Have you already tried risking your time, money, and effort just to reach your own goal? Probably some of us have done it but still didn’t get the result we desired. We all dream that we can travel and enjoy the gift of life that God has given. Isn’t it beautiful if we can share more time and have enjoyable moments with our loved ones? Yes, I know what you’re thinking right now. The eagerness and determination that someday your dreams will come true at last.

As of now, poverty is still visible in our country. Many families experience hunger because of unemployment. There are graduates who unable to achieve their profession due to a high level of competitiveness. Every day, we suffer in traffic just to get to our offices. These are the situations that we cannot afford to set aside. But we Filipinos are born with a brave heart and wise instincts. So, many strategies were performed just for survival.

Maybe some have tried to search “how to make money fast” or “how to make money online” to the internet. And guess what? That leads you to what they so-called “freelancing.” It is also known as work from home job. According to BusinessDictionary, freelance means working on a contract basis for a variety of companies. There are some benefits that you can enjoy as a freelancer.

Benefits of Freelancing

Free from Office Slavery

You can finally go out from the traditional working from the office job. You can work in the comfort of your home. Free from the rules that choke us as an employee.

Self-management

You can manage your time more if you are working from home. You can maintain a balanced life between work and for the family.

Health Control

You’re less likely to get sick since you deal with the clients remotely. You don’t have to deal with the traffic every day or face the fast-changing weather in our country.

Higher Salary Rate

Most of us consider the work based on salary. With freelancing, you can earn dollars which can benefit you as a person with desired needs as well to your family.

Aren’t you infatuated? You can start freelancing as part-time for additional income or make it as a full-time opportunity. But you must consider first is how you prepare yourself for the new chosen career.

Preparation for Freelancing Job

Make an Investment

As what mentioned earlier, you have to risk your money and effort for this job. Computer and reliable internet is a must. It will benefit you in the end, just remember what your goals are.

Enhance English Language Skills

Clients need a person with a good verbal and written English skills. You can buy a dictionary for bigger vocabulary. Try to read books and watch Hollywood movies. Being aware of your grammar is also important, so don’t leave it behind.

Make Yourself Ready

Here, you can encounter new things or new knowledge. You must be open-minded and try to explore. Learning is eternal so make yourself ready at all times.

Skills to Must Have

For example, those who work in BPO companies already have the skill for providing customer service. So skills or expertise is essential since you will be working with the clients. Remember, confidence in doing the job build trust and good relationship.

To own their own affiliate marketing business is the dream of many people, from all walks of life, both young and old. People who dream about owning their own business, often dream that seductive, wonderful and tantalising dream, the dream of being their own boss: the dream of becoming financially independent is so very real to them. The luxurious dream of not having to live from pay check to pay check, any longer. The, almost real, dream of not having to get up each morning, at some unearthly hour: for five or six days every week. Unfortunately, in reality, it will always remain a dream unless people take action.

Many people just dream about not having to go into work and face their boss, whom they just plain don’t like: and, their normal routine. Their routine is usually that same old familiar, soul destroying, spirit crushing, routine; which, depending on where in the world you live, is at its worst during the winter months. It’s the dreaded routine of having to get up in the morning, while it’s still dark: then, when you get home at night again, finding it’s still dark again. That’s the routine that steadily wears you down; and, slowly but surely, kills people over the years.

Unfortunately for lots of people, who don’t have any other options, this is the reality of their everyday working life, and it always will be unless they take action, and change that routine. That spirit draining, life sucking, mind numbing, everyday routine that destroys their happiness; and, sometimes, their very soul. Their routine of waking up, getting out of bed and taking a shower, of eating a hurried breakfast, gulping down a quick cup of coffee; then dashing out, maybe, in the rain or snow, to the dreaded daily commute, of maybe an hour or more in heavy traffic.

Ask yourself if your own routine of arriving at your ‘j.o.b’; and, for the next eight hours, being at the beck and call of your boss, is really what you want to settle for? This, for five or six days, each and every week; and for, maybe, the next forty or fifty years: for the rest of your life, until you die? I ask this because there is a much more attractive, and much, much, more lucrative alternative: but, unless you do something about it, and take action, nothing will change!

Given the above harsh truths, it’s no wonder that so many peoples’ minds yearn for the freedom that owning their own online business can give them. Well, guess what, for those people who don’t have a ‘slave mentality’; for those who dream of living life on their own terms, and not having to answer to their boss, you can do just that. Because, with the advent of the new online digital economy, freedom is yours for the taking. Freedom now awaits people just like you.

For those who are possessed of an entrepreneurial spirit, and are willing to invest in themselves, and learn, there are now online business opportunities, such as buying and selling: or affiliate marketing, which allows people who fit the above description, to work from the comfort of their own homes. Affiliate marketing can enable you to travel; and, to be able to work from your own kitchen table, or anywhere else in the world. You can even work from the beach if you wish, (and if the weather permits.J)

Yes, there are some people who will hesitate, and start thinking about the responsibilities of owning their own business. About how they would be able to manage to do all of the different jobs that owning their own business will bring with it? I know that scares the living daylights out of a lot of timid people! There are some people who lack the courage, and tend to shy away from, even the very thought of, owning their own businesses: mostly because of all the different skills that are needed!

