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Six Things I’ve Learned as Freelancer

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Feature, Freelance Tips, Social Media Tagged Elance, Freelance, freelance marketing, Freelance research, freelancer, oDesk, Social Media, social networking, Work at Home

I started as a full time freelancer last August 19, 2009 and yes, I’m still alive and kicking and looking to better years ahead. I had a scary start primarily of financial nature, fear of the unknown and doubts of getting a work that can…

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How to: Create a “Likable” Fan Page

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Facebook, Feature, Social Media

One of the most notable tools that’s exploding almost exponentially today is the use of Facebook fan pages. An interesting statistics you can check is a post at Allfacebook.com that lists down the top pages in terms of number of fans and growth rate. And…

10 Websites to Keep You Up-to-Date

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Feature, Social Media Tagged Facebook, Social Media, Twitter

The web is a vast resource of knowledge that’s almost inexhaustible with information. And keeping abreast on what’s the latest whether online or offline, local or global, is just a click of the mouse away. But choosing where to get your information is another story.…

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What’s New with LinkedIn Groups?

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Feature, From the Web, LinkedIn, Social Media Tagged Freelance, Linkedin, LinkedIn groups, networking, oDesk, Social Media, social networking

I have been frequenting the oDesk group in Linkedin lately, because I am monitoring a discussion that I’ve started regarding freelancing challenges. And I was surprised to see an entirely different look and feel of the groups section. For one, there is now a slide…

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Five Reasons Why Hootsuite5 Rocks

Posted on by Florante Valdez
Posted in Feature, Social Media Tagged Hootsuite, Seesmic, Social Media, Tweetdeck

It’s hard to keep up with social media. Every single day, we get bombarded with new updates, new tools being launched and new [tweetmeme]versions being rolled out. But let’s just say that for the month of June, if we are going to pick the best…

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…