I have been a freelancer since March of 2009 and ever since I have worked on more than 90 projects, big and small. Before I started, I had no idea how to find a project, but after the initial hiccup’s clients started finding me.

The most important part, no matter how skilled or how quick or how cheap you are, the most important thing while working on a project is to keep the client happy. That’s the only way they will keep coming back, and when you have repeating clients, you are in business.

Then again, your client is happy when you deliver what they asked for in the time frame you agreed upon, but there is a more important element: Communication.

I recently bought a Flash Disk from an online market place in India, LetsBuy. I paid in advance, and as per their website the item was shipped the next day. Even after the expected date of delivery, the item didn’t reach me. When I was not able to reach a real human in their customer support over phone, I emailed them, but they never replied.

I tried many ways to contact them, emailed them but I never got a response. Finally after 11 days they sent me a mail stating that my original shipment was returned and they are shipping it again. I got the item 2 days after that.

I got the item, I am not buying from LetsBuy again. It’s not that they made a huge delay, that’s something you can understand. But they didn’t communicate with me, made me wondering what was happening.

(On a similar note, I bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 from a seller on Ebay.in, due to some technical issues, he got delayed a little bit, but he was great on communication and that made the deal very pleasant.)

When you have a client, its okay to get delayed on deadlines, its okay to take more time to figure out things, its even okay to admit that you don’t know what you are doing and you can even ask for time to figure it out. But keep your client updated on what’s happening. Communication is what that will make them wanna do business with you again (assuming you are competing with people with similar skills).

Just make sure you are not overdoing it, sending in regular updates, maybe one email after you have crossed an important milestone will make the client know that you are on track.

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Though it’s the so-called Recession, we never stop making money online. I guess people are turning to online money making ways to fight recession. So I thought I should tell some of them how they can make money online, sitting at home! I have complied that into a free e-book.

When it comes to money making, someone said there is no easy ways. That ‘someone’ lied. I have formulated a very easy way by which you can make money online or to be exact make money at home

In this book, you will read about the 5 steps involved in making money. Its time to make your dreams come true. Enjoy the book.

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Summary: In this article, I have suggested some strategies that Twitter could adopt to monetize the project. If you are wondering what Twitter is, you should consider reading the Twitter Quick Start Guide.

Have you ever wondered how Twitter makes money? This is what made me think so: I have been tweeting from Tweet Deck for quite a while and I seldom use the Web interface. Thanks to the good API support and tons of desktop clients, I don’t even give Twitter a page view, which means I am a total invisible Twitter user, and I am sure there are millions like me.

The answer to the first question is clearly stated on the About Page, and it says, we spend more money than we make. But they say, its not that they don’t have opportunities to monetize, instead they wish to focus on the product as such for now.

I am sure that soon Twitter will think of monetization, so I thought of adding my own suggestions in here.

@Glossary: Lets call the Twitter users Tweepl, and the Advertisements as Ad Tweets for now.

Twitter Monetization Strategies

Targeted Tweet Ads

Advertising on Twitter doesn’t sound great, but it could really work, if it’s well executed. Twitter can develop a system which scans the tweets of its users. The system will identify keywords from the tweet and send that specific tweepl an ad tweet. Only the recipient will be able to see the tweet.

Maybe it should limit this ad tweet to one for every 100 updates, or once every hour or something similar so that people are not annoyed or distracted. If people get annoyed, they will leave and if twitter doesn’t have its people, it’s going to stink.

Don’t think that this is going to be a question on your privacy. For instance, Google scans your emails for spam and relevant keywords. That’s how you see the ads on the right sidebar of every gmail email.

Example: I update with, “I am looking for a Portable Hard Disc @ eBay” and I get an Ad Tweet, “Get cheap yet durable Hard Discs @ Some Sample Sales, link” don’t you think I will go ahead and follow the Ad Tweet?

Twitter Sense

This is a Google Adsense inspired idea. Twitter can think of something similar to the Google Adsense program where tweepl can register for a publisher account. The users will be the ones who decide when to send an ad tweet and that saves Twitter from the problem of scanning the updates for relevant keywords. They will understand that too many ad-tweets will dramatically reduce the number of followers, so the users will put their own limits.

On to that, there should be a maximum number of Ad Tweets possible per day, so spammers can stay @ home!

For now most Tweepl I have met with on Twitter have a blog so it would be easy to implement this idea.

Power Tweeter Accounts

Twitter has an upper limit on the number of API requests per account per hour and the maximum number of tweets per hour (I guess its 400 updates per hour now). Twitter addicts (I am starting to be one) often bust their hourly rations very easily and are forced to watch others tweeting without being able to say anything

Twitter can think of a Power Tweeter Account where people pay for the removal of such limits. They can also make Power Tweeter Accounts ad free. Since Twitter is already addictive, I guess people will pay to be able to tweet, non-stop!

