Tag: FREELANCING

Freelancing

 

What
is freelancing?

Working on projects for clients on a contract basis is known
as freelancing. Freelancers frequently work on several projects for various
clients at once. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) views independent
contractors as self-employed people.

Part-time or full-time contract workers, freelancers
frequently sign agreements before beginning assignments.

Depending on the terms of the contract, the client may pay a
freelancer per project, per job, or per hour. Short-term assignments are normal
for freelance tasks, while happy clients frequently seek additional work. The
majority of freelance positions are found in the creative, service, and
skill-based industries, including copywriting, programming, engineering, and
marketing.

 

Benefits
of freelancing

There are several benefits to working for yourself as a
freelancer, including:

 

Flexibility:

You can set your own schedule as a freelancer
and pick when and where to work. You might work from home or while at the
beach, for instance. A better work-life balance is supported by the flexibility
of freelancing.

Selection of projects and clients:

You can choose the
projects you want to work on as a freelancer based on your interests and skill
set. You can choose customers based on specific requirements.

Deciding on your own prices:

Since you often set your own
prices when working as a freelancer, you may have more influence over your
earning potential. Another element that will probably affect your earnings is
the amount of work you are able to handle on a daily or weekly basis.

Enhanced skill set as a freelancer:

You can get the chance
to work on more specific projects, increasing your familiarity with specialist
subject matter.

International brand awareness:

You have the freedom to
select your clients and projects, giving you the chance to forge deep
connections with companies all around the world.

Disadvantages
of freelancing

 

While there are numerous benefits to being a freelancer, you
should also think about any potential drawbacks.

 

Isolation:

In contrast to a part-time or full-time job,
running your own freelancing business can be isolating, especially if you
operate from home. If you thrive on regular encounters with coworkers in an
office setting, freelancing could be alienating for you.

Unstable employment:

Freelance work is likely to be
unpredictable; you might occasionally have more work than you can handle while
having difficulty finding tasks at other times. In the beginning of your
freelance career, you might need to keep working at your day job to maintain a
solid income.

Responsibilities in administration:

You’ll have to take care
of billing, marketing, and other pertinent administrative tasks as an
independent contractor. These duties can take time away from your area of
concentration and necessitate extensive understanding of bookkeeping, tax laws,
and office technology.

No employer-funded benefits:

You don’t have an employer
who contributes to your health insurance, 401(k) retirement options, or other
benefits that come with having a full-time job if you work for yourself.

 

Top 5 Freelancing platforms to know about (Part 2)

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Be it any field, any job, or any work we are about to do. Always be cautious and be careful of frauds. This information is purely based on providing you dome platforms to know about.

Trivium Education (Services Subject Matter Expert)

Trivium is a process outsourcing company focused on the Education Vertical. Trivium was founded in 2010 by the Master franchisee of The Princeton Review In India. Trivium offers services in assessment development, eTutoring, hand grading and content support to education companies globally. Our key markets currently are the US,UK and India.

People have had good experiences with them and the salary is said to be good compared to other SME jobs. You do have learn everything about jobs on your own. Like every first job, you will have dedicate yourself completely and work hard.

WorkNhire

About them: WorknHire.com, a product of WorknHire Technologies Pvt Ltd,  has been created to bridge the gap between Freelancers and Client in India by bringing them under one roof. The idea of WorknHire came to us seeing the demand generated by the numerous start-ups and small business to find freelancers/contractors for their work and hence a customized solution for the Indian market.

Projects can be posted and found on various categories like IT & Programming, Graphic Design, Content Writing, Data Entry, Finance and Sales & Marketing. Creating an account, finding work or posting a project is free of cost on WorknHire.

It is mainly based in India. It’s free for clients to register on Worknhire.com. There are fees to post jobslike 200(INR) fee to post a job and few more for it to be featured. Worknhire charges a 5.6% service fee on all invoices.

Guru

Guru.com is an expression of our beliefs that we hold close to our hearts. It’s one thing to simply provide a platform where Employers and Freelancers can work together. It’s another to do it in our own unique way. We strive to be the premier platform where professionals go to connect, collaborate, and get work done.

We strive to be the premier platform where professionals go to connect, collaborate, and get work done. We believe that the best work is done in a flexible and secure environment. With transparency comes trust, and with a community that’s built on meritocracy, people are eager to set aside differences in geography, politics and religion to share and profit from economic opportunities.

Since 1998, we have been working tirelessly out of our offices in Pittsburgh, PA and Noida, India to turn these aspirations into reality. We have developed a close bond with our users. As their needs have changed, we have evolved our platform to provide the tools and support they want. Our users teach us, we learn and we grow. We invite you to become a part of our expanding community!

