A few things you missed at our Nairobi meetup

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Here’s what’s in today’s email:

• 🇰🇪 Recap from our Nairobi Content Marketing Meetup

• 🤖 This week in AI

• 🎧 Podcast of the week

• 🇿🇦 Our first meetup in Johannesburg

• 🤓 The importance of proofreading your content

•  🎯 This week’s remote jobs for Africans

🇰🇪 Recap from our Nairobi Content Marketing Meetup

Last Tuesday was our 3rd Nairobi Content Marketing Meetup.

As usual, it was a bit last minute. But also as usual, we had a fantastic turnout.

With Ashlie hosting, we brought together an amazing group of online entrepreneurs, freelancers, and consultants from a wide range of industries.

Some of the topics covered included:

• How to find high-paying writing gigs when you’re just starting out

• Using Alibaba and Facebook to find clients

• How to best sell your products on IG and Facebook, including effective use of paid ads

• Lots of attendees sharing tips and contacts, and exchanging skills. 

I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who keeps coming out to our events, sharing your expertise, and offering support to one another. Here’s my favourite quote so far:

If you’re in Nairobi and you’re looking for a supportive community to help you navigate your online career or business, join our group chat for the next event.

And if you’re outisde Nairobi, we’re coming to a city near you very soon!

Starting with Johannesburg this Saturday (keep reading to learn more).

🤖 This Week in AI

The Future of SEO in a Post-ChatGPT World: Content marketing expert Ryan Law breaks down the potential impacts of generative AI and chat-based search on SEO and content marketing.

TLDR: When the cost and time required to produce content are reduced to zero, the internet will be flooded with mediocre, copycat articles and blog posts. At the same time, AI chat-based search is going to answer many search queries and reduce overall traffic share to websites.

So, what should businesses, writers, and content marketers do? 

1. Diversify, upskill, pivot, and don’t pretend like this isn’t happening

2. Invest in unique and gated content

3. Build a community around your content or products

4. Be more human!

🤖

Speaking of instant, cheap, poorly written content, WordPress has launched an official AI content generator via its Jetpack plugin. The OpenAI-powered generator will write content, generate titles, summarize text, and do spelling and grammar checks with the WordPress Gutenberg editor.

You can choose between various tones and translate your text into numerous languages.

Free users get 20 prompts per month. If you pay $10 per month for a premium subscription, you get unlimited prompts.

This is (probably) good news for website owners with small budgets, but bad news for entry-level writers and editors, agencies, and 3rd party tools like Grammarly and Jasper.

🤖

Ai Kenya is helping businesses in Africa adopt AI tools in their operations and stay competitive in the face of AI-powered innovations and competition.

They also have an “AI Beginners“ learning area where they’ve gathered the best education material and courses for freelancers, remote workers, and students in Africa trying to understand AI.

Ai Kenya is a good example of an AI consulting business leveraging the opportunities presented by AI – rather than freaking out about the disruption it’s causing.

As we discussed in a previous newsletter, you can start a similar consulting business with zero qualifications and massive potential in less than a week.

Podcast of the week

Back in our very first newsletter, we shared Professor Scott Galloway’s indispensable advice on thriving in a remote workplace. 

Well, he’s back!

This time, Galloway is talking to another business-oriented academic, Adam Alter, about a wide range of topics. Including:

• Identifying when you’re in a personal or professional rut

• How to get out of a rut (or get “unstuck“) in your life or career

• How to achieve professional breakthroughs

• Why you should say yes to opportunities early in your career

• When to start saying no

• How to build a team of mentors and supportive friends

• Much more…

I’ve actually listened to this podcast twice because I got so much from it. If you’re navigating a difficult period in your career, business, or life – it’s an essential listen.

(Skip to 14mins to get straight to the life/career stuff)

🇿🇦 Join Our First Meetup in Johannesburg!

This Saturday, we’re doing something really special:

Sundowner drinks and dinner on the 51st floor of Johannesburg’s most (infamous) skyscraper, Ponte City. Ponte is home to a little-known rooftop bar with spectacular views of the Jozie skyline. Dinner will be served by the best African restaurants from nearby Hillbrow – the city’s most Afropoliton district.

If you feel like chowing down on some Cameroonian fried fish, Ethiopia injera, and East African ugali and watching the sunset with Joburg’s coolest online biz owners, remote workers, and consultants – click the link below to join the (temporary) group chat and learn more.

🤓 The importance of proofreading your content

I’m often struck by the terrible quality of the copy on many African businesses’ websites.

But this week, I found a cock-up so bad, I had to share it. The screenshot below is from a service business I won’t embarrass by naming them.

The lesson? Triple-check everything your write. And then send it to someone to check you didn’t miss anything.

Or you could end up with this…

Remote Jobs This Week

Content and Marketing Roles

SEO Content Writer at Shephard; must overlap with US timezones by 1-2 hours; $1,200/month full-time.

Freelance Fintech Writers at Chatty; $400-700 per article.

Freelance B2B SaaS Writers at Superpath Marketplace; $500-700 per article.

Food and Dining News Writer at TastingTable; $21/hour.

Female Freelance Science Writers at Diverse Articulation; no compensation listed.

Freelance Writing Pitches at Saveur; no compensation listed.

Freelance Art/Design Writers at Creative Bloq; no compensation listed.

Freelance Writers at Website Builder Expert; no compensation listed.

Freelance Medical Writers and Editors at Content Whale; no compensation listed.

Freelance Copywriter at RebelMouse; 4+ years experience required; no compensation listed.

Digital Marketing Manager at Zipline 3-5 years of experience; no compensation listed.

Head of Growth at Toggl; no compensation listed.

Freelance Content Marketers at Salt+Light Agency; no compensation listed.

Community Management

Community Manager at Pollen; some overlap with US timezones necessary; $80-120k/year.

Community Intern at SafetyWing (my insurance provider!); no compensation listed.

Sales

Administrative and Operations Roles

Reputation Advisor at Array; no compensation listed.

Operations Manager at Superside no compensation listed.

Customer Support Agent at Uplisting no compensation listed.

Technical Roles

Senior Web Developer at Circle; $110-125k/year.

Product Manager at Parrot; no compensation listed.

Product Intern at SafetyWing; no compensation listed.

Software Engineering Manager at Kyosk; no compensation listed.

Numerous Roles

Expensify is hiring for 7 engineering roles.

That’s all for this week!

Thanks,

Conor