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10 Crucial Lessons Learnt from 6 Years of Blogging

Last Updated on December 5, 2018 By Walter Akolo 47 Comments

Blogging tips - invest in yourself

Imagine one day having a helpful blog where you share your tips and get consistent, high quality traffic. Whenever you share your posts on social media, they go viral. People just fall in love with your blog posts, emails and social media posts, not wanting to miss any bit.  All of a sudden, anything you sell, sells. You maximize […]

Hits and Misses of 2017 (And Predictions for 2018)

Last Updated on January 25, 2018 By Walter Akolo 56 Comments

freelancing predictions for 2018

How was 2017 for you? I bet it had its fair share of good and bad things, right? The same happened in the online jobs/business world as well. Below are a few highlights. Hit #1: Cryptocurrencies shocked the world Love it or hate it, cryptos were such a big hit in 2017. Just take a […]

Nelly Mutua’s Journey to Becoming a Top Transcriber and Trainer

Last Updated on March 3, 2021 By Walter Akolo 60 Comments

Nelly Mutua

Update: It’s sad to announce that Nelly Mutua passed on. She died of COVID-19 on 28th February 2021. This post was an interview we did in 2017. I hope it will still help someone out there. Meet Nelly Mutua, a top transcriber. She’s been transcribing from back in 2009, growing from strength to strength. She knows all […]

How Martha Ngaruye Went from Beginner to $400 Per Week in One Month

Last Updated on April 21, 2018 By Walter Akolo 256 Comments

Martha Ngaruye

Meet Martha Ngaruye, an unstoppable new freelance writer from Uganda. She just joined my training last month and she’s now already earning $400+ weekly from a long-term client. Note that she’s not even through with the training yet. What’s more? She only sent 8 proposals and landed 3 jobs from them. How did she do […]

10 Top Mistakes That May Kill Your Freelancing Career

Last Updated on July 18, 2017 By Walter Akolo 116 Comments

Online Freelancing Mistakes

How’s your freelancing career doing? Do you sometimes sit down and review your progress? Do you see any weak spots that need to be fixed? Online freelancing is great. The freedom that comes with it is unfathomable. Opportunities are limitless. If you do it well, you’ll also be laughing all the way to the bank. […]

Are you broke but want to earn online? Read this

Last Updated on November 5, 2020 By Walter Akolo 183 Comments

Many people think that when I started working online I had money. I didn’t! Here’s what happened back in 2011: I started as a broke freelance writer struggling to get by. My first jobs were cheap (very cheap) articles in Freelancer. You may not believe it but I used to earn a paltry $1 per 500 […]

The future of FreelancerKenya and online training in Kenya

Last Updated on March 10, 2017 By Walter Akolo 53 Comments

poll results

I recently did a poll on my mailing list where I asked some questions in order to improve my online training and blogging strategy. I got amazing responses. Some were expected but others were shocking. People really go through intense challenges out here. Others are willing to do whatever it takes and pay premium so […]

The rise of Kenyan online entrepreneurs

Last Updated on June 20, 2017 By Walter Akolo 105 Comments

kenyan online entrepreneurs

Things are really changing for the better online these days, and the number of Kenyan online entrepreneurs is steadily growing. Some people are still too busy looking at closed doors than checking out the legitimate, awesome opportunities that keep unveiling themselves right in front of our eyes. See, life is made in such a way […]

Hubstaff Review: An Innovative Time Tracking Software and Freelancing Website

Last Updated on June 9, 2017 By Walter Akolo 61 Comments

Hubstaff talent profile

I first came across Hubstaff when I was doing some work for Skyrocket. They were using Hubstaff to track my time since the work was paid hourly. I found it kind of a big deal. Recently, the brilliant guys at Hubstaff also came up with the first free online work platform – Hubstaff Talent. This […]

Ajira Digital and the Future of Online Jobs in Kenya

Last Updated on December 6, 2016 By Walter Akolo 143 Comments

Ajira Digital

On 24th November, 2016, the government launched a new site, Ajira Digital. This site aims to increase the awareness of online jobs to Kenyan youth. Below are the current objectives on the site: Immediately after creation, it has caused quite a tsunami online, eliciting very sharp reactions from many in different online circles. Most of […]

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