Category: Guides

  • Successful Tips For Putting Together A Freelance Portfolio

    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…

  • HOW TO NEGOTIATE YOUR FREELANCE RATES IN 2019

    HOW TO NEGOTIATE YOUR FREELANCE RATES IN 2019

    Negotiating freelance rates is one of the integral skills any freelancer must have, especially in this 21st century where a lot of employers do not mind employing the services of freelancers for a token worth nothing compared to the value received. Therefore, freelancers have to be wise, smart and intentional about demanding their worth without…

  • HOW TO MAINTAIN YOUR FREELANCE BUSINESS AS A NEW MOM

    HOW TO MAINTAIN YOUR FREELANCE BUSINESS AS A NEW MOM

    Being a mom isn’t a job; we don’t punch it and punch out. There are no nights off… Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy Freelance business as we know is never easy-peasy and as such, being a new mom with a freelance business to maintain is bound to create a little anxiety. Therefore, as a new mom…

  • Invoicing Tips for Freelancers

    Invoicing Tips for Freelancers

    Freelancing might be an easy way to earn income by selling your skills but getting clients to pay promptly might not be a walk in the park. From my personal experience, I have had to resolve a pricing issue and my invoice was what I referred to. Avoid discussing your rates verbally only. It is…

  • 5 Productivity Apps Freelancers need

    5 Productivity Apps Freelancers need

    Consider a farmer and a piece of land designated for some agricultural purpose. The overall objective of the farmer is to obtain maximum productivity (in terms of either food crop and/or livestock output), over a period of time, usually depicted as sowing/harvesting times. For the farmer to achieve maximum output, s/he must work with the…

  • How To Make Your Freelancing Business Stand Out From The Crowd

    How To Make Your Freelancing Business Stand Out From The Crowd

    In this article, we’ll take a closer look at ways in which you can stand out in your freelancing business through defining clear business goals, creating a unique brand and lots more. The crowd in the freelancing industry is nothing to write home about. Nevertheless, some individuals are still leading in their various freelancing niche.…

  • How To Build Your Exposure As A Freelancer

    How To Build Your Exposure As A Freelancer

    Just like any other business out there freelancing needs to seek exposure to gain more potential clients, getting started as a freelancer is a tedious task even if you have a long list of contacts who have been your customer for ages, that doesn’t mean everyone will just want to hire you. In this blog…

  • 5 ALTERNATIVES TO MAILCHIMP

    5 ALTERNATIVES TO MAILCHIMP

    The advent of the Internet and other related services meant that humanity could communicate at the speed of a click of a mouse. This development gave rise to email marketing; where individuals and businesses advertised goods and services to existing/potential customers, in any part of the word! MailChimp was founded in 2001 as a marketing…

  • HOW TO INCREASE YOUR FREELANCING RATES WITHOUT FEELING BAD ABOUT IT

    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…

  • A Guide to Contract Preparation as a Freelancer

    A Guide to Contract Preparation as a Freelancer

    Most freelancers are creative folks and the business aspect of things is a necessary thing that we just have to contend with. One business-related side of freelancing that’s enough to make us cringe is “contract.” Writing a freelance contract is about as far from creative as you can get. They seem to be stale documents…

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