Is Testapic Legit? Testapic Review with Payout Screenshots

In this video, I give my honest opinion with my experience working on Testapic.

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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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AJIRA Government Initiative To Direct The Youth To Online Work

 Kenyan Government Program To Move The Youth Workforce Online

The Kenyan government through the Ministry of ICT and Youth Affairs founded AJIRA in 2017. In 2022 this initiative has empowered over one million youth to access digital work opportunities.

This program seeks to position Kenya as a choice labor destination for digital work. The other objective is:

•  To raise the profile of digital work
•  Promote mentorship.
• Increase collaborative learning.
• Provide Kenyans with access to digital work.
• Promote Kenya as a destination for digital workers.

The guiding priciples of the AJIRA program are:

Value generation through the private sector.

Providing a sustainable model by orchestrating an ecosystem to self-regulate and grow organically.

Eliminate brokers hence creating more value for the youth.

Enhance and realize an economy of knowledge and expertise.

This is a very ambitious and useful government program that has created access to digital jobs. New jobs have been created for both local and global companies, and the youth have found an alternative to traditional employment.

Training courses available for this year 2022 include courses in e-commerce, digital marketing, transcription courses, basics of data entry, virtual assistant, etc.

Access available training courses through their website.

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Print On Demand Business

A Step By Step Guide On How To Start A Tshirt Business

If you are looking for a way to make passive income online, print on demand is the way to go. I will give you the steps to set up your business from start to sale! This can be used to set up any print-on-demand business, from pillowcases to mugs, to beach towels, but for ease of understanding, we will focus on T-shirts.

1. Design

Find a niche and begin designing catchy slogans or illustrations that will be printed on your t-shirts. You can get a great illustrator to design something that will translate well in merchandise. This is not necessary in all cases, you can simply design catchy phrases and words to go on your print-on-demand T-shirt. Examples of such catchwords are; Bride, cool mum, best dad, FBI, etc.

2. Pick a Print on demand company

Teespring

Redbubble 

Merch by Amazon

Shopify

Etsy

Printful

Please note that some of these companies are better at certain kinds of print-on-demand products. Look through their catalogs and find reviews of other users.

3. List your items

You can use the free listing option on most of these print-on-demand platforms and you can also set up a separate website with all your dedicated designs.

4. Run ads

Use your niche market to run ads on Facebook and Google. You can set the budget of your ads as high or as low as you want. Running ads is an essential part of setting up your print-on-demand business. You may make some sales without ads, however running ads will ensure your target market sees your t-shirts and considers buying them.

5. Make Sales

Once a sale is made, your print-on-demand platform will make and ship your t-shirts to your customers. When pricing you should price at a profit after considering;

• Item Price
• Shipping cost
• Ad costs

You will receive sales from customers, and make payments to your print-on-demand platform. They will make the T-shirt and deliver it to your customer. It is good to track the progress of orders for your customer and update them once T-shirts ship and estimate time of delivery, to ensure good customer service.

That's it, in these five easy steps you can set up a print-on-demand business from home and generate passive income.

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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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High Earning Jobs You Can Teach Yourself Online

High Earning Jobs That Africans Can Learn Online

One of the best things that the internet has brought to our modern world, is the removal of gatekeepers such as institutions of higher learning and certifications that were a requirement to work in certain fields. 

If you are tired of getting undervalued and underpaid, it's not too late to learn new skills that will allow you to earn a higher income online. The best thing about these skills is they will give you the ability to work remotely from anywhere in the world, and you can learn these skills from home all by yourself. 

IOS App Developer

IOS is an operating system used in Apple devices. If the thought of building iPhone and Ipad apps is exciting to you, it can be one of the fastest ways of making a six-figure income. Although it can be difficult, it is easier for those who lean more tech-savvy. It also helps that there is a free registration IOS development course on Coursera by The University of Toronto. It will take 5 months to complete with a pace of 2 hours per week. You can also use free resources specific to African scholars such as ALXafrica and use some free instruction to master the basics.

User Experience Designer

User experience determines how the customer uses a product or service. How it looks and feels through their eyes and any points of improvement that can be applied for a better experience for the consumer. In a world of options, you never want to hear about a problem with your product from your customer. You want to pre-empt any unpleasant experiences for your customer as much as possible. 

User experience designers turn applications into something that people like and want to use. They can look at your website or app and optimize applications, improve ease and explore approaches to solve user problems.

