The status of Freelancing in South Africa

South Africans have a lot to benefit if most of them take up freelancing as a permanent or a temporary employment solution but even though a few individuals are starting to take up freelancing, The rate at which this is happening is really low compared to Countries such as Australia, India and USA and those countries are really at the forefront of the freelancing movement, and also one can include in this list a country such as Turkey.

Even though one could mention things such as the Digital Divide such is no longer the case presently.

The reason is with the level of smart phones penetration both in rural and urban areas in South Africa, then you will then realise that most individuals do have access to the internet rather what is lacking is the level of education especially concerning what could be done with such an internet access.

Now the responsibility of educating South Africans as to the advantages of having access to internet in order to solve our social problems falls not solely on he private sector but is also the responsibility of the government in power at this very moment in South Africa.

The Benefits of Freelancing especially for a Country such as South Africa are too numerous to mention.

One only has to understand that South Africa although it is a strong country economically compared to the rest of the African Country still has some of the lowest employment rates compared to the same countries, this is unacceptable even if one can explain the situation in any way possible.

Freelancing Should really be an option that the government itself consider as an alternative to the present social and economic crises in South Africa.

The Author is Justice Ndou CEO of Blue IT Marketing and webmaster of Freelancing Solutions a South African Freelancing Organization created to instil the Spirit of Freelancing amongst South Africans and the rest of the world. Freelancing Solutions also creates various solutions for freelancers so that they are able to enter the freelancing industry more easily.

Best Jobs on freelancing solutions

Best Jobs on freelancing solutions

Freelancing Solutions is offering you a chance to start working on some of the best jobs available online today, what freelancing solutions offers you is a chance to join our ever growing freelancers in our freelancing website and start getting some of the best jobs available online today.

What you have to do to start working on best freelance jobs online today.

The only thing you need to do to start working today is just to join us and become a freelancer, create your freelance profile and start bidding on freelance jobs. that is all and you will be set to start work on the best jobs available online today.

What are the skills that we need you to posses in order to start working on freelance jobs?

The answer to this question is rather obvious any skill you can think of that could be offered online today can get you to earn money as a freelancer and on a way to get the best possible jobs available online today.

However freelancing solutions actively supports those who are skilled on the following freelancing areas:

 

Freelance Writing Jobs.

SEO Freelance Jobs.

Proof Reading Jobs.

Graphic Design.

Landing Page Development Freelance Jobs.

Website Development Freelance Jobs.

and any other freelancing jobs related to the categories mentioned above.

If you know that you are skilled enough to offer a professional service join us today and we will show you how to start working on freelancing jobs with freelancing solutions.

 

 

Useful Freelance Jobs Links

Freelancing Solutions introduces useful freelancing jobs links for freelancers and those who are looking for opportunities to make money online.

Using your freelancing portfolio to find the best freelancing jobs.

When you have finally created your freelancing portfolio then the one thing left to do will be actually using your freelancing portfolio to find the best freelancing jobs available online. And we can tell you just how to do that.

The first thing you need to do once your freelancing portfolio is completed.

You need to start promoting your freelancing portfolio use any or all of the several marketing techniques available for you online.

How to market or promote your freelancing portfolio using SEO.

When your freelancing portfolio is complete or more accurately at a state where it could be presented to your clients, you need to start implementing your Off-Page SEO Strategy to attract even more visitors to your Website through Search Engines.

The SEO Strategy which you are implementing should be suitable to a website of your size most Freelancing Portfolios could not initially contain more than 250 pages unless you represent a very large corporations and take a lot of time developing it, but if you have fewer than 250 pages you have to seek an SEO Strategy created specifically for smaller websites.

Freelancing Solutions offers to assist you in implementing such a strategy yourself by allowing you access to one of our SEO Strategies that we make use of ourselves.

Using the SEO Strategy guide mentioned above anyone can be able to promote their freelancing portfolio website without any problems whatsoever.

How to market or promote your SEO Strategy using Affiliate Marketing Methods.

Larger websites recognizes the power of affiliate marketing strategies when it comes to promoting any service on a certain website. Fortunately you can also take advantage of an affiliate marketing strategy to promote your website online, thanks to freelancing solutions you can get access to our affiliate marketing network and start promoting your freelancing portfolio through our network of affiliate marketing agents without problems at all.

The home website for our affiliate marketing agents readily explains the procedure involved in promoting the services of a freelancer through our affiliate marketing agents here.

Your freelancing portfolio is the lifeline of your business as a freelancer working on freelancing jobs online and in that case you need to make sure that you promote this website better than any other website online.

Having a freelancing portfolio website which is not really doing well does not reflect good on your skills as a freelancer even if you are not involved with Search Engine Optimization.

