You might be surprised with some of the main reasons that cause freelancers to fail. The first-time freelancer doesn’t fail because of doing poor quality work, or due to missing a deadline; nor do they lack the talent to execute their tasks. However, these factors may contribute somewhat to the...
Your clients and/or customers are not concerned whether there’s a hamster that chewed through a network cable somewhere in Northern California or it is something else. They are only concerned of if their website is up or not. Uptime is defined as the amount of time for which your website...
Unless you have adopted a reclusive lifestyle of late, it should be clear from the endless news reports and closures, that the High Street is not coping well with the Economies’ woes. Week after week, we are told of companies that have gone bankrupt, let staff go, or simply ceased...
Before you start handing out business cards and trying to find freelance work, it’s important to understand why companies hire freelance writers. Companies hire freelance writers for a number of reasons. When a company downsizes, for example, writers often are among the first to be let go. It isn’t because...
The world’s technocrats have never stopped thinking around the globe. The need for a more reliable and less costly operating system platform has always been a motivating factor for most mobile development companies. Known for their lasting dominance in the mobile world, Nokia’s Symbian Operating System has now lost its...
Of all the social media and networking sites out there, Google Plus might just be the most helpful, yet least understood, one of the bunch. Google’s social media platform has been called a flop and a ghost town ever since its arrival on the scene, but that’s hardly the case...
There is a growing frustration among smartphone users. Every month, it seems, a company releases the next greatest smartphone. We have phones that are more powerful than laptops of a few years ago. Yet the mobile web experience overall hasn’t improved much in the last few years. When you visit...
When you are beginning as a freelancer, it is easy to feel overwhelmed with hall of the possibilities and options freelancing can offer. It is too easy to lose confidence in yourself, in your abilities when you don’t know where to start, how to offer a good job in time...
These days mobile devices i.e. mobile phones are much more popular than PC’s or laptops. According to the research of The International Telecommunication Union in October 2010, there were more than 7 billion mobile phones, exceeding the number of PCs about 3.8 times. They say that in 2013 it’s expected...
Getting enough traffic to your blog is one of the most crucial things you can do to achieve the best results from your online investment. One way of gaining a large base of readers is through actively driving more traffic to your site. No matter what kind of blog you...
Few years ago, the term freelancer was considered as an excuse to avoid calling yourself jobless. Nowadays the situation is very different; there are many cases of highly specialized individuals that prefer working from home. Much more, many companies accepted the idea of working from home…it is a real growing...
The key to successfully marketing your business on Facebook is finding an authentic voice that connects with and engages your desired audience. This article walks you through some exercises to help you find and use your voice. Whether your business is small or large, I help you turn it into...
Businesses around the world are raving about the latest computer application model, which is called “cloud” computing. In the early days of mainframe computers, central processing was the common model used by large enterprises: public and private. Each large entity maintained separate computer systems with software that was designed to...
Remember the days when the internet was shiny and new, and how there used to be so many search engines? That was long before Google held dominance. Many people used different search engines, even during the course of a single day, to find information online. While Google and the other...
The biggest issue most freelancers face is the absence of communication with other human beings. It’s rather hard to work long hours alone, and it only gets better when you find someone like you who’d be pleased to communicate a bit. Conferences are rather helpful when you are having communication...