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How to Withdraw from PayPal to Equity in 1 Day

Last Updated on January 18, 2022 By Walter Akolo 310 Comments

withdraw from PayPal to Equity

Phew! When this service was unleashed, it felt like we’d struck gold. Finally, it was (and still is) possible to withdraw from PayPal to Equity in just 1 day. Just a few years ago, it was extremely difficult to withdraw money from PayPal in Kenya. Many options came in, while others quickly faded away. You may not […]

How to Become a Successful Freelancer (from Scratch)

Last Updated on August 27, 2021 By Walter Akolo 83 Comments

successful freelancer in Upwork

Have you ever felt so lost that you don’t know where to start? That’s where I was in early 2016. I’d gone through a terrible life crisis in 2015 and couldn’t work for months (yes, months!). In 2016, I was much better. So, I decided to do a freelancing challenge so that I’d grow with […]

How to Host Your Website or Blog (With Pictures)

Last Updated on September 17, 2021 By Walter Akolo 57 Comments

host your website

Once you register your domain name, the next thing you want to do is to host your blog or website. Web hosting simply means providing storage space for your website so that users can access it. An excellent web host will ensure that your site remains online most of the time (99.9% uptime) and it […]

5 Ways to Make Money Online as a Farmer

Last Updated on July 9, 2016 By Stephen OlorunNi 23 Comments

make money online as a farmer

If you follow the world’s economic trends related to our dear continent, Africa, you will observe one significant thing; Africans are getting back to the farm (or we’re being forced back to the farm). This is good news if you consider the fact that the African continent is importing billions of dollars of food every […]

How to Register a Domain Name (With Photos)

Last Updated on May 18, 2016 By Walter Akolo 86 Comments

register a domain name

If you want to set up a website, one of the first things you’ll need to do is to register a domain name. This is simply the name of your website, such as freelancerkenya.com or wikipedia.org. It is the number one thing that people will be referring to when talking about your site and will also […]

Internet Marketing in Africa – A Great Cause for EVERYONE to Join In

Last Updated on May 11, 2016 By Walter Akolo 54 Comments

Internet marketing in Africa

This is an introduction to internet marketing in Africa. It is a challenge for each and everyone in this continent to start thinking of putting their business online. Whether you are a farmer, a taxi driver, a clothes designer or an online freelancer, consider creating a targeted website for your audience and cashing in on […]

How to Outsource Work Online Without Getting a Throbbing Headache

Last Updated on December 21, 2019 By Walter Akolo 41 Comments

outsource work online

Giving out work to freelancers has tonnes of great benefits and can really help ease your personal workload. However,  if you outsource work online work to the wrong person, there is that stinging headache that comes when bad work is delivered. Things like poor quality, late delivery, wrong formatting, last minute cancellations etc. can be really […]

GoTranscript is Hiring Transcribers

Last Updated on October 26, 2021 By Walter Akolo 58 Comments

online transcription job

Online transcription jobs are interesting and relatively easy to understand for most online workers. However, there are a few challenges that transcribers face. Among these is the fact that it may be difficult to get jobs on bidding sites. Other non-bidding sites have so many unreasonable requirements that some people just give up. Great news […]

6 Strategies to Market Yourself as a Freelance Writer

Last Updated on March 17, 2016 By Dennis Muigai 39 Comments

online article writing jobs

There are numerous platforms out there where you can find people in need of freelance writers to help with their blog posts and web content. However, these are clients looking for writers and in most cases, the clients dictate the terms of pay and the rates. If you want to earn more than $10 per hour, you […]

Life After Life – The Death of Janet Ciru Akolo and Beyond

Last Updated on February 25, 2016 By Walter Akolo 257 Comments

Janet Ciru Akolo

A day like yesterday afternoon I was in town with James Ouma (a trainee) talking about online business till I got that chilling phone call. On the other end of the call, Janet Ciru Akolo said, “Honey, come quickly. I have to go to hospital now, it’s an emergency.” A day before Janet was singing […]

