Tag: tips for freelancers

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Meet Walter Akolo; a Prolific Kenyan Freelancer

    Meet Walter Akolo; a Prolific Kenyan Freelancer

    Today, I decided to break from my norm of giving freelancing tips and I decided to interview an African freelancer. His name is Walter Akolo. Walter Akolo is a Kenyan freelancer, blogger and internet marketer who has been interviewed on major websites and media outlets such as US Paysa and Kenyan Standard Media. He was…

  • 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…

  • Advertise your Events for Free

    This month of March is an exciting period for us at African Freelancers, this is because we have lined up a lot of contents and activities for the benefit of freelancers all over Africa. One of such contents is the curation of upcoming events that might be relevant to your freelance career. First, we are throwing it…

  • 8 African Cities Ranked among the Best Cities for Freelancers in 2017

    8 African Cities Ranked among the Best Cities for Freelancers in 2017

    Hoofdkraan.nl, an online platform in Netherlands for freelancers to get freelance jobs, recently conducted a study on the best Cities for Freelancers in 2017, and 8 African cities were among the 117 best cities for freelancers in 2017. The report was published on January 25th, 2017 on Hoofdkraan.nl website. The 8 African cities on the list…

  • 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,…

  • Three simple yet effective words for better online writing

    Three simple yet effective words for better online writing

    Imagine discovering three simple yet effective words that will enable you to write highly convincing web copy that makes everybody who reads your blog subscribe to it and share it widely within their networks. Picture a situation where everybody buys that eBook, mini e-course or product you are selling because you use the right words…

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