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E-commerce: selling online in Senegal

Skills developed

  • Build a profitable pricing grid
  • Collect payments via Wave and Orange Money
  • Sell on WhatsApp with a converting script
  • Track sales in a dashboard

Distinction Very good

Number KOL-CERT-2026-XXXXX

Mohamed Bah

Founder, Kolonell Academy

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Digital marketing for SMEs: win customers with WhatsApp, Google and social mediaPopular
PracticalDigital Marketing

Track Marketing digital et réseaux sociaux · level 2/5

Digital marketing for SMEs: win customers with WhatsApp, Google and social media

Customer inquiries every week from Google, WhatsApp and Facebook, with three hours of work a week and no agency

  • 12 h
  • 6 modules
  • 73 exercises
  • 2 projects

The gains come first from three free levers covered in the course: replying in under an hour with scripts, following up on silent quotes (20 to 30% recovered) and asking every customer for a review. For a service SME with an average ticket of 35,000 FCFA (about $58), this may mean 2 to 6 more customers per month, or 70,000 to 210,000 FCFA (about $117 to $350) of additional monthly revenue before any advertising. With a Meta campaign kept under the cost-per-customer threshold, the course's worked example goes from 40 to 58 customers per month in one quarter (illustrative orders of magnitude: estimates built for the course, not measured results; results depend on the business, consistency and local competition, and are not guaranteed).

50,000 FCFA · 76 €

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E-commerce: selling online in Senegal and French-speaking AfricaPopular
PracticalEntrepreneurship

Track E-commerce et vente en ligne · level 2/5

E-commerce: selling online in Senegal and French-speaking Africa

Your first online order paid through Wave within 30 days, with no website and no ad budget

  • 12 h
  • 6 modules
  • 75 exercises
  • 2 projects

A WhatsApp store run with the method from this course (10 products, an average order around 15,000 FCFA (about $25), floor prices at a 35% net margin) can handle 20 to 100 orders a month depending on the catalog and the time invested, which means 300,000 to 1,500,000 FCFA (about $500 to $2,500) in monthly revenue and 100,000 to 500,000 FCFA (about $170 to $830) in net margin before tax. The worked example used throughout the course also shows where lost money goes: the anti-dispute process from module 3 brings losses (refused parcels, fake screenshots) down from more than 5% to less than 1% of revenue, and the published delivery rate card from module 4 turns 32,000 FCFA of monthly losses into 1,000 FCFA. These are illustrative orders of magnitude (estimates built for the course, not measured results); results depend on the product, consistency and local competition.

50,000 FCFA · 76 €

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HTML and CSS: build and lay out a real website
PracticalWeb Development

Track Développement web · level 2/5

HTML and CSS: build and lay out a real website

A small business's complete website, coded by you and live on mobile

  • 12 h
  • 5 modules
  • 61 exercises
  • 2 projects

A beginner HTML and CSS developer can charge 75,000 to 150,000 FCFA (about $125 to $250) for a landing page and 150,000 to 300,000 FCFA (about $250 to $500) for a simple 4 to 5 page business website in Dakar or Abidjan in 2026; entry-level freelance offers start around 150,000 FCFA (about $250), while agencies charge 400,000 to 1,500,000 FCFA (about $670 to $2,500). Websites with payments or an admin back office require the next levels.

50,000 FCFA · 76 €

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Professional Word: CVs, reports and documents that inspire confidence
PracticalOffice skills

Track Bureautique et productivité · level 2/5

Professional Word: CVs, reports and documents that inspire confidence

Clean, well-structured, credible letters, CVs and reports, produced twice as fast with styles and templates

  • 10 h
  • 5 modules
  • 54 exercises
  • 2 projects

Word skills are required in almost every secretarial and assistant job posting in Dakar and Abidjan. They also open the door to extra income: formatting theses, reports or CVs, usually billed at 5,000 to 15,000 FCFA (about $8 to $25) for a CV and 1,000 to 2,500 FCFA (about $1.70 to $4) per page for a thesis or report (rates seen in Dakar in 2026, depending on complexity and clientele).

