Work From Home

Many people work from home. It is also a dream of millions of others who would like to do so, but dont know how to start. Those who work from home usually work for themselves. In other words, they run their own business.

This may not be for everyone. It means that you and you alone, are responsible for your income. If you dont work, guess what - you dont earn anything. On the other hand, if you find a way to make money by working at home, and you work hard, you will probably a lot more than you did in your old job. It really is up to you. 

Getting started is the difficult bit. You need a plan, one that works. You need ideas, ones that are not glorified scams, but good, solid ideas that others are using to successfully work at home. Here are a few ideas that work, ideas that you can use too to work at home. 

1. One of the easiest ways to work at home is to sell a service. What are you good at? Can you write well? You could write articles. Millions of webmasters need good articles. The pay isnt high, at least to start with, but you can earn as much as $30 for a 500 word article. 

Dont expect to start out at this rate. You will almost certainly have to work up to it, and that may take a few months. But it can be done and it has been done. Try learning about search engine optimization, or SEO. Essential SEO can help you in that respect.

Once you feel you know what SEO writing entails, try contacting SEO companies find them through http://www.Google.com/ and offering your services as an SEO content writer. Its just a fancy name for an article writer who knows how to inject the necessary SEO elements into an article. You will find to your delight that SEO companies are happy to pay, and pay well, for results.

2. You could set up affiliate websites and promote other peoples products. Go to an affiliate network like Commission Junction or ClickBank , sign up and choose a product to promote. Set up a small website using the free Squidoo platform or the Bloggerplatform.

Write an article pre-selling the product. Dont try to hard sell it here. Just write what you think the product is like. Include a few bad points, but not too many. That can make your review sound much more real and honest. Conclude your article by suggesting that the reader may like to check out the product for themselves, and include your affiliate link. You can learn more about being an affiliate from Affilorama: http://www.affilorama.com/.

Flipping websites is big business. Learn more at Website Flipping Advice and download their free report. You can build small websites and sell them for money. It can be a very lucrative business model, and easier than you may think. Websites like Flippa are dedicated to buying and selling websites. Take your time and browse through it and learn what sells and what doesnt. When you are ready, start flipping!

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How To Do Web Research Job At Odesk

I have written an article about creating account at Odesk. I hope you have opened account and made your profile 100%. If not then please see my article. Now it’s time to work. The aim of today’s article is to show you a way to complete web research job at Odesk. Here we will show some tips. This article will teach you how to do web research job at Odesk. We will see an example today.

Apply for the Job: 

Go to your odesk account and select administrative support. You will see web research sub category. Only select this to see only web research job. Now click the apply button.

Now set your hourly rate. And write a cover letter. Don’t copy others cover letter. Your cover letter should be unique. Give some time to write. See the picture what I have written. You should give your previous job history and portfolio. Don’t forget to tell him to call you interview. According to my opinion cover letter should not be big. Client has not much time to read all cover letter. Try to summarize the whole thing within 2-3 sentences. Now click apply.

Start working:

Suppose you have got the job. You may have to give interview before getting job. If it is a hourly job then you should download Odesk Team Room Software. No need to open this software in case of fixed job. We will see details in another article.  

Example of Job at Odesk:

Job Title:  Collect 500 Business details at Sydney.

Details:  I need details of at least 500 Electronic companies at Sydney. I will need the following details presented in an Excel file Business Name, Business Owners Name (if able to find), Phone number(s), Website, E-mail, Operating hours,

I need this done within 2 days. Only apply if you can start now.

How to complete:

Now we have read the details, we have only 2 days 2 complete. We can’t get huge information by google search. Here I am giving tips to complete.

First we have to go to yellopages It is a business directory.  Here many businesses are listed. After going there you just put search terms in the fields. It will show you thousands of website. See the picture below.

From here you will get business name, website link, phone number, email, address. You may not get owner name or some information. To get this information I will suggest you to go their website. 

Other business directory:

There are many websites like Yellowpages. I am giving few of them.

• Yelp 
• Whitepages 
• Manta 

I will make a tutorial of how you can work here and talk about its features.

Tips for finding email address and owner name:

1.  1.     Open the website and try to find “contact us” page. You can find it in the footer, or in the side margins or in the header area of the page. If you can’t find the page then try to find page that says “Feedback”, “About Us”, “Our team”, “Where to find us”. You can find email address and owner name of that business.
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3. 2.     If you can’t find these page then check “Privacy”, “Disclaimer” or “Terms and Conditions”.  You can find these page in the footer area.  Finding owner name is difficult  in my opinion.
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5. 3.     Sometimes client give sheet where name of person is present you just have to find email.  For example the name of person is “Hasim Amla” In that case you can search for Hasim Amla @domain.com
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7. 4.     You can use the public WHOIS database when the above procedures are not useful. Here ‘s how to do it. Go to http://www.whois.com/whois/  type the domain of the website by removing   "http://" part.

