What Are Remote Jobs?

 

We use the term "Remote Jobs" a lot these days. Without understanding exactly what a remote job is or entails.
Let's start with the basics: what exactly does the term "remote" imply?

The dictionary definition of remote:

(of a place) located far from major population centers; distant.

A remote job is :

the type of job that we do or complete away from a traditional workplace or location.

With a remote job, you work from home rather than in a traditional office space.

What Does Working Working from Home Offer?

Individuals with remote jobs have the flexibility to work from anywhere on the globe. This eliminates the need to commute to an office every day to work at a specific desk or office space. It enables professionals to work outside of the confines of a traditional office.

A remote worker can work from a quiet location in their house, a coffee shop, a restaurant, or the beach, for example.
Those who do not need a quiet work environment can work from anywhere!
Such is the type of flexibility that remote employment provides.

Working From Home Bridges Culture Gaps.

Remote jobs allow you to work for any company in any part of the world, which gives you even more flexibility!

Working from home means that you can live in one region and work for a company in another region. You can work for a company in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, or any place else in the world! The possibilities are limitless!

This spans the cultural divide as well as the "lack of job opportunities in your area" divide.
As a remote worker, accepting a job with a US-based company does not mean that you have to move to the United States.

You can work from your home country and collaborate with colleagues in the US or from all around the world! As long as the job has the necessary infrastructure for a remote workplace.

Companies with remote jobs enjoy the freedom to hire top talent from anywhere in the world. This is because they are not constrained by geography.

Working From Home Creates a Healthier “Work-Life” Balance.

People who work from home are happier and more productive. They can balance their work-personal lives better. And will be able to spend more time with their families and be more involved in their loved ones' lives.

Working from home requires that you have the necessary skills.
You need the training to make the transition from commuting to work every day to working from home.

With the Covid19 pandemic, which forced many of us to "sit at home" and work from home, remote jobs grew in popularity.

More jobs will become remote jobs and more opportunities will be available. According to Forbes, up to 70% of the workforce will be working from home by 2025.

The world has changed, and now is the best time to begin your own journey into the world of remote work.

Finding the right remote job for you can seem like a tough process... but it doesn't have to be.

There are many work-from-home positions out there, and we've created this guide offering tips on how to ensure you find the perfect position for your skillset.

We've included descriptions for some of our favorite remote jobs in the hope of giving some inspiration to those interested in taking their career down the remote path.

3 Steps to Content Planning and Why You Should Plan Your Content.

 A set of valuable, relevant, and consistent digital material that you publish to your digital space to attract, delight, and engage your readers is known as content.

Articles, blogs, social media posts, case studies, diagrams, ebooks, free offers, games/quizzes, infographics, knowledge articles, lists, music, news and opinion pieces, podcasts, reviews, slide shows, toolkits, user-generated comments, videos, widgets, XML feeds, and cartoons are examples of digital content or material.

Creating the right content is a good way of attracting people to your digital space. Good content answers the pressing questions or provides the right information to questions being searched by your target audience. So it is important to put effort into your content planning so that you can attract, delight, and engage your target audience.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴?

Content planning identifies the type of content you want to produce and establishes expectations for how it should be produced, who will be responsible for it, what the content's goal will be, where it will be published, and how it will affect your overall content strategy.

Imagine the last post you made to your blog or your Instagram page, that post is an example of digital content.

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁:

1. Buyer Persona

The first thing you need to do is to identify the audience you intend to speak to. These are the set of people that would be willing to digest your content. 

So you need to know your buyer persona or who you will be creating the content. This will give you a better insight into the kind of content they want to see, the problems they have, and how your content can provide them with a solution.

2. Research

During this stage, you will find out what your personas/audience are searching for e.g on google, etc. 

Think of search terms that these people use. Interview some of your current clients to find out the type of content they are digesting. You can also look at the type of content that your competitors put out to get an idea of the type of content that your followers may want to see. You should also keep track of the previous content you’ve created to see which of them your followers engaged with the most and put out more of those kinds of content.

3. Create a Content Calendar

A content calendar will help you break your content into days/weeks/months. It will also help you schedule the content according to the time that your followers will engage with it the most. Things like who is responsible for developing the content, who will edit the content, who will create the graphics, when the content will be published etc will all go into your team’s content calendar. You can use a collaborative tool like google worksheet to create the content calendar and share it amongst all the people that will be working on it.

You can create a content calendar for your blog, your podcast channel, YouTube channel, etc 

You can also create a social media content calendar for your Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter posts.

You can format your content calendar the best way that it suits you and your team.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿?

• Creating a content guide/calendar helps you remain consistent.
• It helps to ensure that you are putting out content that your followers want to see.
• It makes it easy for you to publish content on your blogs/social media pages.
• It also puts you across as an authority in your niche.
• It helps you grow your audience.

A content plan is a guide that helps you to organize your increasing workload and to create fresh, relevant, and engaging content for your target audience. 

The plan can be made for the long-term or it can be adjusted according to the requirements of the consumer. But you aren't just making this for yourself, but for your audience as well. 

If you want them to remember what you will write, when you will release it, and where it will be released, then it is important that you have a content plan to give your audience what they want and help them find what they need from your vast sea of information. Good luck!