The fact that your website is not really doing is all that your clients needs to know to make a decision to dump you. So take the promotion of your freelancing portfolio seriously in order to succeed and get more freelancing jobs.

The author of this article is Justice Ndou.

how to create an online freelance portfolio by Freelancing Solutions

How to create an online freelance portfolio.

 

Creating an online freelance portfolio is the responsibility of every freelancer who is serious about working on freelancing jobs.

You cannot seriously work on freelancing jobs without your own online freelance portfolio it is just like looking for a job without a CV it could prove very difficult indeed.

Now how do you create your freelancing portfolio?

Creating a freelancing portfolio only depends on what kind of a freelancer you are, this tells you how you can create your own freelancing portfolio. For instance an online freelance portfolio of a website developer is not going to be created the same way as that of freelance writer.

The reason for this is that they have two different goals, the website developer need website development freelance jobs where ‘else the freelance writer wants freelance writing jobs so creating freelancing portfolio’s for this two different freelancers cannot be approached the same way indeed.

How to create an online freelance portfolio for freelance writing jobs?

Creating this portfolio has to take into account the fact that the freelancer has to concentrate on his/her skills more than anything else. Meaning the online freelance portfolio for a freelance writer has to allow the freelancer to write mostly and has to showcase written work better than anything else.

Meaning a blogging platform is the most suitable platform for an online freelance portfolio for a freelance writer.

A Self hosted WordPress blog can do the trick as it has extra capabilities such as the ability to install plugins for even your freelancing profiles from multiple freelancing websites.

How to create an online freelance portfolio for a freelance website developer?

Creating a freelancing portfolio for a freelance website developer is also influenced highly by the fact that the skill you need to present to clients his is the freelancer’s ability to develop websites.

Meaning the freelancer has to be able to present his skill on as wide a range as possible but concentrate on his skill set if it’s possible.

The Online freelance portfolio could be created on a HTML5 CSS3 based website with an integrated WordPress Blog updates and presentations of multiple designs on a WordPress Blog.

The WordPress blog could also be further developed as a platform where clients can submit their freelancing jobs straight to the freelancer.

Extras for both online freelance portfolios.

 

Able to create invoices and accept payments within your own online freelance portfolio.

What could benefit all the freelancing portfolios is if they all have the ability to create and send invoices to the freelancers clients once their freelance jobs are completed.

 

Ability to create freelancing teams within the online freelance portfolio.

The ability to create freelancing teams could be an advantage for both the freelancer and the clients as it could mean that freelancing jobs get completed faster and better than ever before as they are talked by a team of freelancers rather than just a single freelancer.

Freelancing Solutions provides premium freelancing accounts that can offer you all the solutions proposed for a freelancing portfolio above.

The author is justice Ndou

Website Development and Hosting Services

Blue IT Marketing together with freelancing solutions provides you with a website development and hosting services that will enable you to launch your company or organization online successfully. What this means is that instead of blue it marketing offering you only website development and hosting services we also offer you several services that makes sure that your business is not only reachable online but actually stands a very good chance of being a very successful business.

How we give you a competitive edge over your competitors?

Any online business launched today is not only faced with local competition but international competitors as well and unfortunately for most online businesses their owners can spend a very long time without even realising who their competitors are, let alone assessing their capabilities, meaning they can’t even apply normal market analysis or even asses their competitors as they do not even have the knowledge of the tools needed to accomplish such tasks.

Meaning that without any expert help when it comes to online marketing most online businesses are not even in business.

Blue IT Marketing simply created a several packages which includes:

·         Website Development.

·         Website Hosting.

·         Search Engine Optimization.

·         Online Marketing.

·         Affiliate Marketing Programs.

·         Email Marketing.

Of course the client can choose a package that satisfies his/her needs but we can always assist our customers in making a choice based on assessments of their potential competitors in their market.

Extra Benefits for Blue IT Marketing customers.

Together with freelancing solutions blue it marketing gives its customers several packages created to ease their online business operations absolutely free of charge, some of this packages are as follows.

·         Access to our freelancing jobs portal.

• This means that you will be able to get advice from our premium freelancers absolutely free of charge and our freelancers are experts in the fields mentioned above which are just the things you need taken care of in order to succeed in today’s business world.

·         Access to our affiliate marketing Program as an affiliate partner for free.

Meaning you get access to list your products and services in our affiliate marketing program for free, this gives you access to several affiliate marketing agents and freelancers who are experienced in writing promotional articles and they will do this for you free of charge every-day.

If you need to launch your business and need that business to be in business from the get go then work with us and see what we can do for you!

