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Free Money Making Apps To Make Money Online

Sagapoll

This phone app sends you daily polls in exchange for points. You can make about $20 for each billing cycle on this platform. They work specifically with Africans on their platform and they want your opinion on brands and companies. The surveys are short, usually, about 5 minutes, and they are sent to your phone each day. You can use this app on your commute or during a break because these surveys are quick and easy. 

To access the sagapoll app, look for it on your play store, download, and use my code QY34T to get you started with 5 extra points. The rest is easy, answer your daily polls and gather points that are convertible to cash or airtime vouchers.

Jumia

This is an e-commerce website that allows users to list their goods on the platform. It is available in many African countries but allows you to only sell in your country of residence. You can list your products on  Jumia for free and will only pay fees and shipping charges once you make a sale. These fees are deducted from your sales revenue. E-commerce is a great way to start a company online.

Redbubble

This platform allows you to create print-on-demand products for sale. With catchy designs, you can sell t-shirts, pillows, beach towels, stickers and so much more that will be produced by redbubble and shipped out to your customers.

Userbrain

This is a user-testing tool that allows companies to set up tests of different aspects of their website and watch a video of real-time experience from a customer's perspective. It is a very useful aspect that web developers use to improve the usability and ease of navigation on a website or app. Userbrain has two categories of tests for Phones and computers. Their phone tests are usually for iPhones but there are sporadic android tests on this platform. Each test pays $5 and you are required to take the test using your device screen share and headphones. You will also need to be in a quiet well-lit room to take these tests.

Youtube

Youtube income for content creators is one of the highest paying online jobs. With channels consistently making $70,000 to $300,000 you can create content and get your channel monetized with 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time. You can upload videos directly to Youtube and do interesting live videos directly from your phone. If the content is interesting enough and you use the right tactics to reach your target audience you can make a good income on this platform.

Which apps do you use to make money from your phone? Comment 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.

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

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How To Make Money As A Coder

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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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