29 Oct
Posted by: Ben in: Freelance Writing, Information Products
How much should you charge for your work? That’s an eternal dilemma for freelancers, and you will find numerous answers if you do research on it.
Don’t charge too much - you’ll scare away customers and lose out to the competition. Don’t charge too little - people will perceive that your work has no value.
Well, the [...]
20 Oct
Posted by: Ben in: Free Traffic, Freelance Writing
So what should you have on your website, blog, lens, hubpage?
At an absolute minimum you should have several samples of your work…testimonials from satisfied customers are gold-dust of you can get them…a brief bio about you and your qualifications…and your contact information.
It’s a good idea to put your rates on there; it can save time [...]
Whatever type of freelancing that you are doing - ghostwriting, web-site design, designing wordpress themes, etc. - you MUST get a website up and running to showcase your work.
There’s no doubting the fact that most of your work will involve the internet at some point, whether it;s for research purposes, getting work from freelance sites [...]
14 Oct
Posted by: Ben in: Freelance Writing, How To Make Money Online
If you are still maintaining a full-time job, you have to consider that when you go online seeking work – it’ll have a bigger impact on your first freelancing steps than you might think.
Is it all right with your boss that you are moonlighting? You do not want to make the fatal mistake of assuming [...]
13 Oct
Posted by: Ben in: Freelance Writing, How To Make Money Online
Many people dream of becoming their own boss and leaving their day job behind.
Working from home can be ideal in many ways. You set your own hours, you can make time for your family and yourself, and you can select work that you like and turn down work that you don’t like.
But of course, there [...]
You don’t need to just stay on Youtube to drive traffic to your Youtube videos.
Here are some Web 2.0 tips to steer traffic to your Youtube videos:
On your blog or website, you should link to your Youtube videos or embed them on your site.
You can create a Squidoo lens, at www.Squidoo.com, that links to your [...]
So you’ve created an account, and made some excellent videos, and you have uploaded them.
You’ve written enough descriptive tags for your video that people who are searching for a video in your subject area should be able to find it fairly easily.
However, you don’t just want a little traffic from your videos, you want MASSIVE [...]
YouTube knows how to find the videos that you are searching for be-cause when the videos were created, the person who uploaded them was allowed to add in
Tags, or keywords, which describe the con-tents of the video.
It is very important to include descriptive tags so that when people are searching for dog training lessons, or [...]
YouTube hosts millions of videos. If you are making videos about anything that people want to learn about, in any market where there is profit potential, it is guaranteed that other people have already created videos that cater to that market.
Don’t worry about it - it’s good news.
First of all, if there were absolutely no [...]
Well, when people go to YouTube they are looking for one of two things: information or entertainment.
Making a genuinely entertaining video is a good way to get a lot of views and potentially even go viral, but it is also much, much harder to do, especially if you are also trying to sell something.
To make [...]