Companies that Tweet, Inc.

Do we have companies on Twitter? Yes, Google, Dell, Dreamhost, and lots of other firms are on twitter. Many of them use their Twitter accounts to tell the world about inside news and updates and often promote their latest products. So I hope they are generating some sales out of this.

Twitter definitely needs to be paid a share of the profits they make. Instead or nagging them for share of profits, Twitter can charge large Organizations and companies to be able to promote their products, and should provide them with a special account.

For that account, Twitter should provide additional services like click tracking, followers analysis (like where do they come from, what do they tweet about often, relevant keywords), and improved API integration. Wouldn’t Dell like to know where their followers come from? That would give them enough data to decide which product to promote and what not to. I would like to have one such account myself!

You get suggested for $10,000 a month!

When you sign-up for a Twitter account, you are taken to a Suggested users page. Most users will choose to follow all of them, because at the point of signing up they don’t know what’s in store. Having a huge number of followers is something big and it has a considerable impact on your online reputation.

Quick Online Tips have more details on this monetization strategy. They explain with reasons, why selling the suggested users is a money minting idea!

Over to you…

Do you have any more ideas? Then share them. Maybe that’s the idea that’s going it click. You might be helping a bunch of brilliant people make a good lot of money!

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Guest Article by Jeen Hao from Blogs To Wealth

Internet marketing is a very popular in recent days. There are many ways to make money online now. However, do you know that the easiest way to make four and five figures, even six figures in the shortest time? This way is known as affiliate marketing. If you have already involved in affiliate marketing, you will definitely want to know the tactics to double or triple your income, right?

So what is affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online because you do not need your own products, deal with customers, create sales page and so on. You will be get paid by promoting other merchants’ products. So how you can boost your affiliate income?

In this article, we will discuss some tactics to boost your affiliate income. If you haven’t involved yourself in affiliate marketing, you can sign up an affiliate account at ClickBank

Boosting Your Affiliate Income

1. Find a Good Product to Promote
Promote a good product is very important. A good product should be sellable and profitable. When choosing a product, you should choose a product which suits your niche. After that, choose a product with high grav point. A product with high grav point means that the product highly more sellable in the internet. Next then you can have a look on the commission per sale.

2. Promote You Affiliate Product in Your Blog
Promote an affiliate a product in a blog is the most common way to make money via affiliate products. However, you need to have a blog which have high traffic in order to make more sales. Make a post and brand the product. Besides, you can place your affiliate link with sales graphic on your blog post pr ad places. This also will increase your sales. The most important factor is traffic. You will have no sales if you have no traffic. Learn more about boosting your blog traffic from this tutorial.

3. E-mail Marketing
If you are using auto responder in your internet business, this method will be very useful for you. If you have many loyal readers in your mailing list, you can promote your affiliate products by branding the merchant and the product in your mail! Imagine that you have 5,000 loyal readers in your mailing list and we assume that at least 300 readers buy the product, think how much will you earn? E-mail marketing obviously is a good way to make more sales. No harm, so give a try!

4. Promote Your Affiliate Product in Your Free eBook
I realize that many people love free stuff. I also like free stuff. What you can do is write your own eBook and give it out for free. In the eBook, you can promote an affiliate product and put you affiliate links. If many people grab your free ebook, it makes more chances to generate sales.

These are the four simple tactics which you can use to boost your affiliate income. No harm to give a try and I wish you the best. The most important thing is consistency. Never give up because if you quit, you have already failed!

This article was written by Jeen Hao. Jeen have also authored another article on Monetizing your Blog. Check out his blog, Blogs To Wealth where he writes about more Money Making Strategies, Marketing, Blogging and related stuffs. If you wish to write a Guest Article, you can do so here.

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Guest Article by Jeen Hao from Blogs To Wealth

Nowadays, blogging is no longer a hobby alone, but also a career. Many bloggers start their internet business and earn cash with their blogs. Do you believe that a blog can become you money generator? Here I will tell you some methods and ways to make money online via blogging.

Monetizing Strategies for a Blog

1. Google Adsense

Google Adsense is the best ad network which you get paid by clicks and impressions. It displays advertisement by tracking your blog content. If you blog about health care, it won’t display advertisement about dog foods. Besides, Adsense offer the highest payout per click when compared with other ad networks. Even experts use Adsense to make money online, although they have other passive income sources which is more profitable. Thus, no harm to join Adsense and I am sure you will get benefit from it!