Google offers a UX Design professional certificate on Coursera. It takes 6 months at a pace of 10 hours per week.

Digital Marketer

Digital marketers are becoming a vital part of online success. A digital marketer is responsible for developing and implementing strategies that promote a product online. They manage various social media channels, website content, email marketing, and online ads.

You can learn to be a digital marketer by mastering these aspects for clients by taking courses online and even learning from free courses on Youtube. Start with learning how to create content. How to present information online by using graphic design tools and then learning to market the content through free avenues and paid ads on search engines and social media channels.

Cybersecurity

More personal, government, and corporate data are being stored on the cloud. A huge industry in cyber security is developing to protect this data from hackers. Cyber security specialists are responsible for discovering vulnerabilities and risks in networks, software systems, and data centers.

You can be a Certified Information Security Manager by taking an online class. This role gives you expertise in information security governance. Incident Management and risk management as well as program management and development.

Google, Amazon, and IBM offer cybersecurity courses online.

Blockchain Developer

Blockchain is defined as a ledger of decentralized data that is securely shared. A blockchain developer enables secure digital transactions by creating systems to record and store blockchain data in a way that prevents changes or hacks. They design blockchain technologies, develop app features and maintain client and server applications.

There is a blockchain basics course for free offered by great learning. 

These are high-earning jobs that you can learn from home in the next couple of months. Do you currently hold any of these skills? Which one are you most interested in learning? Comment below and share with our community of African freelancers.

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Creating Content That Converts

 5 Tips For Creating Content That Converts

With an increasing number of platforms where creators can publish their content in the form of videos, photos, or the written word. It is amazing how difficult it can be to create content that converts. It may be free to publish your content but it isn't always easy to show up at the forefront of your target audience. 

The quality of your content may not be as effective if it is not relevant to your audience. I will give you tips for creating content that converts

User Intent

Every online query leads to an online search. It is important you know how the user intends on using the content. Is it for their own knowledge or research for more professional use? Such as work reports or course assignments? Are they using the content to pass time or to get entertained? Knowing the user intent can help you create content that converts more users.

Keyword List

A keyword is a word that acts as the key to a cipher. It is a word of great significance to its user pertaining to their search for answers. These are the words that people think about and in turn type into search engines to find what they are looking for. 

Your content serves a target market that has the same need and seeks answers for it. Know the words most relevant to your target audience and use them to create content that converts more followers.

Solve A Problem

Know what your audience is trying to solve and solve their problem for them. What condition is your user in, and how urgently are they trying to solve it? Know how urgently the issue needs to be solved and deliver a solution that solves the issue in the relevant and appropriate time frame.

Read The Tone Of The Room

A target audience could determine the tone that you take when trying to address them. You cannot address an Afrobeats audience with Rhumba terminology. You cannot address Bankers like they are Doctors. Each of these fields has jargon or special words of expression that are common in communication. Also knowing if it is necessary to be more casual versus more intellectual or professional could be the difference needed in creating content that converts people that come across your content.

Be The Voice Of Authority

Often times if you focus on producing relevant, consistent content for your community, you can begin to be seen as a voice of authority on the topic. When users return to your platform whenever they seek a solution that is common in your target audience, they will automatically start seeing you as an authority voice that they refer others to.

With great power comes great responsibility, at this level, you will also need to ensure that your voice represents the majority of your target group by being accurate and well researched with examples and scenarios.

This is how to create content that converts. What content do you currently create? Share your link below and share your target audience with our community of African freelancers.

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Creating A Brand Identity

 How To Create A Brand Identity From Start To Finish

Brand identity is the visible element of a brand. These aspects include color, design, and logo that identify and distinguish the brand in the eyes of the consumer.

Brand Strategy And Creative Direction

This is how a brand intends on building rapport and favorability in the market. There are four brand strategies;

• Line extension. Creating additional products in response to consumer needs.
• Brand Extension. Introduction of a new brand in a market, after consolidating in a related field.
• New brand strategy. When a firm creates a new brand to go with a new product.
• Fight brand strategy. This is the placement of a new brand or sub-brand in a higher or lower price point to capture a new market segment.

Logo Exploration And Design

A good logo should instantly be recognizable to the consumer, by being simple, unique, appropriate, and memorable. It should convey clearly a company's goal and why the brand exists. A good logo should also be able to exist in different sizes and be applied to different products, packaging, and signage.

