Benefits of Working Online--Reasons You should Work Online

Many people think that traditional jobs in brick and mortar offices under the supervision of a boss and under strict rules and regulations is the only way to earn money and to utilize skills. Unfortunately, they don't know that there is another great way to be a part of global job market and work from home, online--via internet and earn money handsomely. There are quite a number of benefits of working online and I can tell you dozens of reasons why you should work online and opt for freelancing. 

Top 5 benefits of working online are given here:

1. Earn more by earning in Dollars:

The most compelling reason attracting workers from developing countries and third world countries to online work is the value that a dollar carries in their respective countries. Most of the online employers pay in dollars and hence, if you are working online from a country like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh or any other such country where Dollar value is very high, you can earn a decent money with a little effort. For example, If you are from Pakistan and working online, even if you earn 10 Dollars a day, it will turn into about a thousand Pakistani Rupees which is great for you.  One can earn many times higher than a traditional salaried job by working on online job market because of high dollar worth.

2. No Boss--No taunting:

When you work online, you are your own boss and no one is on your shoulders to keep on pressing and pressurizing you. Work online by regulating yourself, deciding about your plans and choosing the projects. Work the way you like and enjoy your work.

3. Work from Any where--No need to relocate:

Another reason one should work online is flexibility to work from any part of the world without hassles of relocation. Even if half of a project is done by you in one part of the world, it's not an issue where you are while doing other part. Whether you are sitting on your relaxing couch or sitting in a lawn, no one is to apply his rules on you. Just do your work without caring about the place you are.

4. Flexible Time Work--Decide your own schedule:

If you choose to work online, it's you who have to decide which time is feasible to work. If you are comfortable working at nights, you can or If you want to work more on day time, that's also your choice. Your employer just wants you to do the work properly no matter when and where you do it. If you want to work on Weekends only, that's also a choice for you. Simply bid for such projects which have a date based deadline and then plan and schedule at your own to complete it till that date. 

5. Choose the Projects of Your Own Choice:

If you work under a boss in a traditional company, often you are forced to do such tasks too which aren't of your taste and which are quite boring for you. Thanks to Internet, If you work online, you are free to decide which projects to work on. Bid on those projects only which are of your taste. For example, If you are a programmer, simply bid on programming projects, if you are a translator, only work on translation projects.

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Top Skills to Learn for Earning Money Online

If you want to earn money online through freelancing sites by working from your home, there are a few skills which can be of great value and if you have any of these skills, you will be able to win projects online and earn a huge money. Without proper skills, it's not easy to make money online and often people with no or limited skills are found disappointed of online work and they often say that they are unable to win any project even after making dozens or hundreds of bids. Of course, employers pay money and so they expect some good work in return and always prefer talented and skilled workers. So if you are seriously thinking to start earning money online and want to get a sufficient work from freelancing sites, below are top skills that can be very important for any online worker and can help you win projects:

• Learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Skills:

    SEO is one of the hottest and most valued thing in online world and majority of projects posted on freelancing sites are related to SEO now a day. Every site that goes public on internet requires a proper On Site and Off Site SEO in order to get the site ranked higher on Search Engines to get more traffic. Remember, learning SEO skills isn't very tough and difficult and if you have basic understanding of HTML and are good in internet use, you can learn SEO and can become SEO expert in just a couple of months. There are large number of video tutorials, step by step SEO tutorials and SEO Ebooks available online which you can consult to start learning SEO. Learn how link building helps a site to increase it's page rank, learn significance of forum postings, blog commenting, artilce submission, link exchange, on site SEO optimization and other SEO related skills and you will be able to start earning huge money in a short span of time by SEO projects online.

• Learn Wordpress, Joomla and other CMS systems:

These days, majority of websites and blogs are developed and designed using CMS systems like Wordpress, Joomla etc and if you know how to develop a site in wordpress or Joomla, how to design a website using Wordpress or Joomla, how to add posts in wordpress or artilcles in Joomla, how plugins and Modules work in Wordpress and Joomla and how wordpress or Joomla themes can be customized, then you can grab huge number of projects online on freelancing sites. There is a big demand of Wordpress and Joomla Developers as well as Wordpress and Joomla Assistants to administer, develop, design and manage Wordpress and Joomla based sites. 

