Category: Tips

  • Articles we love!

    Articles we love!

    Dear freelancers, here are some interesting articles that will help your freelance career! You should check them out! An interesting article in Forbes website talking about 3 Tips to Land High-Paying Gigs as a Freelancer, click here to read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/julesschroeder/2017/03/22/3-tips-to-land-high-paying-gigs-as-a-freelancer/#460b4090188a An article on Fast Company website about how some freelancers overcame their biggest freelancer fear, click…

  • 6 things that Happen when you don’t Manage your Time

    6 things that Happen when you don’t Manage your Time

    Time management is something that we all want to learn one or two things about.  I think one of the most asked questions when it comes to issues concerning productivity is ‘how can one simply manage one’s time more effectively’? We are all concerned about making the best use of our time and making sure we…

  • 4 Ways to get Freelance Gigs Offline

    4 Ways to get Freelance Gigs Offline

    Sometimes when we hear about getting freelance jobs, the thing that comes to our mind is getting them online. However, do you know that you can get lots of freelance jobs offline as well? I got some of my freelance jobs offline, and you too can! However, whenever you are preparing to go out and…

  • Your writing skills will only improve when you write more. You use, you grow it, you don’t, you lose it – Tracy Oyekanmi

    Your writing skills will only improve when you write more. You use, you grow it, you don’t, you lose it – Tracy Oyekanmi

    Tracy Oyekanmi is a Communications specialist who is changing the way we see communication in Nigeria. She is an industry expert in the area of communications and she has given us, freelancers, valuable tips on how to make our communication and networking better! You don’t want to miss this, enjoy this interview! Can you introduce…

  • 10 Instagram Accounts Freelancers need to Follow

    10 Instagram Accounts Freelancers need to Follow

    Instagram is one of the social networking sites that has grown very rapidly. On Instagram, you would find lots of interesting and relevant contents for yourself, your spiritual life, your business, you career, your education, and lots more. I am of the opinion that there are contents just for everyone and for different kinds of…

  • How to Create Great Content that Gets Amazingly many Pageviews and Linked to

    How to Create Great Content that Gets Amazingly many Pageviews and Linked to

    I am a freelance blogger. That means that on most times, I depend on my blog for affiliate sales, gigs from direct clients who come across my blog and like my writing style and hire me to do the same on their blogs.  Of late, I have been wondering what makes a blog post a…

  • …Remind yourself that you can be real enough, you don’t have to hold back, no one is scoring you!

    …Remind yourself that you can be real enough, you don’t have to hold back, no one is scoring you!

    This is an aftermath of my last post on getting a freelance diary. You can read my post on why you need a freelance diary by clicking here. Ok, so a friend and I had a conversation, which he has permitted me to share, and it went thus: ‘Freelance diary? Please explain it to me.’…

  • Maximizing the Dropbox App: Do you backup your Documents?

    Maximizing the Dropbox App: Do you backup your Documents?

    As a Writer, one of the things we do little to no justice to is safeguarding our works and protecting them from getting lost. Most often times than not, we find ourselves more concerned about protecting our works from being plagiarized coupled with fighting unauthorized use of our works which is good only if we…

  • Why you Need a Freelance Diary

    Why you Need a Freelance Diary

    Document an event and you have an event to reckon with forever. Have you ever written something and fast-forward to a few days/weeks/months/years after and it seems like ‘What? Did I actually pen that down?’ That is the concept of a freelance diary. A freelance diary is a (small) book, which details all of your…

  • Dear Freelancers! You Need a Freelance Account!

    Dear Freelancers! You Need a Freelance Account!

    Dear freelancer! Now, your freelance career, thankfully, has started bringing you income. But I need to warn you: lack of proper knowledge of how much comes into your purse as a freelancer would be a disadvantage! We can all attest to that beautiful scenario in which we do not seem to know how an undocumented amount…

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