Brand Elements And Assets

Brand assets are elements such as color scheme, specific font, or ad jingle that help to identify a certain brand. These only become assets once customers associate them with a brand. These brand elements serve a specific purpose to a brand;

• Unique to the brand
• Purpose-driven for the brand.
• Knows its target market
• Stays on-brand at all times
• Authentic to the brand
• Thick-skinned as a way to protect the brand

Brand Inaction

Brands must decide even before any incidents, where they will take action or where they will choose inaction. A brand should not respond to every opposition, query, or instance that occurs. For example, a bank robber may choose to wear a Nike jersey while robbing a bank and get caught. The press will blast images of a bank robber wearing a Nike logo jersey. This kind of instance requires brand inaction, by not responding to such incidences. Based on the product or service offered a brand can expect its name and image to get caught up in a way that disparages the brand name and brand inaction will be the most logical way to respond.

Presenting The Branding

Time requires that brands present themselves to the consumer in a way that is appropriate for societal norms that come with the changing of eras. A brand must be adaptable in order to survive the test of time. This could include changing the shade identified as their brand color from lighter to darker blue. Changing fonts to appear more modern yet true to its identity. Constantly tweaking aspects of the brand identity in order to remain relevant to the times.

This is how to create a brand identity from start to finish. Have you worked on a brand identity before? Was it for your company or a client? Comment in the section below and share with our community of African freelancers.

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Digital Marketing Gigs For Freelancers

 5 Ways African Freelancer Can Monetize on Digital Marketing

Digital marketing is basically internet marketing. It is the use of online-based approaches to promote goods and services to customers. These promotional approaches are usually directed to;

• Search engines
• Social media platforms
• Email blasts
• Websites
• Videos

There is a huge opportunity for African freelancers to help brands and companies use these mediums to market their goods and services. Here are ways you can make money in digital marketing.

Creating Social Media Posts

You can create social media post gigs for clients who want to strategize their social media timeline. Infographics, memes, video clips, and sales promotions are a common way to make money online by creating social media posts customized for each brand. You can break it down for 10 days, 30 days, or even longer. Create engaging, relevant social media posts as a gig, and many brands and online companies will pay you for it.

Online Ad Strategist

You can create google ads, ads on search engines, and ads on social media for clients. The world of online ads is a confusing, time-consuming yet completely essential part of operating an online business. You can improve your skills in social media management by using google. Google digital garage is an online course by google that trains in digital marketing. You can receive certification for Digital Marketing completely free. This will give you the skills you need to deliver great online Ads strategies. There are also useful sites such as Ad Box, that will show you high-performing ad examples that you can use as templates to find success in your online ads.

Refining Target Market

Sometimes brands start out with a vague idea of what their target market looks like. A target market is a particular group of consumers at which a product or service is aimed. These people exhibit similar characteristics, have the same values, and share certain demographics. A good example of this is Tea drinkers versus coffee drinkers. These are completely different target groups, and even among the coffee drinkers, there are those that drink instant coffee versus those that buy whole beans and grind them each time they make a cup of coffee. A target market is very specific, and getting it right will determine better results while marketing to a group of people online. You can help brands find their target market.

Brand Identity

Just like matching your curtains to your furniture, it is very important to have a cohesive brand identity. A brand identity is an imagery, colors, and symbols used in a company's website, apps, and social media pages. You can create brand identity that will help them in creating logos, banners, posters, and images that they will use as a guide in their online presence. Websites such as Canva make it easier for us to create illustrations, graphics, and images that a brand can use to refine its brand identity online.

Sales Funnels

A sales funnel is the journey that the customer goes through in order to purchase goods or services from a company. Each step of the funnel takes the buyer one step closer to making a purchase. A well-planned sales funnel will define the actions a business needs to take to push prospective clients to the next step. You can create a sales funnel from search engines or social media ads and guide people from seeing the marketing online to a landing page on a website that shows product descriptions and guide them to buy from your client. Sales funnels are complicated and effective and this is why brands will hire you to create e-mail capturing, landing pages, and other means used in sales funnels.

These are five easy ways to make money using digital marketing. There are free certifications and great templates you can use for success with this gig on Fiverr. You can also create a Fiverr seller account to offer your services online.

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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.

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How To Make Money As A Coder

 In this video, we visit websites that hire coders online. We look at their requirements and the ability of African Coders to join.

