Although I had submitted most of my photos to the major microstock photography websites – there were a few “other” sites that I simply had not had the time to submit my images to.  One of these websites is Fotolia.  I have heard that people were making good money on Fotolia and I know my images would garner at least $30 to $40 a month – IF they were up on Fotolia.  Yet, I never found the time to upload them and the months were just flying by. 

It was last week that I realized that maybe it was time I hired some freelance help.  After all, even if it costs me $50 to have a freelancer submit and tag all of my photos – I would gain most of that money back in a little over a month.  I’d be trading off a one time charge of $50 in return for $30 to $40 in repeating monthly residual income.  I knew, that will everything else going on in my life that I simply would never find the time to upload those photos on Fotolia. 

So I did it – I signed up for Elance and I placed an ad in search of someone to upload my photos. I got back about twenty submissions all ranging from $2.50 per hour to $10 per hours.  Most of the lower offers came from other countries and to be honest, the grammatical errors in the submissions alone made me think twice about hiring them for a job that required labeling photos with relevant English terminology.  I chose an experienced provider who offered to complete the job for $5 per hour. 

The provider that I chose has done an excellent job submitting my photos.  With only 4 logged hours of work he submitted a good portion of my images. There were a few small spelling errors – but overall, I could see how valuable hiring a freelancer online really was.  Having those images up on Fotolia will start paying off immediately for me.  This made me start thinking of other ways I could use freelancers to get my current workload completed and profit while doing so.  

Using Elance is like having the ability to hire the most qualified applicants at the most reasonable pay rates – all at the click of a mouse.  If you too have jobs or tasks that you have been putting off, you may want to consider hiring a freelancer from Elance. 

On the other hand, if you are looking for a way to make money online and take on some freelance work – Elance is perfect for you.  Freelance writers, graphic designers, marketing experts, administrative support, lawyers and engineers are all available for hire on Elance.  Whether you do work on Elance for some extra part time money or provide your services to others on a full time basis – Elance is a great resource no matter what field you are in. 

If you have had good or bad experiences with Elance, please comment below.  If you have found a way to increase your profitability by hiring Elance freelancers – please let us know about it! 

You can visit elance’s website by clicking here: Elance

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Michael-John Wolfe

TAGS: Residual Income, Make Money Online, Royalties

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If you are tired of working on someone else’s schedule and you have a skill that can be outsourced directly to you at your home or your office, then you should consider becoming a freelancer on Guru.

Guru is a website made for freelancers who specialize in areas such as website design, graphic design, illustration, engineering, architechture, networking, business consulting, legal consulting, finance, writing, programming and editing to sell thier skills online.  Would’nt you rather be in charge of your own rates and decide yourself which jobs you accept and which jobs you decline?  With Guru you can use their website to make money online by simply bidding for projects in the area that you specialize in.

Let’s say a customer wants a website designed and they post an ad on Guru for thier new website.  If you are a website you can post your bid for the mimimum amountof money that you would complete this website for.  You are obviously competing with hundreds of people for many of the jobs, so the more samples of prior work that you can show the client the better.  Employers posting jobs on Guru are looking for experience, good feedback/ratings from other past Guru customers, samples of your work, the lowest price and the fact that the job will be completed in a timely fashion.

The cool thing about Guru is that the money the employer pays for the job goes into an escrow account before you begin work.  This protects both you and the employer, once you have completed the job satisfactorily – you can claim your earnings from the escrow account.  This way you don’t have to worry about getting paid directly from the employer. 

With the state of today’s economy – almost everyone could use some supplemental income or residual income - why not set up a profile on Guru and use this website as a way to make money online and sell your pertinent skills to interested employers.

You can visit Guru’s website here: Guru

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Elance is a huge marketplace for those with various skills to find employers who are willing to pay them for their time and effort. Whether you are a writer, computer programmer, graphic designer, marketing consultant, lawyer or engineer – you can post a profile on elance and obtain quality jobs for your work. There was almost 25,000 jobs posted on elance last month and each job is a specific assignment that is requested by the employers.

When accepting a job on elance – you usually are’nt accepting a permanent position, you are accepting a specific assignment to be carried out and completed for the employer. The better your profile and the more skills, knowledge and education you have listed on your profile – the more likely you are to make money on elance.

When an employer posts a job on Elance – they will choose who they hire through a bidding process. In other words, if an Insurance company needed nine insurance articles written for their website, they would post this request under “Article Writing”. Then they would set a budget and a time frame for the bidding process, let say they chose four days. Over those four days, article writers would put in their “bid” for the total cost of the nine articles and they could also submit samples of their previous work for reference.

Once the bidding period has ended, the employer can choose which writer he or she wants to hire and an agreement is made through Elance. Once the nine articles are complete – the employer can pay the freelance writer directly through the elance website. The more jobs a writer completes and the more positive feedback he or she receives, the higher this writer will rise in Elance’s rankings.

Some of the top writers on Elance have a 94% to 99% positive rating and they have over 100 reviews. So if you want to compete in your genre of experience on Elance, it will take time and quality work. If you continue to provide this level of work for your employers you can make some great money online through elance.

You can visit Elance’s website here: Elance

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