      

      Well you will not be an expert in one day. Try hard and practice more. I am also learning, I will share more tips in near future. If you know some techniques then please share with us.  

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How To Complete Odesk Profile 100 Professionally

Odesk is one the most trusted and famous freelancing site. Everyday many jobs are posted here from different clients all over the world. At the same time everyday many people are opening odesk account to get job and to earn money from home.  Some of them get success and some of them fail to attain their goal. You don’t want to be one of them right. There are some people who offer to create your profile for money. I don’t see any reason to spend some money for creation of profile.  In this article you will learn How to create Odesk profile 100%. 

Create an account:

First you have to create an account at odesk. Go to this Link. Now they will ask you do you want to post job or you want to become an employer. See the picture.

After clicking the sign up button you will be asked to fill a form. Now you should give your real name in the first name and last name box. Your name should be match with the name of your bank account. If you change your name after creating account then the odesk team will ask you to give valid documents such as utility bills, passport, National Id card. So be careful when you fill name.  Fill the other information with valid information.

After submitting they will send you an email to verify. Click it and then login your account.

Make Your profile 100%:

Your job quota is 2. If  you make 100% and give some test then your job quota will be 20. After verification it will be 25. So now lets see how to do it. Now click the button “create your profile”. Add a picture of yours. It is better to give a picture with smile. Now add title and write about your quality what you can do for client, which field you are expert.

Now set your hourly rate. As a beginner you should give 3$ per hour if you work data entry. But this is not fixed you can change it when you apply.

Choose your English level from 1 to 5. Now click the button “add job categories that apply to you”.Here you can select up to 10 categories.

Now next part is profile visibility. Here you can maintain your privacy. You may select everyone so that everyone can see you. I will recommend selecting everyone. Now give your real address in the local information box.

Now add some skills to your profile.

Now you add your employment history. You can give details of your company like name, your role, work time and some description. Now add your education. See the picture it tells everything.

Now come to the next part which is portfolio. You must show some work to client to get job. You can not use others portfolio. If you do odesk will suspend your account. Making a portfolio is very easy. Make a blog like this and post few articles. You can use it as a portfolio. If you have much portfolio then you should give best portfolio. Try to give at least 5 portfolio.

In the next part you will add certificates. Getting certificate is easy. You can use udemy. There you can find free course and after finishing course they will give you certificate. 

In the last part you will add some experience. Now your profile is 80%. Now you have to give Odesk readiness test. And this will make your profile 90%. You should give some test to make it 100 %.

Congratulation your profile is now 100 % complete.

If you find any problem, then you can comment and tell your problem. we will try to solve it. 

  

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Earn Money By Playing Games

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Some of us think that playing online game in computer is a waste of time. But it may also bring money for you. Your friend may laugh at you until you show him your payment. But don’t expect much money from it. Most gaming websites are free to join but some may want money from you before start. Here I have listed some websites where you can play free and can increase your income.

Game-Tester:

Here you can join free and your task will be to test the game. After joining, your name will be automatically added to their database. You will get an invitation to test the game. But don’t know how many times you have to wait for your first invitation. You will find the mistakes, bugs of the game and report them to make the game better. Join from here.

Slingo:

Here you can join free and choose any game from the list. By playing games you will get slingo coins. These coins can be used to buy sweepstakes. You need to spend 5000 slingo coin to buy per ticket. If you are lucky you can win prizes. If you don’t win anything you must play again and collect slingo coins. Join from here.

Pogo:

Play and win. You will get many free games to play. You will get email or prize claim form after winning prize. Join from here.

Gaming Jobs Online: 

This site gives you the opportunity to play the games before it is in the market. You can also earn money by reviewing it. You will test different levels of the game and find the bugs of the game and give some instructions to improve it. There are no restrictions of how much you should work. You can choose your own time. You need to invest at first to access the job and it will not take any commission of your earnings. This site supports 150 countries. Visitthe website and start earning. 

Marketglory: 

The world is corrupted and economy has collapsed. Now the world is waiting for a hero who can build the world again. If you think you are the person then join this site. In this game you will run government, build company and fight with others. You can cashout by Paypal after 20 euros. You can also refer others. This site accepts all country. Sign up link.

SportsPlayes: 

     

This site allows you to bet on sports for free. If you are lucky you will earn real money. But don’t worries you get enough virtual money to bet again. It supports paypal and you can request after reaching 200$. But you will get 100$ as they keep 100$ as fee. There are many ads which are the income source of this website. You can also earn by watching videos and taking surveys. Join here.

Dungeons-Treasures: 

The world is attacked by the monster. Kill them and save the world. Refer others to help you and collect gold by killing those monsters. When your gold’s are converted into 10$, you can cashout. Click here.

GoldenTowns: 

Sign up here and get a town for free. But it’s a virtual town. Build your town and get gold and sell them to others for real money.   

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