Typing As A Skill For Freelancers

 How To Make Money With Your Typing Skills

Typing is perhaps one of the first things we learn to do with our computers. The more time you spend on your personal computer or laptop, the faster your typing skills get. The good news is, that typing is a skill you can monetize as a freelancer. Here are some gigs you can book with your typing skills.

Writing Jobs

Writing articles for online publications is a very common way to make money online. With the need for brands to be online website content needs to be constantly created. Another way to make money from a subject that you know well is to write a blog. All these writing jobs will require that you use your typing skills to type your words out. The faster you can type the more you can earn money as a freelancing writer.

Transcription Jobs

Transcribing is the translation of spoken words in video or audio format to written words. It is a great way to earn money online as a freelancer. You will be typing out words of video, podcasts, speeches, interviews and so much more. These jobs often pay per word or by transcription minute. It is consistent work that you could always do all year round.

E-books

With the migration of people online for knowledge and entertainment. You can always create e-books and sell them online for money. From romance novels to sci-fi e-books. Freelancers have taken to making passive income by writing and creating e-books. E-books retail from $0.99 to $5, which is an easy way to make money as a self-published author that doesn't have to ship anything to their customers.

Virtual Assistant Jobs

A virtual assistant helps their employers by being the additional set of hands needed. They fulfill anything from responding to emails, booking flights, creating expense reports and so much more. Often times virtual assistants are hired and fulfill their duties online which means your typing skills will be required in all the work and correspondence needed for this job. Virtual assistance start at around $20 per hour depending on the tasks to be fulfilled.

Translation Jobs

Translating jobs require that you take work in one language and type it into another. Translating jobs are useful for video or audio work available in one language but may have a wide audience in another language. Translation jobs are a constant in most freelancing platforms. Translating jobs pay per word or per hour and the pay will range from $30 to $100 per hour.

If you are wondering how fast your typing is you can always take a typing test, some websites will even give you a certificate which you can share with your potential employers. Do you make money with your typing skills? Comment below and share with our community of African freelancers.

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Platforms That Hire Online Globally

 Five Unlikely Ways To Make Money Globally

Here are five quick platforms you should use to make extra income online.

Boldly

This platform hires executive assistants from all over the world paying $15 to $25 per hour.

Tele Tech

Hires agents around the world to do customer support for various companies at $8 to $9 per hour.

Leapforce

Search engine evaluators on this website earn $13 to $18 per hour.

Appen Connect

This is a global workforce with flexible work opportunities. They offer fair, flexible, work. With numerous projects available at a time with people all over the world.

Hilton World Wide

This website hires hospitality agents and reservation specialists globally for the Hilton group of companies. They offer between $9 to $11 per hour for these positions.

These are five quick websites you can use to apply for online, remote jobs to earn extra income. Have you ever worked on any of these sites before. Comment below and share with our community of African freelancers.

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Online Marketplaces For Digital Downloads

5 Marketplaces To Sell Your Digital Downloads

Sellfy

This is a platform that allows sellers to use e-commerce to sell digital products and other items online. Sellers get a 14-day free trial after which the seller must choose a plan starting from $0 for 10 products to $119 for up to $200,000 sales per year. To see all the plans and features offered see their pricing on their website.

Etsy

This platform allows creatives who hand-make their items to sell on their platforms. They also allow creators to make art that can be sold as digital downloads. This platform is one of the most successful e-commerce platforms that also doubles as a search engine. Each item listed on Etsy will cost you $0.20 each every month as well as 6.5% transaction fees or commission. Etsy also markets or advertises products offsite and if a sale is made from an Ad a 15% fee is deducted from your sale. To see the complete terms and conditions for selling on Etsy click here.

Easy Digital Downloads

This platform's goal is to make selling digital downloads easy. They sell e-books, PDF files, and plugins with WordPress. You can use easy digital downloads and their extensions to build your e-commerce store to sell digital downloads. Their pricing ranges from $99.50 per year to $499.50 per year. Check out their offerings and pricing here.

Shopify

Shopify has been credited with perfecting e-commerce and selling products online. Millions of businesses in 175 countries have transacted in hundreds of billions on the Shopify platform. You can create a Shopify account to sell digital downloads and access this huge marketplace. There is a 14-day free trial with plans ranging from $29/month to $299/month.

E-junkie

With their simple module of copy-paste a link to sell digital downloads, e-junkie makes it easy to sell digital downloads online. You can sell art, e-books, comics, merchandise, and more on the e-junkie platform. You can sell digital downloads on websites and social media, your online store, or on e-bay. Their pricing ranges from $5 to $40 per month.

