The fashionable phrases of this Internet era are ‘Working from home’ and ‘Tele Commute’ Jobs.  Freelance job opportunities are getting popular every day.  The prospect of earning from the comforts of the home is simply irresistible.  Moms as well as the aged people see this freelancing facility as a boon and benefit.  Billions of Net connections, Websites and E-commerce Internet Stores have revolutionized and shattered the basic concepts of conventional career mind set. 

 

 

So what?

 

 

It is Cats and Dogs out there to seize the first TEN places in search engine results.  Technology as well as the creativity and nuances of talented people certainly help winning this fierce battle of ‘Key words’ and ‘Optimization’.  Freelancers now step in to take stock of the situation and tender their unbelievable services.

 

 

Can you elaborate on ‘Unbelievable’ services?

 

 

A student on vacation in the remote corner of China writes One hundred Hypnotizing Articles on Ford Car Dealerships in California, USA!  A little girl from the slum of Calcutta, India, designs luminous Flash animations for Apparel and fashion sites in Germany!  All she has to type in the messenger is “Let’s start”.  Internet has devastated the barriers of Race, Caste, Language and Religions in the world and fashioned a Cosmopolitan globe for sure! 

 

 

Thousands of projects are posted every minute and millions of bids are placed to win the projects every day.  To name a few job opportunities out there, the following categories sum up the enormity of the projects waiting for freelancers to bid upon.

 

 

• Proof reading already existing text.
• Rewriting the given text.  Translation.
• Creating unique web content.
• Copy writing.  SEO.
• Creating Hypnotizing sales letter viral copy.
• Data entry.  Data processing. Harvesting details from the net.
• Cloning good sites.
• Web designing.  Web promoting.
• Coding.
• Linux. UNIX. Windows. Dot Net.  Pearl.  Python.
• Many more!
• Gothilla!  Thelavalethu! Malum nahi! (All three mean to say – ‘I don’t know!’)  Honestly!

 

 

Getting a freelance job or finding a professional freelancer around the world is literally a mouse click away!

 

 

Fine!  Let it be in that way.  What’s the burning thing now?

 

 

The one and only delicate issue in this arena of freelancing, apart from deadlines and service quality is, ‘Payment’.  Service buyers are reluctant to pay ‘up front’ for obvious reasons and the providers are also a little bit hesitant to start and submit the project in the absence of an advance.  The stories of people burnt left to right from both sides of the counter are circulating in the thin air of freelancing ambiance.  Out sourcing and freelancing have evolved and are here to stay. They can’t be ignored.  Tricky situation indeed!

 

 

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I recently responded to a young woman's thread on another site regarding what it takes to enter the world of freelance writing. The questions she asked were probing -- which is good -- and something that everyone should do if exploring whether to jump into this dynamic field.

 

Without going through all the 5 questions again, these were some of my responses to her:

 

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