2010 February | Certified Freelance

A Thousand Hours of Freelancing

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Feature, News Tagged Freelance, freelance job, freelance work, oDesk, Work at Home

I have reached my first milestone as freelancer just before the end of February by hitting my first 1000 hours on oDesk. Who could have imagined that i’d last this long. I don’t think that even my friends in the call center would actually think…

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How To Succeed As a Freelancer

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Feature, Freelance Tips, In My Opinion Tagged Elance, Freelance, freelance bid, freelance job, freelance project, freelance sites, freelance work, freelancer, Freelancing, GetAFreealancer, Job Bid, oDesk, project proposal, Work at Home

I’m not a guru when it comes to freelancing. I have only been in this field for about 2 years. But, I have learned a handful of lessons that’s been helping me realize my dream of a successful freelance career. I must say that working…

Practical Benefits of Blogging to a Freelancer

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Blog Tips, Feature, Freelance Tips, Social Media Tagged blogger, blogging, freelance advertising, freelance blogger, freelance marketing, freelance networking, freelancer, Social Media, social networking, Wordpress

Blogs are so popular nowadays that if you do a Google search for this term it will give you a result of at least 1,130,000,000. That’s correct, a whooping one billion figure that grows by the thousands every day. And with this popularity, and many…

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Six Essentials in Winning a Freelance Job Bid

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Feature, Freelance Tips Tagged Elance, Freelance, freelance fee, freelance site, Freelancing, GetAFreelancer, Job Bid, oDesk

When I first wrote this post (09.21.09 11:20am) there were 993,558 GetAFreelancer service providers, 346,574 oDesk job seekers and 98,973 Elance experts. That’s a whopping 1,439,105 freelancers and counting. And that is only from three popular freelance sites. Today, there are 1,056,679 GetAFreelancer service providers,…

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Research Tools Every Freelancer Should Know

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Feature, Freelance Tips Tagged Freelance research, Mendeley, research, research papers, Zotero

As a home based freelancer, researching is one essential skill that you should pack on your resume. But aside from knowing what to search, and where to search, it is equally essential to know how to arrange all those documents or articles you find online.