Hi Prowitin and all the bloggers in the house

I commend you for a great job you are doing.
I have a challenge that I need your advise on.
I am a young medical doctor and a writer. I have decided to finally start a health blog after so much procrastination. My challenge however is deciding on whether or not to focus on a national audience or a global one.
I will have preferred to focus on a national audience but I seem not to be able to lay my hands on a successful local health blog that focuses on only the Nigerian audience.
Also, If I am to focus on the Nigerian audience, will it be wise for me to just pick a particular subniche or to write on general health stuffs since I am streamlining my audience to the Nigerian internet users alone.
I am just trying to make up my mind on this but I keep getting confused. Please a little advise on this issue will do.

Thanks.

What an insult on the writing community.

You want to pay N1000 for 3500 words. Haba!!

And I am sure with your N1000, you will demand for the best quality of work.

And you even used the work "unique"

The best you can get for that price is "copy and paste" and that is even putting it mildly.

It is sad that many Nigerians are always waiting to see the downfall of men of God.

Many Nigerians are so gullible that they pounce on any info that paints the men of God in bad light and believe without even checking the veracity of such info. Imagine the Sun publishing a story by a faceless individual in the church and you all chose to believe it without asking whether it is true or not. The truth is that Pastor Chris' story has become a trending news and every media outlet are seeking to take advantage of this by publishing many false information simply because they have a gullible Nigerian population waiting to read and believe such lies.

There are many great things that men of God like Pastor Chris have done to alleviate the condition of ordinary Nigerians but the media will not talk about this. There are many projects that has been sponsored in rural communities that the media will never report about. However, when it comes to the false rumors of adultery, you see such info on every newspaper and Nigerians are so happy to believe it.

Well, this further shows that African are always waiting for the downfall of the successful. The things that God has used men like Pastor Chris, Bishop Oyedepo, Pastor Adeboye and the likes to do can only be imagined by many people here. Most Nigerians cannot even help their next door neighbour but they know how to malign men of God that help people and have many humanitarian projects they undergo.

The problem of most people are the offerings that this men of God receive in their churches. They believe they robbing people of their money. How Foolish!! That you do not believe in giving in church does not mean you should think those that give are fools. Those that are giving are definitely seeing the reward and they are not complaining so why give yourself unnecessary headache about someone else giving. You can keep your own money and keep living from hand to mouth simply because you are too stingy to give to God. You do not realize that most of this money goes into the work of God or how else do you think the church generates fund to embark on all its mega projects that see to the propagation of the gospel around the world. So keep hoarding your money because you think those that give are stupid.

The truth is that those that give will keep seeing the fruits while you that hoard will keep living in poverty no matter how much you make.

It is sad that most people that are quick to give judgement are Christians. To them they believe every man of God is meant to be poor. They believe prosperity should not be preached in the church. Their idea of Christianity is so whacked that they believe poverty is righteousness. But all this people think about is money yet they dont want it to be preached in church. They do not understand that one of the important benefits that salvation brings is wealth and prosperity. Jesus said himself that he became poor so that we might become rich. So why should a Christian not enjoy prosperity?Why should the SON OF GOD lack? Why should Christians keep begging from unbelievers? Do you really think this is God's plan?

It is high time most of us repented and stopped celebrating incomplete and false truths about men of God. If you do nOt understand theIr ministry why not just SHUT UP.

yemmit90: @op,Success is secrete, what differentiate successful people from the rest is because 'they know what many do not know'.

There are few things i will never share at least for free. This is because they took me several sleepless night to come up with it, and besides, people don't usually value what they receive for free especially on the internet.

I am very sorry to say this but successful people do not talk as you do. Successful people dont hide their secrets to success. If at all they hide anything, then it will be their business ideas but not their principles to success.

What really is success to you. Man attains success when he helps others to do the same. You can keep hiding your secrets as you have said but I can assure you that no success is guaranteed this way. You think you have achieved many things by sleepless nights and you think it is therefore worth hiding, then maybe I should tell that sleepless nights does not assure success.

