Category: freelancing

  • Creating A Freelance Business Plan for 2025: A Step-by-Step Guide For African Freelancers

    Creating A Freelance Business Plan for 2025: A Step-by-Step Guide For African Freelancers

    As a freelancer, you might think business plans are only for large companies or startups. However, having a well-thought-out business plan can be a game-changer for your freelance career. A business plan helps you define clear goals, structure your work, and maintain focus on what truly matters—sustainable growth and client satisfaction.  Why do you need…

  • Tools to Help You Improve Your Freelance Business

    Tools to Help You Improve Your Freelance Business

    The coronavirus pandemic came and changed our working environments for good. People now engage more in the freelance occupation more than ever before. The increase in demand for remote work has caused a significant rise in freelancers in Africa. While being in the freelance business is great because of the independent schedule, there are a…

  • What is Remote Working in 2022?

    What is Remote Working in 2022?

    The coronavirus pandemic has altered how we live and work. Remote working is one of the experiences that became popular at the peak of the pandemic. Now that we have crossed over into 2022, the question that begs an answer is “what is remote working in 2022?” To be sincere, the idea of remote working…

  • 10 Ways to Make Money Online in 2021

    10 Ways to Make Money Online in 2021

    The world we live in has gone digital. Because of this, more and more people are going online to make money. In 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 taught us that we didn’t have to be in brick and mortar offices to make money. As African freelancers, we must discuss how to make money online in 2022.…

  • Practical Tips on How To Build a Reputation as a Freelancer

    Practical Tips on How To Build a Reputation as a Freelancer

    Once upon a time, people didn’t take the idea of freelancing seriously. It must have been worse for African freelancers? You probably would have heard questions like, “what does freelancing even mean?” Good thing we are getting past that these days. It is now a question of building a reputation as a freelancer. In this…

  • How to Raise Your Rates Without Losing Your Clients

    How to Raise Your Rates Without Losing Your Clients

    As freelancers in Africa, it is impossible to remain with the same rates for your entire existence. Soon you’d have to raise your rates for several reasons. The question here is, how do you raise rates without scaring customers away? In this post, we will attempt to answer this question. To do this, we have…

  • How Freelancers Can Create a Passive Income Portfolio

    How Freelancers Can Create a Passive Income Portfolio

    Do you know that freelancing in Africa is very lucrative and rewarding? Asides from the monetary benefits from freelancing, African Freelancers enjoy many other benefits. One such benefit is flexible schedules. Of course, freelancing is not without its challenges. For example, a freelancer can get swarmed with work and may not deliver as and when…

  • Earn Extra Cash Writing for these 10 Literature Magazines

    Earn Extra Cash Writing for these 10 Literature Magazines

    Earn Extra Cash Writing for these 10 Literature Magazines  Considering the number of freelance writers (knowbies and newbies) flooding the internet daily in search of potential clients and gigs, there are chances that you may not land a single job in weeks and months. Sorry, but someone has to feed you the hard truth this…

  • How to get more freelance gigs from past clients

    How to get more freelance gigs from past clients

    by Mariam Ayodeji   We all know that it is expensive and time-consuming to win new clients because you have to invest in marketing, prepare yourself all over again, and work on your business development continuously. With all this, we tend to forget that the source of our revenue is right underneath our noses and…

  • 7 Tips on Picking a Freelance Niche

    7 Tips on Picking a Freelance Niche

    by Mariam Ayodeji   Are you just venturing into freelancing or you have started the journey of freelancing already? Then, I am sure you have heard of niches. People talk about them all the time; what niche should I pick? What are the best niches out there for a freelancer, and whether you even need…

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