How To Create A Killer Cover Letter

Cover letters are the freelancer's first impression. If cover letters are bad, you wont get clients. But if cover letters are good, you will get clients quick. Creating a killer cover letter is not that hard, we just need to follow the guides.

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oDesk Guide: Creating a Profile that Will Woe Competitors

Every contractor needs a profile to showcase their skills as a freelancer. How you create your profile tells exactly how you are. So don't copy other's profile, make them stand out. How will you create a profile that can stand out?

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How To Stay Away From Bad Clients

Bad clients can hit your freelance reputation hard. Good clients will think of you as a joke, bad clients will think of you as a profit. So if you are in a bad client situation fire them (yes, you heard me right, fire them) immediately. Look for a more reputable project fitted for your rate and skill. Look for a kind of people to work with that understands you more.

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5 Signs of A Bad Client

Good clients are those that have an organized project, communicates often, and pays at reasonable rate. These clients are often hard to find because bad clients outnumber the good ones. Bad clients spread all around job searching websites like spam mail.

Bad clients are not hard to detect. You just need to know the signs.

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How To Create a Freelancer's Blog

For a freelancer to succeed he/she should have public visibility. Online, being publicly known is easy for there are tools free and readily available for us to use. One of which, are blogs. A blog is type of website, usually arranged in chronological order, the top being the newest, and the bottom, the oldest.

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What it Feels Like Being A Freelancer

Like what I said before, freelancers online have many advantages in contrast to working in 9-5 company in your location. But my testimonial about freelancing isn't that testified enough. Here I listed what freelancing usually feels like:

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Where to Find Freelance Jobs and Projects

Freelancing has all the resources available on the web. Which means that by just searching for "freelance jobs" you'll be surprised by hundreds of results and thousands of jobs right at your fingertips. But of course, we are confused on what site to trust and how we can find reliable clients on these sites. To save you time looking for legit freelance job search websites, I have here a list of websites offering freelance jobs and projects that I have been to and I'm planning to find jobs/projects soon:

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Hourly and Fixed Price Jobs Explained

A freelancer has 2 types of work, Hourly and Fixed Price jobs. The best thing it is we are free to choose whatever type of jobs we like. We can go for hourly, fixed price or we can do both at once for a more profitable freelance career. Let me explain what these freelance jargon then choose what is best for your career afterwards.

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Top 4 Reasons Why Freelancers Must Blog in Order To Succeed

Freelancers cannot just stay on one job for the rest of their life. Being free is what it all has to be. The difference between company-based jobs and freelancing is that there are endless stream of projects and many opportunities for augmented income, specifically online. This won't happen if we see ourselves as regular "employees". This is business, so we have to market ourselves to survive. Then why blog?

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How To Become an SEO Freelancer?

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a way to help a website become popular thus achieve a higher page rank. The responsibility of an SEO is to market the website not design it. By that, an SEO must know how search engines work because 90% of web surfers search the web using search engines like Google.

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Writing for the Web: How to Start a Freelance Writing Career Online?

A freelance writer is probably one of the easiest job online and one of the most in-demand. Content is King, so as they say. So writers are the heart of every website. Without content, a website will not be friendly with Google Search engine.

Anyone can write. But not everyone has the skill to entice people to read what they wrote about. With constant practice, we can earn this skill. As a start, writers need articles and these articles must be web-friendly.

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5 Tips To Land a Freelance Job and Where to Look For It

Let's face it, the hardest part in earning the job that you are aiming for is during the application process. This is also true when applying for a job online. They say that if you are a freelancer, clients look for your service. But what if you are just beginning your freelancing career? My advise, treat it as a job first then make it your business once you have earned your reputation. And with that, here are the ways on how you can easily land a job online.

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Do You Have What It Takes To Become A Freelancer?

A freelancer is someone not currently committed to any employer for a long time. Freelance have multiple jobs available like journalism, data entry, accounting, copywriter, blogger, web development, programmer, etc. It is like a normal 9-5 job but the difference is that a freelancer gives the job to clients and controls the job to offer and to whom to offer it to. Meaning, if a freelancer can do web development, programming, and copywriting, he or she can be paid in each of these skills. And the best part, you get to work at the comfort of your home.

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