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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 6:37pm On May 07, 2020

fuwaski:
I hope to know where to click when i see the call. I haven't done any call before apart from the test I took.

Click on 'Back to the Queue' to see calls. If there are no calls just check back by midday tomorrow. 12 sharp You'll see them coming. Click on the blue serial number of the call on the left to pick one. You gotta be fast tho

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 1:22pm On May 07, 2020

NikkyHabFabric:
Thanks Bro. I really appreciate.
So is my account verified yet? I didn't get any verification message.

Yeah, it should be fine. The additional documents may be regarding tax. Most of us here got the same notification

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 1:02pm On May 07, 2020

NikkyHabFabric:
Thanks for the reply. I thought as much but since I had no experience, i thought I am doing something wrong.

You're fine. Just make sure you use the same browser and internet connection anytime you log in to your PP. More funds to your account

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 1:00pm On May 07, 2020

fuwaski:
4G keh! My brother please are u saying that my phone contributed and my network made me not to see any call even in Chrome browser? Am using MTN modem sef. Is it that the call comes and suddenly disappear?

Yeah. You need the fastest internet connection possible where you are. Try all the networks. Must be 4G. Scroll down and keep staring at your screen by 12 and be ready to click on the right spot to claim the call. I hope you know where to click

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 6:56am On May 07, 2020

fuwaski:
Please i have been awake since monitoring it. Yet i see no calls.

The kind of calls that will be available to you appears on the platform around midday Naija time (Tues-Fri). You could use the auto clicker app suggested just a few pages back, but you need a 4G internet connection with good ping. Now, here's the kicker guys, the ping/latency is the reaction time of your connection–how fast you get a response after you've sent out a request. A fast ping means a more responsive connection, especially in applications where timing is everything (like video games, or in our case fastest fingers). Ping is measured in milliseconds (ms).

First of all, you need a 4G internet connection. And here's what I used to do before leaving the fastest fingers queue. I have two 4G connections; one with fantastic download speed, and the other with better latency but not so sweet download speed. I don't need the download speed so I went to Speedtest to check the latency of both and I discovered the 4G connection which had a better latency. I subscribed just 1k on that which is about 1.2GB monthly, solely for the purpose of picking calls. I use Chrome on my phone to pick the calls, which also involves your fingers being fast regardless of your internet speeds and I was able to average 300mins weekly during those times.

If you don't have a 4G connection, don't bother

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 6:45am On May 07, 2020

[quote author=samsard post=89269150][/quote]Hmm... Lockdown billionaire. Let's peep your balance, sir. We need motivation

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 6:43am On May 07, 2020

NikkyHabFabric:
Hi Samsard. Cant find anything like that. This is all I can find. Help me ooo please.

Sis, you've got $0 available at the moment. The button should appear when funds drop

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 4:51pm On May 01, 2020

nwafresh:
Bubu is a politian and has knowledge on how to play it.

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 2:33pm On May 01, 2020

samsard:
:DThat one na Arlen hand e dey o. If all the top 200 transcribers contribute 25% from them earnings, then we go make progress

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 11:11am On May 01, 2020

samsard:
Mekanus please respond to my last mail.

Una no wan let us know as una dey distribute the transcribers' palliatives abi? God dey

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 11:10am On May 01, 2020

nwafresh:
Do yourself a favour, go and read this thread from 1-10. Knowledge is power.

bhet Bubu get power without knowledge.

Is there no other shortcut? undecided

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 9:03am On Apr 29, 2020

nwafresh:
LOL... 700 what? With epileptic power supply in our country, abi?

Well, that's another factor but if you can bank 400mins with fastest fingers, you'd do more with cherry-picking enabled

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 8:11am On Apr 29, 2020

thorrvik55:
From wot the Big Madam said, dat feature is still in it's beta phase and they're still testing it out..

If u check at the right u'll see number of claims = infinity. I believe after the test period those dat are not among the very top transcribers would not have unlimited number of claims. One might get like 20 to 30 claims per week depending on how many minutes he works the previous week..

Very possible. They sure are good at incentivizing yet maintaining the mediocre pay. The fear of fastest fingers alone is one thing

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 8:09am On Apr 29, 2020

nwafresh:
I swear.. They want to lay off people, but won't stop accepting newbies. Generating traffic is another way they make money and that's why they keep the newbies coming in. I happened to work over 400 minutes last week and was among top 200 transcribers. The new interface I now have is for me to just request for the call range I want and they'll just send me an email when the call is reserved. I have 30 minutes to pick it up or I flag it and request for another one.

