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Freelancer vs Odesk

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Posted on Oct 2, 2010 in Freelancing / outsourcing, General | 0 comments

freelancer freelancer.com getafreelancer odesk odesk.com

Being a freelancer its essential to know which site is best in terms of more work , better project management , secured / assured payouts etc ..as i have good service provider profile on both odesk and freelancer lets compare freelancer.com (earlier known as getafreelancer.com) and odesk.com , its my personal comparison .
Freelancer is simple straight forward outsourcing website navigation is easy but i think for startup companies and freelancers its a nightmare “no limit” term on bidding and forced prominence to premium members makes freelancer a difficult challenge for newbies , its good pond for some old users like “pinky on freelancer” , with more than 1400 reviews its impossible for a new members to compete him/her on any logo/banner design job posting . freelancer have new features like its offering marketplace i dont think combining outsourcing with digital shop is a good idea as it will decrease the tasks for designers and coders .

Odesk on the other hand dont have anything like free or paid members , membership is 100% free there , and all members are represented equally , all members have proper bid posting quota so its impossible to spam the job postings with offers like ” plz check pm ” ” plz check pm” etc etc , i know many newbies on odesk who started within month and now have a solid professional profiles there , another great advantage of odesk is that it pioneer in introducing hourly job system to outsourcing market with solid tools like team viewer , task screen capturer etc odesk is the most secured outsourcing platform for buyers , contractors or service seekers .

at last lets compare alexa stats , best outsourcing site is one with highest numbers of users (buyers)

freelancer vs odesk

freelancer vs odesk

so according to my personal view Odesk Is better than freelancer .

Click here to create an Odesk.com Account !

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how to find home jobs ?

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Posted on Sep 23, 2010 in Freelancing / outsourcing, General | 1 comment

find home home jobs jobs

are you looking for home based jobs ? are you skilled in writing , data entry , technical writing , article writing , coding , designing ? if you best place to find online work is Odesk , you can browse many open projects there related to different categories ,

signup on odesk and start bidding on projects which suits your interests .
odesk is 100% genuine and renowned website 1000′s of skilled contractors are already working there for years .

Click here to Create your odesk profile
odesk pays its contractors through paypal , moneybookers , wire transfers and via Payoneer powered credit card.

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Thank you odesk !

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Posted on Aug 7, 2010 in Freelancing / outsourcing | 0 comments

best odesk

today i recieved this email from Odesk Customer Support :
“Hi %$%$,
The last few days have seen Pakistan hit by severe storms and floods, which may have directly affected you or your family. Please know that we are sending our best thoughts and well wishes to you during this difficult time.

We wanted to let you know that we have sent an email to your employers advising them of the situation in Pakistan and asking them to be patient as the flooding may have impacted your ability to work. Please do contact them as soon as possible to discuss your oDesk contracts – they may be concerned and would like to hear from you.”

now this shows Odesk really cares about its users , thanks Odesk i am from Pakistan fortunately my area isnt heavily effected by floods and i am working usually on contracts excepts download and upload speed of my wimax network is bit effected but i have alternative DSL link , i hope other odesk contractors or employers from Pakistan who are effected by this natural disaster will recover soon and will continue to boost the “Outsource to Pakistan” page’s weekly hourly map :)
once again thanks alot Odesk for your best wishes and concerns .
if you are freelancer and want to offer web development , graphic designing , data entry , software development services , Checkout odesk.com , its best portal for service providers and employers to select the best service provider from the talent pool .

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Online Data Entry Jobs

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Posted on Aug 3, 2010 in Freelancing / outsourcing | 1 comment

data entry india jobs online

Are you looking for online data entry / data processing jobs ? do you want to work as a freelancer to render some extra income ? if so you are at right place i am working as a freelance graphic designer , web developer and 3d animator i have successfully completed many freelance projects and hourly tasks on reliable and trustworthy sites like odesk , if you search googleyou will find majority of sites there on top with fake , scamy and bogus offers like you can make $10000/ day etc etc ….

So how to get started ?
usually it works like first you will have to find online projects and contracts listings , BEST site where 1000′s of new jobs are posted daily is odesk.com , there are some other outsourcing sites too but majority of employers scam the service providers there , odesk have very safe and friendly policies for both freelancers and employers .

data entry jobs

data entry jobs


Skill(s) you must have !
there isnt any major skill required to be a good data processor , if you type fast , have fast and 24/7 active internet connection , dedication to implement best possible effort and fluency in speaking and typing English then you can be a good data enterer .

How you will get paid and how much ?
First of all you will have to register at www.odesk.com you can visit the site by clicking here , now first step should be :

a) Buildup a good appealing profile
b) find jobs and contracts that suit you and your skill set at best
c) Apply your bid on each contract individually .
d) odesk.com will handle payment methods and transactions itself ,weather you want it hourly or fixed contract .
e)Buildup solid portfolio and expand your client network .

You need some more suggestions ? post them below and i will try my best to answer each individually .

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Stock ticker bar script for Joomla / WordPress

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Posted on Jul 13, 2010 in Freelancing / outsourcing, Web Development | 6 comments

bar finance joomla script stock

few days back i coded a small script to show stock ups and downs ticker , script fetches data from yahoo finance and scrolls the ticker , you can use this script on on Joomla (tested on joomla 1.5) and all versions of wordpress .

