Work From Home Jobs
March 10, 2008 – 8:25 pmThere are thousands of small business owners operating online who are looking for reliable freelance workers.
Trust me - I’ve used a few myself and it can be like getting blood out of a stone dealing with some people. if you’re reliable and hard working there is a lot of wqork waiting for if you’re interested.
What’s more you don’t need to be an internet whizz.
With basic typing skills there are a whole range of tasks you can complete that people will be willing to pay you for.
What sort of tasks?
Here’s just a sample of the work at home jobs you *might* get if you market yourself right:
1) Forum Moderator
You’ll oversee a discussion forum to ensure everyone is following the rules. That generally means no adverts, no adult language and so on. If you find any you delete it and perhaps ban or at least warn the poster.
2) Forum Writer
New forum’s are hard to get going. People don’t like posting in empty forums so many webmasters will pay one or more people to actually start conversations and answer questions thus building up readership. If the forum is on a topic of interest to you, what could be better than just basically chatting about a hobby of yours?
3) Article Writer
Content makes the Internet work, but it’s a struggle producing plenty of high-quality articles on a regular basis. One of the most common tasks therefore is for a webmaster to hire you on a per-project or recurring basis to write articles on the topics that he or she specify. Each 600-800 work article will typically earn you $5-20.
4) Guest Blogger
Very similar to the above article creation but you might be expected to take a little more control over the general topics you are writing about and then upload them to the owner’s blog.
5) Ebook Writer
Some people make good money selling ebooks online, but writing them takes a lot of time. You can earn $500+ for writing a short ebook.
6) Customer Service Rep
In the online world people send a *lot* of emails and expect a response fast. This can quickly turn into a nightmare if you have a busy site so many webmasters now outsource this. You will be answering questions and problems from customers on a daily basis.
These are just a sample of the more common tasks available. There is a whole host more if you have some specialised skills such as typing, programming, placing adverts and so on.
There aren’t really any big agencies I have come across I’m afraid so the best idea is to go straight to the source and offer your services directly.
There are a number of websites that specialize in bringing together freelancers like you and people who need your services.
Here’s how it works… after you’ve signed up for your account you’ll be able to view jobs currently available. You then place a bid (how much you want to do the job) plus details of what you can do, and the person who placed the advert will then select a winning bid.
As this is an “auction” process, and you’ll be new to this, you will have to charge a lower fee initially to gain experience and then as your reputation and feedback start to grow you can slowly increase your prices.
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