Freelance Work

Freelance work is becoming increasingly popular, thanks to the internet we have found many ways to take advantage of this activity. Working as an independent contractor or "freelance" is undoubtedly a work option that more and more young professionals consider even this is the most widely used student employment at present, it offers a different lifestyle and a nontraditional employment status. Getting a permanent job is becoming more complicated, because due to the global economic crisis is more common than temporary work abound. Some choose to leave the country to seek work abroad, seeking employment in other branches that are not related to their professions and some have found freelance work a reasonable exit their employment status. Now, is not as simple as that, but certainly that is absolutely possible. It is clear that there are no formulas to begin with, there are people who have never had a boss who are accustomed to freelance work. On the other hand there are people who have been working for the same company and want a change but do not know how. So if you want to start your independence working here are some tips to evaluate:

• Evaluate your skills: do not try to sell something you're not, be very aware of your skills and Expertise to offer your customers with confidence. • Build Your Portfolio: Web pages can not sell if you do not have a well-designed, if you have many designs and developments at least himself worthy of admiration. • Create support stationery: business cards are never over it's always good to bring one with you with all your information to contact you. • Choose a work area, is important because it is the place where you will spend much of your time, try to be comfortable and have the basics to work. • Optimize your resources: the beginning is always a little tricky, so try to optimize everything you have: money, clothes, budget, energy, connection, etc.. • Find customers: any meeting, dinner or event may be time to find customers, try to be prepared. • Meet with your time, do not be enthusiastic about wanting to impress offering less time than traditional, remember your reputation is at stake. • Set goals for the short, medium and long term this will give an overview of what you want to accomplish and not lose heart.

• Evaluate your budget: if you want to start this process, procupes have a financial backing that will serve in case of emergencies. • Do not miss the drive: If you spend several months and things do not go as expected, be aware that in fact this is part of the challenge, to assess how these fail and try again. • Introduce variety in your work: Boredom is one of the chief enemies of any work. So it is so important that, as far as possible, try to vary your routine at all levels. A few examples:

- Try to get a little different projects - Changes occasionally workplace. A couple of times a week you can go to another room, a library, a cafe, a park, etc.. - Introduce new services, consulting, among others. - Learn new skills and test new tools - Experience different marketing strategies work once you've started and ventured into freelance work you must:

• Publicize your work: you must work hard to publicize your work and find clients interested in doing projects. • Portfolio of work: If you do not have one, because it will be necessary to design your cover letter to your customers. • Income: not safe or stable each month, you get used to be months of hard revenue and others who may not receive anything as the projects get. Optimize your resources and organize your finances. • Organization of time: you must have discipline to work, arrange to meet the proposed dates and guarantee optimized for more projects. • Billing / taxes: you must meet all legal matters in your country in relation to self-employment to avoid problems with the client or legal issues. • No work no pay, your mindset must change, now working for an income guarantee based on your effort, you can not kill time as you did in the office and receive your pay, that does not work freelance are not paid. • Fair price: just put a price on work you do and negotiate with the customer will always be a challenge, study your market, learn to sell your knowledge and ability at the right price.

• Confidence: You must earn the trust of your customers to ensure more jobs or recommendations for the future. Your reputation will create confidence in the people you work with. • Proof: If there are months where you do not have projects not lose heart, being freelance is a challenge that can only do people with constancy and perseverance. • Vacation: spend a long time without having them to strike a balance of income, learn to risk some other things to achieve. Finally, a disadvantage is when we have to put a value on our work, here are some factors that will help us put a price on our work:

• Define how much you want to win for the project • Assess whether the answers you want to earn what the market pays for such projects • Do not work for less than what you feel comfortable • Calculate the time in hours that you will finish the Include in the project • all additional costs amount to do to develop the project • Assess whether you need to support others in the project • Detail on a contract or document the procedure, time estimates and percentage of payments

Argentina and Latin America Sites

1. Dotzero - Workplace 2. Web Programmer 3. ZonaJob - (Requires Registration) 4. Monster 5. Look in 6. Opcionempleo.com 7. Trabajofreelance.com 8. empleos.clarin.com 9. tuproximotrabajo.com.ar 10. empleos.amia.org.ar 11. Laborum.com 12. Bumeran.com 13. Job Fast 14. Trovit 15. Jooble - Argentina

Traditional job listings

1. FreshWebJobs 2. 37Signals GigBoard 3. Krop 4. SoloGig 5. NoAgenciesPlease 6. Programmer Meet Designer 7. Writers Resource 8. Aquent 9. AuthenticJobs 10. SimplyHired 11. WritingCareer 12. DesignCrowd 13. WriterLance 14. CSSBeauty's Jobs 15. Guru 16. AltPick 17. Coroflot 18. FreelanceWriting 19. CraigsList 20. AboutFreelanceWriting 21. Freelancers Network 22. FreelanceBBS 23. Work AllFreelance 24. Freelance Writing GoFreelanceSunOasis

Well based on the above no doubt there are more factors to consider to start to be freelance. But I think the most important thing is to be clear what it takes to be a freelancer, and take into account things like that you lose you win.