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I thought it was time to do an update on a certain topic. I often encourage my clients and readers to get started with freelance job sites when first wanting to make money online. While sometimes you may end up earning a little less than what you would like, it gives you an idea of the types of jobs people need done and you can gain a little experience in order to demand those higher rates when you know what you are doing.

I started out writing for $3 an article. While some people may argue that you don’t need to work for such a little wage, often it is more beneficial to you to do so. If you look at it as a way to get paid training, you no longer think of it as getting ripped off for your time. If after a year, you are still willing to work for those low wages, then you’re just being dumb(unless of course you have no time to market and find higher paying jobs, have come to be dependent on what you do earn, and don’t mind the wage)

Recently I made the decision to cut back on my client work and just keep the higher paying clients. I wanted to branch out and spend some time submitting articles to sites that pay upfront and have an ad revenue sharing system in place. I also want to build up my hubpages and squidoo lenses again because you can earn from so many different ways with those once you get the traffic coming in.

Anyways, while I was getting all of this stuff together and deciding what sites I was going to go with, a new client of mine who was looking for ways to make money online asked me if there were any sites around that had a variety of stuff to complete. She said that she got bored very easily, also since she had little ones running around, she could not commit to jobs that would take hours or require quiet, or too much concentration. She still wanted to be able to offer her services and thought she had a few skills that would come in handy.

So, I got to thinking about it and I knew there were a few sites that I had joined in the past, but also knew that only those few sites would never allow her to make much of an income on their own. She needed a steady flow of jobs available, which meant numerous sites.

So, the hunt was on. I decided I would go looking for these sites, ask other work at home folks at forums and such if they had any luck, and see which sites stood out to be the best.

I have gathered together a list of the top 10 sites. Remember, some of these sites only pay like .30 a job that is 2 minutes long, while others will pay up to $10/hr. If you are looking for more than $10/hr I have heard of one site that offers that but forgot the link for it, so when I find it again, I will add it.

odesk, getafreelancer, elance, scriptlance, rentacoder, and other freelance sites are similar but you usually need to take on jobs that take a while to complete. Often times the pay works out to be like $2-$3/hr which does not work for North Americans and Europeans where the cost of living is higher than other places.

If you are trying to build up a full time income so you can quit your job and work from home, you will need to sign up to as many of these sites both the ones listed above and the ones I will post below. You must be willing to work as much as possible(even including the weekends) for the first year. People who think working at home means that they can earn huge dollars for less work than where they are at their offline jobs are often disappointed when they find out it can be even more work to stay at home. But the other benefits are what make up for it. You can set your own schedule, you can decide what kind of jobs you want to do, who you want to work with, and for what wage you are willing to do it all for. You can be there for your kids outings and concerts, you can spend time to do homework with them or anything else you want to do.

It can be done with time, dedication and a willingness to make life better for both you and your family.

Here are the links for the freelance micro job sites. With most of these sites, you can earn money for referring others to the site(although, I have not bothered to do that since I do not know how much time I will have to invest in this work with my other work going on) But that is another way you can make money from these sites. Some of them give you a bonus for signing up. Most let you get paid through Paypal when you reach $10-$20. Some are less, some are more. Even if you are not sure about things, take the time to check them all out, browse around to see what types of jobs are available and then decide. These types of sites are perfect for those who do not possess many skills, and who live in any country of the world.

Microworkers
Short Task
Fiverr
Get Paid to Do Tasks
MyLot
My Easy Task
TenytThis is one of the higher paying sites
Jobboy
WeBeServe
Minute Workers

Have fun and be sure to come back here and post a comment on whether you liked the sites or didn’t. This will help others make a decision on whether to try it or not.

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Making money with articles can be fairly easy for anyone. If you are a quick learner and great reader, then you can learn everything you need to know right from the Internet without any previous training needed. This is probably the best fact about niche website Internet marketing.

If you are new to the business, your best bet is to ease into it. If you jump in before you know what you are doing, you have a good chance of losing money and having nothing to show for it. There are several things that you need to make sure you know how to do before you begin creating your first site.

• Create your own great articles or hire someone to do it for you
There are many places online you can buy PLR packages. With these pre-written articles, the hard part is already done for you.They can be purchased for usually $1 an article and you are free to do what you want with them once they are yours.

You can hire someone to write them for you but this costs a lot more. While you may find someone on the freelance market sites for $2-$3 an article, these people who can afford to charge so little do not usually live in North America or Europe and are more often than not, Native English speakers. So you may find that you have way more editing than you planned on. At $10 or more for a quality article, it can get too expensive for most new beginners to internet marketing.

• Optimize your website for search engines
This means including meta tags and descriptions in your pages, writing a page with your keywords in mind so the search engines will be able to rank you for those keywords.

Many people find this part of internet marketing the hardest to grasp when just starting out and often ignore it, thinking that it won’t make a difference. It does. Look for books online that will show you step by step how and where to set everything up so you are optimized the best you can be.

• Find reliable web hosting
There is a ton of web hosting companies online today and many more being started every week. How do you choose which company to go with? Ask your friends, hang out in forums with other internet marketers and you will soon hear which ones are the best and most reliable. I have been using Hostgator for years. They have only been down once or twice in the 6 years I have used them. For less than $10 a month, you can get the Baby package and have unlimited domains and websites running. This is ideal for those who want to start setting up little micro niche sites for affiliate income and adsense earnings. Use my link above and you can get your first month for only $1 when you type in the coupon code : wordpress

• Pick a catchy URL
When you click on my link above for your hosting account, one of the things included in a domain name for your first and primary site. This will be your main one and you will want to make sure it is a good one. Use keywords in your url but try to keep it short and simple. As more and more domain names are bought, it will be harder to do that, but if you can, test it out. You may find that you have to come up with a few options you like as more than likely one, two, a few or even all of them could have been chosen by someone else already.

