa , but it is a medium in which we can tell our stories,for Africa by Africa .The future , is in the Arts , and those that embrace its world .For so long Kenyan  schools have been churning out students whose focus has been on science .The Kenyan curriculum has ever been focused on technical skills and the sciences with few curriculum focused on the Arts and even fewer careers in the Arts . Secondly Kenyans have embraced their child who has made it in the world but back home are they supporting their own Industry .Many Kenyans are quick to applaud the heroine that the world embraces but back home ,do Kenyans buy Kenyan movies ,go to see Kenyan plays ,buy Kenyan Art ,buy Kenyan Music, buy Kenyan products .The Arts Industry has been reeling as those in these industries put in so much yet get so little .

 

 

With the vision of Alfred Mutua’s Machawood in Machakos to auger Nollywood and Hollywood , it is yet high time we take part in developing our Arts Industry . Investing in the Arts is Key, in terms of building Infrastructure, buying from our own. We should not be only agents of praise in only embracing what the west builds and approves as the best , but also make our own . Ask yourself, have you ever bought any Kenyan Songs?  How many Kenyan Albums have you ever purchased? Which Kenyan Movies have you bought?  Kenyan Art , have you bought ? The answer you have is the reason why the Kenyan Art Industry is where it is .Kenyans can pay value for International products yet ask yourself do you buy from your own Kenyans back home . The answer is satirical.

 

The International community have already steered the way for creating value for the Arts, building a platform for recognition for their own Industry .The writing is on the wall, and building our own Industry is the answer at the end of the day, no one will make it for us .There is need for involvement from top down, building curriculum and Institutions that focus on the Arts,  Kenyans as consumers to acknowledge the value of the Arts and Kenyans to start buying from our own as the only way to inject value to the world of Arts .This will need change in the mindsets of the Kenyan psyche ,develop belief systems in our own, buying Kenyan products from Kenyans not only in the sphere of the Arts but business as well. 

 

 

 Komla Afeke Dumor (3 October 1972 – 18 January 2014) was a Ghanaian journalist who worked for BBC World News and a regular writer for Kenya airways Msafiri . Salute"

 

One way this can be initiated, is  by early on childhood development in our children by showing them you buy Kenyan, that Kenyan products are the best and involving them in the buying process of Kenyan products from an early age .By the time they are adults they will embrace the mantra and belief that Kenyan products are of value and should be awarded with pay, thus our Industries and the childrens thay raise will support the Kenyan.Secondly packaging the product as ART in it's highest perection and quality is Key . From Movies , Plays ,Artworks ,Music and every other kind of artform will need packaging in its best quality before aggresssively marketing it to the cosumer .As a brand and as a product , which can stand side by side with other artforms locally and internationally.

Till then let us wallow in the Miasma of the Lupita effect as ,my Luopeans in Luo Nyanza name their newborns Lupita and expect them to follow in the dream .Kudos Zuhura  Eba  Lupita  Amondi  Nyong’o  Buyu .

 

 

Machalink is one of Kenya's premier Business advertorials encompassing business features and offering advertorial positions for SME's ,Individual Business ,Corporates  .We will be promoting Art and all its art forms in our Art,Fashion and Music Subsection .Other feature sections include a Business Guide: Features business',their locations services and goods ,Property and Real Estate Guide : Showcasing the Property and Real estate market ,Restaurant & Bar Guide : Listng the best and available restaurants and eating spots , School Directory : Giving a comprehensive coverage of all schools from babaycare,primary& secondary schools , Colleges,Universities and all institutions of higher learning ,Medical Directory : providing coverage of medical providers,Institutions,Pharmacies & Clinics  and a Car Guide : Listing car dealers,bazaars and individual car sellers .

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machalink@gmail.com

KCB MACHAKOS RALLY ORGANISERS TO RUN 9 KM POWER STAGE IN KONZA PLAINS

A cut-throat battle is anticipated to spice up the forthcoming KCB Machakos Rally, thanks to a pulsating ‘power stage’ that has been introduced to offer crews bonus championship points.
According to Kenya Motor Sports Club (KMSC) Chairman Mr. Jim Kahumbura, the power drive is not for the faint-hearted given that it is an 9 kilometer sprint running from Wote through to the flying finish at Konza where the designated spectator stage will be located.
The March 2 event that is co-sponsored by I-Way Africa, ICEA Lion and ALS will serve as the second round of the eight-leg KCB Kenya National Rally (KNRC) Championship 2014.
There will be six sections in total in which three will be repeated.
In a bid to curtail traffic on rally routes, organizers have introduced a restriction not to allow spectators drive into the sections. Instead, the organizers are encouraging a “park and walk” policy whereby spectators can leave their cars at designated areas and proceed on foot to the competitive stage without having to interfere with the rally traffic flow.
Scruteneering of cars will be done on Saturday, February 1 from 6.00a.m to 5.00 p.m at the Kenya Motor Sports Club (South “C” Club House) after which cars will -without more ado -proceed to the Boma Hotel for the overnight Perc Ferme.
The Service Park will be situated at Tumaini Secondary School along Ulu Road and will be visited four times.
  On Sunday, cars will leave Boma Hotel at 6.00 pm in a convoy heading to Machakos in an extra dose aimed at instilling zest amongst the onlookers.
The rally will be flagged off by Machakos County Governor Dr. Alfred Mutua outside KCB Machakos branch on Sunday March 2 from 7.00 am onwards.
The ceremonial finish is at Boma where the podium finishers will go under the arch for traditional champagne celebrations ahead of the prize-giving ceremony programmed for the Hotel Ball Room from 7.30 pm onwards.
As the race day draws closer, there is an aura of excitement amongst spectators, competitors and officials considering that Machakos County last hosted a KNRC event in 2006.
Having already tasted the rigors of racing under extreme dry heat at the season opening KCB Malindi Rally, cockpit temperatures will comparatively be lower in Machakos and this will reduce cases of dehydration amongst crews as was witnessed at the Coast.
Tackling smooth and short stages will no doubt give them a scintillating change of scenario away from their largely normal routine of taking on Athi River and Kajiado sections.
The KCB KNRC has been made a success, thanks to title sponsors Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and co-sponsors
I-Way Africa who are the official communications partners, ICEA Lion, the official insurance service providers with third party cover for crews and officials and ALS, providers of a safety and evacuation chopper.

