If an office experience is not to your liking, there’s nothing stopping you from trying your hand at earning as a freelancer. Just keep in mind that two important things that keep your finances healthy, as a freelancer, is resourcefulness and time management. You’d need to keep finding ways to get jobs.

You’d need to know your own mind and body’s work and rest periods, so you complete every job you take, and get enough rest and amusement. In this article are recommended sites where you can get jobs that you can do at home, and more or less on your own pace. Remember, as a freelancer, you lose the routine job hours (and office politics) that a cubicle nine-to-five jobs offers. So it’s up to you to be resourceful.

Below are some resources at your disposal. Go to each of these sites to see what they offer. You can even Google up reviews and feedback about them, just so you’d know what you’re getting into, or missing out on.

GetAFreelancer. Think of this place a market where people who needs things done and people who claim can do them meet and negotiate. People post jobs and job details, and people respond by bidding on those jobs. You’d have to create an account so you can take part.

Sometimes, you don’t get chosen for projects. After all, there are always people who started their careers in web design or search engine optimization or layout and graphics, or web content writing — all earlier than you.

Make sure that when you bid, you highlight your relevant skills and experience, and that you’re respectful and brief. It also helps to know your place, meaning your bid. Don’t bid too high if you’re not that much of a veteran.

Craigslist. There’s almost no one who surfs these days who doesn’t know about Craigslist. The idea of an online classified jobs bulletin board has been replaced by that term. Here you’ll find man’s job postings, most of them related to web design and web work. It also has many people looking for freelance writers as content is always needed.

There are jobs not so related to those design fields, so you can still hunt a bit here. You’ll meet people who are honest and willing to help.

Sriptlance. This website is similar in concept to GetAFreelancer and just as legitimate. Also, anyone who’s been both to GAF and Scriptlance would recommend the latter to any service provider, regardless if you offer web work and design, or SEO and web content writing.

You can even opt in on email services wherein your get notified via email about new jobs. Emails sent like this happen often every three days, and carries notifications on about twenty-five jobs that fit your job category. You even get info in bids and project deadlines.

Forums. Forums are cool places to hunt for online jobs. You can post the kind of service you offer, your past work or portfolio, including your professional fee and contact info, and interested parties will send you word about the jobs they need, either as part of the forum thread or as private message. A forum called NamePros is recommended, as it’s legit. Naturally there are other forums out there. You’d have to try them out and read up on feedback on posting job services there, just so you won’t miss out on things.

Don’t even think that this list as an end-all. There are bound to be other sites on the web where you can get jobs. You just have to be a tad resourceful, and maybe stubborn. Keep trying. Keep building your portfolio of jobs (if you just started).

And keep meeting deadlines and making clients happy (if you’re a semi-veteran). After all, there are no more routine work hours that shackle you. Whatever you do are decisions made based on your capacity to do the work offered and your peak work hours. Enjoy being a freelancer!

A number of recent media stories have reported the different ways that companies are adopting Twitter for business use. When it began in March of 2009, Twitter was just intended for communication among individuals. However, a number of organizations (including most major print and broadcast media) have begun to actively participate on the platform. Not all companies are using Twitter in the same way, however. Some are tweeting, some are just “listening”, and some companies are doing a combination of both.

Some companies are using Twitter as a marketing or public relations channel, almost like another corporate blog. They post information about corporate accomplishments that include links that take people back to corporate web pages, press releases, and other promotional sites.

While this method may seem like an easy, logical way to get started, this doesn’t really jibe with the prevailing Twitter ethos. An overabundance of self-promotional information can in the long run do more harm than good if that is the only type of information that is being posted. A lot of users that seek information on Twitter do so to find little factoids and nuggets of information that they can’t find elsewhere. Moreover, the 140-character limit for all posts (or “tweets”) means that such information found will be direct and to the point. Blatant self-advertising on the other hand is looked upon in a similar way as spam emailing.

