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Looking at the advantages as well as disadvantages of freelancing what would you prefer. To be A Freelancer or Not to be a Freelancer.

I am a freelancer and would love to be one and I am also sure Aliuddin Faisal Faruqui will also be a freelancer but what about you?

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Facebook advertising has taken a big leap recently but when trying advertising on Facebook you have to come out of Google Adwords mindset. CPC or Cost Per Click model is not the right kind of model on Facebook for you as an advertiser and Facebook both. I am sure you can understand why CPM ads are better for Facebook because websites prefer ads where they are insured of payment even if no one clicks on them but now you may ask how this is right kind of advertising for you as well.

Let me answer this question with an example.

Let us say that you have an ad campaign in Facebook where you pay $0.10 per click. This is the minimum you can pay for your campaigns in Facebook.

Now let us do some mathematics.

If you have CPC ad campaign in Facebook and you have a very nominal CTR of 1% for it. For 1000 impressions you generate 10 clicks and so your effective CPM becomes $1.

For CPM campaigns in Facebook you can opt for an eCPM as low as $0.5. You can opt for such low eCPM because this insures Facebook money even if your ads do not generate any clicks. Now if you can generate same 10 clicks for the same ad as in CPC model you are actually paying half the price you paid for CPC campaign.

This is not all.

If you can increase your CTR (which you always need to be doing in CPC advertising model) you actually do not pay anything more to Facebook because you have opted for a CPM ads and not CPC ads and this actually can reduce your cost per click dramatically.

Now the biggest question we are left with is how we can Increase ad CTR in Facebook?

One of the single biggest factors in Facebook ad CTR is the image being displayed in the ad. The image is what is going to catch the eyes of your viewers and so it is one of the biggest factors to increase your CTR.

The next is obviously the headline and text for your ad.

Apart from that Facebook advertising allows you to target your campaigns VERY well, far better than Google Adwords. You can target your campaigns to 18-25 year old photographers in Australia. It's all about knowing your potential customers and showing your best ads to them. If you understand the market of your potential customer's chances of conversion also increases giving you better return on your investment.

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1. With More Power Comes More Responsibility

Freelancing gives you the power to work for whatever you like at a price you feel satisfied. This means you have the power to choose your work at a price but you should also be more responsible in setting the price for yourself. Make sure you do not set it too high or too low. It is always good to start low and move up as you grow as a freelancer.

2. Need Lot More Discipline

You need to be a lot more disciplined to not only to keep you driving but to even stop you at times.  There is no boss when it comes to freelancing and this means there is no one on top of you to say when you should start and when you call it a day. I myself had quite a few 16 hours day quite often when I started freelancing and slowly but surely I made a rule not to power on my laptop (no matter what) once I called it off.

3. Becoming Workaholic

The more you work the more you make and this at times can work to your disadvantage. You should not start your work too early and work late in night suits or pyjamas. Once in a while is acceptable but if this is becoming your habit you should make sure you take needed steps to come out of this habit or else there will be hardly anytime you will give for yourself. You will not realize but you will become workaholic.

4. Working in Non-Productive Environment

You may always think that you are working from your home and what else could be more comforting than this, but make sure your environment is productive. Freelancers at times can become lonely, especially if you work from home and you do not have anybody to talk about your work and achievements in your coffee break. Apart from that your there can be lot of other external factors which make the environment un-productive like your kids playing around.

5. More Than a Job

Being a freelancer means that you control everything from profit and loss to your PC maintenance and so you are not only a freelancer but also a finance manager, the admin guy and the marketing manager at the same time and so make sure you are prepared mentally for all those responsibilities.

Can you think of anything else? I’d love to hear it from you. Share your thoughts in comments below.

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1. More Control over Things

I decide what work I want to do, when, how and at what price. See it for yourself here. I can set my own working hours and the day I am not willing to work becomes my weekend.

2. More Money

The more I work the more I earn and so I control my own profit and loss but if you are working for your employer it is your duty to work more for the same pay and still get the feedback of ways to improve yourself.

3. Can't fire yourself

If you lose your job it’s a big task to pick up a new job. As a freelancer you have multiple projects going at any given point of time and so if one goes down it’s not as big a deal because you don’t have all your eggs in one basket.

4. Raise

You don't have to wait for a year long to get a raise and you can give yourself raise just about any time. If you feel you’re worth more money per hour, just up your quote for next work. In the first 8 months of my freelancing I doubled my pricing in 3 small tranches.

5. Atmosphere

I am 100% sure my current sitting system (on my bed) is not as good as my last employer (Lexmark) but still the atmosphere is far better now and this allows me to work more efficiently and allows me more time for myself and for my family.

6. Working Vacations

There is no rule that says you can’t take your laptop with you and work during your vacation. You can be on the beach of Bahamas and still work for yourself (if you can work BTW).

7. No Bonds

You don't need to make an upfront commitment on how many more months you will work at the same place and at the same price without any demand from your end.

8. Saving on Expenses

With the cost of travelling going up day by day, it is becoming a real savings to stay at home. Apart from that if you work from your home you’re probably going to be eating lunch at home every day saving you lot of money daily and even protecting your health.

