Virtual Freelancing is a booming business. I've been in it for approximately a decade now and I've personally watched it grow and grow and grow. Years ago when I first jumped in a lot of employers were skeptical and a bit uncomfortable with the idea of someone working for them who wasn't right under their nose. Now, they're hiring virtual freelancers for everything. The demand has increased exponentially over the past few years especially with the growing Internet Marketing business. Internet Marketers generally work from their own home and as they grow they need assistance - so where do they find it = virtual freelancers. Of course, they are only a portion of the employers now hiring virtual freelancers.
With the growth of the demand has come the growth of more and more freelancers looking to make a living working from home. Problem is, only around 1 out of 10-20 freelancers has what it takes to land projects. It seems they think they can just jump in and start getting work. It's not that easy for most. While the demand has grown, employers are picky about who they hire because it's still risky in that you can't tell who's who from the other end of a computer. You've got 167 proposals for your position and all you have are words to figure out who to hire. Further freelancers are known to just disappear into thin air at times - leaving work half done, done improperly or not done at all.
Freelancers don't realize that the chips are stacked against them when it comes to bidding on projects and landing the job. Oftentimes they think their resume of on-site experience will get them in the door but this is not generally the case. It's simply not that simple. But it's not terribly hard either...if you know the Ins and Outs and what employers are looking for vs. what they're not looking for. There's a lot of competition out there for these virtual projects and you need to be one step ahead to come out the winner.
This is where the Virtual Freelance Guide comes in. This guide was written by yours truly, a Veteran in the freelance game. I've learned the hard way, by trial and error, by bidding on hundreds of hundreds of jobs and trying different methods. I searched through the thousands of freelance sites, I became a member of many. I've done all the research I think can be done over the years. Now that I'm very successful in my freelance business and also work from the employer standpoint, giving me even more insight on who gets hired, I thought I'd outline the Ins and Outs for other freelancers looking to really generate an income working from home.
The guide covers the pros and the cons of the business, whether or not to become a member of paid freelance sites, how to land projects and build your reputation, how to write a proposal that will get you noticed by employers, what to do and what not to do, billing and more. It's not filled with pages and pages of "filler" material. It's short (13 pages, a bit over 5k words) and to the point.
With that said, I believe it's a great tool for virtual freelancers. A time-saver from figuring out how to go about getting work and what you're doing wrong if you're already trying but not succeeding. Freelancers can get it here: Virtual Freelance Guide - Succeed in Your Virtual Venture. It's only $9.00 - a very small investment in your business.
From a marketing standpoint I'm offering a limited number of PLR to the eBook for $21. To purchase the PLR, please go here: Virtual Freelance Guide PLR (private label rights)
Best of luck in whatever virtual venture you are pursuing!
K
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
Tired of being chained to a 9-5? Sick of your job?
Me too! Well, I haven't been bound to a 9-5 for a while now but I was so sick of it. Now, I had a fabulous boss, a fabulous secretary and a fabulous office but I was still sick of it. I had a fairly flexible schedule and could do just about whatever I wanted. And I did love what I did...I was a paralegal and it fit me for more than one reason. Not a bad deal where 9-5s are concerned but I was still OVER IT!
I COULD NOT picture myself having to do that till age 67. Yeah right. Ugh, it was a miserable thought, had been for years.
I started working online part-time several years ago but kept a 9-5 for the most part. I needed to get some income coming in online before I could just walk away from my job. I have kids, a car note, insurance, etc., the regular responsibilities.
I actually got fired from my last job...I had a big surgery and had permission to be off work for several weeks. Me, and the dedicated worker I am, I was going to go back in before I had to. I just hated the idea of things getting out of control (like I knew they would) and my very needy, dependent boss having to tie his shoes without me! So I said I was going to TRY to come in Tuesday. Well, umm, Tuesday came and I COULDN'T DO IT. (Mind you this is a HUGE firm, where a lot of politicking goes on and I wasn't the fav of a couple of people there because I'm very outspoken and opinionated..and I didn't cater to anyone but my boss.) So, the Office Manager (who didn't like me because I did what my boss told me which conflicted with what she told me often) went over everyone's head to a lead person in a whole other city to report that I said I'd be back Tuesday and I didn't come back Tuesday (never mind the doctor's prescribed time off). So I get a call saying I'm fired.