And that's how you can land 700 minutes this week. Well done bruv. Them no go talk this one for Slack

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 2:50am On Apr 29, 2020

1miccza:
We have issues with paypal withdrawals in Nigeria, how do we deal with it??

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 11:44pm On Apr 27, 2020

Samxie:
Drawnobet, is that you?
You are literally a life saver. I need to show you small love.

No loud am abeg grin

You've already shown love by helping in this thread. Thank God the gig is still paying. Bless up bro

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 11:37pm On Apr 27, 2020

demexTK:
Hello, please m currently having a issue, I use chrome on mobile, nd some minutes into the job, d snippets disappeared wit it showing me "sorry, your browser does not support in live SVG"...how do I go about this..?

Slack or take off Snippets before you start work

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 11:35pm On Apr 27, 2020

thorrvik55:
U are back from ur sabbatical I guess

Welcome back bro

Thanks bro

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 2:36pm On Apr 27, 2020

samsard:
UBA will be so happy for Africard and the easy forex you're are still able to bring them.

Them no go want make you loud am

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 2:35pm On Apr 27, 2020

kamikaz1:
Wow.. nice..so you re drawnobet,creator of this thread. Respect! Beautiful write up.

Thanks. And much respect to all those that have kept it going. It's still a legit gig

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 2:33pm On Apr 27, 2020

kaey10:
Have tried Linking my Gt bank card with my PayPal account bt it kips declining. pls wt do i do?

Do what everyone else is doing. Get an africard. You can also go to the bank site and chat them up

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 11:38am On Apr 27, 2020

hausadreturn:
How're you doing guys?
It seems to me that the platform is like a jungle nowadays.

I've been reading to see people talking about the fact that they want to check this gig stuff out. They're also talking and asking about phones to get, laptops to get, etc.
Well, if the old ones won't tell you, I've been here longer, so I'll tell you.
With what I've seen these past few days, this is more than a difficult time to join QA. I'm not saying you shouldn't try. I mean, you have to. How many people even go to work nowadays. But I can understand why the old ones won't want to discourage you to join and try. Na make e no be like say na bad belle. And I understand that. But sometimes, we need to look ourselves in the mirror and tell ourselves something. And I'm only telling you what I'm telling myself. That we have to patiently wait till all this is over.
But now, Jesus! I can't deal. This is for me though. You might have something of a more hustling spirit than I do.

Prenom or Efosa, it's nice to see people hailing you about being on the top table for 3 weeks in a row. I really congratulate your efforts. This is good.
I remember saying it some months ago, that no matter how you try on QA, some people still better pass some people. And you've shown that.

But real talk. In my humble opinion, YOU FAILED THIS THREAD. Yes, you did.
You're telling people that if you look and fix your eyes on the queue continuously, you'll see jobs. I don't doubt you. But will continually looking on the thread also show you jobs that will give you over 600 minutes worth of jobs?
YOU FAILED THIS THREAD.
I go through the thread and see tips that have opened doors to a whole lot to of people. From africard, using phones, ear piece, F-cuk, slack, etc.
Where are you in all of this?

C'mon! Look at the people joining and asking questions and recommendations. Don't just lead them on a wild-goose-chase. Tell them plainly and tell them the truth. That this is difficult, and that they cannot get good jobs. Don't tell them to open their eyes and fix it on the thread because that's a dreadful thing to say.

And for those that have been older here, tell guys the truth.
We were able to take people to where we had been. Now, you guys are taking people to where they cannot be, by encouraging them to be dedicated. This is crass, unfair, and unreasonable.

Do the right thing.

Too much sense no go kill QA. They have been able to create a system that solves all the problems they faced last year (which is what anyone of us would’ve done if we were in their shoes anyway).

Circa June, 2019, the queue was filled with thousands of calls and one could literally always select the calls to work on with the assurance that once you’re done, there will still be more than enough to select from. Difficult calls (usually those with Biritiko accents) were usually avoided because of the stress involved and these companies happened to be the biggest clients. They offered incentives for those calls but that still didn’t work.

Solution? Create a transcriber hierarchy with separate queues for different badge levels and give priority to those who can turn in high volume of quality work. The average transcriber who has been staring at his screen for minutes to do fastest fingers will likely go through the stress to transcribe a difficult call than when he is spoilt for choice. Problem solved.

