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 5 Best Cities For Remote Workers In Africa A digital nomad is a person who earns a living working online in various locations of their choosing rather than a fixed business location or country. You will often see them online working from various hostels and Airbnb's all over the world. For a location to be a digital nomad favorite, it must have the following: Good cost of living High-speed internet Coworking spaces Shared-ride apps access Plenty of flights to various international destinations Here are a few great options digital nomads should consider in Africa. Cape Town, South Africa If you look on Instagram it is easy to see a large number of digital nomads in Cape town. Tourists get a 3-month visa on arrival to Cape Town, which is just about enough time for a digital nomad to make their mark on a new city. The city has great outdoor activities like hiking and surfing as well as great coworking spaces and short-term rentals available. High-speed internet is also available and ...

    Easy Ways To Make Money Online| Africans Working Online Working online can be easy when you are a coder or a computer engineer, however, you can still work online with skills that cannot be quantified or are not accredited. Here are a few examples of online jobs with a low barrier of entry that most people today can do. Proofreader If you can pick out spelling errors and grammatical inconsistencies with ease, you could make money as a proofreader. You may have to take an evaluation to ensure that you have good proofreading skills, and if this comes naturally to you, it could make you a significant income proofreading books, articles, scripts, and any written work online. Data Entry Jobs If you can type, you can do data entry. Most people despise the monotonous task of data entry and will pay you to do their data entry work. Data entry can include what is known as transcribing, expense reports for businesses on excel, and creating email lists for e-commerce businesses....

    Africans Working Online| Time Management Apps For African Freelancers As an online freelancer, time management is a daily challenge. The discipline and organization required of freelancers can determine whether or not you will be successful working online. Clickup This is a free tool (they promise it will be free forever) that helps you manage your time and to-do list; it will keep you on track with your daily to-do list and also track your time as you work online.  You will be able to track time from anywhere you work. Estimate time needs and set expectations. Drag and drop events onto your calendar. Memory.ai This is an automated time tracking app it will help you and your team to keep in sync and keep time between projects.  Some of the features of memory.ai are: Automated time tracking with individuals and groups. It will help you bill accurately for hourly work and gigs. Track teams. Track time. Timedoctor They let you sign up for a free 14-day trial with no...

    Remotasks in 2022 Honest Review Not sure how they got my email. Maybe one of my freelancing friends recommended me to work on Remotasks. I also saw ads on Facebook which means I was targeted by their ads. Since I am constantly looking for new opportunities, I decided to look into this website further. They have a promotional video on their home page with Africans working from their homes online. These African freelancers give their experience working on this platform. Their testimony states that they made about $40 per day on this website. The promise is "the more you work the more you get paid." They allow people from certain countries outside the U.S to work on their platforms. My Experience I looked through the website and registered using my work email. Once you join, you are directed to the training center. In order to get assigned work on this platform, you must first do the relevant training in order to get access to jobs. The first-tier training available to me wa...

                                       E-commerce Will Earn You Money From Home Electronic commerce is defined as a business model that allows companies and individuals to buy and sell goods and services over the internet. When perfected e-commerce is really the golden ticket to making money from home. No longer are gatekeepers of commerce dictating who can and cannot do business. If you have a business idea, you can research its viability by using e-commerce. If you are an artisan, an accountant, or a street vendor, you can operate your business online. E-commerce is not limited to goods but also extends to selling services online. Here are a few ways to set up an e-commerce business. Drop-Shipping Websites Most online businesses require that you invest in stock, that is, the product you want to sell. Keep items in a warehouse as you market the goo...

  How To Make Money As An Online Coder  When it comes to making money online, computer programmers and coders have always enjoyed a variety of opportunities to make money online. Due to the nature of the job, coders have always been able to work from home even before 2020. I made a video highlighting ways that you could learn to code online for free and now I will follow that up with where to find work as a coder.  According to Zip Recruiter the starting salary for coders is about $45,000 per year, but did you know that the programming language you choose could determine your pay as a coder? Here are some of the highest-paying computer programming languages. Go $110,000 per year Scala $110,000 per year Objective C $110,000 per year Coffee script $105,000 per year R $100,000 per year To see more programs and their annual salary see the video I made on this topic here . Now that we know how much it pays to code, here are a few websites that coders in Africa should use to e...

    Should You Use A VPN If You Work in Africa It was December, and just as expected a lot of my friends and family living in the U.S were coming to spend the Christmas holiday in Kenya. One of them came with a VPN So that he could work virtually while he spent the month of December in Kenya. It was connected to my wireless router and suddenly my location showed as Washington D.C I noticed that when I logged in to YouTube and other websites that were location-sensitive, my location showed up as Washington D.C and I had access to content that was not allowed in my country. Even news channels and websites showed content that I never saw with my location listed as Nairobi, Kenya. Most importantly I noticed that I was getting a lot more gigs online. The websites that I was working on to do surveys and user testing suddenly had a lot of matches and I was busier than ever. I started considering getting a VPN from the U.S to boost my chances of more work online. I started shopping ar...