50,000 FCFA · 76 €

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Selling your services: offer, quote and negotiation
PracticalEntrepreneurship

Track Freelance et entrepreneuriat digital · level 2/5

Selling your services: offer, quote and negotiation

A three-tier offer, a proposal that gets signed and discounts that always come with something in return

  • 10 h
  • 5 modules
  • 60 exercises
  • 2 projects

A freelancer who moves from one-off jobs at 25,000 to 75,000 FCFA (about $40 to $125) to a tiered offer typically sells the standard tier for 100,000 to 250,000 FCFA (about $165 to $415, or 150 to 380 euros), or a retainer of 75,000 to 150,000 FCFA (about $125 to $250) per month. With 2 to 4 active clients, that means 250,000 to 600,000 FCFA (about $415 to $1,000, or 380 to 915 euros) collected per month, depending on the skill and the niche (field estimate, Dakar and Abidjan 2026; no income is guaranteed).

50,000 FCFA · 76 €

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Write, analyze and organize your work with AI
PracticalArtificial Intelligence

Track Intelligence artificielle · level 2/5

Write, analyze and organize your work with AI

Your AI work system in place, and 2 to 4 hours saved every week

  • 10 h
  • 5 modules
  • 60 exercises
  • 2 projects

Main benefit: 2 to 4 hours recovered each week on writing, reading and organizing, depending on how much of your job involves writing. For freelancers, this skill is already enough to offer simple document writing or formatting services, observed at 15,000 to 50,000 FCFA (about $25 to $83) per document in Dakar in 2026, with no guarantee of volume.

50,000 FCFA · 76 €

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Anglais du bureau : emails, téléphone et échanges quotidiens
PracticalLanguagesCourse in French

Track Anglais professionnel · level 2/5

Anglais du bureau : emails, téléphone et échanges quotidiens

Votre premier email en anglais envoyé sans traducteur et votre premier appel tenu jusqu'au bout, dès la troisième semaine

  • 18 h
  • 5 modules
  • 86 exercises
  • 2 projects

Au Sénégal et en Côte d'Ivoire, un assistant ou un agent administratif capable de traiter les emails et les appels en anglais est en général recruté 30 000 à 80 000 FCFA de plus par mois qu'un profil uniquement francophone, dans les ONG, la logistique, l'hôtellerie et les entreprises qui travaillent avec le Nigeria, le Ghana ou le Golfe ; pour un entrepreneur, c'est surtout l'accès à des clients et fournisseurs anglophones qu'il ne pouvait pas servir (écarts pratiqués sur le marché de l'emploi en 2026 ; le montant dépend du secteur et de l'entreprise, et la formation ne garantit ni emploi ni salaire).

50,000 FCFA · 76 €

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Frequently asked questions

How do I pay?

Via Wave or Orange Money. After enrolling you receive a pro forma invoice by email with the number to pay. Send the proof on WhatsApp: your access is activated within 24 business hours.

How long do I keep access?

For life, updates included. Learn at your own pace and revisit lessons as often as you need.

Does it work on mobile?

Yes. Lessons, exercises and quizzes are designed for a phone on 3G: light text, compressed images, no app to install.

How do I get the certificate?

Complete the lessons, pass each module quiz with at least 70% and submit your final project: an instructor reviews and approves it (feedback within 5 working days). The certificate is then generated, with a unique number and a public verification page.

Can I get a refund?

The first module of every course is free to preview so you can decide before paying. Once access is activated the course is not refundable; write to us on WhatsApp if you run into trouble and we will find a solution.

Is there any support?

Yes: an "Ask a question" button in every lesson (an instructor answers by email within 2 working days), project reviews by an instructor (feedback within 5 working days), the community forum and Kolonell Academy WhatsApp.