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itsmeurLady:
First to comment it feels good actually but it will feel better if one shocks me with a job alongside

OP concerning wat u wrote, freelancing has its restrictions I guess? I mean, can anyone do this? Especially when the person is not a writer, programmer, designer Cs me the only thing I kno how to design is clothes, can freelancing work for me too? Enlighten me please!!! Job hunting is becoming difficult by the day

bro today, the limit of what you can do today depends on what you know not the skill you have. while some skills in freelancing are easy to do, others require softwares some of which are mostly free. the limit is often limited by your imagination. today, arbitrage is becoming more popular in the world of freelancing. by arbitrage i simply mean buying services affordably and reselling at a better price.

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What do you do when you have skills it took you time, efforts and money to acquire but no organization wants to hire you because the economy is bad or they already have enough staff on their payroll? The answer is pretty straightforward – freelance. The concept of freelance has been used in many developed countries and has successfully curbed unemployment issues to a fairly large extent.

Freelance is an arrangement where you work independently and sell your skills directly to various clients. Unlike regular jobs, with freelance, you’re in charge of everything. Freelance is a business even though it’s also professional in nature. If you treat it that way, the days of worrying about good jobs may just be over. The reason is that the priority of clients is that you make quality deliveries within the stipulated deadline and they will gladly pay you for your time and efforts.

Take a cue from the US

As stated earlier, unemployed (or underemployed) people in developed nations have resorted to freelance rather than crime or staying idle. This is a sharp contrast to what many people do in Nigeria. In fact, Forbes conducted a research on this subject and found out that 35 percent of the U.S. working population are freelancers. That translates to about 55 million Americans! They don’t work under organizations; they don’t have a boss; they don’t complain about the government as we do but they’re earning legitimately! That speaks volumes.

Why freelance will still be relevant in future

One of the concerns of many people is that freelance will fade in a matter of years and they’d be back to square one. Well, if you’re one of them, it’s time to burst your bubble! Freelance will continue to be relevant in future provided there is a demand for various skills. It is this continued demand of skills that determines the continued relevance of freelance.

The next logical question is, “will the demand for skills continue?” The answer is yes. Many start-ups and even companies prefer to give their projects to freelancers because it doesn’t make sense to employ someone to get the job done.

Take for instance, if a company wants to give their website a new look and are in need of a web designer and a content writer, it doesn’t make financial sense to employ people for jobs that’s going to take less than a month at most to complete. So who’s going to keep paying those two individuals if they are hired? Secondly, it’s cheaper to hire a freelancer than employ someone to do some work than increase the number of staff for the same purpose. From both perspectives, freelance is win-win situation for clients and for you too!

3 reasons why Nigerians should start freelancing today

1. Everyone has a skill

We all are blessed with skills through which we express ourselves and earn a living. A painter expresses himself through his arts; a creative writer expresses himself through his stories etc. Some are wired to be geeks and therefore find programming to be fun. Others love languages and seem to be able to learn them effortlessly. All these seem like ordinary abilities but they are actually marketable skills.

No matter the kind of skills you have, you will always find people who are looking to pay for it. So why be so unkind to yourself and not use the skills to earn a living?

2. The income is attractive

Ask any freelancer and they’d tell you there’s no limit to what you can earn from freelance. This is not the regular job scenario where you’d wait for months or years to have a pay rise. If you’re not content with what you’re earning as a freelancer, you can always push up the price by improving the quality you offer or you can pitch your skills to new clients.

What more? In a country like Nigeria where the Naira has refused to appreciate in value, you get to earn way bigger than your real earnings, all thanks to the foreign exchange rates.

3. It works for both the employed and unemployed folks

There are several success stories of people who started freelancing while still working at their regular jobs, but eventually quitted when it was obvious that freelancing fetched them more money than what they earned. Others turned into freelancing because they couldn’t find any offline job to do.

Either case, the point is clear that you can take freelance as a part time business and also a full time business. If you take it as a part time business, you may just have to turn down many jobs and limit yourself to the workload you can finish in your spare time. If you want it full time too, it’s still awesome!

Okay, I know I said 3 reasons but let me add a bonus point:

Flexibility and freedom: Freelancing will give you so much freedom and flexibility than you can imagine. For instance, you can choose your working hours and even when you go on vacations t will. You have the freedom to begin and then hone your skills on the job till you become an expert.

More: http://www.nigeriaonlinebusiness.com/2018/02/can-freelance-be-answer-to-prayers-of.html

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Being a freelancer offers lots of freedom and independence that’s impossible to have in a typical office environment. Many freelancers tend to get lost in this freedom that they fail to realize they are making some mistakes. These mistakes mitigate their effectiveness and ultimately make them earn far lesser than they could.

