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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Easy Language
TradeStation gives you the power to right code in Easy Language in order to back test your trading strategies. Now, while the name of the code is Easy Language, it is far from easy. If you have previous coding experience, then Easy Language will remind you a lot of C++, but if you have no previous coding experience, do not waste your time on trying to learn the syntax. Simply look to their third-party programmers for assistance. These developers are backed by TradeStation and they do not charge and obscene amount of money. Better yet, if you have a friend or relative that knows how to write code, they will quickly be able to write basic strategies for you.
TradeStation provides some basic literature on Easy Language, but if you want to really get your feet wet, you will have to purchase their home study course, which will run you a cool $149. Again, if you are here to trade, trade, and leave the developing to the programmers.
Historical Market Data
TradeStation has over 25 years of historical data. When you look a little closer, the amount of data is dependent upon which investment vehicle you are using:
- 4 years of intra-day Forex data
- 8 years of Eurex Futures and Index Data
- 16 years of intra-day Equities
- 25 years on intra-day Futures data
So, the real question is do you need all this data from TradeStation. Well, of course, if you are serious about testing your trading strategies. This amount of market data will allow you to back test your strategies in bull, bear and flat markets. You will quickly see how you would have faired in the bull market of the late 90’s, or the slippery slope down in ‘01 and ‘02. Most importantly, you can see how you would have done since the market recently bottomed in the spring of ‘03.
Automated Trading
I do not endorse mechanical trading, as I feel every trader should be responsible for his or her own trading decisions, but I have to admit, having the option of setting up automatic trading is impressive. In order to activate this feature, you should be certain that your strategy is working properly and has clear stop rules. The last thing you want is to take lunch and come back to realize you just bought a 10 thousand dollar hotdog. TradeStation also has a new feature that allows you to execute orders based on fundamental analysis. TradeStation is the first platform capable of scanning and executing orders based on fundamental factors.
Back testing Strategies
There is one part of back testing that TradeStation does not tell you about and that is slippage. When you write your Easy Language code, you can tell the code to exit a trade on the close of the current bar, or ext at market on the open of the next bar. The problem is you may want to write the code to get out at a specific price. Now, all of you Easy Language experts out there, please relax, I know that you can write code to get out at any particular price, but the average trader will not know how to write such detailed code. So, in summary remember that if you write your own code, the canned functions in Easy Language will not allow you to easily code your exits. Just make sure you verify in your performance report that your results have not been inflated or deflated due to slippage.
TradeStation will display a report of your hypothetical trading results. The TradeStation performance report lists everything from average time in trade, average gain, total commission, annual rate of return to name a few. Only problem, you cannot export the data to excel. So, one is forced to manually type in stats into your friendly worksheet processor. Depending on how much information you want to analyze, this exercise could prove to be time consuming.
Trade Execution
TradeStation has the quick order button execution of every other active brokerage firm. But the cool thing with TradeStation is the Order Cancels Order (OCO) and Order Stages Order (OSO) order types. For Order Cancels Order, you can instruct TradeStation to enter a position if the price breaks up or down. This works well when you have identified two levels on a stock as potential long or short entries depending on how the price breaks. The Order Stage Order allows you to stage multiple orders for an existing position. So, if you are long MSFT and want to exit in 3 increments, you can create an OSO order which will stage the orders and when a certain price is hit, it will exit a part of your position at a specific limit. I often hear traders say that they do not want to put a stop in, because if there limit is hit, they will have to cancel their open stop order, to then put in a limit order to exit the trade. Well, with OSO in you can place both a stop and up to 3 limit orders in TradeStation, so there is no longer any excuse as to why you can not protect your capital, the second you get in the trade.
Shorting
TradeStation does not have the books to short some of the more obscure stocks. So, if you want to short stocks that are not well known, you may encounter some trouble with TradeStation. This does not happen often, but it happens enough that it is noticeable.
Charting
The charts in TradeStation are in real-time and there are over a hundred indicators, show me, paint bars, etc. which can be displayed on the chart. The only negative is that you cannot execute trades by clicking directly on the chart. There are multiple screens in TradeStation that will allow you to close a position; unfortunately, the chart is not one of them.
Ability to Link Accounts
TradeStation has the ability to link all of your accounts. Therefore, you can trade futures, one minute and then put on a trade in your equities account the next. This is extremely convenient, since you do not have to open another application or go through the tedious process of logging into another account.
