LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY IN MY CAREER.
By: Aliyyah Kalejaye
Tags: Writing, Public Speaking, Life Coaching, Leveraging Technology, Technical Writing

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash

Hey guys, I’m here again! This is a sequel article to my last article but you can actually enjoy it without having to read the last article.

So, in this article, I will be discussing how I’ve been able to leverage technology in doing what I do and you know, how I make an income and still increase my income options with it, and how it makes my job easier.

Let's start from the basics. The basics of my carriers as a writer, public speaker, and life coach, revolve around the use of my phone, laptop, and the apps and software I download on them, technology-wise. I do a lot of other things asides from these three but those roles are majorly volunteered roles. So I won’t be discussing them on here unless I have to.

Everything I do, I do it on my phone and Laptop. I don’t do any physical meetings, asides from some of the demands in my public speaking career. Because even that space has chosen to leverage online platforms. So, technology is an integral part of what I do and it would be very hard for me to progress without technology.

In my career as a writer, I use Medium, Substack, Microsoft word, LinkedIn, Instagram, WhatsApp, Google Chrome, and Grammarly. I have used WordPress, Surfer SEO, Google sheet, Freelancer, Poetizer, Fiverr, e.t.c in the past. Now let’s talk about what I use each of them for and how I use them.

The platforms where I publish my articles are Medium and Substack. Medium is my personal blog and Substack is for my brand's webpage, rmwca.substack.com. I use Microsoft word to most times outline and plan my article ahead.

Sometimes, I pre-write the article on Microsoft Word and then paste it on Medium or Substack. Other times, I use it to write my short stories that I deliver to clients on Freelancing platforms or to work on personal projects.

I use Google Chrome as my browser on my laptop. I access Medium, Substack, Grammarly, Gmail, basically, all the websites I work with are accessed on Google Chrome. You know being able to access multiple tabs conveniently and also access my mail right from my browser is it for me.

I use Grammarly for spelling and grammatical errors and it is installed on my Chrome browser. Freelancer and Fiverr are my freelancing pages. I use Surfer SEO, word press, while I was interning as a technical writer. I also used google sheets to access topics then. I used Poetizer when I was actively writing poems.

My day-to-day apps are WhatsApp, Instagram, and LinkedIn. These are the platforms where I market myself, publicize my articles once they are published, and continuously bombard with value. I use them all for my career in writing, public speaking, and as a life coach.

How? In my career as a writer, immediately after I publish an article, I share it on my WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and Instagram. On Instagram, I have an account for my brand @rubb_ingmindswithcoachAliyyah(please follow) and I have a personal blog under my name @aliyyah_kalejaye. On my brand’s account, I post daily quotes, weekend specials, I leverage on insta stories and the likes, the same with my personal blog, to promote my career as a life coach.

On LinkedIn, I have a professional account in my name also, where I encourage my connections to engage with my articles and what I do. My social media pages depict who I am and what I do, all day every day and it has attracted a series of offers, connections, and opportunities to me.

These are my biggest ways of leveraging technology to do what I do and make what I do easier and seamless for me. You could also adopt some of these ways if you haven’t. Also, tell me ways you are Leveraging Technology in your career in the comment section. I’d love to hear ittt!

You can find me on all social media platforms as Aliyyah Kalejaye.

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