So whatever it is you think you have achieved is nothing compared to what you will achieve when you learn to help other up the ladder.

cremeandchic:
Yes, occasionally, i'll be needing help............I'll let you know when i do.
About the ads, sorry the position got filled up very fast. Drop ur e-mail address.

matthewwritesagain@gmail.com. Thanks

Just to share my experience in almost one month of working at freelancer.com...

My account balance stands at $112. I have really worked so much in my opinion but my major challenge is that there are a lot of scammers on the site and one needs to be careful.....

There are many employers that when you bid they will ask you to write a sample for them just so they see how good you are. I have fallen into this trap a number of times but I have learnt my lesson. You send them samples and they never give you the job - this is because they use the samples and do not actually intend to give the job out. So one has ended up working for free. What I do now is to tell them that I have samples I can send to them and do not have to write any new one on their own request. Many of them reject this and it goes a long way to show that they are SCAMS.

Secondly, I have also fallen prey to some employers that will employ but will not pay after completion of the job. I helped do a data entry job and after doing it, he never replied my messages again. He is yet to close the project close to 2 weeks after I did this. This is not too painful cos the amount is small.

The one that is painful is the guy that I first worked for. I wrote a number of articles for him and he became my regular employer. He paid for the first 3 batches of articles and it made me trust him so much that I was writing several articles for him without any milestone. Now I have about 15 articles of 500 words that I have written and its over one week that I have submitted them to this guy but he has refused to pay me. He pays $2 for each article and that means he is owing me $30. For someone like me that is just starting, that is significant. I have sent him several messages but he has not replied me even though he comes online. He has several positive reviews which was why I trusted him and never thought he will do this. Adding the $30 to my earnings will further boost it and motivate me but I cant deny that all this has been discouraging me and maybe I am becoming too paranoid in taking orders from just anybody on freelancer.

I don't know how to deal with this kind of issue now. Maybe the gurus in the house can help me on how I can get the money from him.

I invest in writing for this people - I have to buy fuel and I have also been consuming data than ever before. So its a big loss to me that I did not get any ROI on these jobs.

cremeandchic:

Hi Resourceman, You promised to teach some skills on this thread. We are patiently waiting for you. God bless u.

Ladywriter, i know i've not been a good student, battling with 90 1,000 word articles and i have to be done by Sunday. I would have more time when i'm done.

I hope everyone is doing well. Pls don't focus on Freelancer alone o. There are writing jobs on the literature ads section on Nairaland and on several other places on the internet too. Cheers.

@Cremeandchic. In case you need to outsource some of the work. I dey here o.
...and I sent you a mail concerning your advert in the literature section but I never got a reply.

9050

Will you be giving whoever wins the bid the tools and support to complete the orders you take.


Bid for 7k

ambrosini593: . Have not been able to bid for a project. Anytime I tries they keep referring me to take a test first. Why

I seriously don't know how that happened. When I joined, I was not required to do any test. I just had a very limited number of bids to place which is 10 in a month. The number of bids however increased after I confirmed my payment method with my Atm card. Infact, I just took my first test now based on Ladywriter's advice which is the US English test. So I really dont understand why it is asking you to complete a test before you can bid. However, if it does ask you to take a test, why not just take it. Based on the test I just did, it is so simple I am wondering how I scored as low as 93% cos I was expecting 100%.

samplanner:
Oga xpe, pls could u help tell me what method did u use to receive your payment? as in did you use your normal bank account or payoneer or any other means. pls share to us bcs u will definitely safe a soul.

Bros. The truth is that I have not tried withdrawing yet. I just dey look my money for face and I wan make e increase well before I comot am. I already have my payoneer card though not from freelancer and I plan withdrawing into it.

carpaints: bros, how do you run your package with issue of electricity problems?
can i use an android tab?
cos i dont have a laptop now.
pls anybody can answer me.

