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5 sites for finding genuine freelance work

July 16th 2010 20:45
Being a freelancer is a tough occupation, you never know for definite where the next contract is coming from and even if you get a contract whether you will get paid what you are worth. So here are five sites that give you a great opportunity to find more clients:

1) www.freelancer.com

Freelance Work with Freelancer



2)www.vworker.com

www.vworker.com freelance work


3)www.linkedin.com



4)www.ecademy.com

Ecademy freelance



5)www.elance.com

Freelance with Elance.com


So visit the sites, pair your skills with their vacancies and let me know how you get on

Take Care

Chris

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Freelance Online GVO Opportunity

May 17th 2010 22:18
What is the business opportunity of GVO?

GVO leaders


Basically it is a mixture of essential tools for internet marketers, that include step by step video instructions for new users. The essential tools for online workers and freelancers include:-

* Unlimited Web Hosting-which gives you an opportunity to create and host as many sites as you need without running out of webspace

* eResponder Pro Unlimited Autoresponder - which helps you manage all your email marketing and newsletter services - lead capture systems are included too

* easy Video Producer - This enables users to produce professional quality videos and embed them on your site or in email with a click of the button

* GVO Conference - which gives you a professional quality conference room that you can invite clients to from anywhere in the world

GVO (Global Virtual Opportunities) formerly Kiosk is a company that has a 12 year track of experience in the internet marketing industry.

These services bought together offer an incredible saving on buying these services separately. Basically you are paying the standard rate for Unlimited Web Hosting and getting the rest of the tools for free.

The service normally costs $44.95, but you can evaluate it to see if it's right for you for just $1 for two whole weeks Here

But it get's better than that because GVO includes a business opportunity, which offers residual income.. month .. after .. month

How can you benefit from the GVO business opportunity?

The answer to this question is simple..

Use these tools yourself and if you find them beneficial share a link which offers people a two week trial for just $1. If they in turn find the products beneficial, which I did, they will upgrade and you will receive a commission every month. Better than that you also get a monthly commission on all services they in turn recommend, down to 10 levels

How do I get compensated?

To motivate you to promote the business, GVO pays you 50% commission on the first month of every person that is directly sponsored by you.

Then we have the 2 x 10 Binary Hybrid Matrix Plan that will pay you 5% per month of up to levels down making this a full matrix of 2,046 people and that alone will earn you $4,600.00 per month!

Wait! It gets even better because you will also get a 20% matching bonus on your personal referrals down to 10 levels.

What guarantees that people will stay?

If you have been online for some time and you are serious about building an internet business, you know that in today's market, these are tools that you or any internet marketer can't afford not to have and that you will be using on a daily basis and that is the key that makes the compensation plan a very successful one.

With this business model you will build an organization of avid and constant users who will be using the services everyday to run their businesses and therefore will be happy to keep paying their monthly fee!

How do I get in?

Just invest $1.00 today at GVOand this will give you full access to all the services and features for a full 14 day trial period. This will also give you access to 24 live training sessions hosted by people who make a full time living online via the GVO academy! So even if these tools are not right for you and you don't continue using them, you will have gained valuable lessons that will help take your freelance business forward in the future

Hope your find everything you are looking for under one roof with unsurpassed quality, see you inside!

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Orblers Please Understand

March 17th 2010 23:35
I am currently promoting my forum because I have identified a need via my Orble blog. I have tried via this blog and the writers forum to get the forum hosted here, but it's not available anymore. So I decided to choose the domain name and buy hosting anyway, it's just my way.

Forum View
Forum View


So what I am going to do is use this blog as the official blog for the discussion forum. Yes I know I could create a blogger account or upload Wordpress to any of my domain names. However, I honestly believe Orble is the best blog available. Here's 5 reasons why:

*1 Fantastic user community who give great feedback

*2 Approachable Admins

*3 You can get a domain name for free

*4 Easier to register an adsense account when you are an Orble member

*5 Search engines pick up your posts within 24 hrs

Hope this helps

Chris

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Grab your name on this Social Network before someone else does

February 19th 2010 00:30
Hi all freelancers and Internet Marketers,



Just a quick post tonight to urge you to register for this emerging social network as quickly as possible. The 3 main reasons I feel so passionately about you registering for free are:

1) Grab your name or business name before someone else does. This happened with Facebook at the start where people just registered famous names with the view to selling them in the future. You only have to look at Michel Fortins post about Larry Winget at michelfortin.com to see how serious this problem can become.