You have no idea how pissed I was. I worked my ass off for this damn firm. I had the most demanding, dependent boss every (I loved him dearly) and over 130 cases at any given time. I did higher level work than ANY paralegal in the firm but I was fired all on politics???? Yeah, it happens. My boss would let me come back (he wouldn't even replace me for almost a year!) but I was so so pissed that it was the last needed bit of motivation for me to work online FROM HOME full-time. SCREW all this politicking, working in Corporate America where no one really gives a f*&! about you, giving all your sweat and blood for 50 years of your life, etc (you know I could go on).
That was IT for me. I could have even fought it on legal terms, but SCREW IT. They did me a favor and I knew it. It had been my goal for a long time to work full-time from home and this was the shove I needed to finish diving completely in.
I've been working from home every since. I haven't found a get rich overnight deal yet (still searching LOL) but I have managed and I have found more and more opportunities. I have managed to network with some great people who make nice earnings from home online.
For many years, I worked as a freelancer working from home part-time. Now I do it full-time and I make good money. (I've gotten into some Internet Marketing too but I still do my freelance stuff.)
Being a freelancer is easy...landing the real jobs making real money isn't. Employers now have tons of virtual freelancers to choose from and the criteria for who to hire is different that the on-site criteria. And a lot of the time, they NEVER look at your resume and if they do, it's only after you have caught their attention with your proposal. If you don't capture them within the first paragraph of your proposal, it's over for you. They have way to many proposals to sift through. And I guarantee you don't know as much about proposal writing as you think. I'm a great writer and I thought proposal writing would be a breeze for me...but I didn't understand the major differences in proposals for online jobs and a cover letter for an on-site job like I thought I did.
You will not just decide to do this today and start landing the jobs tomorrow. Not the real online jobs with legitimate employers anyway. It takes a lot of time, persistence and trial and error. OR it takes a guide who's already been there and can tell you how to get the edge and get the work. ahem...that would be me.
I can land any online job I want these days. But it didn't start out that way. I'm very smart and I have a great on-site history so I couldn't figure out why it wasn't as easy to land the good legitimate online jobs and projects as it was for me to land an on-site job. After years of proposals, research, etc. I have finally figured it all out. Now I know where to look for jobs and exactly how to be the one out of sometimes hundreds of applicants they choose.
I also hire and manage virtual employees now so I know even more about the employer standpoint.
I'm sure you think you know enough just like I thought, but ten years later I realize I didn't know half as much as I thought I knew. And ten years later I'm landing whatever I want, practically whenever I want and making a full-time income right from my own home. (I'm sitting here in my boxers, tee and socks right now at 2 am. on a Sunday morning because I don't have to get up and be somewhere at 8 am.)
So I've put together a short eBook about freelancing to tell you what it took me a long time to figure out with plenty of trial and error and proposals. A to-the-point outline of what you need to know to get the jobs and have the comfort of working from home just like I do.
It's already helped freelancers get their start and jumped them steps ahead of the rest because now they just have to follow the outline I've already prepared for them instead of figuring it out from scratch and not understanding why they've applied to so many online jobs and barely landed any of them.
As a freelancer and manager of freelancers, I know what it takes. And I am now sharing it with anyone else who really wants to work from home.
So get your copy and start making money online without even changing clothes if you don't want to.
You can get it at www.virtualfreelanceguide.com
Enjoy and good luck!
K
I COULD NOT picture myself having to do that till age 67. Yeah right. Ugh, it was a miserable thought, had been for years.
I started working online part-time several years ago but kept a 9-5 for the most part. I needed to get some income coming in online before I could just walk away from my job. I have kids, a car note, insurance, etc., the regular responsibilities.
