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
Friday, October 19, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
If someone told you making money online happens overnight or is just easy THEY LIED!
Wow, I didn't realize it had been so long since my last post! I have made a couple of resolutions and to get back to posting frequently is one of them!
What have I been doing? Marketing and working! If anyone ever told you or tells you that making money online happens overnight or it's really easy, they're lying! Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist, granted, but you definitely have to work at it (unless you can afford to hire someone to do all the work). If I see one more site, blog, advertisement, etc. that says that you can get rich practically overnight online I'm going to slap somebody! I make a decent living online but you can bet your bottom dollar I actually work!
No, you don't have to spend every waking hour working and yes you can work your way to a pretty nice income online but if you don't put any research and effort into it it's not going to happen. My goal is to create an online stream of income that eventually doesn't require a ton of work but I'm not envisioning just never having to be at my computer to do anything but transfer money to my bank account (again, unless I get comfy enough to pay someone to do all of my work, research, marketing, etc.) Besides, I love surfing around the Internet, coming up with new stuff, etc. so even if I get there you'll still find me around here somewhere!
With all of that said, I try to bring products and information to your life that has made my Internet Marketing life easier and more profitable for not too much, and sometimes free, as I continue along my online money making adventure.
I've been working on and checking out a lot of stuff lately and I have some great new tools and info to bring to you soon! There one's product I'm just itching to tell you about but the owner hasn't released it yet...but trust me, as soon as he does you'll be the first to know. It's an awesome marketing tool that I PROMISE will help you make money marketing MUCH FASTER. Whatever kind of marketing it is...affiliate marketing, direct marketing, whatever...this thing rocks and will totally rock your marketing world. I have NEVER been SO excited about a product! I actually made the tutorial videos for it so I know first-hand everything about it. Anyways...more about that later when it's released!!!
I'm working on a few things to tell you about that I have learned and implemented lately...and I'm finding myself transferring money into my bank account more often! So I promise to be back soon with new info for you =)
'till then,
K
What have I been doing? Marketing and working! If anyone ever told you or tells you that making money online happens overnight or it's really easy, they're lying! Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist, granted, but you definitely have to work at it (unless you can afford to hire someone to do all the work). If I see one more site, blog, advertisement, etc. that says that you can get rich practically overnight online I'm going to slap somebody! I make a decent living online but you can bet your bottom dollar I actually work!
No, you don't have to spend every waking hour working and yes you can work your way to a pretty nice income online but if you don't put any research and effort into it it's not going to happen. My goal is to create an online stream of income that eventually doesn't require a ton of work but I'm not envisioning just never having to be at my computer to do anything but transfer money to my bank account (again, unless I get comfy enough to pay someone to do all of my work, research, marketing, etc.) Besides, I love surfing around the Internet, coming up with new stuff, etc. so even if I get there you'll still find me around here somewhere!
With all of that said, I try to bring products and information to your life that has made my Internet Marketing life easier and more profitable for not too much, and sometimes free, as I continue along my online money making adventure.
I've been working on and checking out a lot of stuff lately and I have some great new tools and info to bring to you soon! There one's product I'm just itching to tell you about but the owner hasn't released it yet...but trust me, as soon as he does you'll be the first to know. It's an awesome marketing tool that I PROMISE will help you make money marketing MUCH FASTER. Whatever kind of marketing it is...affiliate marketing, direct marketing, whatever...this thing rocks and will totally rock your marketing world. I have NEVER been SO excited about a product! I actually made the tutorial videos for it so I know first-hand everything about it. Anyways...more about that later when it's released!!!
I'm working on a few things to tell you about that I have learned and implemented lately...and I'm finding myself transferring money into my bank account more often! So I promise to be back soon with new info for you =)
'till then,
K
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
20 Internet Marketing Products WITH MASTER RESALE RIGHTS for less than a dollar each
Check out this site to see which 20 Internet Marketing Products you can add to your arsenal for less than $1/each. I have them but I haven't used all of them yet.
And what's really nice is you get FULL MASTER RESALE RIGHTS to all of the products...and they come with everything you need to resell them!
Get 20 Internet Marketing Products for your own use and for resale (Master Resale Rights) here.
More products are going to be added soon.
And what's really nice is you get FULL MASTER RESALE RIGHTS to all of the products...and they come with everything you need to resell them!
Get 20 Internet Marketing Products for your own use and for resale (Master Resale Rights) here.
More products are going to be added soon.
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
Thursday, August 2, 2007
MySpace Friend Adder
There are a ton of MySpace Friend Adders out there, and they are a great tool...but I found one that's FREE! And it has all of the same functions of the ones that will cost you anywhere from $30-$50 or so.
There is a catch but it's totally worth it. You have to either provide a link to their site or refer two friends to download the demo to get full activation. But you can download a demo to try it out first. And it's still better than paying for it. We need our money for other marketing tools right? lol
You can find it here: MySpace Friend Adder
If you need a YouTube Friend Adder, check out the rest of my blog...there are a couple of posts about the one I love and a brief video demo. You can purchase it here YouTube Friend Adder.
And don't forget the other MySpace Friend Adder Bot Friend I've blogged about. It's not an adder bot, but a friend of the adder bot and you can use it with the free MySpace Friend Adder discussed above. They can work hand-in-hand to produce the best results. I use them together. One filters results and one does all the auto stuff.
Social networks are definitely one of the places you need not to forget to market in. And YouTube and MySpace are definitely two of the big players.
K
There is a catch but it's totally worth it. You have to either provide a link to their site or refer two friends to download the demo to get full activation. But you can download a demo to try it out first. And it's still better than paying for it. We need our money for other marketing tools right? lol
You can find it here: MySpace Friend Adder
If you need a YouTube Friend Adder, check out the rest of my blog...there are a couple of posts about the one I love and a brief video demo. You can purchase it here YouTube Friend Adder.
And don't forget the other MySpace Friend Adder Bot Friend I've blogged about. It's not an adder bot, but a friend of the adder bot and you can use it with the free MySpace Friend Adder discussed above. They can work hand-in-hand to produce the best results. I use them together. One filters results and one does all the auto stuff.
Social networks are definitely one of the places you need not to forget to market in. And YouTube and MySpace are definitely two of the big players.
K
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
You Tell Me What You'd like to know about or read about
Ok, I'm always busy posting things that I think are worth mentioning or are helpful or products I love on my different blogs and other places I post. Then I was just sitting here thinking what do I want to post about tonight; I had several things in mind but then I was like "Find out what readers want".
I would love to hear about what you would like to see posted. Do you have something you'd like to see on here? A website, a product, a program, some tips? It's okay if you're a blogger too and want me to post something here about your blog or your site. I'm happy too =)
Please leave a comment with any ideas.
I would love to hear about what you would like to see posted. Do you have something you'd like to see on here? A website, a product, a program, some tips? It's okay if you're a blogger too and want me to post something here about your blog or your site. I'm happy too =)
Please leave a comment with any ideas.
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