2) I remember a couple of years back when Twitter was just starting out and a lot of people said what can you do with 140 characters or even worse what does it do. Back then I didn't know and I took advice, took the plunge and registered anyway. Boy, am I glad I did because I have learned so much and have met so many great people. It's now one of the 20 most visited sites on the internet.
According to Sales Letters that sell bestselling book by Drayton Bird every business goes through 3 stages:

*The first stage: it is new
*The second stage: other people are doing it
*The third stage: ferocious competition

This site is currently at latter stage 1 early stage 2. The Alexa ranking has gone from over 2,000 to 1,000 in the last six months. So get on board while it's emerging, because that's where the money is

3) You get paid to do what you normally do online. We all spend 20 minutes occasionally checking our spam box just incase we delete an important email. Why not get paid for getting a free email account and checking it once in a while. There are several other ways to get paid too including websearch, completing a survey and recieving direct mail.

You have read this far so you must be interested in getting involved. So here are 2 links to the site. Why are there two links you ask. My answer is simple, I promised never to pimp affiliate links using freelanceonlinework.com, however I can't give personal advice to making more money using this site if I don't.

Link One:peoplestring.com

Link Two:peoplestring.com with help from me

No pressure just make sure you register your name or business name with peoplestring today and let me know how you get on, after all there is nothing to lose

All The Best

Chris

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Freelance Online Forum Update

February 8th 2010 23:56
In August 2009 I decided that the best way forward for Freelanceonlinework.com was to incorporate a forum feature. Despite several attempts to get it running via Orble, I hit a brick wall. No response from Support or involvement from support on my blog posts. I always stick to my ideas if I think they will be beneficial. So I have decided to throw caution to the wind and create my own forum or discussion board. I have registered the Domain name and have invested in enough Server space.

The Forum is now online at freelanceonlineworkforum

This doesn't mean I am leaving freelanceonlinework.com, to the contrary. I intend to use this blog as the official blog of my new forum. There are several reasons why but the main two are:

1) I love the community aspect of Orble, I have met some great people here who I would like onboard.

2) I really believe this forum can take Orble to the next level, that's why I've been trying for so long to get it started. Orble.com currently has a Quantcast ranking of 47,552, this forum will help improve the ranking to under 1,000.

Chris

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Adding Twitter and Facebook to your blog

December 11th 2009 08:14
Here is an easy way to connect your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts to your Orble blog. Simply sign up for a free account at Xeesm (pronounced "See Sam".) (not affiliate link)

Click the sign up on the left hand side of the screen to create your account. When creating your account, make sure you pick a name that matches what you already do online. Once you have created your account it is time to personalise it.

Now it's time to add a photo and create a short bio (max250 characters). Next it's time to add all your social networks. There are over 100 to choose from and you can also add a normal website or blog. The Social Networks available include: Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Twitter, Youtube, Reddit and a host of other social networking or bookmarking sites.


The benefit is that you no longer have to share all your links, you can now just link from one place to all your social networks. I already use my xeesm.com link on my Twitter account and the amount of connections I make is very good.
Xeesm.com Control Panel

Also, if you have a blog you can copy and paste the html code widget directly in the place you want it and connections to all your social connections can be viewed. You do this by opening Profile Manager and then clicking the button at the bottom of the page labelled "Show Xeesm embed code". The code displayed is your unique Xeesm widget, simply copy and paste onto your blog.

Give it a try and let me know how you get on

All The Best

Chris




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Are Forums Still Available?

October 11th 2009 19:44
Hi All,

I made a decision to open a forum on this site about 2 months ago, however forum posts don't seem to be available. Here is a copy of my post to writers forum( which is still awaiting moderation after 59 days), so I have to post to blog

Hi All,

Just a query to ask if Forums are still available on Orble. I have read the forum article here:

Really Long Link

However in "Choose a Format For Your Blog" the option for forum isn't available.

Thank-you in advance

Chris
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Can any Orblers advise me, thank-you in advance

Chris
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Freelance Online Work - Sunday

June 13th 2009 23:43
Does anyone else get huge amounts of emails on a Sunday offering the next get rich scheme. It's crazy I am getting them every weekend. I am just happy that I really work freelance online.
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Suite101 Looking for Writers

January 28th 2009 15:10

I've been writing for Suite101 since October 2007. In November, 2007 I was promoted from being a Contributing Writer to being the Feature Writer for the newly created Herbs & Spices section. Herbs & Spices is a subtopic of the Food & Drink category.

Although I am required to post a certain number of articles per month, to the Herbs & Spices section, I can still write articles on any topic that I want.

Suite101 claims to receive between 8 and 12 million unique visitors per month. Suite101 pays their writers based on ad clicks generated from people reading your articles. Writers are paid once per month through PayPal.