Commission Structure
If you are an active trader and you trade under 1k shares per lot, TradeStation makes sense. TradeStation has a per share cost up to 500 shares. The first 500 shares are $.01. So you can buy 100 shares for a $1 and up to 500 shares for $5. Over 500 shares, it is $.006 per share. So, if you trade 3k shares, TradeStation can become costly. The first 500 shares will cost 5 bucks and then the last 2.5k shares will run you another 15 bucks. The total cost would be 20 dollars one-way for the trade. In this example, it of course would be much cheaper to trade with a brokerage firm that has a flat charge for all trades. In summary, if you are going to trade in big lots, 1k or more, go with a flat fee brokerage firm, but if you’re going to trade under 1k lots, TradeStation is the place for you.
Support Center
TradeStation has a support and discussions forums, where traders share ideas, stories and Easy Language code. Unlike many forums, where there are only a few users, the TradeStation forum has hundreds of quality posts. I have been able to pickup tons of ideas as well as free Easy Language code for some of my strategies. Each post is grouped in categories and the users are quick to respond to your questions. TradeStation has also recently started a Wiki for both their platform as well as Easy Language. The Wiki is expanded daily. TradeStation also has a dependable phone support staff. I have yet to call and not be able to get someone on the line with in 15 - 30 seconds. The staff is always attentive and willing to help on any issue. There is a sales desk, equities desk, futures desk, and forex desk. Each department specializes in their respective areas, which prevents you, the client, from ever talking to someone who is unknowledgeable on how to address your issue.
Radar Screen
TradeStation is the only trading platform, which has a radar screen that can scan the market based on your own market criteria. Now this is not your standard, scan that can display stocks with an RSI under 30. The scan in Radar Screen can be as simple or as complicated as your Easy Language abilities will permit. So, if you want to look at stocks at 2-day highs, with 25k shares per minute, that are up a minimum of 2%, you can scan the market for this information in real-time. The only negative regarding Radar Screen is TradeStation only allows you to scan the market for 1k stocks. But, who needs to monitor more than 1k stocks?
See You At The Top,
Al Hill
Al Hill is the co-founder of mysmp.com (My Stock Market Power) which provides free trading articles to investors. Please visit http://mysmp.com/trading-articles.html for more free articles.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Every job and business require experience, and forex trading is not different. However, trading the currency market has an extra risk - the risk of losing everything and hating it forever. Without someone to hold you in your hand, you are nearly doomed to failure in this field of infinite possibilities. Luckily, there is an answer for that. Forex Brotherhood. This big package includes so much information that even a trader who started trading yesterday can already generate some profits.
First, Forex Brotherhood offers two daily webinars, short video seminars, with a top trader. In this webinar, you will discover secret tactics, what is going to happen today, how it is going to affect you, and how you need to react in the upcoming day. These webinars are a wonderful source of information, and the huge content archive allows you to watch them over and over in order to really understand what is going on.
Two daily reports are also given to you so you can easily read, interpret, and understand the events on the currency market. Some people find it easier to read than to listen, and the reports do a wonderful job at explaining you exactly, at all levels, what is about to happen and why currency pairs moved they way they moved. The two reports are also included in the huge content archive, so you can read past reports and gain great amounts of knowledge.
Forums are an excellent way to meet people, network with others, and learn everything you want. Forex Brotherhood offers such forum with a professional trader. You can ask any question, you can discuss what you want to do with your profits, and you can meet other people who share your interest. This is the most fun and definitely the best way to practice and learn a new skill.
To start enjoying forex and making profits, read the Forex Brotherhood review at Great-Info-Products.com and sign up.
About the author:
Nadav Snir is a stock market trader and forex trader. You can find more information about forex trading, forex brokers, and Forex Brotherhood at his site at http://Great-Info-Products.com/Forex/forex-brotherhood.html
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
The internet is a whole new world, with new rules, when it comes to work, and making money. There are actually so many opportunities to make money on the Internet that it seems like anyone can find a way to “work from home” and usually one of the ways to do this is to make money typing.
To make money typing you have a lot of options, and a few sites can help you out tremendously. Check out the list below:
Associated Content- This is a great site to get started to make money typing. The site pays people to submit content that they are either asking for, or that is unique to the site. There is a lot of content already there, but they are always looking for more, and they pay you for it. Depending on whether you want to keep rights to your work or not, you can make from $3 up to $20 for each piece of work. There is always a list of the content they are looking for once you log in. The site is free to join and they accept many kinds of articles, reviews, etc. They also like to get videos, if you would like to make money that way.