“If you're not seeing any calls, this is not an error. It just generally means there are no calls available for transcription at the moment as dependent on your badge or queue level.”
I guess the later clarifies the issue of a separate queue for the same badge level and why some struggle to hit 200 minutes and others are hitting 700 minutes. At the end of the day, you’ll get more jobs if you do more jobs.

Newbies: It’s a tough and low paying job, but it’s better than nothing and currently the easiest transcription company to join online. They are constantly looking for new transcribers, if not they will make entry more stringent and disable inactive accounts. If you’re tough enough to work your way up the ladder at QA, then good for you but don’t be deceived, a lot of names that prop up on the leaderboard on QA are able to do so because they are on a separate queue level and may have individuals working shifts to turn up those numbers but it’s not outrightly impossible for your name to be up there. I was able to do over 300 minutes upper week with spare time to do more in this lockdown. I probably would have doubled that if I was in a higher queue level because I had more time on my hands. I want to believe some other gold level transcribers can surpass that time in this lockdown but the job still sucks.

Prenom, you’re doing a wonderful job and I’m happy that a member of this community is one of the leading transcribers at QA. Perhaps what hausadreturn and the rest of us would want you to share in one post is how you’re able to do it. I see that you’ve also been active in this thread but the newbies need to know the grind. How many hours do you work daily? How are you able to balance transcribing and daily life? What targets do you set for yourself weekly? What’s your monthly income? Can one do this full time? How long do you wait before you get jobs in the queue? Do you have any issues when you want to withdraw your funds? Do you get special emails from the QA team? This will give newbies insights to the pinnacle of the hustle they are about taking up and to further encourage them and also help average subscribers up their game.

At the end of the day, what’s important is being able to use this as a means of income especially now that it’s tough to get funds offline.

Happy Transcribing Everyone. Enjoy the game of fastest fingers!

Although the ban on my drawnobet account has been lifted, I still can’t post anything using the account

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 11:33am On Apr 27, 2020

thorrvik55:
Today is the last day of the year, wots up with the testimony u promised to share by the end of the year?

cc: Kinzu

lol...qa changed the rules. Man had to adjust and seek other hustles to level up wink

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 12:25pm On Oct 16, 2019

spactacus:
We can as well send the money to a betting site, then withdraw it , site like williamhill accept paypal

Lol... WH? Really? After bursting your A$$ for hours you go game it away? I hope you're aware that bookies would only let you withdraw via your deposit method. And once you start using ur PP account on these sites PP will ban your merchant account. I hope no one here will try this suggestion. This warning is for newbies especially

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 6:41am On Oct 16, 2019

thorrvik55:
@Kinzu wots d highest one can get to, and will there be monetary rewards attached to these their "promotions"?

Shebi na you say I too like money tongue

Gold is the highest. I guess they just want to incentivize their top members without dropping any money.

Although they say that there's going to be some special preference on calls. Enter WhatsApp

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 6:31am On Oct 16, 2019

thorrvik55:
I am yet to transcribe a single minute this week, I guess that's why I was not/have not been given any badge.

Check your profile page and spam folder.

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 6:29am On Oct 16, 2019

thorrvik55:
What's the criteria considered?
Is it ur overall rating or just recent rating?

Not recent rating. I've only done $5 this week. They use Number of 5 Rated Transcripts

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 2:30am On Oct 16, 2019

psyqs:
QA is adding badges now o. Who else noticed it. Just got a mail from them saying that they want to be keeping calls for there seasoned transcribers. Which mean we won't be seeing the same queue. My badge is Silver. Who's Gold here?

Samsard
Hausadtrend
brijibs
thorrvik55
dryakson
nwafresh

Got their Gold badge and their mail about reserving calls bla bla, but to me, I think the pay is the koko. Make them bump am for Gold and Silver since the transcripts we submit are of better quality

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 3:42pm On Oct 03, 2019

Prenom:
I had the same problem, but could eventually withdraw. I noticed that the option comes and disappears, and I was thinking it was probably caused by my browser.

Thanks for the response. I'll keep trying

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 3:28pm On Oct 03, 2019

Please has anyone with LS PP made a withdrawal to card today? I can't seem to find that option on my dashboard undecided

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Self Employment Opportunity: Transcribing For A Living In Nigeria Part 1 by kinzu(m): 5:33pm On Sep 29, 2019

Please let's keep ads for buying and selling of funds away from this platform. There is a separate thread for that. Thanks

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