If you’re are a freelancer, chances are that you’re already making some of these mistakes. Very few freelancers get to realize these mistakes and fix them on their own. If you’re an aspiring freelancer, you can avoid these mistakes that are rife in the freelance world.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at these mistakes.

1. Know your worth

Many freelancers determine their worth based on the default price range of the freelance platform. Others let the client decide for them. This is wrong on many levels because you may never really earn as you should if you don’t take a stand in determining the pricing of your skills and time.

While some clients know how much their projects should cost, some just don’t know. Either way, both categories would always want to get the lowest budget possible. However, there’s another category that doesn’t care how much the project costs them; they just want huge value for the budget.

Nevertheless, you need to determine your worth. You must ensure you don’t undervalue your skills neither do you place a price tag on them that is way beyond the value you can offer your clients. To help you determine your worth, you need to ask questions like:

• Did you go to school or took a course to learn the skills you’re offering?
• How much years of experience do you have on the job?
• How updated are you as regards the latest trends towards a better service delivery?
• Are you skills highly sought after?
• How professional are you? Etc.

These are just a few questions to guide you while you ascertain your worth.

2. Know when to shut up

The need to earn more makes a lot of freelancers commit severe blunders. Often times, the red flags were visible that the project may not end well, but they ignored it. Was it carelessness or desperation?

When relating with clients, you need to know when it’s pointless pushing if further. For instance, a client who is getting too familiar should be carefully observed. Or did you notice that the client was grumpy and complaining while giving you a brief of the project? It could be a bad omen.

Sometimes, you don’t need to shut up because of the client; you need to shut up because of you. Most clients are business people who have a target and deadlines to meet. It therefore doesn’t make sense to delay their projects when you’re swamped with orders and you know you can’t deliver within the required time. Doing a shoddy job will not only make you lose a client forever, it also means you get a bad review or even forfeit the budget to the client for poor delivery.

To add under this point, you don’t need to tell the client all about yourself. Learn to be discreet and know what to divulge.

3. Know when to stop

Freelance can be quite demanding and time consuming. Your clientele is increasing and the rate of the orders is coming in a bit too quickly. Your business is booming but you’re also getting pressed from all sides. Does this sound familiar?

Freelance is awesome and gives you the privilege to earn as much as the hours you put in. However, you need to learn to take a break. Don’t get so consumed in your business not to notice that your health is not getting proper attention.

Quite a number of freelancers have broken down at various points and were forced to take a lengthy leave from the online business. Except you have a routine that gives you time to exercise and have some “me-time”, a break is too important to your health for you to ignore.

Furthermore, you need to also learn to give time to your social life. Don’t forget your friends, remember your family and take that break! Doing so will make you alive to each day and enhance your effectiveness.


4. Know the importance of branding
Freelance is moving beyond the sphere of just having skills to the stage of building a brand. Branding in business is crucial that global companies pump millions of dollars every year to create or sustain their brand. Many times, the difference between a small company is not in the quality of products but in the branding.

It’s not too different when it comes to freelance. You need to create a brand rather than just focus...

More: http://www.nigeriaonlinebusiness.com/2018/02/5-top-mistakes-freelancers-make-and-how.html

What other mistakes do you think freelancers are making?

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Having an online presence for a business is an idea many Nigerian entrepreneurs are yet to give a thought. While many businesses are leveraging the power of the internet to grow their brands and increase their sales, many more still operate without a website.

The reason for the low internet presence is probably because many entrepreneurs do not see the need for it. Unlike the developed nations of the world, the internet is still being underused in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

For instance, consider the study that showed that 46 percent of US business owners do not have a website which was rated to be poor, how many percent do you think would be Nigeria’s? 70 percent? 80 percent? It’s apparent that the percentage is on the high side in Nigeria.

If you’re one of those who think having an online presence for your business is unnecessary, here are 7 points to help change your perspective.

1. Business credibility

Having an online presence boosts your business credibility. It makes your clients/customers to have confidence that you’re legit and brighten the image they have of your business. A study conducted in 2015 revealed that 84 percent of consumers believe that businesses with an online presence are more credible than that without one.

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When a customer rates your business to be credible, not only will you experience ease in doing business, you will also enjoy frequent patronage.

2. Greater customer reach

One of the biggest challenges facing every business is how to reach potential customers. The days of waiting for customers to troop in is long gone. Any business that wants to thrive must actively seek to reach potential customers.

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The internet remains not only one of the cheapest but also the most effective way of gaining new customers. With over 91 million Nigerians active on the internet, you can reach as many people as you desire with options to choose your target audience using filters like location, age group, gender etc.

