December 2010

A Comprehensive Startup Guide to Your Freelance Career (part 1)

by Eunus Hosen

Working as a freelancer is great ways to start your own home based business and earn a residual income for a better living.

As a freelancer myself and having employed for a few times, I’ve experience with many issues that you should know to build up your freelance career. But before going in depth, I’ve to outline some basic things. So, let’s start:

What is freelancing?

A freelancer or freelance worker is somebody who is self employed and offer their services to employer without a long term commitment. This day’s freelancer refers to copywriters, proofreaders, programmers, designers and so on. They often charged by hour, day or job. Working as a freelancer is called freelancing.

Here is the startup guide:

Quality First!

The main requirement to becoming a freelancer is to have a high skill and expertise in your field. It’s not matter whether you’re working as a programmer or designer. Because, there is no senior employee to correct your mistakes. So, you must have to be proficient.

Create a Showcase:

You’ve a great working skill in your field, but nobody will trust you unless you show them what you can!

Yes, every employer wants to see some of their work examples before hiring someone else. So, it’s better to put your work examples together.

So, where to put your work examples?

In your showcase! I mean your online portfolio. So that anyone can view your work examples anytime from anywhere.

Having your website is a bonus!

If you’ve a website, you’re one step ahead than those who don’t have. For instance, you’re a great writer and want to do copywriting jobs as freelancer, if you’ve a website (or blog) where you can write and show the world your writing skill.

Again, think you’re a seo expert; so rank your website up for a specific keyword(s) and then let employer know that you’ve ranked your website up for this keyword. I bet you, you’ll get many (at least few) potential clients.
Checkout my portfolio and see how I’m shoeing my work skills.

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The Reasons Why I’ve Quit My Job

by Eunus Hosen

Let me apologize for the absence here for a long time. I was pretty busy with some of my other projects, so I couldn’t write here for a long time. In the meantime, I’ve developed my home based internet business which is paying me more than double than my day time job. But interesting thing is that I’m working for 3 hours per day for that. And now it is enough to quit my day time job.

But money is not only the reason I’ve quit my job. There are few more reasons to quit the job.

Time is the fact:

There’s no doubt that Time is more precious than money. But how much? Here’s a quote from one of my facebook buddy:

“You can earn money by investing your time, but you never can get back your time with all of your money” – Trivuz Alam

Hm……….. So true! So while I’ve a good chance to make more money by investing less time, why I won’t grab the chance?

If you’re living a country like mine (Bangladesh), you’ve to waste your valuable time by sitting on car for traffic jam! Everyday, I had to waste almost 2 hours per day for going to office and coming back to home. But the damn thing is that I’m not being paid for this 2 hours :( But if I’d work for this two hours, I’d be paid $20 ($10 per hour).

Getting my own time schedule:

In case of my day job, I had to attend office within 8:00 am. and had to stay there, till the office close. Too boring! I’d no choice but had to stay there :(

But while I’m working from home sitting before my computer, I can choose my own time schedule and I can choose what things to do and when to do.

Getting more time with family:

While working at my office, I had to stay out for almost 14 hours a day (2 hours journey included). I was not getting time for my family :( But while working from home, I get all day long to stay with my family.

There are more reasons to outline. If I keep writing about it, it’ll be few thousands word long. But I don’t want to waste your time :)

Oh, how about the earnings?

Sure, I know it’s not 2001, it’s 2010. Many of you want to see the proof of my earnings. Yeah! won’t make you sad. Here is a screen-shot of my recent earnings.
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