If you are part of a forum, start a thread and ask others what they think about your choices or if they can help your brainstorm something suitable. Take you time and pick something you will not regret later.

• Create a small site that is easy to navigate, have one created for you, or pay to use a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) website builder.
With Wordpress taking the world by storm, almost all other site building programs are left in the dust. Wordpress comes with every hosting account and can easily be installed in 3 mins by just filling out the information you will want for the site. You can then create pages, posts, install plugins that will add even more features like the ability to sell your own products, and much more.

If you are not really a techie or do not have the time and patience to learn a new program, you can go to those same freelancing sites I mentioned above(elance, scriptlance, odesk, and others), and see if you can hire someone to help you install your site and add some content. You should also be able to find someone on the forum that you can hire and may even get a deal.

In the beginning of every business, there is always a bunch of work to do where sometimes you can feel like you are working 60 or more hours a week. But one of the benefits of an online business, is that once you have set up these sites, all you mainly need to do after is concentrate on marketing them and driving as much traffic to them as you can. It takes time to build up any business, but with the affordability of an online business, it makes waiting it out so much easier. Where else can you get started with a business for $20 a month?

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I can hear it now….how many of these sites are out there where you spend your time reading emails, visiting sites, and now reading articles for only a few cents a day? Well, I just joined this program called IMCrew. They say you can join for free, and right now until they launch because they want so many people to join, they are giving everyone $2 for every free sign up they get!

After that, you will be able to read articles and share them with others and have the potential to earn $1275 a month. This I need to try out. While I am getting pretty successful with my writing career these days, I still like to spend the weekends looking for new programs that other moms can join to make money. Not everyone I know can write or wants to write for a living. Some moms, even if they wanted to write, just can’t due to too many demanding children or an invalid in their home who requires more of their time than would be available for a writing career.

But what if you could spend just a few minutes whenever you could throughout the day. Say you ended up being able to round up an hour or two a day broken up into segments, and still make some pretty good money. Would that help you out? Well, here is something I think you could get into.

First, sign up for this new program. Remember it is free, you can then promote your link on traffic exchanges, safelists, free classifieds, forum signatures, Facebook, Twitter or wherever you feel comfortable.

If you need my help or want me to help you build a squeeze page for the traffic exchanges, then leave a comment below and I will get back to you and see what we can come up with. All free of charge. I just want you to get making money so you will know it can be done.

So, back to the new program. Click on the link below and get signed up and then go get your affiliate link or if you need me to help you get the graphic and the link working together then give me a shout, I am working on doing up a how to on that tomorrow and posting it here or making it a pdf you can download, not sure the best way to do that yet…..

O.k. so once you are signed up for that, that will be an income stream for you. That shouldn’t take too much time out of your day. You, like I will have to see how it goes.

I want to mention another quick way you can make money that is kind of along these same lines. Now, I have mentioned PTC before but not sure if you all either know what it is or how it works.

PTC or Paid to Click is where you sign up for accounts on sites that have advertising from other marketers. You then get paid a penny or a few to click on emails, or links to sites and check out the site for 10-60 secs depending. Some of these sites only have like 5 links a day which can only be 5 cents a day. Many people do not see the sense in wasting their time. I wondered about it too. At one point in time when I was first checking this out a year or so ago, I was signed up to like 20 different sites and spending like 4 hours or so clicking for a mere $2 or $3 a day. How these sites work mostly, is by getting referrals under you. If you have 100 referrals all clicking each day and you get half of their pay each day, it can add up to quite a bit of money for the same time you spent clicking on your own ads.

The thing is that you need to market your affiliate links and get others to join you. This can be very time consuming and if you do not know how to make up web pages that have more than one affiliate link on it, it can be quite a pain to figure out how to divide your time so you can get enough everywhere. So….I decided to give up on all but 2 of the sites I was with. And here is why.

Neobux is a great site that allows you to buy your referrals for a month at a time. You can buy 3 referrals for .75 and then you just keep adding to it. Now, I hadn’t even thought about this idea until I came across this post by Strat. He explains fully how to go about a plan to make $20 a day for only a few minutes of your time and without ever having to pay out of your own pocket. Once I read it, I realized immediately how this was a good system and work my time to invest in. So, I have since sign up and am working my way through the system myself.

Now to some people $20 a day may not seem like much, but if you think that you are making that amount of money for a maximum of 30 minutes of your day, that is pretty good. To some people $20 a day(and we are talking 7 days a week with these types of systems), can make a real difference. I mean, sure you couldn’t raise a family in North America on that(maybe in other countries), but it could mean the difference between a good neighborhood for your kids or a not so good one.

So, go here to this site, read through the steps he has laid out, and get making money today. You can either sign up under his link as he says or come back here and click on my banner below. Up to you.
http://firstchoicelinks.ws/strat/ (be sure to click the back button on your browser if you want to come back here and give me credit. I may be able to give you some extra freebies later on that will help you make more money with traffic exchanges and such)

There you go, if you add these two systems that I have mentioned in this long post, you could be on your way to making hundreds if not thousands of dollars in about 6 months time!

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