My Freelance Life
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Sunday, October 16, 2016
I don't normally buy into affiliate marketing by any extreme. Usually, I just find it difficult to pass this one up. If you have a website and you want to get it to rank, or if you need SEO rich content that has been written professionally and quickly, this site is the place for you. They have all kinds of services available, from backlinks to page ranking, PBNs to domain purchasing, there is nothing you can't find when you come to MarketSource for all of your website's needs.
I actually came across this site completely by accident one day while I was working on an article for another website. I was so impressed by the platform I decided that they needed their own post on my own blog. You know the website Fiver? Think of SourceMarket like the Fiver of website oriented services. They are an excellent alternative to having to try to come up with solutions entirely on your own, especially if you aren't entirely sure what your site needs at that point. Yes another service you can pay for on SourceMarket!
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Friday, February 26, 2016
I have been using Amazon Turk for far longer than I have ever been writing this blog. I think I signed up for it back in 2013. I don't know if it would really be considered freelance work either to be totally honest. You really are working for Amazon when it boils down to it but somehow, your also not.
It is classified as a crowd sourcing platform really and there are all kinds of available assignments to do (called HITs) that range from doing surveys to date entry. I would never consider comingneven remotely close to make a living with this one but some of the stuff is at least interesting.
The data entry is pretty self explanatory. It's as simple as looking at a recipt and typing in the product cide and price 10 times for a few pennies. The surveys are not like what you would find on SwagBucks though. No one on Mturk wants to know if you want to buy car insurance. They are surveys on some intresting stuff and when your completing them you are usually helping a student finish his thiesis in psycology. They usually take a few minutes and pay a buck or two. Overall, its definately not a living, ive made enough to put gas in my car for the week.
Ive been with textbroker for a couple weeks now, so I thought I'd give it a quick review. I have signed up with dozens of freelance sites but this is the first one I have actually gotten paid for my, what are apparently mediocre, writing skills.
Now, with mediocre skills, I'm not saying I've made $300 per article or anything but still, easy to write content turned in to easy to spend money. All of the articles that I have written have been no more than 300 words and subjects have varied from biographies to why someone should play rugby. I've written 10 articles and I cashed out for the first time today at $18. Thats about $1.80 average.
Mind you, my attention span sucks sometimes, especially when I am working on two or three diffrent things at once. There were plenty of assignments I could have been writing but instead I was also Googling and reading other writers posts about places freelancers can find writing gigs and applying to other sites. If I really sat down and got busy only doing writing assignments, I likely could have made far more than that. Overall, I have to say Textbroker is probably the best site ive come across for beginning freelancers so far.