March 20, 2012

10 Best Freelance Sites


It doesn't matter whether you hold a degree if you are looking for a place for freelancing. As long as you have the appropriate skills, you may consider joining freelance sites.

I have listed below the top 10 freelance sites that are free to join and will cost you nothing. However, most charge a transaction fee for a certain percentage for every contract or project you accept.

Each of them works differently and has various ways of processing payments. Just make sure that you understand thoroughly the rules of each site.

You can also find lots of freelance sites but not all of them are legitimate. These 10 freelance sites listed below are considered as most popular and practical for Filipinos.

1. Odesk


They offers the world’s largest, most comprehensive and fastest-growing online workplace. 

You can find projects outside of your local area and work from anywhere in the world. Post your profile, apply to jobs, and schedule interviews for free. As you work, oDesk automatically creates your timesheet and invoices your clients. oDesk guarantees you will get paid reliably for the work you do, without the hassle of billing or collections.

Go to oDesk

2. Elance


If you have skills and talent and are seeking independent work online, Elance offers access to qualified clients, a virtual workplace and guaranteed pay for great work.

To help make delivering great results easier for you. They offer a suite of tools to help make your work life as efficient as possible.


Go to Elance


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March 4, 2012

5 Reasons Why Filipinos Prefer to Work from Home Online

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Have you ever imagined how internet changed our generation extremely enormous from the past generation? From the way we communicate, work and live as well.

The internet also created a new opportunities for us Filipinos to work online and earn enough despite the lack of job opportunities in our country.

Regardless of the various online jobs you opt to work on that I’ve revealed to you on my free E-Book, there are 5 reasons that make working home online fruitful and worthwhile.

1. No hassles of traveling
Even though you live nearby your work place, you will still spend a huge amount of time for nothing travelling back and forth.

Let’s say the distance from your home to workplace is 30 minutes away, and your working five days a week. You will spend an hour a day or 5 hours a week where you can use that instead for something else productive. You can perhaps spend that time to your loved ones or do something else you love doing most.

2. You have your own terms and conditions.
Are you irritated waking up daily with the sound of alarm clock? If you work online, you can set any time in a day where you can feel you’re most productive. If you love to work at 2 AM, then do it. Do you want Mondays as your day off? Then you can go for it.

Working on your own terms and conditions means that you are structuring your work method and discipline as you please. You need not to wear formal attire and those annoying high heels. You can even listen to your favorite music if it makes you more productive while working.
 
3. You can work anywhere you want
Let’s throw the idea of working online is “working from home” only. Actually, you can work anywhere. This is pretty advantageous, right?

You can work from your favorite hangout places and even from the beach resort if you got a wireless modem and laptop. You can even go through your scheduled travel to other countries and still work as if you are sitting on your office.

4. You are your own boss.
Your boss is a nice guy. But taking orders from someone else is really annoying, right?
By working virtually, you will still have your patrons, loyal customers, readers and advertisers who will need your presence, but the height of pressure in dealing with them is considerably lower compared to having a boss.

5. Your working for your own.
I believe that success is not an overnight job. Whether you work for your boss or have your own online job, if you want success, you will still need to work your butt off.

The distinction of the two circumstances above is quite a huge.

On the first one you’ll be putting your heart and soul on someone else’s business. In no doubt, you might get a high salary as payment, but the fact that someone else owns the business, he will still collect all of the profits earned by the company.
On the other hand, if you work online, all your efforts will go into something that you actually possess. If you hit the jackpot, you will collect all the earnings you deserve.

Finale
Now don’t get the wrong idea. Working from home-based online is not the magic potion. It has disadvantages as well like poor life style for those who work straight without break. But, if you believe that the advantage I’ve outlined would overpower the disadvantages for you, give it a try. 

You may still begin working online without quitting your physical job, and after few months that you discovered you’re on the right position to decide, then you may opt to do it full time.