Working Online

As a continuation of the previous post, this article will give you hints on how to work online as a contractor. There are many ways you can work online. You can register to outsourcing websites, or to pay per click websites, or simply find direct clients in the Internet.

The best example of outsourcing websites are Odesk.com and Freelancer.com. This websites allows you to sign up as a person looking for a job (contractor). You could also register to post jobs for people to work for you. But what we will be concentrating on is being a contractor. 

In Odesk, after registering, they require you to take exams in order for them to evaluate your skills. They also let you download there software used for monitoring by your employers. Everyday, more than a hundred jobs is posted in Odesk. Jobs where you are asked to encode, collect Facebook likes, virtual assistant, programming and a lot more.

And for pay per click jobs, the best example would be Clixsence and NeoBux. By registering to this websites,they give you a list of links to certain websites. By clicking on it, they will show the website on a frame which most likely shows a timer when you can leave the page. Mostly, they give 0.001 USD to 0.05 USD per click.

Another way of working online is finding a direct client. Its hard to find direct client if you haven't built a good profile in the net. My advice is try to work on outsourcing websites then build your portfolio. The more experience you are, the more people would want you to work with them. 

In terms of compensation, no doubt working with a direct client will give you more income than working on an outsourceing website compony which takes percentage from your earnings. While pay per click is considered as the lowest income hence it only gives a few cents per click.

However, always remember that by finding work online, you have to be aware of scams. One example is the work at home scheme. This scheme is also a get-rich-quick scheme, where you are employed at home given light tasks with high income that exceed the market rate. This people may require you to invest on products which prices is misrepresented.

It actually depends on what you like. However, always remember to be vigilant and keep in gourd against online scams.