Category: side hustle

  • Top 10 Tools every Freelancer needs

    Top 10 Tools every Freelancer needs

    I do not intend to bore you but consider a farmer and a piece of land designated for some agricultural purpose. The overall objective of the farmer is to obtain maximum productivity (regarding either food crop or livestock output), over a period, usually depicted as the time between sowing and harvesting. For the productive farmer…

  • THINGS THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU ABOUT FREELANCING

    THINGS THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU ABOUT FREELANCING

    Leaving things out is one of the natural phenomenons that happen with humans in conversations, discussions and more and yes, what that means is most of the time, there are lots people don’t say! There are lots of things people won’t tell you about a particular thing. Sometimes, these things they don’t tell are not…

  • REASONS YOU SHOULD INVEST IN YOUR FREELANCE CAREER

    REASONS YOU SHOULD INVEST IN YOUR FREELANCE CAREER

    It is pertinent to say that this article is only going to be relevant to you if you consider Freelance a Career. What am I trying to say? I’m trying to say a lot of people or some people don’t think Freelance is a career enough. They consider it as something they do to make…

  • How to Start a Thriving Freelance Business in School

    How to Start a Thriving Freelance Business in School

    Being a student is hard. From the examinations and tests to the extra-curricular activities, sleepless nights spent studying and the constant unavailability of money. Enrolling into a university can sometimes be described as signing up for punishment. As hard as it is, many people go through four years or more of university without breaking down, some…

  • Freelancing and Taxes: The basics

    Freelancing and Taxes: The basics

      Tax is an essential part of every developed society. At a certain time of the year, tax authorities come knocking at the doors to collect taxes, and freelancers are not exempted from this. The smart people during these times are those who have filed their taxes and the others who haven’t have the law…

  • 7 Ways to Sharpen Your Editorial Skills- Without Breaking a Bank

    7 Ways to Sharpen Your Editorial Skills- Without Breaking a Bank

    To be sincere, I’d rather write up an entire lengthy article or book than edit. Editing stresses me, as well as proofreading. I like to get away from work that I’ve done as fast as possible and I’m guilty of not re-reading because it makes me feel like deleting the entire article. Stephen King said…

  • Identifying Types of Clients by the Tone of their E-mails

    Identifying Types of Clients by the Tone of their E-mails

    Your perception game must be strong as a freelancer, especially when you would like to get referrals from clients. Many freelancers work with people whom they’ve never seen, and will probably never see, and this is one of the beauties of freelancing. However, it can also pose as a challenge because at least while looking…

  • Some Days are Dull

    Some Days are Dull

    How Should a Freelancer Deal with Dry Spells? As much as there are days filled with jobs, jobs and more jobs, there are also some terribly dry days in freelancing. One freelancer calls it the land of Peaks and Pits. The peaks are those never –ending days filled with jobs, while the pits are those…

  • 5 useful tips for every student freelancer

    5 useful tips for every student freelancer

    If I had a dollar for every time I hear a university student make the statement “I’m broke”, I would be a close competition to world’s richest man Bill Gates. Maybe I would have built a university. Being a student requires hard work and for most university students, one of the biggest problems of schooling…

  • Comparison has helped freelancers in…

    Comparison has helped freelancers in…

    I’m still waiting for you to complete that statement, if you have an answer that is; because I don’t. While meeting with other people who do the same thing as you (or within the same niche), invariably, comparison rears its ugly head, and thoughts such as this begin to come into your mind: “Maybe they’re…

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