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Things You Need To Know When Applying For An Online Job

When working in an office becomes an impractical option for you and you know you have a knack for writing, working as a freelance article writer is your most viable alternative. Starters often find it hard to find writing gigs in the beginning because there’s a lot of competition in the freelancing world; therefore, knowing how to look for freelance writing jobs skilfully has a lot of advantage.

You must have realized by now that there are simply thousands of job opportunities that can be found on the web, you just need to know how and where to start looking.

The first thing that you need to be aware of is that not all job advertisements that you encounter are legit. Legit in the sense that they will actually give you the job and not just use you to get some free articles written for them, usually in the form of a request for a sample article. So read the following guides for your protection.

You definitely should look for any reviews about the company or of the person who is behind that ad. If they have been around for quite some time now, then you can easily find some reviews about them. It is the same thing when you are trying to purchase anything, let us say some internet marketing courses. You first need to know if the person behind those courses are reputable and can be trusted. Otherwise maybe it is better for you to go start looking somewhere else.

Avoid job advertisements that do not display any contact detail or sufficient background information on the company. If the company is legitimate, why hold contact information back? Think about it.

Make good use of the forums, particularly those related to freelance writing. Just ask there about the job ad that you are interested in and see if there are people there who had seen it too and even better, if any of them are familiar with the employer. That would be a good first-hand review you will be getting.

And above all do not easily be enticed by a job ad declaring they are offering a very high payment rate. If it is too good to be true, then chances are it is not true. It is always better to be on the safe side.

So there you have it. These are just a few of the important reminders you need to know if you are interested in applying for some freelance writing jobs. While there are certainly a lot of online jobs work from home, it is always for your benefit to tread carefully whenever you are targeting a specific gig or position.

Work From Home Benefits Managing Meetings To Best Effect

Today my Work from home schedule followed an unusual plan. Usually I work from home throughout the day, normally tied up with Online jobs of different kinds, often I am writing marketing copy for clients. Today however I had two customer meetings in my diary which got me out of the house for the best part of the day. It is a pleasant change whenever this happens but it works far better if it’s well organised.

In this instance there were a couple of writing tasks I had left to get out of the way in order to achieve a pressing deadline. It is temptation to organise this work for later on, once the meetings are done and upon return to base. However I have been doing work from home long enough to have learned that this is a mistake. Meetings take longer than scheduled, or start late, or both. Often this is somewhat draining, especially if they are important, say for example you are trying to recruit a potential new customer. You can find yourself getting home late and worn out and in no fit state to write properly. So today I set my morning call for 6 a.m. and completed a three hour creative effort before getting going.

An additional spin off of this was that it meant organising my meetings for rather later in the day, when the traffic had calmed down somewhat. It is a real advantage when you work from home that you miss the daily rush hour. Don’t ruin that by organising meetings early in the day and placing yourself back into the rush hour traffic with no good reason.

I concluded my first meeting by lunchtime and I had planned a bit of a gap before the next one. When the weather is nice it’s pleasant to undertake a little exercise, today that is a walk along the river in Durham, where my second meeting was to take place.

Arrived home before 5 p.m. again missing the worst of the rush hour, and the remainder of the day is my own.

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