Learning Wordpress or Joomla isn't a difficult task if you have a background in computer science or software engineering. It's all done through easy to understand Graphical interface and one can learn and master wordpress in just a couple of weeks. Even if you are not computer science or IT professional, you can learn Wordpress or Joomla and become expert in a couple of months. Video tutorials, guides, help documents and ebooks of Wordpress and Joomla are available in abundance in internet. 

How Women Can Work from home and Earn Online?

In many parts of the world, women live a life as housewife and find it difficult to work in offices and also give time to their family. So, in order to give sufficient care and time to children and to house matters, females tend to stay at home and often look for some ways to earn money online at home without leaving the doorstep. Luckily, in this age of technology, now it has become quite easy for housewives to work from their homes, at the time of their own convenience and at the projects of their own taste just by sitting in front of their computers.

Here are best ways for females to earn money online from home:

• Work as translators if you know a pair of language including your mother tongue. There are large number of translation projects which usually require people with knowledge of English and one other language. If you are good in English and also know another language like Urdu, Pashtu, Persian, Arabic, Italian, Spanish or any other langue of the world, you can bid on translation projects on sites like translatorscafe, proz, Language123 and other translation related sites. On translation projects, you can bid at a rate of per word basis or per project basis. Usually people bid $0.05-$0.15 per word on translation projects for languages like Pashtu, Urdu and Arabic. Rate may vary from project to project and from language to language but the fact is that, women who want to stay at home but want to earn money as well to meet their financial needs, can opt for this option of earning money and can succeed a lot.
• Work as Virtual Assistant and earn money online by assisting the employers on a wide range of tasks like email responding, doing internet research, making phone calls, doing marketing related tasks and dozens of other similar tasks. Working as a Virtual Assistant has become  very common for females and students in particular and all freelancers in general as this type of work doesn't require too much technical skills and people with just an average knowledge of computer and internet and with good communication skills can earn money online through this type of work. This is probably a best option for women to earn online.
• What about having your own blogs or websites on internet and earn money through Ads? If you are a creative female and want to let the world know about your creativity, it's a great idea to put your creative stuff on a blog and publish it publicly. For example, if you are a good artist and can sketch well, it will be a great idea for you to create a blog and put all your sketches there. Putting Google Ads or any type of Ads there will help you to earn money as well from the blog. More are the visitors to your blog, more is popular your blog and hence more will be your earning. Not only women, infact people from all walks of life and from all parts of the world are opting for blogging to earn money online. 

How Students Can Earn Money Online with Freelancing?

Working online is a great and easy way for students to earn money on part time basis to fulfil financial needs. As a matter of fact, most of the people who work online on freelancing sites are students or other part time workers who look for a little extra cash to meet their ends. 

  Students of Information technology and computer science are the best online earner and they can grab a huge sum of dollars by working on small to large scale projects related to software programming, graphics and web designing, database management and other similar technologies. There are dozens of projects posted every hour on VWorker, Elance and other freelancing sites which require workers with skills in PHP, HTML, ASP.Net, VB.net, Java, flash, photoshop and other related technologies. So if you are a technology student, a new world full of dollars is waiting for you on freelancing sites!

Even if you are not a technology (IT/CS) student, you can still work online and earn a sufficient money through other types of projects. This involves writing projects and translation projects. If you are a good writer and can write good as well as research good, you can start working as article writer and earn a huge money. There is a heavy demand of quality article writers, article spinners and blog writers online and employers pay a handsome money to quality writers. If you know about SEO as well and can write SEO friendly articles, then you are like a young beautiful lady who is highly valued and demanded :)

 If you know a language other than English too, then translation industry is another great choice for you to work online and start earning. A language pair like English and Urdu, English and Spanish, English and Hindi or any language pair can help you earn money through translation and transcribing projects. Sites like translatorscafe and Language123 can be good option for you to look for translation projects.

5 Tips to Win Projects on Frelancing Sites

If you want to earn money online by winning projects on freelancing sites and instead of working in traditional brick and mortar organizations under strict organizational rules, then continue reading this post. Here I am sharing 5 golden tips for freelancers to win projects and earn money online from freelancing sites like VWorker, Freelancer, Elance, Odesk etc.

