African Freelancers

Category: Learning

  • The Earn $100 Per Day in Six Months Challenge: Update

    The Earn $100 Per Day in Six Months Challenge: Update

    It is September already. Two months since I started this over-ambitious challenge. Phew, how time flies! Within the next four months, I should be reaping the fruits of my labour but I am not very sure that will happen. If you are new here, you might be interested in reading my July post on this…

  • How to Handle an Angry Client like a Pro

    How to Handle an Angry Client like a Pro

    My very first freelance job got me, after spending several hours trying to do the job, a client who was clearly displeased. From her mail, I could literally feel the heat of her anger as it radiated to where I was standing. I thought I had done a good job, turns out; it was less…

  • Don’t Just Make a Living, Get a Life

    Don’t Just Make a Living, Get a Life

    As I type what would be later fleshed out to become this post, my desire is to be as sincere as possible, to represent freelancers’ thoughts and mindsets. The truth, is that cash, or should I say cashflow… is very important. If you are a freelancer, who gets paid solely when work is done and not…

  • Freelancing: How it Truly Feels to Give Up Credit for Your Work

    Freelancing: How it Truly Feels to Give Up Credit for Your Work

    As a freelance writer, I would admit that there are good times- especially when my account gets credited. But there is no denying the fact that there are bad days as well. My bad days are often related to giving up credit for work which I have put in so much into a.k.a. ghostwriting. For…

  • Here’s How to Ask for Your Money without Sounding Awkward

    Money matters. Conversations can go either of two ways when it comes to money- they can either stall or flow. Sometimes, they just get really awkward and uncomfortable, as if they aren’t meant to hold. Many of us have been taught about how the money can be the root of all evil, and we almost…

  • How to Keep Clients Coming Back for More

    The concept of the marketplace is to have clients come straight to you while having to walk past the schematics of others to buy your goods or to patronize a service which you offer. The concept of the marketplace is to stand out so uniquely that you secure your clients without hassling. They are yours,…

  • Freelancers Here is how to up your writing game!

    Freelancers Here is how to up your writing game!

    Writing. The documentation of life’s events as captured through the rods and cones of an individual’s retina. The writer’s life is a cascade of emotions, in writing you experience the lives of others, and you feel what they feel in other to document what they would, if they could, and as much as possible, in…

  • Dear Freelancers, Are You Saving For Your Retirement?

    Dear Freelancers, Are You Saving For Your Retirement?

    Ah, retirement. No one wants to hear about a 401K plan when in their 20s, coz its far far away, right? I really don’t like being a harbinger of news that doesn’t want to be heard, but if it has to be told, it has to be carried by someone. Pardon me if it’s not…

  • Excuse me, Where’s all the money?

    Excuse me, Where’s all the money?

    It’s hilarious, the way money seems to have its own wings- for it to be made, you had to do a lot of serious work, but when it’s to be spent? Sweat not; it has the capacity to spend itself, or so it seems. Money management is a skill which very few people have perfected.…

  • 5 Ways to Have Fun Freelancing in Africa

    5 Ways to Have Fun Freelancing in Africa

    Passion waxes, and passion wanes. It’s almost like drawing a graph that goes up, gets to a peak, and then there’s a sharp drop. Life has been dissected and what was once fun, once a great way to both have fun and make a living has been broken down- until all that’s left are bones.…

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