Suite101 is currently looking for additional freelance writers. Website: http://www.suite101.com.

Description:
At Suite101, our principle focus is our commitment to supporting freelance writers. Whether your goal is to publish articles, earn more income, hone your writing skills or create new career opportunities, Suite101 is here to assist you… every step of the way.

With a Suite101 writing job, you’ll enjoy the freedom to “write what you want, when you want” and generate revenue over the lifetime of your career. We provide professional resources and tools to make publishing remarkably easy and convenient; simply login to Suite101 and you’re ready to go! As a Suite101 writer, you will interact with a team of editorial professionals dedicated to helping you maximize the searchability of your articles online too. With millions of monthly readers, Suite101 writers enjoy a huge – and growing - audience.

* Writing for Suite101 provides you with the opportunity to: Receive lifelong royalties generated by your articles
* Extend the reach of your work by introducing it to millions of monthly readers
* Build your writing portfolio and enhance your profile, reputation online
* Interact with an established network of professional editors and writers

About Suite101:
Suite101 has been helping writers build profile and get exposed to readers since 1996. Based in Vancouver, Canada, and Berlin, Germany, Suite101 boasts over 2,000 talented writers and 150,000 informative articles.

Visit the Suite101 website for further information: http://www.suite101.com/writing_jobs/.

Take care,
Lynn Smythe
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Charity Mile Blog

October 13th 2008 19:59

First off, I'd like to offer a thousand apologies. I can't believe I haven't posted to Freelance Online Work since August - YIKES!!! I have become a total gear head and have been spending all my time cycling, training, racing and writing about cycling, nutrition and fitness issues.

This post is not about a specific freelance writing opportunity, rather a possible way to find freelance writing opportunities. I belong to many cycling and fitness sites. I'm always searching for new sites. If it's a site I really like, I'll blog about it, on one of the many websites I write for, and I'll probably also join the site to become a member of their online community.

Many websites are continually looking for new writers, so I always look to see if the websites are currently accepting resumes. Back in August I became a member of the Charity Mile site. They also have a companion blog for the site - the Charity Mile Blog. I saw that they were looking to hire a few bloggers for their blog, so I sent in my application.

Approximately 3 weeks after I sent in my application I received an email saying they were interested in hiring me to be the cycling blogger for the Charity Mile Blog. On September 9th I submitted my first official blog post to the Charity Mile blog.

Although I can't discuss the specific details of my writing contract, I am expected to blog a minimum of 2-3 times per week, with a maximum of 20 blog posts per month. I keep a file of future topics to blog about, so hopefully I will never run out of ideas.

The next time you are visiting your favorite website, do a little research, and find out if they are looking to hire writers. You never know where you will find your next freelance writing opportunity.

Take care,
Lynn Smythe
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Blog Network Closing

July 16th 2008 19:28
One of my favorite sites to write for is my Bike Diva blog. I started the Bike Diva blog back in January. It was hosted on the WebbleYou blog network.

Today I received a very long email from the WebbleYou administrator stating that he is shutting down WebbleYou by the end of the month. Here is a copy of part of that email

DISTURBING EMAIL
"Dear WebbleYou Blog Network Authors,

I regret to announce that WebbleYou Blog Network is closing its doors. While the content you write increases the quality of the network each day, several factors have brought us to a point where we can no longer continue.

-Individual domains will be for sale, so if you like the domain you're blogging on, make an offer and we can discuss a transfer of ownership. Authors will be given preference over external buyers. Most domains will be left to expire or sold externally if an offer is not made.

Next, some background on why we are unable to continue operations:

-I am personally no longer able to devote the time necessary to handle day-to-day management or even ownership functions. I am starting a new job as well as a PhD program in the fall, and already I am unable to keep up adequately with your routine requests for payments, earnings reports, basic site maintenance, etc.

-Previous attempts to find a buyer for the network (at any price) have failed. Those who have the technical and business skills required for this type of work are typically already doing so on their own, and the legal implications of a transfer of ownership are more than I want to deal with at this point.

-The network has, despite all our hard work, not been profitable, much less lucrative for authors. Blogging has become quite commericialized and competitive, and while I believe there is a market for networks with "content integrity" as we strived for at WYBN, it is not a financially viable business model at this scale.

Thanks,
Justin
WebbleYou.net"

BY-BY WEBBLEYOU
YIKES!!!! I thought WebbleYou was doing really well. Although they are a small site, their blogs seem to be quite popular. I've been getting TONS of traffic to my site lately. But I never set it up thinking I would make any money.

