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The Top 15 Fastest-Growing Agency and Fractional Job Titles in 2026

The Top 15 Fastest-Growing Agency and Fractional Job Titles in 2026

What are the fastest-growing agency and fractional job titles in 2026? Why is demand shifting toward micro-agencies and fractional teams, and how should modern teams manage and get paid across borders? Learn how Rafiki's financial operating system leverages stablecoin and open banking for invoicing and agency payments.

Greg Cooke

The Future of Global Agencies: Why the Traditional Model is Dying

The Future of Global Agencies: Why the Traditional Model is Dying

Agencies are shifting to flexible, fractional talent, automation, cross-border payments and multi-party invoicing. Learn why the traditional model is failing and how Rafiki OS supports the new era.

Rafiki

Paying Contractors Between the US, UK, EU and South Africa

Paying Contractors Between the US, UK, EU and South Africa

Explore the best ways to pay contractors and agencies in and between the US, UK, EU, LatAm and South Africa. Compare SWIFT, fintech accounts and Rafiki OS for faster, lower-cost cross-border projects.

Greg Cooke

How To Start & Grow A Fractional Career: Advice For Top Freelancers & Independents In Africa

How To Start & Grow A Fractional Career: Advice For Top Freelancers & Independents In Africa

How to start fractional work and build a fractional career with freelancing. Building a portfolio of fractional clients is increasingly recognized as an optimal way to work, providing numerous benefits for professionals and businesses.

Rafiki

2024 Trends in The Future Of Work & Freelance Economy, Africa

2024 Trends in The Future Of Work & Freelance Economy, Africa

HR Technology trends, future of work trends, and how blended workforces are resulting in freelance growth in Africa. But, managing and paying multiple freelancers can be difficult. With Rafiki, we make it simple, easy, and efficient.

Rafiki

Elastic Teams, Open Talent Strategies, & Why Businesses are Increasingly Leveraging Freelance & Fractional Talent.

Elastic Teams, Open Talent Strategies, & Why Businesses are Increasingly Leveraging Freelance & Fractional Talent.

A look into open talent strategies, why companies are leveraging freelance and fractional specialists as contingent workforce strategies, creating elastic teams, and what the pain points and opportunities are for freelance talent in Africa.

Rafiki

How The Freelance Economy Is Shifting Our Future Of Work

How The Freelance Economy Is Shifting Our Future Of Work

How the freelance economy is changing our future of work, why we're building Rafiki, and what startups, SMBs, enterprises, and investors need to know.

Greg Cooke | Rafiki Works

Greg Cooke | Rafiki Works

Freelance Trends & Tips: Dan Nash

Freelance Trends & Tips: Dan Nash

We recently caught up with Dan Nash, a Creative Strategist and good friend of Rafiki, to hear about his experience in freelancing, working in agency, tips to aspiring freelancers, and trends he’s noticing in the space.

Greg Cooke | Rafiki Works

Greg Cooke | Rafiki Works

What Is Open Talent? How Can Businesses Use Freelance Strategies Effectively?

What Is Open Talent? How Can Businesses Use Freelance Strategies Effectively?

How Open Talent solutions can safeguard business growth, reduce overheads, and create efficient, fleixble team structures.

Rafiki

$How to hire freelance and fractional specialists in South Africa$

How to hire freelance and fractional specialists in South Africa

How, and where, to hire freelance specialists in South Africa, and how to manage and pay freelancers remotely: for startups in the UK looking to hire talent in South Africa.

Rafiki

$What is a fractional talent strategy?$

What is a fractional talent strategy?

Traditionally, fractional has been focussed on C-suite positions. However, it can equally be implemented across other senior and skill-specific requirements, by blending a level of consultancy with hands-on support and execution. Find out how, and why your business should consider this strategy.

Greg Cooke | Rafiki Works

Greg Cooke | Rafiki Works

What's happening with the Freelance Economy?

What's happening with the Freelance Economy?

What's happening with the freelance economy? Greg Cooke, founder of Rafiki, and Paul Loots, a Senior Freelance Product Designer, discuss the evolving nature of freelancing and what that means for talent in Africa and teams globally.

Rafiki

Freelancer Focus: Zeltonique Damon, Product Designer

Freelancer Focus: Zeltonique Damon, Product Designer

What does the future of freelancing look like? What are some of the hottest freelance trends or software being leveraged by freelance product designers in 2024? Check out Zeltonique's advice to aspiring freelancers.

Zeltonique Damon

Zeltonique Damon

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