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Successful Tips For Putting Together A Freelance Portfolio
A portfolio is how your clients can have a feel of your work experience, hence, a portfolio is an essential marketing tool for any successful freelancer. Word of mouth is a great tool for freelancing don’t get me wrong, you can get referrals through getting your name out there. But putting a great portfolio on…
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ONLINE JOBS FOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES
The Online freelance economy is booming- not just for coders and web programmers, but also for other freelance professionals like editors, writers, graphic designers among others. African freelancers are making substantial inroads in this digital marketplace. Analysts predict that Africans would have earned more than 5 billion USD, from online jobs and contracts by 2015.…
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HOW TO INCREASE YOUR FREELANCING RATES WITHOUT FEELING BAD ABOUT IT
Deciding Freelancing rates can be one of the dicey things to do as Freelancers in Africa. A lot of times, African Freelancers have found it quite challenging to price their works adequately talk more of deciding when and how to increase their rates without having to be apologetic about it. In both past and recent…
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5 alternative freelance websites
If you’re a freelancer, you’re probably quite familiar with platforms like Freelancer, Upwork, Fiverr and the like. Maybe you’re even using one of them, but are you getting commensurate value for your subscription. Not to mention the fact that most of the jobs on these platforms are underpaid because everyone who drops a bid tries…
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How to get high-paying freelance jobs
You may have checked the list of highest paying freelance jobs and saw a lot of tech-related disciplines such as Network Analysis, Cloud computing, Algorithm Development and the like. So, you wonder if the freelance space is only for tech guys. Well don’t despair, the freelance space in Africa is a whole different ball game…
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THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO BECOMING A FREELANCE DIGITAL MARKETER
Over the years, industries have experienced a digital disruption of how everything used to be and work. This disruption has greatly changed the marketing analytics set up of traditional marketing. As most consumers make their way to the internet and on social platforms, more industries are going digital to connect with a larger community of…
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ALL THE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FREELANCING IN AFRICA
Africa remains a study in the way potential/opportunity lies side by side with the unpleasant realities bedevilling the continent. At the heart of problems confronting many African nations are issues about worsening poverty, increasing unemployment, inadequate infrastructure and rising inflation among others. However, Africa is also fast becoming the destination of choice for investors and…
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Top 10 Tools every Freelancer needs
I do not intend to bore you but consider a farmer and a piece of land designated for some agricultural purpose. The overall objective of the farmer is to obtain maximum productivity (regarding either food crop or livestock output), over a period, usually depicted as the time between sowing and harvesting. For the productive farmer…
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THINGS THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU ABOUT FREELANCING
Leaving things out is one of the natural phenomenons that happen with humans in conversations, discussions and more and yes, what that means is most of the time, there are lots people don’t say! There are lots of things people won’t tell you about a particular thing. Sometimes, these things they don’t tell are not…
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FIVE TIPS TO GETTING THE BEST AFRICAN FREELANCE JOBS
Ah, the many joys of being a freelancer, especially in Africa! For starters ( and if you reside in a boisterous city like Lagos, Nigeria), you would have said your goodbyes to bottle-neck traffic commutes to and from work. Then the hours do not seem so gruelling again, because even though you may still engage…