Pay Per Post- On this site, all you have to do is sign up for free, and then get to work. If you run your own blog you can get paid to write posts about different products.
Blogging is a great way to make money typing. Everyday or multiple times a day you can post to your blog. The more often you post, the more traffic you stand to get to your site. The more your visitors like the content on the site the more likely they will revisit, or even subscribe. When you grow a large number of subscribers you will get paid more to do paid review posts on your blog.
Another part of blogging is you are able to make money as an affiliate. An affiliate is someone who refers people to other products or sites, and gets paid when the visitor buys something or does what is asked of them on the following page.
Helio is another site that pays for content. Much like Associated Content you get paid based on the content you submit. Last but not least to make money typing you could become a freelancer through any freelance website, and bid to work on forums posting, or to write web content for webmasters. The more you write, the more you can get paid. The more experience you have the more you will get paid also. The point is to get started, start writing today for any of these sites, and in no time you will be able to make money typing.
Article Written By: Tom Dahne
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Usually when consumers want to be relieved of the financial stress, they would avail the services of a direct merchants bank in hope that its protection will be enough to get them out of the fiscal crisis that they are experiencing. It is very understandable especially if the consumers really needed the money desperately to seek any kind of financial help that sometimes they fail to realize that the transaction they are availing will lead them to a deeper problem. One of the protection plans that the direct merchants bank offer to their clients is its Account Protection Plus - a kind of service that gives hope and ease to the stressed mind of their clients. What these clients fail to realize is that they are getting the worst investment ever that they could ever find.
The account protection plus is one of the services that direct merchants bank offer to their clients that highlights the financial trouble of the client and the threat that which makes the investment not so ideal or favorable for the consumers. Direct merchants bank offers a kind of protection that will ensure the safety of your credit. However, not all programs of direct merchants bank are applicable for all the needs of different consumers. The account protection plus which is exclusively offered to the clients of direct merchants bank is no exception to it.
According to many complaints that can be found all around the different forums online, you will surmise that the sole purpose of a direct merchant bank is to prey on their helpless victims’ fears. They would offer their clients incredible promises and they even approve the clients’ application in just a matter of less than a week only to be bombarded with countless phone calls by their customer representatives soon after that when their clients lost the ability to pay for the credit that they have availed. It is true that direct merchants bank can help you in a certain level. However, this is not the only solution to the fiscal problem that the clients are usually confronted with. Most of them will offer you the unbelievable promise of the protection that it can give you such as unemployment protection, and other unforeseen event that could take the clients by surprise.
Nevertheless, when the need for you to make use of the fund in your direct merchant bank account, its protection plan will automatically stop the interest alarm clock, which in the end relieves you of the accountability to make payments monthly and it will also help you to avoid penalties when you fail to pay your dues on time. The interest per 100 is only 89 cents and this will be automatically billed to the direct merchants card of the client. For most people this may be an appealing picture that is if you do not understand the math behind it. Because if you do, you will be shocked of how fast the interest of the direct merchants bank piles up each month. You will not notice it until it’s too late and until the direct merchants company starts pestering you.
John Davidson is a banking specialist and has written many bank related articles to help people save money and avoid the traps.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
If you are trying to find the one forex currency trading advice that can really break the bank, then you may be in for a huge let down. Like all successful business ventures out there, there is no miracle product that can declare the easiest bid to get rich. And I am giving you this information upfront just to let you know that the greatest “forex currency trading advice” is really a series of shrewd thinking, perfect timing and relentless pursuit of profits on your part.
Saying such, here are a number of things to consider.
Take full advantage of software applications available to you.
Often, when you download forex software program, there are several applications that act as a tutorial or even as a demo program. The one big mistake that many of us do is that we try the applications once (or twice) or only until we get the hang of things. However, it should be noted that the more you utilize these applications, the more you will see how forex trading really works.
Most of the demo applications can help you scour the financial markets for likely investments. It can also give you information on market trends, and get you pips on a regular basis. Practice your trading skills on these, and learn what investments or markets are actually earning you money, and which ones to avoid altogether.
Listen and scout around for advice but make the final decisions on your own.
You could always visit forums and ask for advice. You certainly won’t find free forex trading advice lacking. However, you should know that not all advices are sound (or even sane.) Try not to rely heavily on such advices, but do substantial research on your own. And act only in accordance to what you think is right.