Some companies use Twitter indirectly by allowing their employees tweet instead. Since the employees are using Twitter to enhance their own personal reputations, the company’s reputation ends up benefiting by proxy. Employees posting upbeat and interesting messages about their work,industry development, new products, company events, even if they are unrelated to the company itself, can promote positive feelings for whichever business they are employed by. Of course sometimes this can work in reverse as in the case last December when a Yahoo employee twittered for hours throughout a mass layoff there (ending with her own).

Some companies use Twitter internally to share ideas or communicate about what projects they’re working on. However, if this information is confidential in nature, it can probably end up being more trouble than it’s worth due to the lack of security.

Other companies aren’t as much participants on Twitter as they are “listeners.” Through the use of search tools like search.twitter.com or desktop applications like TweetDeck they are able to keep track of what’s being said about the company, its product names, or even the industry as a whole. More and more companies are tuning in to these micro-conversations as a way of being alerted to problems(or potential ones) and to gather feedback on product issues or ideas.

Just a few examples of how some well-known companies are using Twitter nowadays include Starbuck’s (posts new offers and also participates in threaded discussions of these offers with their Twitter-followers), Whole Foods (asks what their clients like to read and watch, recommends new foodpodcasts and invites them to the company upcoming events) and Southwest Airlines (Via their Twitter profile Southwest runs non-official, entertaining
discussions with their customers).

If your business is thinking of joining the Twitter community, it’s best to study it first and go in with a well thought out coherent strategy. There are numerous web-based resources that can assist with this process so you can maximize the benefits while avoiding (or at least minimizing) pitfalls.

Event planning is a large industry these days and a highly competitive one at that. Still, it’s a growing industry that’s always in high demand. If you are able to do the job well you’ll find that competing isn’t too difficult. The key is to learn patience and be willing to start slow and then gain word of mouth exposure.

Before setting up your own event planning service there are a lot of things you’ll have to think about and do. Here is a closer look at what some of those important things are, and why they are a big deal.

Decide what your specialty will be:

While it would be great to say you specialize in all types of events, this just isn’t a practical way to get started. It will hurt both your credibility and marketing potential, and will also likely cost you a lot more in the long run when it comes to start up costs. Different types of event planning services can include wedding planning, planning corporate functions, planning fundraisers and planning tradeshows. Look into what’s involved with the various fields and decide where your skills and creativity will serve you best. You can always expand into more areas later.

Get work with an existing event planner:

This will not only put money in your pocket but it will give you experience and credibility. It will also help expose you to some of the people and businesses you will need to work with in the future when setting up your own company. Be careful how you go about this though because you don’t want to burn any bridges when leaving an established company to start your own service. Also, make sure you don’t have to sign a contract ahead of time that promises you won’t setup a competing service.

Make a long list of people you know:

Who do you know and what do they do? What can they offer? This may sound like taking advantage of friends but that’s just how the game works. Keep in mind as well that if you approach people properly, it won’t be taking advantage at all. What you are looking for here is anyone who can help you, whether it be by passing your name around or getting you deals on things you’ll need. Don’t forget, as you get going you’ll be able to return the favour when the time is right.

Find a place where you can start small:

You will be hard pressed to score a big event deal right from day one. Instead, look for something small that you can do. These smaller lower costing events won’t likely make you a lot of money but they will give you a chance to gain experience, prove yourself, and add to your portfolio.

Don’t ever undersell yourself:

Starting small is one thing but underselling yourself is another. Never charge less than what you realistically think your service is worth. If planning events is your livelihood then don’t let people talk you into giving the service away for free under the promise of exposure. Exposure is something you’ll gain in other ways.

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Many home based businesses are built around some complex skill a person has, like accounting or graphic design or perhaps a teaching certification in a particular subject. But what if you could create a business, based from your home that would revolve around something you really love as well as around your particular skills?