  – Guru

They do charge fees, you will be charged 8.95% on your earnings. People have found jobs with adequate pay. It can be confusing but there’s flexibilty.

Youth4Work

Founder: Rachit Jain Founded: 2012

About: We at Youth4work, help the youth to improve their talents and use them for professional achievements, through self-assessment. We strive to use the connected human needs, enabling the transparent flow of hiring demands and talents supply. By helping the companies into insights of the young talent, Youth4work enables the seamless engagement and interaction of the users, through an online assessment program

It is a platform are aiding the youth right from their education and preparation, and eventually in their career journey and professional growth.

Areas: India, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Columbia, and Peru.

It is a good platform which provides means to study, clear their doubts regarding various topics, self study time, exam tips, find jobs as a student. People have cracked their entrance exams through this and applied for various jobs as well.

Working Nomads

WorkingNomads.co curates lists of the most interesting remote job offers in many professional career areas. We connect professionals who want to work remotely with innovative companies offering independent positions. Working nomads is a remote job board with a curated list of reliable remote positions from around the world. 

Working Nomad has several fields of jobs. You can find new updated job postings every day in many different areas such as development, management, marketing, design, sales and so on. You have choice of temporary projects or regular employment. A remote career is flexible kind of work and most of their job postings are fully remote with availability to work from anywhere in the world. For recruiters, one job posting costs $149 and a free service for job seekers.

The reviews have been positive till now. Yet, always remain cautious about the information you give, clear every suspicion without fear, and be within safe limits by keeping in touch with HR.

Top 5 websites to start as a freelancer(Part 1)

Will talk about sites and apps where you can a head-start to learn and grown in the freelancing world.

Freelancer

A person who is self-employed and not always committed to a particular employer. Freelance workers are also few times represented by a company or a temporary agency that sells freelance labor to clients. Rest work independently or use professional associations, websites to get work.

Fields where freelancing exists:

Music, writing, acting, computer programming, web design, graphic design, translating and illustrating, film and video production, data handling, Data entry, transcription, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), blogging, logo design, social media handler, and more more.

The term freelancer is commonly attributed to Sir Walter Scott 

Fiverr

Fiverr is a marketplace that connects freelancers (sellers) with customers looking for small or large services (buyers). There are a variety of different categories. SInce, it will be you who is promoting your services, you have flexibilty to chooose many fields. . In order to make money, you have to create “gigs”, which are sales pitch that will bring in customers to buy your services.
You can earn extra cash by tips from customers, extra work or revisions.

Ups and downs:

The firstmost hurdle is your first gig; using right keywords, your work examples, reviews and their types affect your customer attraction. After landing upon your first customer, you need to put in your best and take time to create the work given. It takes time but build your profile.

The things you need to be aware about is that this platform takes 20% of your every service you give. The minimum price you can charge is $5 which ends up around $4. If you love what you do, want to experience and learn how to attract customers and how to deliver your work; work for longer hours with adequate pay, fiverr might be good for you.

The issue most people complain about is it takes a little longer in payment process. Just like any freelancing job or any job in focus, scammers exist. Let the payment process be within the freelancing core, do not take accept or pay outside Fiverr.

Upwork

Clients can post a job to hire or buy a predefined service from the project catalog. Also, freelancers can access the job board and offer a service to sell. As you can browse billions of jobs to find the one which you would like to offer, it is great for beginners. You get to know to build your profile and learn from others sellers how to display your projects.

Ups and downs:

 They do higher-paying projects, payment protection, credible clients, get jobs quickly after interviews to know legit clients. They have started to charge freelancers a small fee to submit proposals to projects, said to increase your chances of selection; fees can be troublesome, clients do offer smaller budget requests which you use to learn how to work on UpWork. It can be great place for you to learn about services and build up your confidence.

Simply Hired

Simply Hired is an employment website and mobile application and an online recruitment advertising network based in Sunnyvale, California. The site is a job search engine that collects job listings from thousands of websites and job boards. To find a job, simply type the search box with related keywords. You can also narrow down jobs of your interest by filling out your city, state, or ZIP code.

Ups and downs:

Integration with LinkedIn.com gives you better results to search and apply for your desired jobs.  Simply Hired price starts at $199 per user/month, making it a little more expensive. The platform has a salary calculator and a ‘quick apply’ feature.

Be aware about outdated jobs. Ensure by calling the companies and clear your doubts. There are hidden costs for training and such which makes it costly. Email and SMS confirmations, partnerships helps you get jobs soon. Plus, it is available in more than 24 countries and in 12 different languages.