3. Cost Efficiency

You can save a lot of money doing business online than on the outside world. For instance, you could run a business online at little cost whereas using a physical location could gulp loads of money through several outlets.

Even in terms of advertising, you can reach more people online than you possibly could do offline. For instance, as that the time of this writing, you can reach up to 6,000 people on Facebook with a sponsored post costing just N1,000.

4. Business Discoverability

Many people are turning more to the internet as a mean of searching for businesses close to them. In a survey commissioned by GoDaddy, 83 percent of surveyed businesses said their online presence gave them a competitive advantage over businesses without a website.

An online presence makes it easy for people to discover what you do. A search on Google by potential customers can open doors of patronage which you could not have otherwise gotten elsewhere.

5. Your Store will never close
It is natural for stores to have opening and closing hours. However, this can sometimes be a disadvantage as it limits your chance to earn more. What if a business opportunity shows up during closing time but you’re nowhere to be found?

Having an online presence eradicates this problem. Now you can have a store (point of contact) online where you can respond to messages and enquiries on your internet-enabled device at any time of the day. Even if your offline shop closes and you’re not available, an online option makes it possible for you to be able to relate with potential and existing customers.

More: http://www.nigeriaonlinebusiness.com/2018/02/7-benefits-of-having-online-presence.html

The meteoric rise of unemployment in Nigeria has made many Nigerians seek for green pastures online. While some have resorted to illegal activities, many are turning to legitimate business opportunities to make money.

However, while many people sincerely want to earn money online, one doesn’t need a stargazer to know they won’t make a dime. Don’t get it wrong – these people are nice. The problem is how they go about trying to make money.

This is what makes a lot of people vent their frustrations online by saying that nobody can make money on the internet except by defrauding others. It’s obvious they’ve tried their best to profit from the various money spinning systems but failed to succeed at any.

If you want a different experience from these set of people and really want to succeed, here are 5 silly mistakes you should avoid (or correct if you’ve made them already.)

1. Insisting on only investing after making money online

While it was possible in previous years to make money without spending money online, it’s not smart to hold to that logic today.

Any kind of online business that you think you can do without spending any money may either yield very low income or be a complete waste of time. For instance, many people succeeded in previous years by running blogs with the default ..com domain name. Today, anyone who does that may not have a success story to share and the reason is obvious.

irrespective of the model of the online business you run (or want to adopt), invest your money in it. That way, you won’t end up being frustrated and your online business will fare better. Remember, people invest in offline businesses for them to make profit. Treat that online venture as a business and put some of your money into it.

2. Walking alone in your niche

Some people like to get things done alone. They prefer to work alone because that’s how they become really productive.

When it comes to the world of the internet, things don’t work that way. Yes, the presence of scammers in Nigeria has made us sharpen our instincts when dealing with people we’ve not seen online. But not everyone is a scammer!

Ask anyone who has succeeded in any online business and they’d let you know they didn’t do it alone. They worked together with others in the same niche as themselves and shared ideas and solutions with each other.

Quit trying to work alone or else you’d get drained easily. Mingle with those who do the same business. Exchange emails with them, share contacts and even join the groups on Telegram or Whatsapp. You will learn the latest strategies to help you succeed online.

3. Blunt Refusal to Learn Anything


Many of the things you learnt in school are useless when it comes to working online. There are some exceptions though for some kind of businesses though like writing, programming etc.

The point is, the digital world has its own kind of knowledge. Don’t expect to just breeze in to the virtual world and start earning automatically because you have a degree in school. Not a chance!

Yet, the above is one of the silly mistakes people make. They want to start making money without understanding how things work. They’ve forgotten the basic principle that applies to all spheres of life – first learn, before you can earn.

If you’ve been making this silly mistake, you need to retrace your steps. Determine to learn how an online business works before you get excited about making money from it.


4. Being infected with shiny object syndrome

Shiny object syndrome is a condition that is often found in a newbie on the internet. This syndrome is what makes them to be all over the place online trying to learn everything so as to make money by all means.

In other words, the newbie starts learning about a type of online business but quits along the way because he/she sees another opportunity that looks more lucrative and less stressful than the present one. The problem is that the newbie rarely realizes that every opportunity looks easy at the surface but typically looks more complicated than that.

Get this: once it comes to making money online, there are several available opportunities. It could be freelance, affiliate marketing, blogging, kindle direct publishing, cryptocurrency, domain flipping etc. It doesn’t make sense to attempt to earn money from all; just pick one and focus your energy on it till it succeeds. Only then can you diversify – if you still have the time . . .