Follow your own system.
There may be a number of so-called “experts” spouting off their own secrets to success; (not much of a secret, really.) However, as a forex trader, you should be able to create and follow your own path to riches. Follow whatever methods work best for you, and you should be off to a great start.
Do you want the very best forex trading robot? Well I have some good news for you, I bought and tested the top 7 forex software’s and put a review of the top 2 on my website: ForexTradingReview.Info. I made over 900 dollars a day with one of the softwares listed on that site. Just Imagine if you purchase a couple of profitable softwares!
You have to be very careful when purchasing a software though. Some of the software’s just sit around and never make you any money. If you want to make thousands every week with forex I suggest you take a look at the website: Forex Trading Review
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
What if you learned how to create your own product funnel starting today?
There are some secrets that will help you to create your own quality products with ease.
Here are 5 simple steps that will help you to develop a line of products that will make you rich.
Step 1 - Define Your Niche.
Step 2 - Judge Your Expertise.
Step 3 - Quality Rules the Web.
Step 4 - Drive Traffic.
Step 5 - Provide Exceptional Customer Support.
The purpose of this article is to make sure that you create products for your website visitors on continuous basis starting today.
Here are step by step details to get you started today.
Step 1 - Define Your Niche.
It is important to know what your niche wants before you go about creating your products on the net.
There are many ways to evaluate your niche to be successful on the net.
For this first step you can do is visit forums in your nice and ask people out there as to what are the most pressing problems of people in your niche.
Once you get a list of the problems you can then focus on hunting out solution to their problems and convert it into a killer solution in the form of a product.
Make sure that you first evaluate your expertise.
Step 2 - Judge Your Expertise.
Tap into a niche where you are at an expert stage and you can create quality products out there.
If you are not aware about the niche inside out, the best bet you can do is to study the niche by visiting online forums and getting hold of some content websites in your niche.
Once you know your niche, you can easily tap into it and get hold of your share out there.
Quality rules the web.
Step 3 - Quality Rules the Web.
If your prouduct is not of top notch quality then it will become exceptionally difficult for you to sell it online.
And if at all you get successful in selling junk products you will get a whole lot of refund requests along with charge backs.
So make sure that whatever you do, you keep a quality mark on your products and services.
The next step is to drive traffic to your products and services.
Step 4 - Drive Traffic.
It is extremely important that you drive traffic to your products and services to make money online.
To drive traffic to your products all you need to do is to get expert in some traffic generation tactics.
Some of the top traffic generation tactics out there includes article marketing, pay per click and publishing ezines or newsletters.
Now provide amazing customer support.
Step 5 - Provide Exceptional Customer Support.
It is important that you provide great customer support to your niche.
If you do this your customers will be open to do business with you in future on regular basis.
Customer support builds trust and relationship with your niche and this will take you to the million dollar status you have dreamed on the net.
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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 9034 articles in print and 14 published ebooks.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
I devote many hours to identifying viable methods for generating money online and have had numerous successes. It is still possible to generate a healthy return using the internet.
Personally I have not had any successes with online auctions - there are now too many people selling online as a hobby for tiny profits making it very difficult to generate a reasonable return. I have also not had any success using e-commerce - so many people are now doing it and it is so difficult to compete with the larger companies in terms of costs, quality of service or trust/reputation. It always make me laugh reviewing numerous online forums where people have created a shop selling books, clothes, mugs, gifts etc and wander why they never make any sales. The answer is obvious - everybody’s doing it and there is too much competition. In my opinion e-commerce websites only act as a useful add-on to a conventional retail business.
There are however methods which still do work (based on my experiences anyway). The method which I have found to be most successful is affiliate marketing - i.e if you can’t beat them, join them. Earn money by promoting other people’s products. The key to success in this arena is to find a niche to exploit. The net is particularly effective way of selling niche products due to the potentially huge customer exposure and the lack of conventional competition.
So to conclude, there are methods out there which really work. It’s just a matter of finding them. The secret to my success today is based on copying the methods of other successful entrepreneurs. There are many information products out there which reveal all. However, the hardest thing is identifying the decent products amongst the garbage which pollutes a significant proportion of the net.
Andy is an amateur web designer who has used many methods to generate multiple sources of online income. He is associated to the website http://www.smallonlineincomes.com
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
A popular way to segment customers is by revenue or profit generated, with “A-list” customers receiving more perks and personal service than “lower” categories. There are right and wrong ways to do this.