5 Tips for Freelancers to Win Projects  and  Earn Money Online:

1. Create a perfect, fully complete and accurate profile/resume on the freelancing site where you want to bid on the projects. Clearly mention your skills, your portfolio, your education and any recommendations you got. Remember that becomign prominent on freelancing sites and getting an edge over competitors (other bidders) is just like marketing a product in a highly competitive market.
2. Be clear and precise in your bids. When you bid on a project, don't use generic bid statements, rather expalin clearly why the project should be assigned to you? How your skills match with the project requirements? Explain clearly if you have done similar projects before and any other information that's important for the project.
3. Neither bid so high amount nor very low. Often people will suggest you to bid very low but I won't. If you bid too low, employer will think about you that you aren't capable enough and just want to grab project on low rate basis. And if you bid higher than average, employer will be definitely looking on other people's bid and will decide the one which best suits to his budget and requirements. So always bid a moderate amount.
4. If you win any project, always do your best to perfom 100 percent. If you do a perfect job on a project, chances are that you will get more projects from the same employer and hence you will be able to earn more money and reputation. When you do a perfect job on a project on freelancing sites like VWorker, you also get excellent rating from the employer for that project. Future winning of your project, greatly depends upon your ratings.
5. Last but not least, never loose hopes even if your bids are declined. It always takes some time to get strong feet on the land of freelancing. Don't expect to earn money online by freelaning projects on the very same day you start bidding. Sometimes, it may take even weeks and months to get first project. But if you are determined and paitent enough, you will be able to earn huge money online and become a successful freelancer.

Freelancers in Pakistan--How to get money?

Earning money by working online has become so popular now a day and people with any level of skills and with any kind of skills, prefer to earn some extra cash by working online from home. In the countries with low currency value like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Phillipines and different other countries of Asia and Africa, dollar rate is reasonably higher and so professionals and students of these countries can earn (and are earning) a huge money through freelancing sites like VWorker, Freelancer, Elance, ODesk etc. 

The biggest problem with the freelancers of Pakistan is that Paypal doesn't work in Pakistan and so they feel it quite difficult to find some cost effective and secure way to get their earnings. But don't worry folks, this post is being written to help you in finding alternatives to Paypal in Pakistan. 

Western Union is the first alternative that you can use and can get your payments in your hand within no time. You don't even need any bank account to get your money through Western Union. Below are the steps to get money through Western Union:

Paypal Alternative 1: Western Union:

1. Ask Your money sender to send you money through Western Union. In your case, select Western Union option when choosing Payment option on Freelancing site you are working. Provide your Full Name (It should match your name on CNIC), your address and your National Identity (CNIC).
2. Your sender will use the above provided information and will dispatch money to you. Western Union will provide a MTCN (Money Transfer Control Number) to the money sender which will be then shared with you by the money sender. It will be a 4 digt Number that only you and your sender will be knowing.
3. Once the sender has shared MTCN number with you, you can go to any nearest Western Union Agent and ask for your money. Before going to an agent, it's always good to verify from Western Union site as well where you can track the money transfer status by just entering the MTCN number.
4. Once you have approached WU agent, he will ask you to fill a simple form with information like MTCN number, sender's Name/Address, your name, contact number etc and your signature. He will also demand a photo copy of your Identity card and will also look into your original ID card to verify it. 
5. Once, agent has taken form from you and verified everything, he will be giving money to you sent by the freelancing site. Remember that Western Union will give you money in your local currency. i.e. Western Union converts the currency to your local currency before making payments.
6. Typically Western Union charges $15 for payments of amount 120 dollars or less. You can get details from Western Union site about charges for any amount of money transacted through Western Union.

Isn't it simple? Yes, it will take you just five minutes or so in Western Union Agent's office and money will be in your hand.

PayPal Alternative 2: Moneybookers:

If you have a bank account with any bank like Standard Chartered Bank, Silk Bank, UBL or any bank that support online transactions, Moneybookers is the best and most cost effective alternative to Paypal in Pakistan. You just need to sign up with Moneybookers, link your Moneybookers account with your bank account and then you are done!! Any payments that will come in your Moneybookers account, can be transferred to your bank account with just a few clicks. The best thing about money bookers is that it doesn't cost you much for it's services. Moneybooker charges just 2 dollars for each transactions which is very low compared to high charges of Western Union. Transferring from your MB account to your bank account may take some time depending upon the bank you are transferring. For Standard Chartered Bank, it took me 2 days to complete all transfer process. Luckily, SCB, didn't charge any more money on this transaction, so 2 dollars is the total money charged to you for transaction of any amount.