I am a freelance writer and one of the areas I am trying to concentrate on is sports, nutrition and training type of articles. I am a long distance cyclist and have recently started to participate in time trial races. So cycling is a passion of mine. EVERYONE knows me as the Bike Diva now.

BIKE DIVA ON WORDPRESS
WebbleYou uses Wordpress, so I'm already familiar with how to use that blogging platform. So I went over to Wordpress.com this morning and signed up for a free account. And I was able to get everything from the old site imported into the new site.

BIKE DIVA DOMAIN
But now I am trying to get my domain name from WebbleYou. My new site is thebikediva.wordpress.com. Fine and dandy, except that I've spent the last 7 months linking to other sites using bikediva.net. So I am waiting to hear from Justin at WebbleYou to see if he will transfer the bikediva.net domain over to me. Otherwise I'm gonna have to spend another 7 months getting traffic to find the new site.

YIKES!!!!!!

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Write for Demand Studios

May 2nd 2008 16:37
demand studios logo
Demand Studios Logo


WRITE FOR DEMAND STUDIOS
Demand Studios is the content provider for a number of online sites such as e-how, answer bag, golflink, flowgo and more. They accept freelance writers to write for their various websites.

You can submit an application to write for them. I submitted my application back in November. Didn't think they were interested. Got an email last week saying I had been accepted to write for the e-How website. I can claim between 1 and 10 articles at a time. They pay $15 per article - exclusive content.

REVAMPED WEBSITE
I think Demand Studios just redid their whole site not too long ago. My original application must have gotten lost some where. I'm almost thinking I might have sent in another application a few weeks ago? Maybe I should use a spread sheet to keep track of that kind of stuff!?!

SHORT ARTICLES
Demand Studio articles are really short. You use their template to write the article according to their format. I wouldn't be interested in reselling the articles anywhere. But I could rewrite/expand upon the article to make it a whole new article and try and sell that somewhere else.

CLAIM ARTICLES TO WRITE
You don't have to claim 10 articles at a time. You have 7 days from the day you claim an article until the time it is due. So you could claim 1 article a day for 10 days, that way you would spread out the due dates of each article. Or just claim articles during your slow time while continuing to write for your other gigs.

SUGGEST ARTICLES TO WRITE
You can also suggest articles to write. I claimed 6 articles and didn't really see anything else I was interested in. I submitted suggestions for 3 other articles - one of which was accepted within seconds. Another article I suggested (How to Choose a Road Bike) was denied - too many published articles on that topic. I changed the title to How to Choose a Women's Road Bike and it was accepted right away. Another article suggestion was How to Choose a Triathlon Bike - that was rejected so I changed it to How to Choose a Time Trial Bike, that suggestion was accepted right away.

I've written 5 articles so far. Takes a day or two for them to be accepted and published. Once they are published you can claim additional articles to always have 10 articles in your claimed article list. I've been submitting photos with each of my articles too, but most articles on e-How don't have photos.

PAYMENT
I just got payment for my first 4 e-How articles through Demand Studios last night via Paypal. Yippie - thought it was going to take longer to get paid.

Demand Studios provides content for around 50 sites besides e-How including trails.com, gardenguides.com and livestrong.com. As a biker, who writes a lot about biking, I would love to be able to put on my resume that I write for trails.com and livestrong.com.

I'm wondering if you have to prove yourself with Demand Studios by writing for e-How at first. Maybe once you've been writing e-How articles for awhile they approve you to write for their other sites? I filled out a second application, using a different email, saying I was only interested in writing for livestrong.com. Still waiting to hear back.

PHOTOS
I've been adding photos to all my articles. They don't pay extra for adding photos - still just $15 per article.

Does anyone else have experience writing for any of Demand Studios sites? I would like to hear about other writer's experiences with Demand Studios.

Take care,
Lynn
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Today.com Blog Site

April 22nd 2008 17:54
www.today.com.

Here is a blogging site that freelance writers may want to check out. If you are looking for other sites that pay you to blog, then check out the www.today.com site. I found their listing on a pro bloggers job board site last week. They are looking for bloggers in just about any category.

I sent in an application to see if they would be interested in a Herb Gardens blog. They emailed me today with the link to my blog: herbgardens.today.com. Not much to see so far, still figuring out the formating etc... Looks like the site uses Wordpress as the blogging software. My Bike Diva blog, with the WebbleYou blog Network, uses Wordpress, so I am pretty comfortable using that software.

Anyways, they say they pay $5.00 per blog post, max 1 blog post per day ($35 per week, around $140 per month). After a few months, they take a look at how much traffic your site is generating and decide whether or not to offer you more $$ per post. Looks like they place google ads all over your blog, that's how they generate income.

