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Building Your Personal Brand for the New Year- A Guide for African Freelancers
Personal branding is the intentional process of defining and showcasing your professional identity to stand out in a competitive market. It involves curating how clients and peers perceive you, from your skills and expertise to your values and work ethic. Unlike corporate branding, personal branding focuses on you—your unique qualities and how they align with…
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Essential Goals Every African Freelancer Should Set for 2025
With 120 million self-employed Africans and a $28 billion market, the gig economy is expanding and changing. As a result, among the African youth, freelancing has become an increasingly popular career choice. From social media managers to web developers to customer care representatives, the diverse talent pool among freelancers signifies a diverse talent pool among…
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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…
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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…
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Learn How to Handle Scope Creep in Projects
Have you ever heard of scope creep? “You know what else I would love to add?” This question is one that gives many freelancers the “creeps”. With just these few words, a simple, easy-to-accomplish project plan can be suddenly changed into the project management equivalent of an M.C. Escher painting. When handling projects, you always…
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How Freelancers Can Use Email Marketing
How Freelancers Can Use Email Marketing Have you ever heard of email marketing? Are you just starting your freelancing journey and have been asking yourself, “How do I even begin?” Or perhaps you are already in the business and you are wondering, “how do I get more clients and retain them?” You are aware of…
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Tips To Becoming A Freelance Writer On Upwork
Do you enjoy writing? Are you looking to begin a career in freelance writing and wish to work independently? If yes, becoming an online freelance writer can be a perfect career choice for you. There are plenty of opportunities you can leverage while working as a freelance writer, even if you want to go full…
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10 Web Conferencing Tools for Freelancers
Over time, freelancing has become more popular as the way people work begins to evolve with the advancement of technology. It is no news that the competition in the freelancing space is quite high. This implies that freelancers are constantly trying to stand out in the marketplace. You must showcase your expertise and professionalism. Web-conferencing…
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Free Courses Freelancers Can Learn While Social Distancing
Freelancers have been left with the question, “how do I become better at what I do while I am at home?” as the world continues to fight the novel coronavirus that has ravaged cities, states and Nations. The World Health Organization (WHO), had set up basic safety and protective measures against the pandemic coronavirus, which…
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How Freelancers Can Use LinkedIn to Land A Job
Do you know that LinkedIn is one of the most profitable social media platforms for freelancers today? So, to the real question, are you really familiar with LinkedIn? Do you know what LinkedIn is? Do you have a space on LinkedIn? If you do, do you utilize it or are you under-utilizing it? Well, all…