College Recruiter

College Recruiter is the leading, interactive, recruitment media company used by college students and recent graduates to find great careers. Our clients are primarily colleges, universities, and employers who want to recruit dozens, hundreds, or thousands of students and recent graduates per year.

Ups and downs:

College students who want to earn while studying, this site will provide them with many internships, part time jobs, entry level jobs and probably even get a permanent jobs. People find it easier to look for jobs in this site. Due to lack of complete job profile there can be issues with some jobs, lack of filters does make it hard to shortlist your choice of companies but it gives you lots of options, give your personal information scarcely since you might get unnecessary job invites; you can give a secondary email as well.

Aquent

Aquent is a leading talent services company, providing marketing and creative talent, managed services, extended workforce benefits, project management, and professional development. It is known as a staffing company specializing in placing temporary employees in marketing and creative industries. Aquent also has free online courses that provide training to hone one’s skills. You can search with keywords and a location, or browse all of the job openings in your nearby area.

Ups and downs:

Be aware of scammers, especially calls asking about personal information. There are chances of jobs ending early as well as there are chances of long term plans as well. Since the job can be short termed, if you will get to explore every fields you think you are fit for. The pay is decent.

Freelancing hits success

In the modernized world, many hang back from working under anyone for a long term and wish to create their work independently and just offer their potentials to an entity. They are the freelancers who are always self employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long time. Freelancer is an independent worker who earn money on a per job or per task basis for a short term work. This has become a well known career choice for a lot of people these times. Freelancing professionals work in a wide area of fields across many industries and companies. Although there are plentiful opportunities available for freelancing, the most popular fields are content writing, designing, sales & marketing, branding, recruiting, web development, teaching, copywriting, photography, SEO, social media. The prominent fact is that you should possess the requisite skills for the job/project and make a good income out of it.

Perks of freelancing and success rate

Where many other jobs demand constraints for time and work places, Freelancers can work anytime and from anywhere with the freedom to set your own pace, take projects for several companies, so freelancing offers many flexibilities which helps to maintain a good work-life balance. The benefit of being a freelancer is that you are not restricted to a specific 9 to 5 schedule and choose work in line with your preferences and choose clients/ companies you want to work with, which allows you to pursue in your own interests and passion. According to a payoneer’s data, the average freelancer worked 36 hours a week at a rate of $21per hour, for an annual pretax salary of more than $39,000. This was significantly higher than the average salary for non-freelancers in most of the countries in the survey.

The money you make is utterly dependent upon the quality of work and how much effectually you work. While people argue that freelancing can impact a person’s financial security and long term career goals, freelances find their work to be obliging in making their lives less stressful. They have the authority to decide and demand for the the wages to be charged on their projects. Many freelancers are paid on hourly basis, so if they work long hours they will be able to make more finances. Employees tend to leave the jobs due to the the discontentment with the management, but in freelancing you work with freedom without anybody to constantly keep breathing down on your neck. With people searching out for an enduring job to obtain more income they spend half their life, freelancing makes it more accessible for people to gain good income by investing your potentials and skills in a short time. It may takes years for some people to get promoted to a higher level and have a hike in their salary but freelancing makes you get closer to the income you dreamt of in a short time with your quality work.

On the other side this may seem unstable for some without any steady income over the years. You may perceive a fluctuation in the workload, where you’ll be swamped with work one month but not the same the next month like a feast- famine cycle. It carries an unpredictable nature of work and wages with no paid time off or medical leave. Many people are susceptible to turn away from this because of such drawbacks. If you really staunch and determined about being a freelancer you should be disciplined, consistent and organized. You should engage yourself in multiple projects, never become distracted or unstable in the field. Keep a track of your work and manage them efficiently. However the work may be unsteady you should be able to market yourself. There is a just fine line between the advantages and snags, here the perks of freelancing greatly outweigh the drawbacks. If you are good at a job sky is the limit to how much you can sprout your business.

STEPS TO START YOUR OWN FREELANCING BUSINESS

1. DECIDE A PARTICULAR NICHE OR SERVICE THAT YOU WANT TO OFFER.

Decide exactly what you will offer. It’s helpful when you have a clearly defined service such as logo design, web design, etc. the clients know clearly what you can offer to them.

2. CREATE YOUR  PORTFOLIO

Having a good portfolio of your niche creates a positive impact on your clients and it looks professional. You can either make your own website or there are various other platforms online available to build your portfolio. While approaching a client always give them the links to your portfolio

3. FIND YOUR FIRST CLIENT

Use your existing network to find your first client. Talk to your friends, family, relatives and ask them if anybody needed such kind of services. And if you get any client, after completing their projects you can ask them to recommend you to others.