Doing it right means cultivating customers so they all feel appreciated, by developing or improving products to meet each customer segments’ needs. Result: pleased customers and higher profit.
Doing it wrong creates risk of sub-standard service for “unimportant” customers, making them feel unappreciated and resentful. Result: missed profit opportunities and disgruntled customers.
Brand Image
When deciding how to service each customer segment, remember that every point of contact with a customer reflects on the brand, regardless of customer “importance.” Over time, this has an impact on brand image and company reputation.
With the Internet so prevalent today, each individual has more power to voice his/her opinion than in times past, which directly impacts brand image and goodwill associated with the name. Each mistreated customer has the means to tell the world of her/his experience on Web sites that allow reviews (such as bizrate.com and Amazon.com) and online discussion forums.
An Example of Bad Service From the Customer Viewpoint
The way each of my credit card issuers treats me is a prime example. I always pay my bill in full (often early) and belong to the “cash back” rebate programs, so I imagine I’m in a similar customer segment for each and would expect to be treated similarly by these three competitors.
Not the case. Two of the companies make me feel like a valued customer. The third made me feel so unappreciated I closed the account. How the three companies handle “suspicious” activity on my account demonstrates the varying degrees of service:
- Discover card has a fraud specialist (or customer service representative) call me in person to ask that I review recent transactions with her/him.
- Citibank’s computer calls me with an alert, asking that I call a number or go online to verify transactions through a computerized process.
- Advanta locks the account and sends a letter informing me they have done so. In my experience, the letter arrived a week after the incident and I was not notified by telephone (I called them when the “offending” vendor notified me of the decline). I asked customer service to allow future charges from that vendor, but they could not do so. Presumably, this meant an account freeze each time my authorized vendor attempted to process a legitimate charge.
All three of my card companies require that I take some sort of action to verify suspicious charges, which is to be expected. The approach, however, leaves a very different impression. Citibank and Discover both apologize for the inconvenience of transaction verifications and — while I have to go through an extra step with Citibank — both fall within my subjective definition of quality customer service. Advanta, however, does not apologize for the hardships of declined transactions and a frozen account.
To be fair, I do not know that my negative experience would have been handled differently if I were in a more profitably customer segment. It could have been result of badly trained customer service representatives, or perhaps this is standard procedure on all accounts.
Tips for Segmenting Customers Without Sacrificing Service
Customer segmentation is a good thing. It helps you recognize how customers are different and it should draw your attention to needs of different segments, prompting you to better meet those needs. Some ideas on successful segmentation:
- Segment by need rather than profit or revenue. A low-profit customer today could be high-profit tomorrow if you offer products and services that fill her/his needs.
- Look for ways some customer segments can effectively be more “self-service,” which cuts costs for the company while meeting customer service needs.
- Build in ways to create exceptions in automated customer service processes, so as not to alienate those with special situations (in my example, by allowing a way to pre-authorize account activity).
- If offering promotions, rewards, or other incentives to some segments but not others, “spell it out” for customer service representatives and structure your Web site and promotional mailings accordingly. By taking steps to assure customers receive consistent information across all channels of communication, you avoid customers being exposed to offers for which they do not qualify.
There are ways to segment customers without lowering customer service. By doing so effectively, you nurture business growth and reputation.
Bobette Kyle draws upon 15+ years of Marketing/Executive experience, online marketing experience, and marketing MBA as inspiration for her writing. You can find more of her free marketing planning articles at her marketing plan site, WebSiteMarketingPlan.com
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Assuming you’ve already done you initial research into forex, and understand the basics and the risks involved, you’ll probably start searching for a forex trading platform next. Here are three questions to ask when comparing your options to help you make the best choice for your situation.
Tip #1: Is A Demo Account Provided?
Almost every company that offers a forex trading platform will provide a demo account for you to practice and learn on first. Stay away from any trading platform that does not provide this option. It is in every company’s best interest for you to learn to trade as well as possible, and demo accounts are one way of encouraging this. Also, once you’ve chosen your platform, make certain to actually use the demo account first before risking any actual capital.
Tip #2: Is Solid Training And Responsive Support Included?
No matter which platform you choose, you’ll likely need some help along the way. See how much training information is offered by the company. Make sure they have a support email and phone number - and test them out. Call and email with a few questions, and see how fast they respond - and how helpful their responses are. This will give you a good indication of the type of personal service you’ll be getting if you decide to invest in their platform. Beware of any company that provides canned responses on the phone, or boilerplate email replies.