Those fears are ungrounded, kick them out, they should not be allowed to stop you owning your own business. The chief culprit responsible for those fears is the past mind conditioning that all of us have experienced, for most of our past lives. To give you an example of this, let’s say that, if I asked you this question, ‘Can you could finish this well known old saying?’, “If you want something doing right, ‘di dah de dah di dah’.” I’ll bet that you would very likely be able to give me the correct answer; because, as most of us know, we’ve been taught that the final words of this sentence are “do it yourself”.

This saying was credited to one Charles-Guillaume Etienne, who was a 19th Century French writer. Since then, it’s been passed on, over and over again; ad nauseum, by well-meaning parents, coaches, gurus and anyone else in the world who teaches self-reliance. For over two hundred years it has been gobbled up, without a second thought, and passed on by their disciples: also by their children, their followers and their minions. We’ve all been mind-conditioned into accepting as being the truth, the old saying that, “If you want something doing right you must do it yourself.”

At best, this is suspect advice because, when you think about that saying, it’s probably one of the worst pieces of advice to ever have become a universal cliché. Not least because, unless you’re an absolutely superb expert at that particular, “something”, that you need doing, how can you be sure that you are going to have the necessary skills that will enable you to “do it right”, when you try to do it yourself?

Most human beings are highly proficient at only a handful of skills. So, for 99.999% of those “somethings”, that you want doing right, isn’t it better to find someone else to do it for you? Someone who really is highly qualified, and very talented, at whatever it is that you want doing: and, definitely, not to keep on slaving away, trying to doing it yourself.

In the new global digital economy there are people who earn their full time living working online, people whom you can hire to do anything you need doing. For example, let’s say that you need someone to write great copy for you; or, to design and build you a highly converting web site and make sure that your site is optimized, so it will rank highly on the search engine results.

There are many hundreds of other ‘somethings’ that you might need doing; but, on the plus side, there are literally thousands of highly qualified experts online who are competing for our business, and who will do those ‘somethings’ for us: starting from as little as $5.00. So, when ‘hired help’ is available very cheaply, it’s not very smart to try and do these things yourself. You should stick to doing the things that you really are good at.

There are some really great online, work from home businesses; which, if you are willing to work at, will enable you to make you a very good income and will give you the freedom to live life on your own terms. A life that can bring you very rich financial rewards, and will enable you to have the time to travel the world and meet new people. People who are of the same, entrepreneurial, go-ahead, mind set as you are. You don’t have to do everything yourself, in fact it’s not very smart to even try.

One of the misconceptions that people have about owning their own business, is that you need to have a huge amount of start-up capital in order to do it: well, a a misconception is exactly what that is, a wrong idea, a misunderstanding. Because you definitely do NOT need a huge pile of cash to get started on the pathway to owning your own business, your freedom giving, liberating and very profitable, own business: in fact, you can get started for less than $50. Nor, do you have to try doing everything yourself; there are very successful people who are willing to mentor you, to train you and, virtually, ‘hold your hand, along the road to financial freedom.

The very first thing you will have to identify is exactly what you anticipate from a home based business. Do you desire a bit of money to make your cars and truck payment, or do you have to be making adequate earnings to reside on. Normally, the more effort and time you take into business, the more cash you can make. Choose what does it cost? time you can take into business. If you are beginning your organisation on the side, then you do not wish to neglect your routine task. You likewise do not wish to compromise excessive time with your household.

Beginning a home based business can be carried out in just a couple of hours a week or you can put in forty plus hours weekly. Remember, that the more you take into your organisation, the more you’ll leave it.

As soon as you have actually discovered your market, and picked your product and services, you will have to establish a site and promote it. Among the most convenient methods to do this is through social networks. You can establish a page on Facebook or a profile on Twitter, and begin developing a following. Simply make sure that you aren’t including simply anybody to your list, however include individuals that fit your target audience. Make certain not to spam your fans. Usage social networks to obtain to understand them, and to engage with them. Do not just send out message after message stating “Buy! Purchase! Purchase!” Let them ask concerns, and make sure to address them nicely.

Many individuals nowadays are taking a look at picking a home based business. Depending upon business and the quantity of time that is taken into it, business can either generate a bit of additional money, or it can generate a fortune, and throughout between. Not every home based business is best for everybody, so you will have to pick one that is ideal for you.

Choose who your clients will be. You will have to called much as possible about your possible consumers. Are they primarily males or females? How old are they? Exactly what is their education level? You have to choose who your target audience is, and who you wish to deal with. As soon as you have actually recognized your target audience, then you have to understand exactly what they desire and exactly what they require. When you understand this, you can choose the best ways to finest fill their requirements, and to discover a company design to assist them.

You can offer your clients with either product and services. Most of the times, a service offering an item will take less effort and time than offering a service. If you offer an item, you do not even have to have an item to offer. Oftentimes, you can offer somebody else’s item, and make a commission for each sale. If you can produce your very own item, however, your revenue can be greater. If you choose that you have abilities that others require, you can offer them your service. Bear in mind; this can take more of your time than offering an item.