4. GIVE YOUR BEST TO EACH AND EVERY CLIENT

Quality work is the most effective way to increase your business. It’s essential to do the best job you can so clients will recommend you to others. Doing amazing work will also lead to repeat clients that keep coming back to you.

Book Review: Free lancing guide, Pyjama Profit

Vaishali Singh (Cheenu Singh Rathore)

If you want to build an indepebdent free lance career right away then here is the solution, the book Pyjama profit is a free lancing guide, it has the answers of all the questions wandering in your mind whenever you think of this one word ‘freelancing’ grab your copy and start doing what you love to do and get paid for it.

So here is a short and concise review of the book.

The millennial’s guide to a sustainable freelance career, it is the tagline of one of the best selling books on Amazon, ‘PYJAMA PROFIT’ the authors of the book are Varun Mayya and Abhinav Chhikara. The books is all about their journeys from the freelancing to a successful and stable business, the co author of the book Varun Mayya says “Tommorow, if you put me in a strange country without any resources, all I need is a laptop and an internet connection and I know I’ll build myself an awesome life fairly quick.”

Pyjama profit is a modern guide to free lancing. The book talks about the in demand online skills, the different paths one can take to become an expert in specific fields and the freedom that freelancing allows to hone further skills, taking on bigger assignments. A stable income from freelancing was the bedrock that allowed the authors – Varun and Abhinav to pursue their dreams and passions. Now, they have shared their stories of what worked for them and how anyone, anywhere can thrive without being tied to a 9 to 5 job. The book is a perfect fit in today’s time as the freelance economy grows and so do the aspiration among millennials to find a work they love, and not just something that pays their bills.

8 Genuine ways to earn money from your home!!!

Here are some of the genuine ways to earn in your spare time without any investment.

  1. Transcriber: average earnings per month is hundred and fifty. All you need is actually to have a good pair of headphones and of course you need to get stored to type there now there is a few other sites so you can’t only rely of course on hundred and fifty dollars average earning per month but if you are good at this you can actually earn of course much more but what you can do is you can become a transcriber. rev.com is another site here as a transcriptionist you can anywhere from 24 to 90 cents per audio/video minute basically you can be a video captioner also which is pretty much the same here and you can earn anywhere from 45 cents up to 75 cents.
  2. Micro tasks you can do this on my.com in your spare time you get paid for completing simple tasks here so it can be anything from like tagging objects here helping companies select the best picture the audit user classifying you can see that there is tons of opportunities. Rapidworkers.com is another site where you can earn a decent amount just by doing some micro taskes.
  3. Data entry jobs on Amazon on rapid workers there is micro workers also but there is also assigned like a clickworkercalm.com. You just sign up for a free account and you work independently your schedule is flexible and all you need is a computer and of course and/or a mobile device with an internet connection and it’s totally up to you how much you want to work. You can do text creation, copy editing, research surveys, mystery visit, app testing and photo capturing a lot of opportunities that you can earn money from the comfort on clickworker.com.
  4. Virtual assistant one of my favorite sites is virtual assistant jobs calm and basically you can apply for data entry, call center whatever comes into your mind you can get started here and apply and search for it you might be available only to do this on part time so you can search for part-time flexible with contracts. Jobs.com helps us out there by providing all types of virtual assistance jobs.
  5. Online tutoring if you’re good at something math or English or something like that one side is a shag.com , VIP kid teachers.com which is basically they teach English here and you can earn up to twenty two dollars per hour teaching. There are many students who want to learn extra and out of their books so here comes opportunity by teaching them.
  6. Freelancer totally depends on your skills. There is other popular freelance sites like upwork.com there is freelancer.com there is people per hour so a lot of options actually that you can apply for here as a freelancer. Freelancing is one of the best option as you can work also on your niche and can enhance it for future use.
  7. Affiliate marketer and the good thing with affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to deal with shipping you don’t have to deal with anything at all. You need is just grab a link and promote that offer whatever it is and of course you earn a commission okay so one of the most popular platforms is Clickbank.com. They have thousands of products here probably one of the most popular niches will be health and fitness. You just grab a link here and what you do is you use this link to promote it you can use something like bitly to shorten this ugly link of course and then all you need to do is drive traffic to this offer. Amazon is another option that you can make money as an affiliate marketer they have millions of products here that you can promote ok you can earn a commission from anything you promote inside Amazon here so it works the same way it totally depends on your niche here how you can drive traffic to it.
  8. Sell stuff on eBay you have available that you don’t use at your home you can get stored there to sell this or you can actually use this platform to buy something and sell it much higher. So, you can be a sort of a middleman here so this is another option tons of ways and opportunities to make money eBay and you can of course do this from your home without any investment.