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oDesk Strategy

September 6, 2010

This post is by Omer Javaid (ojavaid on oDesk.com) a writer from Lahore, Pakistan.  He wrote this article to explain his experience on oDesk as a freelancer.  There are some good tips in the article.
What is oDesk.com
Odesk – one of the best known online portals for providing freelance platform to facilitate the freelancers to work under [...]

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oDesk Freelancer Inspired

September 6, 2010

This Filipino oDesk Freelancer is starting a career and gaining contracts on oDesk. Read on for oDesk tips from Rocelo Abrea (roceloabrea at oDesk):
Finding Work in the Philippines
After a four years of grinding in college and finish up my first bachelor’s degree. It is very expected to us newly graduates here in the Philippines not to have a decent job [...]

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Create Your Own Job with oDesk

September 5, 2010

In an uncertain economy it can be hard to find good work, however anyone with some ambition and internet access can create their own legitimate work at home job almost instantly by becoming a freelance worker. If you can do administrative tasks, write, research, do graphic art, or build websites than oDesk is a great place to find [...]

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Constant Success – Constant Content Review

September 5, 2010

The biggest problem for most writers is finding a way to make writing pay. In the traditional freelance model, you have to find writing jobs yourself. Finding the writing jobs means marketing yourself, and your writing, far and wide. When you eventually find a customer, you have to negotiate terms, submit work, wait [...]

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Does Bukisa Work?

August 17, 2010

Bukisa is a Web 2.0 revenue sharing site that is far better than Associated Content (pay per view is over double) especially for the non-US writers that Associated Content scammed.  I decided to try Bukisa and it is now an key part of my passive income toolbox.  The pay per view is pretty good and [...]

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Online Casino Niche?

August 15, 2010

The online casino is still a fast growing niche on the internet as internet marketers find more ways to do online what used to be the purvey of bricks and mortar locations and a broader range of consumers become comfortable with doing a broader range of activities online. Not only are there many online casinos [...]

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Become an Expert and the Opportunities Follow

August 7, 2010

I’ve always been interested in alternative real estate invests like cell phone towers, billboards, and corporate housing.  Some time ago I researched burial plots as an investment and wrote an ehow on the topic. Writer Wayne Price tracked me down from that eHow article, through this blog, for an interview that forms part of an [...]

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Infobarrel Review

August 7, 2010

Infobarrel is an up and coming Web 2.0 crowd sourced content site.  Anyone can write at infobarrel but they do screen submissions from new writers for quality (a really good thing).
I’ve been with Infobarrel for a few months, ever since Pat Flynn at Smart Passive Income recommended the Infobarrel site.  I found it pleasant to use and [...]

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Plagiarism Today: An Original Success Story

June 20, 2010

I just want to highlight Plagiarism Today and blogger Jonathan Bailey, the guy behind the site.  Jonathan just celebrated his 5th anniversary blogging on plagiarism and copyright issues, a worthy milestone.
Not only does Jonathan have a successful blog, he has developed a consulting business based on the blog that generates a full time income.   Read the story [...]

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ReviewsArena.com: a Review and Alternative

June 11, 2010

Online crowdsourcing site ReviewsArena.com is a great deal – for the people who created the site. Read their own description of their deal carefully.  http://www.reviewsarena.com/write.php Basically they want you to write reviews of clickbank products for them.  You get the commissions on sales for the first month and than they swap in their ClickBank code forever more.
Writing reviews of [...]

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Pros and Cons of ReviewStream.com

June 10, 2010

I stumbled across a site called ReviewStream.com today while searching out Constant Content reviews.
The first review I read appalled me. The writer could never make the cut on Constant Content and would struggle on most other writing sites. So I click the related reviews section and checked out another Constant Content review. Wow – [...]

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KarmaLynx – Build Links and Earn With Adsense

June 8, 2010

Link SheToldMe, KarmaLynx is site that shares Google Adsense or building links.  It has not grown like SheToldMe (lack of a referral program is my guess) but it is easy to use and pays up to 80% of Adsense impressions.
Here is a video they made on how to use the site.

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How Much Can You Earn at Constant Content?

June 7, 2010

How much can you earn at Constant Content?  As much as you want, and more than you might expect.
Constant Content is an online marketplace for writing.  The site brings together freelance writers and webmasters looking for high quality content. All articles go through an automatic plagiarism check and then a human editor before being released for [...]

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Four Ways to Make Money Online (plus a bonus idea)

June 6, 2010

The passive income oriented person looks beyond holding a job and focuses on building multiple streams of income that cannot be taken away from them. Some income streams will be active and immediate while others need to be long term passive to even out the rough spots.
If you are an effective writer, there are [...]

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Top 5 Social Bookmarking Sites That Pay You

June 2, 2010

Are you writing articles or blog posts to earn passive income, but are disappointed at the lack of traffic and earnings?
Do you blog but can never seem to get your blog posts to rank in the search engines?
Is your business website blog just not drawing visitors?
Without links pointing to your webpages the search engines pretty [...]

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Business Friendly Free Classified Ads

June 2, 2010

Free Classified Ad site iSell.com has been bringing my furnished suites business decent traffic.  While it does not bring as much traffic as Craigslist and Kijiji, the site offers some great features that set them apart from the two big free classified players:
1.  iSell is very business friendly in its format, unlike the Craigslist community which [...]

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Have You Failed at Constant Content?

May 22, 2010

A ridiculous number of people sign up to Constant Content and than never get to the first sale. If you are one of the guilty or frustrated, perhaps you fall into one of these traps:
Forgot to Start:  Simple to fix – I just reminded you to get started
Never Tried: You are missing out on the [...]

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Associate Content Bought Out By Yahoo

May 20, 2010

News of a $90-$100 Million dollar deal by Yahoo to buy out Associated Content just broke (May 18/10).  It is unclear how the acquisition relates to Associated Content’s decision to cut most of its writer contributors outside the USA.
If Associated Content is worth this kind of money they sure must be doing well with all [...]

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Using Statistically Improbable Phases

May 13, 2010

Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs) can be a useful tool for writers and webmasters.
Here is what Wikipedia says about SIPs as I write this article:

From Wikipedia
Statistically Improbable Phrases, Statimprophrases or SIPs constitute a system developed by Amazon.com to compare all of the books they index in the Search Inside! program and find phrases in each that are the most [...]

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Associated Content Pulls the Plug – Scam Alert

May 2, 2010

This email was distributed to thousands of writers outside the United States. Historically Associated Content would only pay pitiful residual income based on views, restricting their pitiful upfront payments to US residents. Now they have stopped paying residual income to writers outside the US too.
From: Associated Content
Sent: 2010-04-29 11:00:07
Subject: Important Announcement About International [...]

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