Legitimate Freelancing Websites Where You Can Get Online Jobs Without Paying a Single Cent

Last Updated on March 15, 2021 By Walter Akolo 233 Comments

legitimate freelancing websites

Working online is awesome, especially when you’re working on legitimate freelancing websites that pay you for your hard work. It can be demoralizing to work on a site only to realize that it’s a scam website. Here’s a list of legitimate sites where you can work without barriers such as joining fees or country restrictions. […]

The Little Tricks That Can Help You Triple Your 5 Star Reviews

Last Updated on February 12, 2016 By Walter Akolo 38 Comments

5 star reviews online

5 star reviews are very important in online work. A good rating is one of the main determinants to how much you’ll earn. For example, in iWriter.com, you may be paid even $24 per 500 words as an Elite Plus writer or $2.24 per 500 words as a Standard writer. Same number of words, different prices. The […]

7 Ways to Get Direct Clients in Online Freelancing

Last Updated on June 25, 2021 By Walter Akolo 229 Comments

Direct Clients in Online Freelancing

It is painful to keep bidding with no work. It’s demoralizing when you log in to your favorite online freelancing website but there are no jobs on the queue. Or the few jobs that you can see give you instant headache since you cannot do them. While you’re fumbling online looking for the best online work […]

9 Surefire Tips To Help You Survive Your First Year of Online Freelancing

Last Updated on March 15, 2017 By Walter Akolo 89 Comments

online freelancing

  Just like many others, I was once very broke, doing low paying jobs and unable to make ends meet. Success in online freelancing was nothing but a distant dream. Whatever I was earning monthly could barely help us survive for two weeks. I was in a financial rat race. Always in debt, struggling to […]

And CrowdSource Unfairly Banned Kenya – Should We Be Worried?

Last Updated on December 2, 2015 By Walter Akolo 44 Comments

Crowdsource (now rebranding to OneSpace) suspended Kenya a few months ago due to buying and selling of accounts. Reports stated that Kenyans could still sign up but when it came to adding their PayPal accounts, the Kenyan PayPal accounts will not go through and their CrowdSource accounts would be deactivated or suspended. Others just woke up early September […]

Your Straight-Shooting Post About Easy Money

Last Updated on November 25, 2015 By Walter Akolo 48 Comments

Easy Money

One of the most common questions I’ve been getting of  late on my email is, “Walter, I am in a desperate situation, I need to make money now now! How can I make easy, quick money online”. I always feel for such people, and I try to offer the best advise I can give them. […]

Why PayPal Sucks and What You Can Do About It

Last Updated on March 15, 2021 By Walter Akolo 108 Comments

PayPal Sucks

Do you use PayPal in Kenya? If you’re a freelancer, I bet you do. It’s mostly not a matter of choice. You have to use it since there are many sites that only have PayPal as their withdrawal method, for example iWriter and Rev among others. Don’t get me wrong I love PayPal and have […]

Attention Writers! Should You Write for Content Mills

Last Updated on March 17, 2016 By Dennis Mwangi 52 Comments

content mill

From the corner of my eye, I could tell my brother wanted to burst out laughing. Having told him I was about to send some cash over from my online PayPal account to my phone, he couldn’t wait. But immediately I switched on my PC, and logged in to my Freelancer account, the $27 balance […]

8 Best Practices in Academic Writing for Newbies from EssayLancers.com

Last Updated on November 6, 2015 By Larry Milbourne 40 Comments

freelance academic writing

Freelance academic writing is one of the most popular ways of making money online. Wonder why? Because it’s a gold mine that gives lots of opportunities. There are many reasons that will make you consider this type of job and among the most important we can name are: flexibility (you are the boss of your […]

All About the Certified Internet Marketing Course in Kenya

Last Updated on July 28, 2015 By Walter Akolo 38 Comments

Internet Marketing

I am here looking at this certificate and smiling. I recently completed the CIMP course at Computer Pride. CIMP simply stands for Certified Internet Marketing Practitioner. As I write this there are only 3 certified practitioners in Kenya.  Join this course soon and you may be among the first few! Simply download the form below, […]

