Category: Tips

  • 6 Simple Online Invoicing Tool you should know

    6 Simple Online Invoicing Tool you should know

    How many times do we do a job for a client and he or she tells us to send an invoice, and then you think; ‘invoice ke?’ Do you hear the statement ‘send an invoice’, and you think ‘oh no! no need for all these na, just send me my payment’? We know that feeling.…

  • Meet the founder of AfriGen Media & Communications, Clarissa Bannor, who happens to be a freelancer!

    Meet the founder of AfriGen Media & Communications, Clarissa Bannor, who happens to be a freelancer!

    AfriGen Media & Communications is one of Africa’s top media, PR, and Marketing company, founded by Clarissa Bannor of thisafropolitanlife.com who happens to be a freelancer. She spoke with us about how she started freelancing, and how she finally decided to make it official by registering her business last year. Sit back and enjoy this…

  • Want to drop a Free Writing Gig? Here are some things you need to Consider

    Want to drop a Free Writing Gig? Here are some things you need to Consider

    It wouldn’t be stereotyping neither would it be an exaggeration to say that most freelancers developed their portfolios doing a lot of freebies than they got paid at the inception and growing stage of their freelance career and also it won’t be an assumption to say that most budding freelancers in this century have little…

  • The essence of my art is not just to capture the subject but to give a narrative of the subject. – Seun Shitta

    The essence of my art is not just to capture the subject but to give a narrative of the subject. – Seun Shitta

    Art is something that most people easily connect with. For someone like Seun Shitta, who started drawing at an early age, art is something he enjoys doing. Today, we had an interesting interview with Seun Shitta of Seun Shitta Art. Enjoy the interview. Can you introduce yourself to us? My name is Shitta Oluwaseun Ayodeji.…

  • Challenging the Writer’s Block

    Challenging the Writer’s Block

    On a totally unrelated note, I’m a feeler, a deep feeler who happens to be a doer, as well. Maybe, just maybe, this isn’t totally unrelated to today’s post. As I wear my headset to listen to certain songs this noon, I instantly feel a jog coming. I want, so badly, to put on my…

  • 12 Ways Freelancers can get More Clients

    12 Ways Freelancers can get More Clients

    “How can I get more clients?” This is perhaps one of the most asked questions by freelancers all over the world. Getting clients as a freelancer is one of the important things in someone’s freelance business. Bills have got to be paid. We need to get paid for what we love doing, we need people…

  • 10 things to Note for your Next Job Email Interview

    10 things to Note for your Next Job Email Interview

    One of the types of job interviews freelancers are familiar with is the mail interview.  This is because most of the job interviews conducted for freelancers are done virtually, and one of such ways is through mail interviews. For a client to conduct a job interview for you via mail, there are some things you…

  • The Take-It-All Syndrome: When it is Overworking and not Laziness

    The Take-It-All Syndrome: When it is Overworking and not Laziness

    Hello Fellow Freelancers, Based on experience, I have come to realize that one of the most undermined situations in freelancing as a young and budding freelancer is Overworking. Sometimes it can be pretty difficult to differentiate when one is being overworked and when the situation is laziness. This simply means that at a point in…

  • Dear Freelancers, Know your Voice

    Dear Freelancers, Know your Voice

    Dear freelancers, in my first post, I wrote a very insightful article on the importance of not underestimating your yourself, time, and skill-sets; you can read it by clicking here. Another important thing about your career as a freelancer is your voice. For most diligent readers, discerning different writers’ works might not have to be…

  • Dear freelancer, stop underestimating yourself. Your time. Your skill-sets.

    Dear freelancer, stop underestimating yourself. Your time. Your skill-sets.

    “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.”- Dr Seuss As a burgeoning freelancer, it could be pretty hard- especially when you’re at the bottom rungs of the ladder to earn the big bucks. These, are seemingly reserved for the guys at the top,…

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