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| A Night with the Poetic Doctor Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:53 AM PST
Recommended moneymakers: This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine. As that lone freelancer at home struggling to keep a balance between doing freelancing work and Lately, I got interested in meeting new online friends for real. Unfortunately, most people I made friends online aren't based in my hometown here in Baguio City: many of them live in Manila area which is around five to eight hours away from my place by bus, while others live farther down in the Visayas and Mindanao regions. Last week, I suddenly decided to hop on a bus to attend a blogger meetup which took me more than five hours to Pampanga. This is actually the second one for me to meet bloggers. This one is not just another blogger meetup: it happened to be a despedida party for Doc Z who is leaving the country for Micronesia: I remembered first seeing this poetic doctor online at a live webcast of the 2009 Emerging Influential Bloggers I watched at home. I realized that I'd be actually meeting him along with some of those famous influential bloggers! I still could not believe that I traveled for hours and endured the change of weather then landed there just to meet, greet, sing and then get drunk with a bunch of people I just met and worked with online and never ever met in real life! I met others at the party whom I met already online: Jan, Bonnie, Paige, Roel, Novz, Jeff, Yatot, JenaIsle and Roy (together with his birthday daughter Angel). The gentlemen are really awesome and handsome in person.
At the end of the day I was really so excited in seeing the first batch of pictures and videos. Since that was an overnight activity and all of us had to travel back home, I understand that these people are still tired and would not want to spend time sitting down just to upload all of those pictures. Maybe if Eye-Fi was readily available then that should have made it easier for them to upload pictures and videos! The computer and the digital camera simply needed to be turned ON then all the images and videos are submitted automatically to Facebook, Flicker, YouTube without needing a card reader or a USB cable. Nevertheless, that was truly a wonderful experience that I'll never forget!
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| How Much Should a Freelancer Charge Per Hour? Posted: 12 Jan 2010 07:10 PM PST
Recommended moneymakers: At first glance $1/hour payout for a freelance data entry provider is better than most office clerical jobs that are offered full time. One can just make a quick computation of how lowly paid an employed worker is by just taking the total monthly salary divided by the number of hours spent on the job each month. But, is being a freelance data entry provider better than being employed as a data encoder or clerk in a huge multinational company? In getting self-employed, there are other important factors which must be taken into account. Success in freelancing means that one must be able to understand one's personal and business cash flow – the resulting hourly rate should be competitive as well as still make a good living. Look at the Freelance Job Marketplace Rates First! Typical rates of data entry providers run anywhere from $1 to $5 per hour on many freelance sites: most offers seem to favor hiring to those who are willing to take the lowest $1 per hour rate. Personally, I didn't think this kind of pay is enough for the freelance data entry provider to live comfortably – which is further confirmed with the estimate I had outlined below (assuming that the freelancer is honest and wants to update all contributions). This computation assumes a single freelancer living alone without any dependents and doesn't even need to rent a place to stay.
TOTAL: P 15,625 / month or P 187,500 / year
Estimate number of working hours per week = 40 hours /week (understand that not all of those 40 hours are billable hours) Estimate average number of billable hours per week = 5 hours / day x 5 days = 25 hours /week number of hours worked each year = 25 hours/week x 46 weeks = 1150 hours /year Assuming $1 = P45 conversion, minimum hourly rate of full time data entry personnel = P 187,500 / 1150 hours = P163.0435 per hour or $ 3.62 / hour
Most often, determined freelancers start out by offering data entry first then moving on to learn new skills in writing, forum and Craiglist postings and social media marketing and other jobs that meet the freelance job demand. Those who have IT knowledge can even further get training on programming, graphic and web development. How much should the recommended hourly rate be? The computation above is just the minimum rate for the given lifestyle, but how about the recommended hourly rate? The recommended hourly rate is, of course, greater than the minimum hourly rate because one or more of the following are considered:
I get my recommended hourly rate by observation: if I easily get hired at every job I’ve applied to then I know my hourly rate is low. If I get rejected one after another, then I know my hourly rate is just too high. Set a rate which result to 50%-50% rejection as much as possible! For the above example, I recommended hourly rate should be at $5/hour, which is quite high for Philippine-based data entry providers. Related Posts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
parenting duties for over two years, the world has become my office. The internet kept me company while I slowly rebuild my riches through online work: I blog and be active on social networks which probably helped me keep my sanity intact.
Clearly, this is not even enough to even cover other monthly expenses such as rent, loans, insurances, education and training and even on buying personal wants such as jewelries and gadgets. With that kind of lifestyle, this particular freelance data entry provider shouldn't settle for data entry jobs rates that are below $3.62/hour. Non-productive time such as training should also be considered.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Lady Programmer To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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