 MachaLink

 MachaLink is the first regional county newspaper bringing together Corporates , SME's and Individual business together in one newspaper . "We want to connect business together to their target markets in these region and build with the vision of the Tech city with consumers in the region" ,declares it's visionary C.E.O. MachaLink is a non political newspaper ,focusing purely on business and their activities incorporating large to small business players .Its features will include a Business Guide, Property and real Estate , a Restaurant and Bar Guide , An event directory , Sports ,Art and Music platform, a School listing and a Medical Directory .With many business players setting up shop in the county and the future property listings of tech giants occupying land and business space in the region ,it is the right time and moment for you and your business to partner with MachaLink .


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MACHA LINK: THE NEWSPAPER

Image matters and so does the brand and visibility of your business .For any business to be sustainable ,traffic is key. In the wakening vision of counties, are the new cities that will shape the vision of the future , bringing away the the hustle and bustle from the Capital city to its neighboring counties .Machakos and Konza serves as the vision of the new Kenya with a dream in the pipeline for a tech city which will see it draw in three neighbors, Machakos,Kajiado and Makueni counties in shouldering the growth of city .Machakos itself is in stages of building a city that will mirror the ICT City.MachaLink serves at the Editorial vision of this City in being the link between business in these three counties and in growth with the ICT Industry and business in and out of the region .

MachaLink is the first regional county newspaper bringing together Corporates , SME's and Individual business together in one newspaper . "We want to connect business together to their target markets in these region and build with the vision of the Tech city with consumers in the region" ,declares it's visionary C.E.O. MachaLink is a non political newspaper ,focusing purely on business and their activities incorporating large to small business players .Its features will include a Business Guide, Property and real Estate , a Restaurant and Bar Guide , An event directory , Sports ,Art and Music platform, a School listing and a Medical Directory .With many business players setting up shop in the county and the future property listings of tech giants occupying land and business space in the region ,it is the right time and moment for you and your business to partner with MachaLink .

Technology is the the foundation,and MachaLink is simply the business newspaper of the future that will augment the vision of your business with the region and its key business players : " Your Business Is Our Business" .Ongoing registration for its first issue are underway with its first Launch in April .For your AD placement & Ad rates

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MachaLink

Welcome to Machakos first FREE monthly advertorial  publication

linking the whole county of Machakos and it's preceding environs .

MachaLink is the first Magazine bringing together Business' and consumers under one publication covering all neighbouhoods from

,JKIA,

 ,Syokimau

 ,Mlolongo 

,Sabaki

 ,Senior,Sunset boulevard

 ,Athi river 

,Kitengela ,39

,Everest park

,Greenpark ,

Lukenya

Makutano

all the way to Machakos town and its environs .

MachaLink seeks to tap onto the existing market of business' in this region and highlight them to consumers while marketing and growing their brands through this monthly publication newspaper .Machakos is home to one of the biggest and most progressive business' shaping Kenya with majority of the cement industries located in the county and influencers of the ever changing Kenyan economy setting up and doing business in this county and its surrounding areas .MachaLink will help you to connect with these business' as well as share the same platform and opportunity of viewership through our newspaper advertorial packages .Our business listing will also help you reach a greater audience through our distribution networks .

 

Machakos is posed to be the next big financial city with the development of Konza City on 5000 acres approximately 6O km from the city in the heart of the county itself and already existing property boom in the region being the litmus test  .A new technology site it will host  a science park ,mega malls , a convention center ,data hubs ,hotels ,international schools ,hospitals , a championship golf-course , a financial district , a high-speed mass transport system and residential properties translating into growth and growth of the counties financial muscle . The government has committed to facilitating the construction of services like roads ( two lane -carriageway from Athi River) water and sewerage systems ,energy provision and a speed railway  .Machakos county has attracted interest from local and international companies some of which seek to set up base here .These include tech companies such as Craft Silicon and Safaricom,as well as global giants Google,Samsung and Huawei ,who are expected to take space in Machakos  . MachaLink seeks to grow with the already established business' and embrace the future that is to be , with you being the face of Machakos , with your business in our publications . We will be a consistent face influencing the market in terms bringing awareness to consumers in the county and growing the reach of small to large business' now and years to come through our publications .

 

Our packages are affordable enabling you to market your business and connect with your current and potential  consumers at the same time, get your business and brand noticed . With a firm distribution base in the whole region we seek to grow with the region providing quality content and tapping on to various markets featuring , a comprehensive business guide, property and real estate listing , Restaurant and bar listing, a school directory , fashion, art and music events  of the month , a medical directory amongst other features such as "Ninauza " ." Ninauza " is our feature coloumn where you get a chance to advertise your personal items for sale on our page if you have no physical business premise or location @ affordable rates.

 

 

  Products will be marketed through our monthly newspaper and our blog http://www.machalink.blogspot.com .

 

 

Start your business' journey with us .....

 

 

 To ADVERTISE On Our Publication Contact Us On :

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  NB:  PRICES ARE CHARGED PER MONTH AS THE PUBLICATION IS MONTHLY .