Source: http://www.nigeriaonlinebusiness.com/2018/01/5-silly-mistakes-you-must-avoidcorrect.html

The much anticipated 2018 has begun and the first month has hurried by already. Many financial goals were shattered by sudden hits of retrenchment last year owing to Nigeria’s ailing economy. Rather than wait for jobs that may never arrive, what if you engage in work from home jobs in Nigeria?

While this may not be what you planned all along, it sure beats staying idle at home. Besides, fate can be quite tricky. You never can tell if the work from home job is the key to the financial freedom you’ve been seeking.

While I wrote an article on online businesses you can start in 2018, this article is a slight mixture of online and offline opportunities so you can leverage whichever you think works best for you. Without further ado, let’s move on to the list.


1. Blogging

Blogging remains one of the most viable online opportunities to earn. To be a successful blogger, there’s so much you must learn. However, the good thing is that since you’re going to be working for yourself, you can learn and improve on the job. Certain qualities are required if you must be successful in blogging and the most important are patience, creativity, willingness to learn and writing skills. In fact, you should read this post to have a clearer understanding of what this point is about.

2. Selling Jewellery

People now prefer to shop at their convenience and have it delivered to them in their homes. Jewelries like bracelets, necklaces and matrimonial rings are selling like hot cakes on the internet. All you need do is to buy these jewelries and sell them at a higher price. If you’re creative and have learned a handcraft, you can even create your own and sell them online. You won’t need to look for patronage if your works are beautiful.


3. Affiliate marketing

Simply imagine that someone wants to sell a car but couldn’t find a buyer and approaches you for help. You were able to find a buyer and the sale was successful. In appreciation, the person gives you a certain amount for your efforts. That’s exactly what affiliate marketing is about. You earn commission by referring people online to buy products. You can become an affiliate marketer with Jumia or Konga or even with foreign companies like Amazon and EBay. You can learn more about affiliate marketing by clicking here.

4. Cake Production

Cake production is another lucrative work from home job. Hundreds of wedding ceremonies hold in various states of the country and most of these weddings feature cutting of cake. In fact, the trend has further grown that people now use cakes for birthday ceremonies, bridal shower and many other ceremonies. To get customers, simply take photographs of cakes you baked and advertise them on your social media pages. Keep showing photos of the cake while stating that you’re available for jobs. In no times, customers will start making orders.

5. Mini importation

This is one opportunity that has helped a lot of Nigerians in previous years. From the comfort of your home, you can import goods into Nigeria from China, US or UK. The reason why this business opportunity remains viable is that Nigeria is not a producing country. Due to this challenge, there are huge demands for some products which people buy at exorbitant prices because the supply is low. You can also say it’s due to our love for foreign goods. Either way, you can make money by knowing the current demands in the market and importing the goods.


6. Cryptocurrency

Digital currency is probably the greatest financial innovation of the 21st century. It takes the power of regulating money from the hand of a central authority into the hands of demand and supply. After the emergence of bitcoin, many other digital currencies such as Ethereum, Monero, Litecoin and many others have also taken the stage. You can trade cryptocurrencies by buying and selling to those who need them at a higher price.


7. Domain flipping/website

Each year, thousands of domains expire because the owners didn’t renew them and so they become available for people to buy. Domain flipping is simply the business of buying domains at a cheap price to resell them for profit. Website flipping on the other hand means you set up a blog, grow the monthly visitors and sell to those who want to buy. Both businesses are quite lucrative but require patience and a good sense of . . . . .

Source: http://www.nigeriaonlinebusiness.com/2018/01/10-work-from-home-jobs-you-can-start-in.html

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Enemyofpeace:
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Thanx.

Can i resell some of the ebooks for profits?

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great job

You're doing a great job. I've
also been assisting Nigerians
with useful and detailed
tutorials and information on
how to make legitimate
income online in Nigeria.
Nigerians need to stop waiting
for the Government to provide
jobs that are no longer there.
We need to start thinking on
how to be self employed. If
you need the right guidelines
and the how to get started
information on running your
online business successfully in
Nigeria, pls head on to:
www.goldenNaira.com

You're doing a great job. I've
also been assisting Nigerians
with useful and detailed
tutorials and information on
how to make legitimate
income online in Nigeria.
Nigerians need to stop waiting
on the Government to provide
jobs that are no longer there.
We need to start thinking on
how to be self employed. If
you need the right guidelines
and the how to get started
information on running your
online business successfully in
Nigeria, pls head on to:
www.goldenNaira.com

I am in need of resources on how to make money on fiverr. I will go through the packages that are related to that then i wil post my questions. Thanx