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5 Tips on Cold Pitching in Freelancing
The freelancing industry continues to grow every year and is anticipated to represent 43% of the workforce by the end of 2020. This comes as no surprise given its many gains, one among which is its capacity to help people earn extra money. Nonetheless, making money through freelancing can be sometimes challenging. More than 50%…
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How to get freelance jobs in Africa
Freelancing is on the rise in Africa as many people are now offering their services out to freelancers instead of the companies. There are many advantages of freelancing both to clients and freelancers. Here are some tips on how to get freelance jobs in Africa. Freelance platforms Today, there are many freelance platforms where…
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Top 5 Tips to Convince Businesses to Hire you as a Freelancer
The need to outsource work to freelancers has been on the rise for a couple of years now, and more laid-off or part-time workers are freelancing on the side for extra bucks. Outsourcing is something a lot of big companies do today. It can help businesses grow in many ways: saving time and money and…
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Meet Navshika Beeharry, an African Freelancer
Hello African Freelancers! Navshika Beeharry- but fondly known as Shika – a Blogger, TEDx Speaker and the Founder of BecomingAfricquainted. We had a chat with her and here is what she had to share with us! What services/products do you offer? In no preferential order: (1) Providing bespoke sustainability strategies to African NGOs that are…
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Things to Correct in Your Freelance Pitch
The life of a freelancer usually involves sending off your freelance pitches to editors and waiting on a response, but what you should also consider as a freelancer sending out a pitch is that other people also send thousands of articles on a daily basis. What will make your freelance pitch stand out not fall…
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Freelance Web Design Roles You Should Know
Freelance web designers are creative, digital professionals who fashion out the overall vision and plan for a website. From another perspective, note that freelance web design is less about employing coding or programming to give life to a website. Instead, a web design specialist considers a site’s layout, colour palette, font sent, and visual themes,…
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How African Freelancers Can Prove Value to Clients
Have you ever worked on an African freelance project with a client and it all seems to be going really great. Once in a while, you are discussing progress with the client. As African freelancers, your project management is tool buzzing with activities and invoices are getting paid as at when due. And just when…
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Reasons Why Networking is Important for Freelancers
As a freelancer, you need to get into the habit of networking; there are no shortcuts to this. Every freelancer needs to have a networking strategy in place. I totally agree that there are a lot of benefits to working remotely, especially if your home office or co-working space is a quiet, calm and comfortable…
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HOW FREELANCERS CAN GET THE MOST FROM LINKEDIN
In contrast to other social media platforms, LinkedIn came into being as a place where professionals can share ideas, generate leads, and make new contacts. In other words, LinkedIn is all about business. The platform boasts of over 500 million users, with about 40% of that number estimated to be active on the platform daily.…
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10 Websites Every Freelancer Needs to Bookmark
While some may argue that offline gigs are still a contributory factor in getting engagements, many others agree that the Internet possesses a much broader spread and reach. Consider websites as the information cavalry of the World Wide Web. These sites deploy fast at a moment’s notice and never go on vacation or take afternoon…