How to Make Money Through Online Training, Consultations and Seminars

Last Updated on January 12, 2018 By Walter Akolo 62 Comments

online training

Once upon a time I thought that I just could write great, useful posts, reply to people’s emails and give free courses and in return people would give me tips and donations. I thought I would make a lot of money online this way. Only a few, countable people since then have given me a […]

5 ways to survive online money making without having your own computer

Last Updated on September 4, 2014 By Jeremiah Asanya 58 Comments

Online Money Making

Just the other day, I was having some tea talk with one of my students. He told me he wasn’t in a position to start training on any kind of online money making job, since he didn’t own a computer. This was a repeat of my life. When I had my first step on making […]

How to Create an Affiliate Website that Makes Money

Last Updated on September 4, 2014 By Ahmed Muktar 35 Comments

  Affiliate marketing is nothing more than the process of promoting a company’s product(s) or services for commissions. It has been around and people have been making money with it for a long time and I believe it will stay with us forever. There are affiliate marketers out there who make millions of dollars a […]

Comment Contest Winner and Other Freelancing News

Last Updated on November 24, 2017 By Walter Akolo 37 Comments

FreelancerKenya News

When you don’t have time to take note of what’s happening around the freelancing world, don’t worry, FreelancerKenya has got you covered. Last week was a heavy one in the freelancing industry, especially considering the sad move that PayPal and iWriter made. I was happy to be featured on another blog. Read about it and grab […]

8 Excruciating Mistakes To Avoid in Your Online Business

Last Updated on June 26, 2014 By Walter Akolo 244 Comments

Online business mistakes

When you were getting started with your online business, you most likely were so excited! You were told that you will have no boss, work at your own hours, make a lot of money and buy that car that you have always dreamed of. Immediately you started making money online, you realize that it is […]

Increase and Secure Your Online Income With These 5 Incredible Tips

Last Updated on June 10, 2014 By Walter Akolo 85 Comments

increase online income

At the time of writing this post, I have blogged for 2 years. I have seen people come and go. Some friends have come with a storm, gotten good cash, got a tragedy (e.g. sickness, death of a loved one e.t.c.) and left the business. Others keep growing and growing; starting from below poverty level […]

How to Withdraw Money from Skrill to MPESA (Fast)

Last Updated on March 15, 2021 By Walter Akolo 339 Comments

Skrill to M-Pesa

You can withdraw money from Skrill to M-Pesa in minutes. I almost ran off the street screaming “Eureka!” when I first tried this method and it worked. In this quick guide, I’ll show you how to withdraw. I’ll also talk more about my current favorite Skrill alternatives — Paxful, Payoneer, and Wise (formerly TransferWise). Let’s […]

How to Build a Profitable Web Business (Seminar)

Last Updated on March 20, 2014 By Walter Akolo 22 Comments

“Walter, when is your NEXT seminar?” I have heard this question uncountable times from innocent fans who don’t know that I had never had a PREVIOUS seminar. Each time I would say something like, “I work from home and like doing things online as opposed to offline” or “All my trainings are online” etc. See, […]

How to Make Money on Facebook in Kenya – Legitimate Methods

Last Updated on August 27, 2021 By Walter Akolo 111 Comments

make money on facebook in kenya

Just like you, I love Facebook and I am almost always online checking out what’s the latest out there. However, did you know you can make money on Facebook? I am not talking about things I’ve read online. I’ve actually done a real case study on this and come up with my personal data, findings, […]

Good News from iWriter, ePay-Kenya, FreelancerKenya and Skrill

Last Updated on March 25, 2014 By Walter Akolo 57 Comments

FreelancerKenya News

Today is Jamhuri Day and Kenya turns 50. We thank God for bringing us this far.As we celebrate this great day, there are a lot of great stuff flying around. Below are some great news from the above named sites. FreelancerKenya I have just launched my new eBook called Top-Level Freelancing and Internet Marketing in […]

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