You have to accumulate at least $50 before you can be paid. I added my first post today, so it will be a few weeks before I'll be able to request payment. I'll keep you updated on how I like the new site.

Today.com might be worth checking out. To apply to author a blog for them, go to www.today.com/apply. I sent them an article clip on a herb gardening article I wrote for Suite, somewhere between 500 and 600 words long.

For the short term, a brand new blog paying $5.00 per post seems pretty good. I guess if you have a HUGELY popular blog, you are better off setting it up yourself, on a site such as Orble, and collecting all the ad revenue yourself.

Take care,
Lynn

P.S. Do you have a blog on Today.com, or know anyone that has experience with this site? I'd like to hear from anyone else who is blogging over at Today.com.

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Social Networking & Bookmarking Sites

April 15th 2008 15:24
Squidoo Logo
Squidoo Logo

Every time I write a new article, I list it with certain social networking and bookmarking sites. Most of these sites require that you set up a free account in order to access their services. I see quite a few page views to my articles coming in from Digg and Technorati.

If you can get an article listed on Stumble Upon, you should see a HUGE increase in page views. However, Stumble Upon limits the number of links it will accept from a certain website before it blocks you from adding anymore links from that site. So, instead of trying to link every article I write on Suite101 to Stumble Upon I just link my main page.

I've also had great success listing my latest articles on the various message board forums I belong to such as Absolute Write and Accentuate Writers. These are two freelancing websites that contain tons of useful information in addition to the message boards.

My Social Networking and Bookmarking Sites

All About Steak
www.allaboutsteak.com
I just registered with this site and started bookmarking all my food related articles to this site. Don't let the name scare you, you can also add vegetarian and other non-steak recipes to the site.

Ask
www.ask.com

Blog Upp
www.blogupp.com
If you have one or more blogs, you should use this service. Register your blog with Blogupp in exchange for placing a widget on your site. Great way to drive more traffic to your site for FREE!

Classmates
www.classmates.com
Great way to find old high school and college classmates. However, the free account is a bit limited. To enjoy all the benefits this site has to offer, you would have to sign up for one of their subscription accounts. I haven't done this yet, trying to decide if it would be worth the $$ or not.

Digg
www.digg.com

Facebook
www.facebook.com
I like this site much better than MySpace. I link all my articles to my Facebook page. I get quite a few page views coming from my links on Facebook. Lots of bells and whistles that can be added to customize your personal Facebook page.

Google
www.google.com
Google should eventually find your article. But why not get an early jump on driving traffic to your articles by visiting Google and adding a link to your articles as soon as they are published.

Linked In
www.linkedin.com
Great site for adding general contact information, staying in touch with business contacts and even high school and college classmates. I list the main sites I write for as current jobs. I found quite a few of my college classmates and business associates on LinkedIn.

MyBlogLog
www.mybloglog.com
Part of the Yahoo family. Register with My Blog Log and find out who is visiting your blogs.

MySpace
www.myspace.com
Add a blog or bulletin about your latest article to your MySpace page. Now that I have a Facebook account, I rarely use MySpace anymore.

Squidoo
www.squidoo.com
Create a lens on Squidoo to keep track of all your latest articles. You can add a RSS feed for each online site you write for to your Squidoo lens.

Stumble Upon
www.stumbleupon.com
Limits the number of links you can add from each site.

Technorati
www.technorati.com
In addition to being able to add bookmarks to each of your articles, Technorati also allows you to claim and track each of your blogs on their site.

Yahoo
www.yahoo.com

Yardbarker
www.yardbarker.com
I link all my sports and fitness related articles to this site. I am an avid road biker and have started to write articles on road biking and road biking events.

Zoom Info
www.zoominfo.com
I honestly don't remember why I signed up for this site. I forgot I even had an account with them until I received an email from them the other day. I signed up for a free account with them back in late 2006. This was before I started writing for online content providers. Guess I need to update my profile on this site or just delete the account.

Other Networking Sites
There are tons of other social networking and bookmarking sites available. I don't have any experience working with these other sites. But thought I'd list a few of them in case you want to research them yourself.

Blinklist
www.blinklist.com

Delicious
http://del.icio.us

Furl
www.furl.net

Hub Pages
www.hubpages.com
This site is a bit like Squidoo.

Newsvine
www.newsvine.com

Reddit
http://reddit.com

Spurl
www.spurl.net

What Sites Do You Use?
Are there any other social networking and bookmarking sites that you use that aren't on this list? Add a comment to the end of this post and let us know what sites you like to use.

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