My brother. The truth is that you really need a laptop o...working on an android tab is not easy in my opinion but if you can try it sha, no lele. As per, electricity ish, bros na gen o. I dey buy fuel steady. When light no dey, I go on gen and when my laptop full, I go go off am. When ma ba3 don dey off again, I go go on gen again and so the cycle continues.

jonaboy: . Can you please tell us the strategy you used in winning bids so early as a newbie in freelancer and what category are you bidding from. With regards confirmation of payment with ATM I used my fedelity bank ATM card and it was successful and my membership was upgraded to plus but about N43 plus was deducted from my account. I'm still trying to win my first bid.

The only strategy that I have learnt to use so far is to always stay online and be among the first group of people to bid for a job. I write and the few orders I have got has been from writing. Sometimes, employers are in a hurry to get a job done so if you keep refreshing the latest orders and bid early, you may just be the one for the job. I have had this experience a couple of times, though I end up turning down most orders because of the very low pay.

To be sincere, I cannot explain how I got my first order but I may partly attribute it to a well written profile. I did not bid for the job, I just saw a message from an employer asking me if I could write some articles for him. We chatted and agreed and he created the order as a private one. I am presently on my third order for him.


This is an experience of a newbie o...Let the gurus come and share their thoughts too.

carpaints:

pls did u register with your atm?
was money deducted from your account?
have u written the test?
what should i expect in the test?
thanks bro

1. Yes, I registered with my Atm card BUT NO MONEY WAS DEDUCTED. It is for the Plus membership which is around $9 per month but you enjoy one month trial period. In addition, you will be given the about 100 bid credit for a month. If you don't register with your ATM card, you will only get about 10 bid credits for a month if I am correct. After one month, the money will be automatically deducted from your ATM card but you can always discontinue this service if you are not interested.

The benefit of registering with your ATM card is that your rank in bids will increase. Even though you are among many freelancers that have not completed any order, you will rank higher because you have confirmed your payment method with your ATM. I must however say that not all ATM cards are accepted. I tried both my GTB and Skye Bank ATM cards but they both did not work. I reluctantly decided to try my UNION BANK card and it surprisingly worked.

2. NO, I have not written any test. It is not a must you write a test before you begin because the tests cost money to complete. You have to pay around $5 for each test and since I had not made any money when I joined, I decided not to write any test and even though I have made close to $100 in one week of joining, I am yet to write any test (Maybe I am stingy...). When I make enough, I will write some tests but as I said, you can start without the tests even though the tests actually increase your rank in bids and increase you chance of winning bids.

3. I don't know cos I have not taken any as I said.

I am gradually making progress. In about a week of starting at freelancer.com, my account stands at around $90 which is not bad for a new freelancer though I am still hoping to get a bank breaking order.

@Ladywriter, I want to ask what the ₹ currency stands for. It is often used by employers at freelancer.com but I browsed and could not find any reference to this currency. Please help me out. Thanks.

jonaboy: . Xpressionz please do you mind sharing the online site/sites you are doing academic writing with.

I used to do academic writing at essaywriters.net and writers.ph but I stopped working there when I got a private client. But as I said, there isn't much work presently because of the summer break and this companies don't really employ at this time until the summer break is over and their recruitment process is a little strict but you can always make it through if you plan well.


@Ladywriter, I sent you a mail and I am awaiting your reply.

I want to thank Ladywriter for this opportunity.

I have been writing online for sometime now but I have always hated bidding sites. I did academic writing online that did not require bidding but unfortunately, it has some peak and off peak periods and we are presently in the off peak period so there isnt much work.

I decided to try out freelancer based on your recommendation and I got my first order few days after I signed up. It was even a private client that messaged me and asked if I could write 5 articles at $2 per article which I have done but he is yet to acknowledge receiving my articles even though i have submitted it about 6 days ago.

I got a second order which I am still working on cos it is quite much. It is more than 15,000 words for $55. I took it cos of the bulk and my fingers are aching from typing and the deadline has passed though but I believe he will understand cos the work was more than I thought.

Any suggestion on what I can do about the guy that has not acknowledged receiving my articles? I noticed it is like he has not come online for some days now.

In addition, if you anyone uses an android phone, I will advise that you download the freelancer.com app in playstore. Though you cannot get jobs on it, but its good for communicating with your clients. It has really helped me a lot.

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