9. Get Paid For Learning

If you want to learn something new in an area where your employer doesn’t work, then you know how hard it is to pick up a new skill when you have to do it all on your own in your own free time. As a freelancer you still have to learn it on your own time but at least you can look for clients who need your new partly learned skills and even pay you for becoming a pro.

10. I can Say NO

I intentionally kept this point last but this is by far the best advantage of freelancing, you can say NO to your client but you can’t really tell your project manager that you don’t want to work on something. I get lot of offers which I think I cannot take up due to my other commitments and so I just say no thank you to them.

What Else?

Can you think of anything else? I’d love to hear it from you. Share your thoughts in comments below.

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I had cough, cold and viral fever but was not hospitalized because of a very simple reason that I was able to intake food without any vomiting.

I am still not 100% but I guess I can work for few hours a day from now.

The most surprising thing for me was that I did not touch my laptop for almost 48 hours and I guess I do not remember when this happened before. Coming online after 48 hours does mean lots of emails and other regular stuff to do.

So now I have to ask. What is the Maximum amount of time you were forced without internet?

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Let's begin on why I make $10,000 doing freelancing.

1. I Refuse to Give Up On Freelancing

Freelancing is a very small part (less than 5%) of my total monthly revenue and yet I don't prefer to give up on freelancing because it actually adds to my overall revenue without much of an effort from my end. Yes you heard it right - without much effort from my end. Many freelancers make it harder than it actually is.

2. I decide what to work on

I am programmer at heart but if you check my Elance Profile you will hardly see any development work. Development projects usually are big budget projects but also needs more time and effort from your end on a continuous basis. I prefer to concentrate more on my own blogs and forums and yet make some extra income and so small size jobs are perfect for me. Small sized projects not only help me getting in touch with more number of clients but they also help me in learning more new things.

3. I decide on the pricing

Many freelancers think that if you want to be among successful bidders on sites like Elance you have to quote lowest price. This is completely a MYTH and you can take my words on this and quote me anywhere. There are innumerable feedbacks on my Elance Profile like this

This means I charge clients premium rates for being professional and maintaining the quality.

Let me go ahead and frame a golden rule for bidding. You should be able to show your expertise to whatever project you bid for and win the project bid even if you are not offering the lowest price. People select the best suited person for the task and not the cheapest.

4. I decide when to work

If I have a very busy schedule for my own work I decide to decline new work and also let existing client know about my non-availability. I only choose the best projects for myself at the price I am comfortable at and this way I can not only setup my own working hours but also my own working weeks and dedicated more time to my own websites. Many freelancers think that this may hamper reputation but on the contrary many clients thanks me for letting them know my availability and expertise well in advance.

5. I decide where to work

I shared sometime back I how to work from the comfort of your home and I love doing it but remember every coin has two sides. Working from home needs lots of discipline and many of us (including me) lack that discipline.

Final Thoughts

You may be wondering why I did not answer the question on how you can also earn $10,000 doing freelancing. Don't you think the answer lies in the above list?

Just don't give up on freelancing and work for what you can show you are best at.

Share the reasons why you’re still freelancing in comments below.

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If you are into online arena I am sure you have this question. I had this question and I still have this question which I ask myself each time I stumble upon any new website.

We all have this question and probably each of us have an explanation to it but not an answer.

Today we will discuss the way to find the answer to it but we will confine our discussion to forums only.

We will see why some forum become more popular than others and how can you make your forum more popular?

Let us begin.

1. Having conversations

Isn’t this the whole point of having a forum?

Users with similar interest can interact with each other for common problems and you as an admin of a forum needs to make sure healthy discussion and conversations continue to flow and things do not get heated up.

2. Forum needs constant work

I get many forum partnership proposals and one thing I see very common in those proposals is they lack the idea to create user engagement and content on a regular basis. Most of the proposals are of the nature where they think we can have a forum online and user will generate content which will rank higher in search engines and generate more & more traffic. This may be true for large forums but to make the ball rolling you need to work on getting the best content for your forum yourself.

As of today I have more than 125 articles or more than 12,000 posts for Go4Expert.com and I still continue to post everyday. Remember that the above numbers do not include articles by other hired writers.

3. Only forum is not mantra for success

I am yet to see an only forum which is a big success, SitePoint, Daniweb or even Go4Expert, all provide solid information that is helpful to user and then user create content around those helpful topics.

4. Keep it light

People like to talk. Make sure you have a place in your forum where user can talk or interact with other members on a more lighter note. Have space where user can present more about himself and where he can meet and greet other fellow members. Only niche forums will actually kill your forum and so always add the general forums.

5. Be yourself

On Go4Expert.com I have more than 12,000 posts and when I talk with many users they ask me why I did not use more than one account to interact or why I do not have accounts like Admin, Owner....

No doubt I also tried having more than one account but could not get pass my way of writing. No matter which account I use for posting I will have the same style of conveying things which is very easily identifiable (at least for me).  As I could identify myself, I thought of having only my own account and not use multiple usernames.

But yes I never prefer admin username because I like to keep things real.

Make sure you enjoy what you are doing. Make it part of your life or else you cannot continue using your forum for years and if you cannot use your own forum why would other bother to use it?

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