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3 Essential Questions to Ask Yourself as a Freelancer

It is not easy to leave the corporate world and work for yourself. To make this transition successful, there are three essential questions to when are thinking about working for yourself: who are you, what do you do, and how would you do it. Who are You? Before heading into self-employment, know yourself. What environment do you thrive most? What time of the day are you most creative? What is your comfortable level of income? What you want your legacy to the world be? What do You Offer? Ask yourself what business will you create that is aligned with your creative identity? What kinds of people will you be dealing with? What is target population? What are the ways you meet the needs of your target market? How would You Do it? How do you make your desire happen? How do you let passion and profit work together? How will you create your product lines or service offerings? How will you get the world to know you are in business? To provide clarity for the whole processing o...

4 Reasons Why You Can't Quit Your Day Job

If your current work keeps you from doing productive work then it must be time to quit. But still you are in that job you do not like. If you feel that the company you are working for is only concern with profit and give little importance to value then it must be the time to quit. Still you continue to work for this company. If your feel the boss is stealing your ideas and sucking every last drop of creative juice you have then it must be time to fire your boss. But still you see your boss every working day.  If the workplace is so terrible what has prevented you from quitting?  Corporate work provides an illusion of security.  The certainty of paycheck at the end of the month versus the uncertainty of income if you are to start on your own has kept most of creative individuals to keep their day job. Well it is not true anymore that corporate work is secure. Your company can easily lay-off workers and have some of the jobs outsourced. Corporate work provides ...

Why You Should Pursue Your Creative Side

The times have changed. Job security is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Creativity is now valued more than ever.  That means your talent opens up the possibility of a huge commercial success. The starving artist is an image of the middle ages, not in this century. This new era embraces the creative spirit as the way to both personal and financial success. A few years ago you have heard of the massive layoffs of workers. And of how outsourcing is the trend of companies nowadays. Unless you are creative, your job would easily be outsourced. You may doubt that you do not have the creative spirit talked about here; you do not draw, sculpt, dance, or do photography. Creativity does not steam only from the creation of drawings, paintings, sculptures. Creativity is like finding innovate ways of doing something. Creativity means good design in products being offered. Creativity is finding cool and fun solutions to business problems. Creativity is so broad.. Everyda...

Turn Skills into Income

Heard of Mary Engelbreit? As a young child, she was obsessed with drawing pictures. All she wanted to do was draw pictures to the point that at 11 years old her parent created a studio for her out of a linen closet. Mary would spend hours in this “studio” to draw. Later on when she grew up, she took a job at an ad agency. Still not satisfied with “drawing to order,” she licensed her drawings to greeting card companies and she saw her income rise. Then later on she taught of different ways to license her drawings into calendars, mugs and even books. She had the freedom to continue with what she wants and live comfortably. Her overall retail sales reached $1 billion. Beyond the monetary rewards, Mary partnered with charity to deliver her books to low income children. Mary has successfully turned her skills into income. Mary is an example of a renegade entrepreneur, she combined art with money. Getting a job can a great learning experience and it is a good investment of one...

Pursue Your Passion. Be a Renegade Entrepreneur

Renegade Entrepreneur means you create opportunities and earn money in nonconventional ways. You approach things at a different angle than traditional workers do. Renegade entrepreneur is about creating personal freedom, economic freedom and creating value. Renegade entrepreneurship is aimed at creating personal freedom, to structure life around your won skills and rhythms. It also speaks of economic freedom. Most wealth in the world is created by starting a business. The difference with renegade entrepreneur is that money comes in, business continues, even when you are asleep or on vacation. Renegade entrepreneurship is also about creating value. As a renegade entrepreneur your aspiration is to create something that people will feel good about, something that answers their need. When do say you are a renegade entrepreneur? you are drawn by the value to creativity and freedom   you dislike the full-time drudgery of office work you want to create something of va...

How Social Media Makes Money

SilkCharm made a wonderful presentation on how social media makes money--on how they go with their monetization and revenue. She includes case studies and examples. And so the ways that social media makes money are numerous donations: Wikipedia survives on donations advertising: this is the most common; you offer advertising space for a fee membership fee: World of Warcraft charges a this type of fee for players to continue playing expansion fee: World of Warcraft's Burning Crusades has a fee to refreshing gaming experience merchandising: Cafepress and Zazzle provides with on-demand customisable items related or linked to your site or blog paid online events: You could have a conference that have an admission fee virtual goods: in Habbo or Cyworld, you can purchase pixel/ virtual goods to enhance your account Rather than stick solely to Google Adsense, you can try out these other ways to make money out of your site.

Farm or Stock Market

Stock Market is a risky option that could earn you big buck in a short time. Farmland, on the other hand, is not as riskly but the big bucks come over time. Should you go into farmland investing or stock market investing? Let us examine the advantages of investing into each kind. Starting with stock market investing, you can get piles of money overnight. Think about the Google success story. Once concern with stock market investing is that as quick as you could get money it may slip away from you (if you are not careful enough) quickly too. The money you earned overnight might just disappear the next day. Going on with farmland investing, this has been described as a stable slow way to earn money. Everyday everybody eats. But you can only harvest the fruits of your labor (farm products and money) during harvest. That means months after months of toil. Farmland investing can get your hands dirty (with soil, I mean) or have someone else do the tilling for you. Whether to ge...

Start Earning While You Sleep

It is good if you have a job or that you are hired. That means a steady flow money every month; You assured that all those work you did will be paid. The problem with being a employee is that even if you increase your effort in working it could be that your salary won't increase unlike when you are an entrepreneur or a into business. Aside from that being an employee means that when you sleep, go on a vacation or on weekends, you are not earning as you spend the day away. Well, if you concentrate on business, you are not sure of your income in a month; you will have an estimate. Still, going into business is risky and the returns are not sure. But you could say that your day job is too tiring and make you feel trapped. How you wished you could stop the tedious work but not the flow of money. Now, what are you going to do about it: earn money while you sleep. You could do it by investing in stocks or bonds. But before that you have to be knowledge...

Start Having Afternoon Naps Now

Do you take afternoon naps? Is it helpful or not? Studies say that there should be some afternoon naps. Well, that is one reason you shouldn't be called a lazy bum when you nap after lunch before going to work. Taking afternoon is a tradition of the Romans that is carried on by the Spaniards. Afternoon nap is also called siesta. It is a centuries-old practice that you shouldn't be bothered to follow--you can explain to them the benefits of an afternoon nap if they are not convince: it is crucial to close your eyes for awhile before proceeding with the afternoon's work. Afternoon nap or siesta will rejuvenate your energy to get you going for the rest of the day. Studies show that those who take a nap in the afternoon feel having more energy to continue the day's work plus in a glad mode than those you do not take afternoon naps. The best time to take an afternoon nap is around one to two-thirty in the afternoon. High perfomance related to napping is found...

Be Cautious about Data Entry Jobs

Everybody is looking at routine easy jobs they can do at home during their free time to supplement their income. And so it seems there is a high demand for data entry jobs. Most people have typed ‘data entry’ more than a hundred thousand times a day all over the world into major search engines. Why wouldn’t there be? The job is easy and you can do it without using too much brainpower. You must have probably have heard that most of them are scam. Either they are scam or than they are misleading. But of course, it cannot be ruled out there are genuine data entry jobs out there. For scam data entry jobs, they will require you to pay a fee before you can get working. There are several names for these fees: consultancy fee, membership fee, and maintenance fee. There may be more names. They would reason out that these fees are used for the training materials that will be sent to you. Why would you be needing these training materials when you are knowledgeable on typing letters to words ...