2. Bidvertiser

I highly recommend this ad network. It is a Cost per Click ad network that closely compete with Google Adsense. Its main advantage over Adsense is Bidvertiser allows low payout at only $10 which means you need to make $10 in order to be paid. It also offers a nice revenue share. If person who refers you earn $10, you will earn an extra $10 from Bidvertiser. If person who refers you make $50, you can get another $40 from Bidvertiser. Imagine that you have more than 10 or 20 referrals can how much you will earn

3. ClickBank

Next, what you need to do is, start making money with an affiliate program. I highly recommend ClickBank. It offers up to 75% of commission per sale, which is very profitable. Besides, there are more than 10,000 products that you can promote in your sites! Choose a product which suit your blog niche as well as high commission and start promoting it and you will make more money compared to ad networks. Click here to learn more about affiliate marketing.

4. PLR Products

You can also sell your own products, which is known as Private Label Rights (PLR) products. PLR products are products which you can brand yourself as the author. This method is also very profitable. You can create you own products such as eBooks and sell it. You should promote it with your blog so that your readers will know more details about the products. Click here to know more about PLR products. Branding yourself as an expert in your field can encourage more buyers

These are the 4 common ways to make money online via blogging. These 4 methods are really profitable. Of course, traffic is very important, because you won’t get any clicks or sales if you have no traffic. Thus, spending more time to drive traffic for your blog or site is the most important thing. No people step into your shop means you have no chance to sell out your things and earn money

This article was written by Jeen Hao. Check out his blog, Blogs To Wealth where he writes about more Money Making Strategies, Marketing, Blogging and related stuffs. If you wish to write a Guest Article, you can do so here.

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Internet is huge and well connected and its potential is infinite. Ventures like Google and Yahoo analyzedthis potential and exploited them to grow into worlds greatest Money Minting Homes. Today countless people including Web Designers, SEO Experts and Bloggers, make their entire living out of the internet. Here we discuss some tried and tested strategies of ‘Making a Living out of the Internet’. All of them are do-at-home jobs.

Minting Huge Cash from the Internet

Bloggers come first – If you are to make constant money, Blogging is your best choice. Quality content and writing style is the key to a good blog. Traffic and Money are by-products. So for a start you need to build a blog and write the things that you are good at. If you are good at it, results will follow in about 3 month’s time (John Chow found glory in a months time), but usually it takes a little more time. Chief source of income for bloggers is advertising (like Google Adsense, Adbrite etc.)

Website Design – This is another potential area where you can set your foot on and dig great treasures. It takes patience, skill and time to build a good website. Everyone on the internet who wishes to have a website does not know to make it. If you are one of them, you have two options: Either you learn web design or skip this and continue reading.

Search Engine Optimization – Every website on the internet need traffic and the chief source of traffic is through Search Engines. Search Engine Optimization makes website more Search Engine friendly and gives them more traffic. SEO needs some technical know-how and if you can find time to take some extra SEO classes, you can make a living out of it.

Content Writing – If you cannot deal the technicalities of creating and maintaining a website, then you can try writing content for other websites. Mostly, product websites outsource the job of creating content and maintaining forums. You need to have good writing skills to take up this job.

Online jobs – One can find numerous online jobs on the internet like data entry jobs (beware of the fake offers!), data correction jobs and so on. If you search for such jobs, you will definitely end up at some fake website with an offer of $10,000 a week. So it’s better to find someone in the real world (maybe a friend who does such a job) and follow his way.

Selling Services – This can be a service of any kind, something at which you are good at. Like Theme Design (for Blogger or WordPress), or Theme Conversion (Blogger to WordPress to Typepad) or Language Translation of Websites, or even Paid Product Reviews. You will need a website or a blog to tell the world about your services. Keep your eyes open and opportunities will hunt you down.

Online Tuition – A high speed internet connection, a web cam and a microphone are the tools you need. There are many professional organizations that teach students through the internet mostly for the 5th to 10th graders. You will get the necessary software and orientation from them. If you are confident enough to teach some kids in the U.S, then this job is for you. Google for it and you can find them.

Online Troubleshooting – Does your friends ask you for tech guidance..? Can you help someone format a drive..? If the answers are affirmative, this job is for you. Service providers like FixYa provide online troubleshooting to its users. You can signup and download a program where you can answer questions from a pool. You get ranked by the user and your payment increases as the ranks increases.

Mobile Ad Reading Programmes – These are not like email reading programs that send you false emails with links to websites with Adsense ads. There are some companies like mGinger that pay the subscribers when they receive ads on their mobile phones. This is an easy way of earning cash; some easy coffee is always good.

Writing e-Books – If you can’t find good publishers for your write-up, you can make a PDF of it and sell it online on Amazon or eBay. If you have a blog you can use that as a medium to sell it too. You just have to provide an extract online. Users will then request an e-copy, if they like it. They can get it, when they have done the payment.

Online jobs have the benefits of comfort of home and flexible schedules. Unlike office jobs, they have almost infinite earning potential. If you know how to play it safe and do things in style, you will earn big. Don’t worry; you will learn to use your own style. Now start working. Good Luck!

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