I actually got fired from my last job...I had a big surgery and had permission to be off work for several weeks. Me, and the dedicated worker I am, I was going to go back in before I had to. I just hated the idea of things getting out of control (like I knew they would) and my very needy, dependent boss having to tie his shoes without me! So I said I was going to TRY to come in Tuesday. Well, umm, Tuesday came and I COULDN'T DO IT. (Mind you this is a HUGE firm, where a lot of politicking goes on and I wasn't the fav of a couple of people there because I'm very outspoken and opinionated..and I didn't cater to anyone but my boss.) So, the Office Manager (who didn't like me because I did what my boss told me which conflicted with what she told me often) went over everyone's head to a lead person in a whole other city to report that I said I'd be back Tuesday and I didn't come back Tuesday (never mind the doctor's prescribed time off). So I get a call saying I'm fired.
You have no idea how pissed I was. I worked my ass off for this damn firm. I had the most demanding, dependent boss every (I loved him dearly) and over 130 cases at any given time. I did higher level work than ANY paralegal in the firm but I was fired all on politics???? Yeah, it happens. My boss would let me come back (he wouldn't even replace me for almost a year!) but I was so so pissed that it was the last needed bit of motivation for me to work online FROM HOME full-time. SCREW all this politicking, working in Corporate America where no one really gives a f*&! about you, giving all your sweat and blood for 50 years of your life, etc (you know I could go on).
That was IT for me. I could have even fought it on legal terms, but SCREW IT. They did me a favor and I knew it. It had been my goal for a long time to work full-time from home and this was the shove I needed to finish diving completely in.
I've been working from home every since. I haven't found a get rich overnight deal yet (still searching LOL) but I have managed and I have found more and more opportunities. I have managed to network with some great people who make nice earnings from home online.
For many years, I worked as a freelancer working from home part-time. Now I do it full-time and I make good money. (I've gotten into some Internet Marketing too but I still do my freelance stuff.)
Being a freelancer is easy...landing the real jobs making real money isn't. Employers now have tons of virtual freelancers to choose from and the criteria for who to hire is different that the on-site criteria. And a lot of the time, they NEVER look at your resume and if they do, it's only after you have caught their attention with your proposal. If you don't capture them within the first paragraph of your proposal, it's over for you. They have way to many proposals to sift through. And I guarantee you don't know as much about proposal writing as you think. I'm a great writer and I thought proposal writing would be a breeze for me...but I didn't understand the major differences in proposals for online jobs and a cover letter for an on-site job like I thought I did.
You will not just decide to do this today and start landing the jobs tomorrow. Not the real online jobs with legitimate employers anyway. It takes a lot of time, persistence and trial and error. OR it takes a guide who's already been there and can tell you how to get the edge and get the work. ahem...that would be me.
I can land any online job I want these days. But it didn't start out that way. I'm very smart and I have a great on-site history so I couldn't figure out why it wasn't as easy to land the good legitimate online jobs and projects as it was for me to land an on-site job. After years of proposals, research, etc. I have finally figured it all out. Now I know where to look for jobs and exactly how to be the one out of sometimes hundreds of applicants they choose.
I also hire and manage virtual employees now so I know even more about the employer standpoint.
I'm sure you think you know enough just like I thought, but ten years later I realize I didn't know half as much as I thought I knew. And ten years later I'm landing whatever I want, practically whenever I want and making a full-time income right from my own home. (I'm sitting here in my boxers, tee and socks right now at 2 am. on a Sunday morning because I don't have to get up and be somewhere at 8 am.)
So I've put together a short eBook about freelancing to tell you what it took me a long time to figure out with plenty of trial and error and proposals. A to-the-point outline of what you need to know to get the jobs and have the comfort of working from home just like I do.
It's already helped freelancers get their start and jumped them steps ahead of the rest because now they just have to follow the outline I've already prepared for them instead of figuring it out from scratch and not understanding why they've applied to so many online jobs and barely landed any of them.
As a freelancer and manager of freelancers, I know what it takes. And I am now sharing it with anyone else who really wants to work from home.
So get your copy and start making money online without even changing clothes if you don't want to.
You can get it at www.virtualfreelanceguide.com
Enjoy and good luck!
K
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