These are great platforms to sell digital downloadable products and make passive income online. If you need professional graphic designers to help you create beautiful eye-catching style guides, fonts, and illustrations, take the time to find vetted professionals to set your business up for success.

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How To Create Facebook Ads

 Five Steps To Create Ads From Your Facebook Page

Facebook Ads can be the best way to market your products online. Facebook is the largest social media platform, whose foundation was based on keeping in touch with family, friends, and old schoolmates. For this reason, Facebook has a level of trust and comfort that most online shoppers want from a platform.

Facebook ads are not primarily for the Facebook market but for any business online that wants to reach its target audience. Brands and e-commerce vendors have set up Facebook profiles showcasing their products and informing the public of their presence in the market. It is easy to create effective Ads from a business Facebook page in five easy steps.

1. Boost A post

Create a post that will connect with your target audience. It could be a post introducing yourself as the new dental office in your city, or a post about your free parking policy for customers. Any post on your Facebook profile can be boosted to a target audience that can increase sales and inquiries to your business.

2. Promote Your website

On your brand's Facebook page, there is a section for a website. You can fill in this section and turn it into a paid ad that will drive traffic to your website. It is important to create a Facebook page with a strong brand identity that flows to your website. Use things such as logo, color scheme, and imagery that will tie into your brand story.

3. Drive offline traffic to your local business

Your Facebook page has a section dedicated to your store's location, city, and country. Use this section to connect as a local brand. Your address will drive new customers to your location when they are in your neighborhood. You can also create Facebook ads targeting individuals that are in your area as one of the demographics.

4. Create Infogram on how to use your product

Create informational posters and videos showing your customers how to use your product. As seen on TV brand popularity was increased by their compelling ads, showing consumers how to use their products. This removed the intimidation factor that comes with buying new gadgets and adds relatability to the brand. Good infograms can be turned into Facebook Ads to market to a wide audience.

5. Answer customer inquiries online

The Facebook chat feature is a great tool where your customers can give you feedback on recent purchases and get information on new products in your store. If you have a great message from your customer thanking you for quick shipping or good quality of your products. Screenshot them and use them as Facebook ads, showing your potential customers that they can expect to be happy customers as well.

These are five simple ways to create ads on your Facebook page. Have you tried any of these? Which ones would work well for your business. Comment below and share with our community of African Freelancers and business founders.

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How To Drive Traffic To Your Site Without Social Media

Alternative Sources For Your Traffic

Social media has played a great role in helping us market our brands and communicate with our audience. Although it plays an important role, it should not be the only way that brands and content creators gain new followers. Keep your social media strategy, but also incorporate alternative sources of traffic for your content as well as your brand. Here are five alternative sources for traffic to your website.

Search Engine Optimization

Search engines are a great source of additional traffic. If you have a query, chances are you go on a search engine to find answers. Search engines like google, bing, ask.com, and even Youtube can drive traffic to your websites and for your brand. You appear on search engines by creating relevant content to your niche as well as being mentioned on other websites and news sources.

Guest Posts

Creating content for other websites as a guest writer is a great way of driving traffic to your site. By being a guest writer, you introduce their audience to you and your brand and sometimes redirect them to your own platform. Even when they don't click on a link directing them to your site, they become aware of you and your brand and familiarity is one step closer to converting.

Referral Traffic Through Similar Websites

By creating a strong niche website with relevant content, you will find that similar niche websites will reference your work and add links to an article or content created by you. Organic referrals are a great way to drive traffic to your brand or website, and this is a reward for hard work refining your niche and creating relevant content on your topic of interest.

Display Ads

Display ads are a form of advertisement that display messages in audio, video, and images on websites. They appear in a banner format in different sizes from small to half-page banners. They tend to be placed at a distinct point of a website designated for ads. 

The aim is to display an ad that will trigger users to click on the banner to access the content of an ad quickly. The targeted users are more likely to convert into customers and for that reason, they are paid ads, paid per click in most cases, and sometimes paid for impressions of users who get to see the display ad.

Email Marketing

Email marketing is an effective form of marketing that will drive traffic to your website or content. One of the reasons why e-mail marketing is so effective is the method that was used to collect the email addresses of users. If these e-mail addresses are submitted by the user for occasional marketing, then they are more likely to open the e-mails sent to see new products and updates on services. 

Especially since you can also collect with their email addresses crucial information such as the name of the user, their pronouns, and the reason the email address was obtained. Was it during checkout as they bought a product on your website? Did the user give their email address in order to get a free download of an e-book? This vital information can give you insight on how to convert the e-mail user, by offering them exactly what would interest them and is an easy way to drive traffic to your website.