Tip #3: What Is The Minimum Amount You Can Start With?
Once you’ve narrowed down your choices with the questions above, you’ll need to find out which platform will let you effectively trade with the amount of money you have to initially invest. Keep in mind, although you’ll be able to trade larger amounts if you have larger amount to start with - never risk more than you can afford to lose.
Bonus Tip: Before you make you final decision regarding which forex trading platform you’re going to go with, make sure to check out user reviews at a free forex forum and chat room like: http://www.freeforexforums.com
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Among one of the greatest and easiest ways to make money online is by being a freelancer. By definition a freelancer is a job you do on your own, sort of like running a business. You offer the service and choose the price and people pay you for it. Freelancers include many different people in many different services. These services can help you market your sites, help bring in traffic, help you build a site and more. Here are just a few great freelancing services out there:
SEO a.k.a. search engine optimization - As a service provider you could easily find people that need their sites optimized. The most important thing, may be to convince them why they need this service because a lot of people don’t even know what optimization is or why they need it. This is where you come in. Build a nice little professional website, and tell them why. List all your reasons. Make some affordable packages for individuals as well as bigger companies and corporations.
SEM a.k.a. search engine marketing - You can provide your all knowing search engine marketing techniques to people online. Or better yet you could teach people how to do it on their own. Most of us know that SEO and SEM are two very important processes but so many people don’t know how to market or optimize their websites. This is valuable information for the buyer.
Back links - You can easily start a business where you do back links of some sort. This can be done several different ways, from an actual back linking service, to writing articles for people and putting their URLs in the author box. I think the second one is the easiest and funnest way to do this (for the provider) especially if you know how to write and enjoy writing. Again you the provider charge a set fee and buyers will pay you for these back links. In my experience its best to have set packages the buyer can choose from.
Web hosting - If you own a web hosting business you can easily get people that are in need of hosting. Billions of people online have websites and need someone to host them. You could easily be this person.
Web Design & Development - These are two practices not everyone is good at. I can market, optimize, write do a ton of other things. But when it comes to web design or development the closest thing I know is Myspace html codes! I’m not the only fool like this! Again there are millions of people out there that either don’t know how to do this, or just don’t have the time. This is a great service to offer if you know how to do it.
Article Writer & Submission Services - If your a good writer, you can actually make money from it by providing articles to people. You will be provided with the URLs, keywords and anchor text. Then you the writer will do an article about the category of the site. Not the actual site, but the category of the site. People will pay good money for these services because you are providing them with back links and back links are the cream of the crop.
Content Writer - In my opinion a content writer and an article writer are two different things. But a content writer can be a article writer and an article writer can be a content writer! A content writer, writes for your website. It doesn’t matter if they have a professional type website, or a word press blog/website. You can find people that have websites about topics or subjects you have extensive knowledge about. You will write content for their websites and they will pay you per however you charge. Some people pay per page, per word, per day etc. Its your service, charge what you will but again, be fair and honest with your prices.
Of course there are MANY other ways to make money online as a freelancer but these are a few of the top ways I know of, and some of the top ways to make actual money online. Ive either provided these services before, have thought about it or know friends and colleagues that have are freelancers and have tried these types of services and they have always been successful, as have I. There’s a few things you should be concerned with when providing a service as a freelancer. And here are a few of them:
1- I cant say this enough. Be honest and be fair to your buyer. And always try to be as professional as you can.
2- Build yourself a website, and place a portfolio on that site along with a few paragraphs about why this service is important. If someone doesn’t know what SEO is, then they aren’t going to realize why they need it, which means no business for you. Don’t act like its a magic pill. Its not. But its an important attribute when having a website. Side note; if your a web designer or a developer and your selling this service you sure as heck better have a nice website. Ive gone to sites before where the person boasted about how awesome they were at web design, and their own site wasn’t working!
3- Make sure you advertise. Now if your doing a freelancing service you don’t necessarily have to pay for advertising. The best thing you can do is visit some forums and put out the word about your brand new service. Yes, your going to get a hard time from some people. But others will be more than willing to try out your service. And where one follows, two follows, and where two follows more follow. All you need is a handful of positive reviews (which is where those manners of yours come into play) and you will start receiving the trust of the people!
4- Repeat steps 1-3.
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