South African Affiliate

South African Affiliate Marketing

Freelancing Solutions has created a new affiliate marketing program for South Africans to start working in freelancing solutions as promotional specialists promoting everything from our freelancing services, hosting services, recruiting freelancers and also recruiting affiliate markerters.

We are hundred percent sure that this service is what South Africans need to enter into the freelancing business as it enables those who are still learning the online job market to keep on learning and also generate an income at the same time.

Benefits of joining our affiliate marketing program

people will benefit largely from our affiliate program mainly because of the support system we put in place for affiliates to get them going, In order to guarantee the success of our affiliates we provide them with access to our freelancers and they in turn help them setup their affiliate websites in such a way that they can be able to:

• Get more traffic through SEO and Online Marketing.
• Be able to convert the traffic they got from above to their referrals by making use of landing pages.
• Help them setup their Online Marketing Campaigns.
• Help them Develop a useful website to their users.

Our Affiliates will continue working as a measure part of our business operations as they also enable freelancers to get employers to their freelancing portfolio websites, this forms part of our ultimate strategy to create a successful market place for online workers from all walks of life.

Freelance Profile | How to Online Freelance Profile

How to Create Online Freelance Profiles

If you are wondering what i mean by an online Freelance Profile, Here is what i mean by Online Freelance Profile.

It is an Online Website where all your Freelance Profiles are Managed that means that your profiles will always be accessible to your potential customers from where ever they are.

The advantages of having Online Freelance Profiles separate from anything else is that there’s no limit as to what you can put in the Freelancing profiles that you have created in your own website, the thing here is that you don’t even have the space limitations that might be put against you for profiles embedded on a freelancing website.

Freelancing Profile is the most important part of your online Freelancing Career for without it it is not easy for anyone to get projects. The other thing is that you might even publisize this profile and get much more projects than if you where bound by the Online Freelancing Website that you use for your Projects.

To make it as anOnline Freelance Professional requires that you actually have to do a lot of work before you start making profit but it is all worth it, because when you start making money and making sure you are completing projects you will earn a lot of money.

 

So create your Freelance Profiles and never stop marketing them online and offline.

My Online Freelance Profile can be found here.

Freelance Solutions

as a freelancer myself i have learned quiet a few things that i would like to share with you today.

The first thing and most important on becoming a  freelancer is to

Create a freelance Profile

The most important thing for any freelancer to remember is that you need to create your very own freelance profile first. Your profile enables you to convince your prospective customers by showing them what you can do, meaning that your freelance profile must include some of your best freelance work’s. and it also means that creating a freelance profile is a non stop responsibility for us long as you are a freelancer. (you need to update your profile with fresh materials every-time ) .

Your profile can be hosted as a profile website online, and this way you can present it to anyone on all the platforms that you use for taking freelance projects online.

So the most important thing to remember is that you must create your online freelance profile on a separate website.

Check this space for more information as this series continues.

Or start working as a Freelancer Today

 

 

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Freelancing Websites

For the past several months i have been talking about this topic in a lot of different ways.

But finally today i am going to tell you what to do?

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Creating value as a marketing strategy

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Product or Service Description and Differentiation

Your Marketing Strategies depends entirely on your product and or service that you are offering to your customers.

you need to think very hard about your product and or service, and the reasons why you want to offer the product or your service to the community.

your product or service sales success depends highly on your delivery mechanism so develop your strategies along this lines as well.

Where to start

In order for you to even begin creating a marketing campaign you need to start thinking like your customers first, and then you will be able to decide what it is that you need as a customer and what it is that you expect in return.

Creating Value

Once you have this laid out in-front of you you must start thinking along the lines of actually improving on your service, by creating value within the service that you are offering to the customers.

Market The Added Value on your product or Service (Value Sells Better)

This will give you an idea of how you should go about marketing your product and or your service, instead of just saying computers for sale, you can then sell the added value to your customers that they get by buying from you.

Adding value is sometimes about little things like packaging and delivery methods that you adopt to solve a particular problem, this is why you see today a lot of hosting service providers provides one click interfaces for most of the hosting software’s that are used in the industry. this enables them to go on and say something like Word Press Hosting on their advertisements or marketing campaign this indicates added value on the service of hosting, which is also a marketing strategy as it caters for a very lucrative business section, Word Press Hosting.

There’s no rules and regulation as to what you need to do to add value to your services, infect if you need to gain an advantage you need to think out of the box, and that often means thinking outside the norms and regulations of doing things.

If somebody tells you how something is done then think about how it can be done better that it is done, you have to do this often enough and in no time you will start seeing marketing opportunities in adding value to everyday services.

We can go on and on about this subject but the one thing you have to remember is more often than not today’s fast moving businesses are not doing anything new rather they are finding interesting ways of doing the things that people do better.