Category: Freelance Jobs

  • Networking Tips for Freelancers

    Networking Tips for Freelancers

    For the freelancer, networking can be a real big deal- both positively and negatively. It is through networking, meeting like-minded individuals within your work space or even outside f it, that would make your business boom. It therefore isn’t all that surprising that if you have a strong network of individuals to depend upon, you…

  • 10 Apps Every Freelancer Needs

    10 Apps Every Freelancer Needs

    This post is dedicated to everyone who values the usage of apps (which should be everyone- seeing as we are no longer in the stone age). The right apps are like pen and paper to the student. As a freelancer, the difference between your job being relatively easy and it being an uphill task can…

  • 3 Ways Freelancers Can Tackle Missing Deadlines

    3 Ways Freelancers Can Tackle Missing Deadlines

    I have never missed any deadline so far in my writing career. I am as timely as they come. Except the above claims or assertions were to be positive confessions, we need to scrap them because they aren’t true. Did you actually think they were true? (Awww…thanks for your immense faith in me!). I have…

  • Meet Ella Chikezie, an African Freelancer!

    Meet Ella Chikezie, an African Freelancer!

    Hey, freelancers! Meet Ella Chikezie, an African Freelancer! Ella Chikezie is a final year Biochemistry student at The University of Port Harcourt, a blogger, writer, and an entrepreneur.   How long have you been writing? I’ve been writing since I learnt to hold a pen. Lol. But, professionally I’ve been writing for 2 years. How…

  • Three Clients to Say No To (Without any lingering regrets).

    Three Clients to Say No To (Without any lingering regrets).

      Oh, yes! There are bad, no, terrible offers out there- and there are two classes of them: the ones which are outrightly bad for any freelancer, and the ones which are bad specifically for YOU. So, how do you recognize these bad offers? Truth be told, we often know when offers aren’t good, but…

  • Dear Freelancer, Here’s how to find (and keep) those clients!

    Dear Freelancer, Here’s how to find (and keep) those clients!

    Client retention is one of the most hassling matters which freelancers have to consider. Do you spend more of your time chasing down new clients rather than working repeatedly with your existing clients? Then this post is just for you. Let’s face it: we all want to make cool cash. No one wants to keep…

  • The Right Freelance Contract Determines Your Pay!

    The Right Freelance Contract Determines Your Pay!

    In almost all careers, there are notable freelancers. From medicine, to law, to writing, to web designing- just name it, freelancers abound- in other words, individuals who aren’t employed as permanent staff for any particular organization or industry but carry out tasks in some of those organizations. Ever heard of ‘contract staff’? Well, if you are one, then…

  • This Is How Not to Pass Up Opportunities in Freelancing!

    This Is How Not to Pass Up Opportunities in Freelancing!

    One of the most notable drawbacks of gaining experience in any field, is the risk of work getting monotonous, uninteresting, rote. There seems to be no new challenge, no new imprint, and since things are going on the way they have always been going, you keep doing the regular things, in the self-same regular way.…

  • 5 Types of Freelance Clients

    5 Types of Freelance Clients

    As a freelancer, I have come to understand that there are several ‘feels’ which I have when I get jobs. Since I get my jobs via e-mails, I do not get to sit one-on-one with my clients to know what this person likes, or how that person wants her job to be done- and so…

  • 5 Benefits of Having a Niche for Your Freelance Business

    5 Benefits of Having a Niche for Your Freelance Business

    A niche. Everyone keeps talking about a niche. What’s so special about this subject matter? A niche is a special fortress, something specific to you, something which you do exceptionally well and thus, which you are more likely to be known for. You almost cannot mention a popular freelancer mentioning their niche. A freelancer writer…

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