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Abigail Adeweso's avatar

Thank you so much, Ajulu for wonderful piece.

Please, how do I go about build a community or belonging to a community?

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Precious Jude's avatar

Thanks Ajulu, I got to know you at the CPA course. With everything listed here, I'll take them to practice.

And surely get back.

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Ajulu's avatar

Great connecting with you here Precious

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Ifezko's avatar

Great one OG Neck presser.

Remember, when I told you mid last year that I'm learning web development. But long story short. I posted my coding challenges and projects I worked on during the course. The only thing I remembered posting that landed me a gig, was replying someone on X in HTML ( <strong> You're a Giga CHAD</strong> ). That's how I got a gig to design and develope a website from scratch.

Still learning though. I'm still finding my stand to reconnect with my networks online after my former X account got suspended. After I reach my goal, I'll start again.

So, help me God! 🙏🙏🙏

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Ajulu's avatar

Happy that you are making progress in your new endeavour.

Sorry for the X account ban, I believe that you will pull through

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Henry Igwe's avatar

I got a my first website development gig through referral even though the clients refused to pay up , sadly.

Building in public has really helped me. I haven't made millions but i have gotten referrals from my contacts who I may not know.

Thank you sir for reminding me the fundamental again. I keep putting in the work

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Ajulu's avatar

Always collect 50-60% of your pay upfront

And that 60% should be an amount you are okay with even if the person fails to pay your balance

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Iyanuoluwa Folarin's avatar

These points stood out for me

1) I should have no shame in sharing my work,

I should care more about feedback than what people might think.

(I implemented for 4 days and I realized that there's nothing wrong in posting updates as far as you're impacting lives)

2) I have to pick a starting point and get good at it before adding more.

I should learn in a more structured manner.

3) If I'm moving towards AI or new sectors, I'll have to put in more work.

The first thing I should do is learn the culture of that sector and what makes it tick.

Studying its history which will give me more insights than just people's reading opinion pieces.

Thank you for sharing Ajulu.

PS: Thank you for making your book free to us.

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Ajulu's avatar

Glad that you picked out what works for you

Looking forward to your testimonies

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Okoli Chinaza's avatar

"Practice and sharing makes you visible; it helps people to know what you can do in your field ."

"Focus on the skill and earn from it before moving to another one".

Thank you so much sir .

This is so helpful .

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Ajulu's avatar

You are welcome Chinaza

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Alonge God'slove's avatar

"Skill layering"

"Don't ignore the fundamentals"

"It gets easier as you go"

Thank you Ajulu for this beautiful and timely piece!

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Ajulu's avatar

You are welcome Alonge

I am glad that you found it helpful

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Akhigbe Miracle Eromosele's avatar

This is really awesome I have wanted to hear something like this for the longest time

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Winner Uche's avatar

Also, I need ideas on how to earn from my skill

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Winner Uche's avatar

Thank you Ajulu for this. I have always wanted to start building but I have always wanted to build silently but reading this made me realised that I need to build publicly so that people can know what I'm doing.

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