Do you have pets? Have you always had them and do you love them to death? Do you consider yourself something of an expert in their nutritional and health needs and how to take care of them in general? If so, you might just be ready to set up your own pet sitting business and run it out of your home.

Pet sitting rarely means actually staying overnight with someone’s pet, but it does involve visiting them in their own homes when you take care of them. It can also just involve taking them for walks during the day or going in to feed them when their owners are on vacation. Essentially, you do for these pets what you would do every day for your own. And you get paid for it, sometimes quite well.

You do need to approach this idea as a business, though, and make sure you’ve taken the proper steps to present yourself to clients as a professional. Despite all your experience and love for your own pets through the years, you would be wise to get certified specifically as a professional pet sitter. There are several organizations, such as the National Association of Professional Pet Sitters (NAPPS) or Pet Sitters International (PSI), that can help you do that.

Joining such organizations and being certified also puts you in touch with people who can help answer questions and help you foster your business. They often provide space on a listing of professional pet sitters, so people in your area who check those organizations’ web sites can find you. Another thing these organizations can provide is the proper forms to show to potential clients when you have your first interview. These forms will be everything from descriptions of all your services to questionnaires your clients can fill out so you’ll know exactly what they need from you. Other legal forms like contracts are also available.

Another thing you will need is proper insurance. PetSitterInsurance.com, for example, offers policies to members of both NAPPS and PSI. This type of insurance is something you will need to research. Mishaps can always happen, either to you or the pet, and you need to be sure you are properly covered either way.

This is a lot of paperwork and form-filling just to be able to take care of the cats, dogs, and other pets you love. But you do need to do things properly, to be sure you, the pets, and your clients are all protected. However, once the paperwork is done and you’re on the job, then that’s all behind you for the time being. That’s the moment you’ve been working toward: the moment when it’s just you and the lonely kitty sitting on the couch together, or you and the dog strolling through the park. Those moments are what it’s all about, and what makes all the legal paperwork worth it.

If you enjoy numbers and financial record keeping in general, then you’ve already got one business qualification that puts you way ahead of most other people, who don’t like that sort of thing at all. This means that if you decide to set yourself up as a bookkeeper working from home, you might be starting out with a higher chance of success than people in a great many other types of home business.

Many small companies, consultants, and solitary entrepreneurs are so busy doing their actual business that they have neither the time nor the interest in doing their own financial record keeping. So they might be willing, even grateful, to hire you to do the job for them. Even some accountants, who generally aren’t trained these days to handle small business bookkeeping, might be inclined to outsource such work if it comes to them.

You would need to be sure you have the type of computer equipment and software you need. There are many different types of programs available, but if you’re already qualified to do this sort of work, you’re probably aware of many of them already. It may still be a good idea to research the different ones, and try out temporary copies if the vendor allows that, to see which programs best suit the type of work you might be doing. Some programs are better at certain things than others. You might even want two different types of software, to try to cover different sorts of tasks your clients could ask you to do.

If you want to be sure you have all the skills necessary, or you want certification to show your clients even after having done this type of work for years, you can consult local community colleges and universities to find out what types of programs they offer. You might even be getting the certification through distance learning while already doing work for your first clients. But the chances are that if you’ve done such work for years during previous employment at a company, that will be regarded as qualification enough.

You need to be sure you are a meticulous, dependable detail person. And while being careful about your own character and reliability, you must scrutinize the character of prospective clients as well. If anyone gives indication that they’re interested in “fudging” any details of their finances, run the other way and don’t take that client on. They could get you into trouble in the future, not to mention the fact that if they aren’t entirely scrupulous they could prove equally unscrupulous about paying you. Before you sign a contract with any client, set out provisions for the circumstances under which you might be allowed to terminate the contract.

Once you’ve signed on with someone, the work will likely vary from client to client. You could find yourself doing only simple record keeping for one, while for another one you might be doing tax work and preparing financial statements. If you enjoy numbers and financial records, you’ll likely find yourself quite busy with clients, doing work that really interests you.

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