Becoming Financially Free - The Nigerian Dream

 

How to start Freelancing in Nigeria – Becoming Financially Free

One of the steps towards becoming financially free is making a decision. When you decide to be a freelancer, you need to know that you are not a tomato seller, you are a business owner, and the degree of respect you have for your accomplishments is the same amount of respect that prospective clients will give to you.

 

Respect and honor your craft and negotiate wisely. This respect will overflow to the kind of work that you deliver to your clients.

25 Ways to Make Money in Nigeria

Tried and Tested Ways, Different Types of Businesses to Run in Nigeria

 I am so proud of Nigerian women, men, boys and girls.

Things are so tough in Nigeria right now and although many are living beneath the poverty line (very sad) many are also starting businesses and creatively creating impossibilities by taking crisis and changing it into opportunity and I am so proud of them.

This is the Nigeria of my dreams. We are changing lemons into lemonade - good tasting lemonade. It is a very needed drink with the dry and sunny weather in November and onward.

I am the one in the middle of two of my sisters, 2012, Lagos, Nigeria.

The story of my life

I spent most of my life before now as a baby girl. I only did the kind of jobs that made me happy and fulfilled me. I avoided some kind of jobs. 

10 ways to make money online in Nigeria

Sisi Yemmie of Youtube or is it blogville

I am using Sisi Yemmie as my first picture. Of all the bloggers I have known online she is someone who has inspired and encouraged me to make money via blogging. She was one of the first people to prove it was possible too. I simply blogged because I loved writing.

She on the other hand had been to the abroad where she saw it done and was convinced it could be done in Nigeria. So I followed her even in the days that she gave credit every monday to those who left comments on her Monday post. That was almost a decade ago.

My favourite recipe during the COVID-19 pandemic and get my ebook on payment platforms for receiving dollars in Nigeria FREE

My favourite meal during the COVID-19 lockdown is spagetti and egg sauce. It looks a lot like this:

Looks yummy doesn't it?

My favourite mean is actually Ewa Goin beans and fried dodo. It is the meal I eat not because I am hungry but because I want to eat what my taste buds wants. This is the meal that lets me know that I am totally African. 

10 Tools Needed to Get You on the Top 20 Percent Best Freelancers In the Writing Niche

Writing is a professional skill

Based on the niche that you are writing in, your skills keep adjusting. Clients in a different niche will require you to adjust your voice to fit the brand voice of their organization.

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Queen Elizabeth writing something of importance at an event

The power of social selling: Meghan and Harry recently reopened their Linkedin Accounts

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They are an amazing couple

Harry and Meghan are two of my most favourite people in the world.

They are indeed royalty.

How do they relate to social selling?

I will begin with a definition: 

Social selling is the process of developing relationships as part of the sales process. Today this often takes place via social networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest, but can take place either online or offline

- Google 

Getting leads from your social media platforms

Social Media is a place where you socialize still, it has ceased to be a place of fun. It is no longer fun but it has evolved into a land of opportunity. It is a place where you can generate clients.

These clients are known as leads in the world of social media.

About ten years ago, social media was about fun and games.
Facebook was about meeting up with old friends from secondary school, University and even training schools.