13 Nov 09 5 More Jobs for Which You Do Not Need to Step Out of Your Home

Working from home is no more a thought of the future. It is very much real now, and the proliferation of the Internet has made this more real and more pervasive. Now many people are doing their jobs. In the first part we talked about 5 stay-at-home job that you can do. In this article as well, I will tell you about 5 jobs for which you will not need to go to office.

Web Designing

If you know XHTML and CSS, and have a good design sense then there is no limitation to how much you can earn from web designing. There are many people who need websites, but they do not know how to make it. Hence, they take help of professional web design service providers.

Web Development

It is not only the designing part of the website that is in demand, but people who know PHP and MySQL is equally in demand. If you know how to developed dynamic websites, CMS-based portals, etc., then there is no limitation to how much clients you get. Everyone is looking for a quality web developer. Asp.net, JSP, and other languages may also get you some job, but PHP and MySQL is the official currency of web 2.0.

Website Theme and Layout Designing

This is the third kind of job related to website development and designing. If you know Photoshop and can use it to design the home page, and all the sub pages of the website then a lot of clients is eagerly waiting for your services. Website lay outing and theme designing is the first step of web design and development, and everyone who needs either of the above written two services will have to use this service.

WordPress Theme Design

WordPress has changed the way we design or develop a website, or blog, and despite the fact that WordPress offers a whole gamut of free themes, there are no dearth of people who need professionally designed themes. You have two options here, either you can take a WordPress designing job as freelancer, or you can sell your own designs through online theme stores.

WordPress to Blogger Theme Conversion

Blogger is another famous blogging platform, but it does not have as many free themes as does WordPress. Many people who use Blogger as a blogging platform wants to use the cool looking WordPress like themes on their blogs, for which they need someone to convert a WordPress theme to a Blogger theme. This service is hugely in demand.

Tags: Cms, Dearth, Design Sense, Dynamic Websites, Free Themes, Freelancer, Gamut, Jsp, Office Web, Professional Web Design, Professional Web Design Service, Proliferation, Providers Web, Quality Web, Service Providers, Stay At Home, Stay At Home Job, Web Design Service, Web Developer, Working From Home

Filed in Jobs with 0 Comments

23 Oct 09 3 Businesses that Will Never Fail Part – 3

This is the third part of 3 Businesses that Will Never Fail series (Click here and here to read part one and two, respectively). In this part, I will talk about three more service oriented businesses that will never fail, no matter how bad economy becomes.

Become Virtual Assistant

The growing cost of maintaining an army of employees has forced many companies to outsource their works to developing countries. This not only helps companies do away with unnecessary staffs, but it also enables them in getting the work done for less.

With the growing army of freelancer, need for a highly qualified virtual assistant is felt by the companies that previously employed full-time workers to do the same work. A virtual assistant is a person who works on the behalf of the company employing him, and gets work done from freelancers. Essentially, a virtual assistant is also a freelancer, but unlike other freelancer, his job is to get the work done. If you are a good administrator then you can render this service to various clients.

Online trading assistant

When economy fails, people become wary of every activity that costs them money. Sometime they become petrified of the perceived loss, therefore, while going online to trade their goodies, they seek a trading assistant who has good understanding of trading online websites like eBay, or of listing on classified sites like Craigslist. These people are newbies who want to dispose the stuffs they do not need for an appropriate price, and they need trading assistant because they do not have experience of trading on the internet, which they do not have time to learn.

You can start this business, if you have a good trading skill. To be successful as online trading assistant, you need to know the working of various kinds of trading and listing websites, and you should also know to write compelling description of the product. A trading assistant has to handle every aspect of the product sales and for that he gets a commission on the product price.

Blogging

In the financial terms, blogging has a low entry cost, but in terms of skills, the entry cost is not that low. If you are an expert in your field then you can run a blog and then monetize it for profit. A blog will only be successful, if you add value to readers’ life. Readers do not flock around me-too blogs, they only like the blog that has real value. This can be a good source of income, if you are in the know of a subject matter about which people want to know.

Tags: Army, Developing Countries, Ebay, Economy, Freelancer, Freelancers, Full Time, Good Understanding, Goodies, Job, Money, Newbies, Oriented Businesses, Staffs, Stuffs, Time Workers, Virtual Assistant

Filed in Business with 0 Comments

12 Sep 09 3 Reasons You Would Not Like to Freelance

Till now, everyone said to you that freelancing is fun, and it gives you a control over what you want to do and how you want do the work assigned to you. You do not have a boss, and no one is going to tell you when to work and when to sleep.

Well…

This is not far from the truth but there is another point of view on this matter, which I am going to share in this blog post.

You should not take freelancing as a career if:

You do not want a boss

Well, if you do not want a boss for yourself than freelancing is not a career choice for you, indeed, you do not have “a boss” here, but you have bosses here. Your clients are your boss and often they will be more than one in number, and everyone will be asking for your 100 percent attention to his or her work, so if you feel uncomfortable in working with a boss then look somewhere else, freelancers have more than one bosses.

You do not like late night shifts

If occasional late night shifts make you convulse then freelancing may not be a right career choice for you. You need to work day in and day out, sometime without a break for days, if you want to be successful as a freelancer. Freelancing is a business, not a fix-time job. It will require your 1000 percent contribution, not just your presence in the employer’s office.

You cannot add value

Contrary to what you think, freelancers are supposed to be more efficient than the regular fix-time employee. Your client is outsourcing his work, instead of hiring someone fulltime to do that work, because he or she wants more work done by paying less dollars.

I know, “how much is less and how many is too many” are relative concepts.

As a freelancer, you will have to make many decisions. Decisions related to work, finance, time, negotiations and what not. You are running a one-man show, if you are freelancing. Can you do it? Do you have it in you?

Write to me, if you think you can. Use the comment box below or mail me on Bikram [at] biksy [dot] com.

Tags: Bikram, Boss, Break, Career Choice, Contrary, Decisions Decisions, Finance Time, Freelancer, Fulltime, Late Night, Man Show, Negotiations, Night Shifts, Point Of View, Presence, Relative Concepts, Running, Sleep, Time Employee, Time Job, Truth