When we ask someone,

Do You Want To Earn More?

out of 100 people, 99 would definitely give a confirmative answer…

However, if we ask the following question to the people who earn money through online,

“Can You Please Share Your Secrets Of Earning Money Through Internet?”

out of 100 people, how many would talk to you as before?

Only a few people might want to give you some genuine tips about how to make money through online? I joined in a forum that is based on broadband issues in India. Later this month, I got an email from the Admin of the forum announcing the introduction of the new section in it regarding online jobs. I was curious about it. Until the writing of this post, there have been two ideas brought out in public by the Admin of the forum. It’s a very active forum and I’m happy to see the Admin’s noble gesture to help millions of employed Indians to become entrepreneurs. If you’d like to know more about the ideas brought out by the forum’s Admin, click here.

Couple of weeks back, I wrote about wahm.in/forum that is doing a similar noble job by providing direct jobs to many people in India. Those who’ve missed it, click here.

Good Luck!

Hi there,

This is a forum targeted towards India. The forum admin has been doing a noble task by providing contracted work to unemployed people in India. He has his unique style of selecting people for his work. He needs to know what kind of computer, internet connection one has got before assigning work. He also needs to know how many hours a person can dedicate. And finally he expects a proper resume too.

He has a point here. Let me go through one by one.

• There are many people who don’t have a proper computer and/or reliable internet connection in India. There are people who still use P3 computers (with 128 MB memory and Windows 98) and expect to earn $10 an hour. And there are some people who have a BSNL connection and think it is a reliable connection. There is no doubt BSNL has done a great job by making internet avaiable to rural people with affordable rate. But the question is, “Is BSNL reliable?”. I bet it isn’t. You could refer http://broadbandforum.in/ to see others’ opinion on this issue.
• And the next point is availability. He’d like to know how many hours a person can dedicate. He doesn’t want anyone to quit his/her present job and take his assignments. However, he’d like to know if the applicant can stick to what he/she promises. For example, if an applicant assures to work for 4 hours a day, every employer in this earth expects the same from the applicant.
• Finally resume. There are brilliant people, who speak/write English naturally/fluently, out here in India. Well, in reality, how many of them are working as a freelancer (part-time or full-time)? It’s hardly countable. Many of those exceptional people join in companies where the starting package is more than what their parents earned in ten years. So it is natural to ask their resume before applying for a job.

A similar system was followed by www.luckweaver.com. Unfortunately, there were many people who started scamming. Hope it wouldn’t happen to http://wahm.in/forum

Recently there was a hot discussion going on in wahm. One person asked me to give him/her some tips on successful freelancing for newbies. So here are they,

• Patience – In every freelancer site, it is bit difficult to get a job. So be patient.
• Marketing – How can you showcase your skills WITHOUT a good marketing campaign? It’s NOT about seeing/applying/attending interview/getting the job in the cyber world. So market your skills using blogs, websites etc.
• Keep Learning – If you don’t, the next guy would overcome you sooner than you expect.
• NEVER think about data entry jobs – You won’t save a penny. There are plenty of work out there to pay you more.
• Work Hard – It’s easy to think “I can sit at home and earn handsomely”. The fact is, “it’s very difficult to get a regular online assignment than an offline job/business”. However, once you started earning through an online assignment/job, the money that you could earn is limited only by your hard work.

Wish You All The Best…

Have A Fabulous Time.

Hi,

Today I saw two job openings (that were posted at-least two weeks back) in oDesk. Both openings were in different category with different names. But the work that has to be done is the same. It’s about Online Sales.

The work of an OSA (Online Sales Assistant) is quite simple. He/she would send some pre-written emails to hundreds of people every week. If anyone responds, then the second email would be sent but with little more personalization. If the client still comes forward for more information, either close the deal on your own or leave it to your supervisor who could handle it very well than you.

The requirements:

• Patience (out of 100 mails sent, only one might respond).
• Creativity/Common Sense (we need to know each client’s requirement and write a customized follow up letter).
• Good Written English Skill (Not unnecessarily to be excellent, a skill to write without typo and grammatical mistakes would do).

I’ve applied to both. But the chances of getting hired is very less. Because at-least one person has already been hired a long way back, doing an excellent job and of course earning handsomely.

Howdy there,

I’ve been working in oDesk since the start of this year. There are so many features that attract serious employers(buyers) and qualified freelancers(providers). However, I do not agree that it’s a complete website. It has got few dangerous pitfalls. For example, still there is no regulation to stop spams completely. Sites like Elance stops few of the spams by charging hefty fees.

I still believe oDesk is the best market place where you could find plenty of genuine job openings that are hourly based.

What do you feel about oDesk?

In your point of view, which is the best freelancing website?

Which is the best freelancing website where one could find genuine fixed price projects?

Luckweaver.com will be back soon. I got this information from a friend of mine who was an admin in that forum. It will be merged with seekluck.com soon. I’ll post an update on this here. However it will be a part of seekluck.com rather than a standalone domain.

Today just few minutes back, Luckweaver.net was born. I chose this domain name because of my love with luckweaver.com and it’s forum which is going to be merged with seekluck.com soon.

Update on 16, September, 2008: I’ve updated luckweaver.net. I’m making this blog entry as a sticky post too.

I’m going to use this mainly to showcase my team’s skillset, portfolio projects and the testimonials. There are other things, I’d like to add up there, but for a start, I think, it’s enough.

I’ve created that website using the free template found on the net. I’ve changed a lot of things from that template like colors to suit my taste.

In the future, it might be Joomla or Drupal or WordPress. I mean I’m again going to change the entire website using one of these. I feel WordPress is easy to install and customize. The only issue with WordPress is the “pages” section. I couldn’t find a way to set it properly. I may need to know bit more about how to customize it to suit the current layout. Until then, I’d like to stick with the present layout.

Do visit luckweaver.net in the future to see the changes to give your valuable comments.

Looking forward to your valuable comments for my new-born website.

There are many freelancer websites where one has to pay a heavy fee to register a company.  In oDesk, it’s not only free to create/register a company (in oDesk, it’s called ‘Provider Company’), it’s free to apply to job openings in all the categories. In certain websites, one has to pay again to apply to job openings of different categories.

Here is the link to my provider company….

My Company Profile

BTW, I’m looking for someone who could design a logo for my provider company. Is anyone interested?

I was an active member in luckweaver.com.

Unfortunately, I think, the people behind luckweaver.com closed the site for undisclosed reasons.

I really miss it.

Had a nice platform to share my views.

Let’s see if they can bring it back…

Hello everyone,

Profile is the most important element when it comes to freelancing.

Do you like to see my profile in oDesk?

Click the following link to see my profile.

My oDesk Profile

Kindly give me your honest feedback as comments to improve my profile.

Thank you.