Would you like to earn more money?

Well I do. If your income still is not as high as you want it to be, you’ve got to take a good look at your presentation on the marketplace. Think for a moment on how you’re running your business.

I was doing some thinking a while ago and came up with some tips I would like to share with all my readers.
Let’s dive in.

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Freelance is not just a way of making money. It’s a lifestyle. Can you imagine – you can do what you want when you want and where you want. A friend of mine loves working on a seaside. He makes so wonderful designs. He says that it inspires more than anythung else. Another man builds his RoR applications only at nights, he insists that Muse is coming only after midnight. Well and I love working in a small quiet café 5 minutes from my home. One of the great things freelance gives you is that you’re not tied down to one location. As long as you have a laptop and an Internet connection, you can work from anywhere.

The main idea is that the world has changed in the way it works. Is it good or bad? Let’s see.

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In my previous post How to get started with Odesk I showed you how can you benefit from working as freelancers and how to set up your provider profile and make everything ready to start applying for jobs and make money.

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Today I want to share with your my experience on how to get started with Odesk.

Some words about what oDesk is. Odesk is a markertplace for freelancers who offer their services (they are called providers) and managers who buy services from freelances (they are called buyers). Both buyers and providers have their accounts, one account per person. Buyers offer jobs indicating what skills do they require and pay providers for the work done. Providers offer their services and are paid for the work done. Odesk has an outstading feature – Odesk tool that requires providers to be logged in while working – in that way provider will receive the money automatically – if you go with hourly-rate. Thought the job can be fixed-rate – a provider will be paid fixed amount despite how many hours he/she will spend on that job. Odesk does not quarantee the payment for fixed-price jobs.

Ok so now let’s see how can you benefit from Odesk.

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