When we talk about any kind of online jobs then Freelancing Sites are the best place where we can get them. These sites are online market where some people sell Services and others Buy them.
Freelance sites give the power to Employers to hire job seekers on the internet. These job seekers will work for the employer via internet and after the completion of work, the employer will pay the employee who he hired using the freelance site.
Lot of users are now making their living via working at these sites and guess what, they are doing this from the comfort of their homes. Users can do this work from their homes or while traveling or if they are gone camping.
Here is a list of top freelance sites.
Note: I suggest you open these freelance sites in new windows and you keep reading this article. This article will help you understand what kind of data entry jobs you should do and which work needs to be avoided.
1. Elance [Free Membership Available]
2. Getafreelancer (GAF) [100% Free To Join]
3. oDesk
4. Scriptlance (SL) [For The Option "Account Type"; Choose "Programmer" NOT "Buyer"] [100% Free To Join]
Data entry is one of the easiest ways to earn on the internet but unfortunately contains the most non-legit programs.
This really is unfortunate as lot of new comers are trapped in this spamming work: these non-legit projects are opened by some people who do not respect the Law and Rules. These people want to damage other sites or people via their spam work.
What kind of Spam Work am I talking about?
There are many different kinds of non-legit jobs in the data entry category. I will try to explain about few types: once you get the main idea, you will then be able to distinguish between legal and non-legal jobs:
Captcha Entering Jobs
This is the worst kind of spamming job that one can find in data entry section.
Do you know what captcha entering actually means?
There are many online spammers who are actively working on the development of new and improved spam tools: instead of doing any useful work, they are wasting their time in the development of bad products. One of these products is used in captcha entering jobs.
What really happens in this work is that: you are required to use a simple tool to create 1000's of accounts at some site. Many spammers want to create these accounts at email related sites like Gmail, Hotmail etc.
During the email registration process, Gmail and other sites require us to enter few characters or numbers from an Image into a small box. This is called Captcha protection. These sites use this protection to protect their systems from abuses from spammers.
What abuses?
If a person starts to create 1000's of email accounts at Gmail or any other website, then this will be an abuse. Gmail is not offering their useful services to people who want to create huge number of mail accounts which they can then sell online to other spammers who will then use them to send out Spam Emails to different people.
If Gmail removes the Captcha protection then spammers can simply use their tools to create hundreds of accounts in few seconds. Their tools are designed to fill up the email account form/fields automatically with random information.
But with the Captcha protection ON, their tools cannot precede in the registration process unless someone manually enters the characters/numbers from the Captcha image. Here is when these spammers need other people to help them.
They open projects in the data entry category and normally hire New Comers. Users are given some software/tool which they need to run on their PC: this tool Runs Its Spam work in the background and then asks the user to enter the required Captcha information into a box.I am explaining all this spam process in detail as I want New Comers to understand what non-legit work is so that they can avoid it.
Basically, whenever you see a job whose title contains the work "Captcha", you should always ignore them or the better thing to do will be to report such projects to the Freelance Support.
Please note that: I have only mentioned the creation of Email accounts via automated process: there are many other types of captcha jobs where you may be required to use automated process to create accounts at other sites. Do not take any project where you are required to create accounts at any site using automated process. Some spammers may even ask you to create accounts manually: these are also non-legit projects.
Here is another example of another non-legit job:
Posting Ads at Craigslist or similar sites
Craigslist is the top jobs site on the internet. Unfortunately, some spammers use this site to advertise their products/services or they may want to use this site in a manner which is not allowed according to the rules of Craigslist.
You will see some projects under the data entry category where you will be required to do ad posting at this site. Please, before you do any kind of job, first read the Terms and Conditions at Craigslist or at any other site where you are not sure if the work you are given is legal or not.
Sending Out thousands of Emails
This is another type of a non-legit job. If you see a project where you are required to send out 1000's of emails to numerous people then most probably this will be a spam job. People buy and sell list of Email Accounts that have been gathered from the internet. Then some spammers use this list to send out advertising or scam emails to innocent people.
Before you take up this kind of work, find out how the buyer got this list of emails and do he have the proper permissions of the recipient.
