Tag: freelance

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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