How to use the script

<marquee id=”m1″ onmouseover=”this.stop();” onmouseout=”this.start();” truespeed=”" scrollamount=”2.4″ scrolldelay=”50″ direction=”left” loop=”repeat” width=”70%”>
<?php

function getStockSite($stockLink){

if ($fp = fopen($stockLink, ‘r’)) {
$content = ”;

while ($line = fread($fp, 1024)) {
$content .= $line;
}
}

return $content;
}

function processStockSite($wurl){

$wrss = getStockSite($wurl);
$name  = ‘-’;
$price = ”;
$diff  = ”;

if (strlen($wrss)>100){
$spos = 0;

// Get text
$spos = strpos($wrss,’</span>:’,$spos)+3;
$spos = strpos($wrss,’<big>’,$spos);
$epos = strpos($wrss,’</div><h1>’,$spos);
if ($epos>$spos){
$text = substr($wrss,$spos,$epos-$spos);
} else {
$text = ‘-’;
}

$spos = $epos + 10;
// Get company name
$epos = strpos($wrss,’<’,$spos);
if ($epos>$spos){
$name = substr($wrss,$spos,$epos-$spos);
}
// Get actual price
$spos = strpos($wrss,’yfs_l10′)+strlen(‘yfs_l10′);
$spos = strpos($wrss,’>’,$spos)+1;
$epos = strpos($wrss,’<’,$spos);
if ($epos>$spos){
$price = substr($wrss,$spos,$epos-$spos);
} else {
$price = ‘-’;
}

// Get direction
$spos = strpos($wrss,’alt’,$epos)+strlen(‘alt’)+2;
$epos = strpos($wrss,’”‘,$spos);
if ($epos>$spos){
$dir = strtolower(substr($wrss,$spos,$epos-$spos));
}

// Get difference
$spos = strpos($wrss,’>’,$epos+3)+1;
$epos = strpos($wrss,’<’,$spos);
if ($epos>$spos){
$diff = substr($wrss,$spos,$epos-$spos);
}

}

$result['name']  = $name;
$result['value'] = $price;
$result['diff']  = $diff;
$result['direction'] = $dir;
$result['text']  = $text;

return $result;

}

?>
<?
// Get stock data
//$data = processStockSite(‘ttp://finance.yahoo.com’); // Google
$data = processStockSite(‘http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG’); // Google
?><html>
<style type=”text/css”>
<!–
.unnamed1 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #000000;
}
–>
</style>
<body class=”unnamed1″>
<?php echo $data['name']; ?>$
<?php
echo $data['text'];
//echo $data['value'].’ ‘;
//if ($data['direction'] == ‘up’) echo ‘<span class=”up”> +’.$data['diff'].’</span>’;
//else echo ‘<span class=”down”> -’.$data['diff'].’</span>’; ?>
</body>
</html>
<?php
$data = processStockSite(‘http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT’); // Microsoft
?><?php echo $data['name']; ?>$
<?php
echo $data['text'];
//echo $data['value'].’ ‘;
//if ($data['direction'] == ‘up’) echo ‘<span class=”up”> +’.$data['diff'].’</span>’;
//else echo ‘<span class=”down”> -’.$data['diff'].’</span>’; ?>
<?php
$data = processStockSite(‘http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL’); // Apple
echo $data['name'];
echo $data['text'];
$data = processStockSite(‘http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GE’); // GE
echo $data['name'];
echo $data['text'];
$data = processStockSite(‘http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BELFA’);//Bel Fuse Inc
echo $data['name'];
echo $data['text'];
$data = processStockSite(‘http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BIOD’);//Bio Del
echo $data['name'];
echo $data['text'];
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html>
<body>
<?php echo $data['name']; ?>$
<?php
echo $data['text'];
//echo $data['value'].’ ‘;
//if ($data['direction'] == ‘up’) echo ‘<span class=”up”> +’.$data['diff'].’</span>’;
//else echo ‘<span class=”down”> -’.$data['diff'].’</span>’; ?>
</body>
</html>
</marquee>

For Joomla
Download and install Joomla PHP component “Jumi” from here : http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions … ntent/1023
create new “Jumi “  module and paste this script and save the module . thats it !
For WordPress
download this plugin :http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/
and paste the above script  , it will work !

you can replace or add stock values i.e http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL ( for apple )  with any values by refering to yahoo finance .

Demo
http://universocanario.com/

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Moneybookers for Germany

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Posted on Jun 18, 2010 in Freelancing / outsourcing, General | 0 comments

account germany moneybookers moneybookers vs paypal withdraw

Moneybookers is best payment gateway to send /recieve money online and for shopping online in germany . its much better and cheaper than paypal , currency exchanges are almost free . many popular websites like ebay , istockphoto etc now accept moneybookers . beside that moneybookers is global unlike paypal which is available only in few countries .
best thing about moneybookers is that if you withdraw $100 from your account to your bank account you will exactly recieve $100 in your bank . they dont have any additional annoying fees .

Click here to Open your Moneybookers account Now ! Opening a moneybookers account is totally free !