With social media accounts being hacked or even deleted by platforms. It is important to rely on different methods to drive traffic to your site and stay in touch with a new and existing target audience. Which of these methods of driving traffic to your websites do you use as an alternative source of traffic to your site? 

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Free Ways To Get Traffic For Your Content in 2022

5 Ways To Get Free Traffic To Your Website 

Social media

Social media apps are interactive digital channels that create and share information often among friend groups and families. There are also groups that are built around hobbies, interests, and values. Most people will log into their social media accounts every day looking for information, products, and services. By manually searching these queries you can direct users to your website, blog, or videos and generate free traffic.

Reddit

Reddit is a network of communities where individuals can delve into their interests, hobbies, and passions. There is a community for every niche, topic, or fandom. By knowing your target audience you can use their interest and hobbies and connect with them and redirect them to your website. You can also join these communities in order to understand the content that is valuable and relevant to a target group in order to create more relevant content and generate organic free traffic.

Quora

Quora is a question and answer website where people go to find information. Since it's an organic website where the users ask and answer each other's questions, you could insert yourself in this equation and use it to redirect users to your website, blog, or Youtube video to get the answers they seek. By actively answering user questions and good questions that generate responses, you can direct these communities to your website as free traffic.

Simple Traffic

This is a website that promises to send real visitors to your website or affiliate link. They offer a 5-day free trial and then after that offer payment plans from $15 to $400 depending on how many visitors you want. You can use this to lead traffic to your Youtube Videos, referral links, website, or blog. Simple traffic has an excessive amount of traffic that comes to their website that they categorize. If a visitor matches your targeting they will direct them to your site. You can start out with Simple traffic's free trial to see if they deliver before deciding to get the paid subscription.

Sigma Traffic

This is an affiliate service that resells traffic from vendors both paid and free accounts with website traffic. Every user can count on a free account for an unrestricted period. If more traffic is needed then users pay for it. This is how they can offer free traffic. Sigma traffic offers 6000 page views per month and other services with their plans.

These are easy free ways to direct traffic to your website. Which ones do you plan to use? Comment in the section below with our community of African freelancers.

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Tech Gigs For Cyber Security

 5 Ways African Techies Can Make Money In Cyber Security

Cyber security concerns are affecting African government websites, Parastatals, and companies that operate online. Over the past couple of years, hackers have disrupted online platforms used by Africans including websites run by African governments to renew documents and offer services to their citizens. There is a huge need for cyberspace used by these entities to be safe for them as well as their users. African tech professionals can use this as an opportunity to earn money in cyber security. 

Security Auditor

Independent cyber security experts are very valuable for companies that need to boost their website security. With high-risk transactions being done online such as banking and renewing documents, it is important that the website be safe for its clients and users of the website. As a security auditor, you could look for weak points that could be vulnerable to attacks on the website and recommend possible solutions.

Construct Instructional Courses

Constructing instructional courses is a simple way to break into the cyber security industry. Computer science experts and those skilled in cyber security knowledge can create courses that can help pass down the knowledge to others operating their businesses online. This can be especially helpful to smaller companies that do not have cyber security team within their company. You can provide for sale courses on specific topics online that can be used when needed. This can provide continual passive income for you.

Consultant

An independent cyber security consultant can be useful to a company trying to plan its online presence. As a consultant, you can offer valuable advice on how to set up a company's online presence from the website, databases, servers, and even social media presence. You can also perform assessment tests and offer your expertise in how cyber security can be boosted.

Create Cybersecurity Apps

A sure way to serve a large population with cyber security needs in Africa is to create an application to solve a problem. Computer programmers and app developers could find a pain point in cybersecurity and create an app to resolve it. These apps can be used by a company to log in their employees in their systems. These apps can also do things like scanning their websites for bugs and detect robots used to log into their systems. Wherever there is a need an app can solve it and make you money.

Create Cyber Security Content

With a vast number of free platforms allowing you to create content for free, like blogger, Youtube, Facebook, and TickTock you can attract a large following if you create content that is valuable and relevant to your audience. Creating cyber security content is a great way to be a trusted reliable voice on a topic that can lead you to create apps, creating courses as well as public speaking gigs due to your expertise in the topic.

Most importantly we need to ensure that the online space is a safe place for Africans to do transactions, get information and buy and sell goods and services so that we can make money online and use the convenience of the internet.

How do you think we can make online spaces more safe? Comment below with our community of African freelancers.

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