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Best AdSense Alternatives For Blogger Traffic

How to Monetize Your Content With Alternative Advertising Platforms 

Google AdSense is a program through which publishers can earn money with their content. AdSense works by matching ads to your site based on your content and visitors. Google being the largest search engine becomes the default for most publishers, but there are alternatives that all publishers should consider.

Infolinks

This is a global advertising platform, offering ad solutions for both publishers and advertisers. Online advertisers utilize the Infolinks self-serve marketplace to customize their own campaigns.

Monumetric

Set up in 2012, this ad network provides bloggers with ad solutions that favor the website owner. Monumetric offers accurate reporting and performance data as well as a more custom experience for bloggers and their audience.

Media.net

This ad network is run by yahoo and bing. It allows you to monetize your content through the exclusive access demand from Yahoo and Bing. Media.net uses contextual ads to open up advertising search budgets worth billions of dollars. This format filters the user's intent via relevant search keywords resulting in finely targeted ads and much higher revenues as advertisers are willing to pay more for visitors with qualified intent.

Amazon Native Shopping Ads

This ad agency allows you to place ads in product article pages to automatically display relevant product recommendations from Amazon based on your page content and audience. Native shopping ads are stylishly designed and responsive types of ad units, that can be placed at the end of content to create a more compelling visitor experience as well as an organic shopping opportunity.

Evadav

They specialize in push notification ads to bring in revenue. Evadav guarantees the highest CR/CTR by matching the best offers with relevant audience boosting the efficiency of your ad campaigns. They also cut off any bots or suspicious activity providing only real users and live audiences for campaigns.

Have you used any of these AdSense alternatives? Which one would work best for your audience? Comment below and share with our community of African freelancers.

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5 Businesses You Can Start With Zero Investments

 How Anyone Can Start A Business With Zero Investment

Starting a business with zero investment is a great way of determining if a business is worth reinvesting funds into. A lot of fortune 500 companies were started with zero investment, as well as the wit and skills of their founders. Here are five businesses you can start TODAY with zero investments.

E-commerce Reseller

E-commerce sites are often free for e-commerce resellers to list their products, later charging for commission and other fees. If you have a supermarket or mall within walking distance from your home. You should go there and see what products you could resell online. Look through a group of products that interest you, the sky is the limit. If you have a new baby, maybe you have come to learn about products that are useful to new parents. If you love doing your hair and makeup, you may come to know trendy useful products that you could use to build a customer base online. List the products on the website add fees and commission to the price and wait until you get an order before you buy the products from the supermarket or mall to relist. You would be surprised at how many products you can resell online for a profit.

Build Websites

Even without software design skills required to build websites, you can use website building platforms that are easy to use. These drag and drop website builders allow you to simply change different aspects of a website by adding and removing features. They even have pre-set templates that can be used by just changing the name and images to reflect the brand or company of the user. You can market yourself as a website builder and use the free trial period in order to create websites for your clients. Mark up the registration required by the website builder and also have an option to charge your client for weekly or monthly changes as needed. This website-building business will cost you zero to set up but can give you great financial rewards as recurring income.

Dropshipping

This is a form of retail business, where the seller accepts customers' orders online or in person without keeping the stock and fulfilling customers' orders directly with the manufacturer or distributor. The distributor will then deliver the goods to the customer. The drop shipper considers the cost of the goods, and delivery costs and marks up the price of the goods to make their profit. Once orders come in the seller will use the customers' payments to repay the distributors who will ship and deliver items to the buyer.

Travel Agency Business

Travel agencies usually arrange travel for their clients. This can be the purchase of flights, accommodation, tours, admission fees, and more. The easiest way to get started with this kind of business is to create custom travel arrangements for your clients. This can be done by calling or even emailing hotels, museums, beach clubs, or any activities your guests would be interested in. Finding their rates, negotiating lower rates, and reselling to your customers. You can also approach local restaurants or clubs and negotiate a rate for all the guests you bring to their establishment. This method is especially effective if you live in a high tourist country.

Vlogging

Vlogging is documenting experiences in video form and uploading them as content to help your audience experience a different place or navigate an experience through your eyes. With platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and TickTock, monetizing short and long video content. You could record content online and post on these platforms completely free. This can be very rewarding if you find your target market and speak to them directly. Read how to rank on search engines, to make sure your content gets seen by as many people as are interested in your topic.

Have you ever started any of these businesses? What was your experience? Share in the comments below with our community of African freelancers.

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