There are many illegal jobs that are posted everyday under the data entry category: if you know the basics and always read/respect the rules, then you can easily avoid this kind of work.
No matter how much money is offered, Always Say NO to non-legit data entry jobs.
Spam work is a Crime: Please stay away from such work.
Say No to SPAM and Only Earn Legit and Clean Money.
Now let's talk a little about the freelancing websites:
It’s not easy to get work at the above mentioned websites. You need some guidance first you need to know the basics; you need to know many things about these sites.
If you apply for one project, then there are many other people (may be 2 other people, maybe 22) who will apply for the same project. So you need to learn how you will get a project even with other people fighting to get the same project.
The above mentioned guide is a must read if you really want to make money online.
Few definitions:
Buyers: Are people who outsource jobs at freelance sites.
Service providers: These are the people who seek jobs at freelance sites. Like you and me. Service providers or SPs do work for buyers.
Projects: At freelance sites, projects and jobs means the same. If I say “bid on a project”, then it will mean something like “apply for a job”.
After buyer post projects, job seekers like me and you, place bids on these projects. One person may offer to do the work for $100, where other may say $95. May be some other SP will offer to do the work for $90.
Now it’s up to the creator of the project to choose a winner among all job seekers.
Let’s assume that you managed to win a project worth $50. The work is simple data entry job where you have to type content from scanned pages to word documents.
You completed this work in 3 hours and then you delivered the completed work to the buyer. After delivering the work, you waited for the buyer to verify the work.
After the verification, the buyer will pay you $50. Sometimes, buyers also pay bonuses [if they are pleased with your work].
You will get this money [$50], in your freelance account. There are few payment options available at freelance sites via which you can transfer this money from freelance account to your bank account. Details about these options are explained later in this article.
I have mentioned that working at freelance site is free and that you will never spend any money from your pocket to get different kinds of online jobs.
But when you will get money from buyers in your freelance account, then there will be a small fee deducted from that money [these are the funds that you just earned].
All freelance sites charges a small fee on the money you make. You do not pay this fee from your pocket. This fee will be deducted only when you will complete a job for a buyer and that the buyer pays you the money for the completed work.
The fee which freelance sites charges varies from site to site. This fee can be 5%, 10% etc: it depends on the freelance site where you are working.
The reason for telling you the whole story is to prove that this system is %100 SCAM free. You will never have to pay anything to anyone ever, from your own pocket.
The most amazing thing about freelance sites is that, it’s totally free to join them. You will never be asked to pay any money from your pocket at any point of your freelance career.
So then: Is there any SCAM involved here?
Well, there is not; right?
Freelancing sites offer 100% legitimate data entry jobs. I personally love Copywriting jobs as they pay much better than many other jobs. You can earn a lot of money via doing copywriting work at these websites.
Unfortunately, not everybody can make money online via doing copywriting jobs, as to do this work, one need to write content in proper English. Proper English means, to write content with no spelling and no [or may be few] grammatical mistakes.
What kind of experience is required to do data entry jobs?
No experience of any kind is required. Everybody can do data entry work. If you know, how to use a PC, then you are eligible to do this work.
There is no need to think about any SCAM here, what I am telling you is %100 scam free. You only need to worry about scams when you are paying money from your pocket. But in this case, you are paying nothing.
If you still worry about scams, then after you earn $30 at a freelance site, you may stop doing more work. First request a withdrawal.
This means that you will request the freelance site to send you your money. Once you receive the money [$30] from freelance site, I guess then you will stop to worry about SCAMs.
I said to first make $30. This is because the minimum amount that you can withdraw from most freelance sites is $30. You cannot withdraw $20 or $22 or any amount which is less than $30.
How will you receive your money?
There are many payment options available at freelance sites. Payment options include:MoneyBookers, Paypal , Egold etc.
I suggest you use Paypal or Moneybookers, as these two payment options are the cheapest and safest of all. If Paypal is not supported in your country, then use MB. MB is supported in [almost] all countries.
To find more information about payment options, please read the free online jobs guide which I have mentioned above.
Just give it a try; you will not be disappointed
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