Provide a Service When Starting Out on the Internet
If you can write (and, unfortunately, looking at your competition at places like Elance and Guru you don't have to be all that great)then sign up at Elance and/or Guru.
com and then bid low on jobs.
You will get the people who want cheap work.
Once you get a few under your belt then you can up your price.
Also if you write, you can come here to the Warriors forum and tell everybody that you do it.
Heck, even if you don't advertise I see people multiple times a day posting needing writers.
If you can do something technical like code or build websites then Elance and Guru are also a good place.
Also there is rentacoder.
The Sitepoint marketplace is also a place where you can find many of these types of jobs.
Can't do anything like I just said? Well, there is a administrative assistant area on these sites as well.
People are always needing grunt work done so once again go to Elance of Guru.
com Granted, you are not going to make a killing and this is probably something you don't want to do forever BUT it is a very quick way to make money.
I've been doing it for about 6 months now.
The other great thing about doing article writing/copywriting...
etc for these places is that you get a real feel for what markets are hot/doing well.
This is a place many Internet Marketers go to get their content done, so you start to get your finger on the pulse.
If you are a graphic designer then, once again go to Elance, Guru.
com, sitepoint and of course advertise on the Warriors forum.
I'm starting to get a little repetitive but I just want to be clear that if you can do pretty much any type of service is it probably covered by these places.
Another idea is to quickly learn how to submit to directories and then have people pay you to submit to directories.
I don't think this is as good as the first ones though, unless you already have this knowledge, and what you described in the question would not.
So you would have to take a couple of days to learn how to do it.
Much better, if you ask me, to leverage your pre-existing skills and then you can branch out into the internet stuff.
com and then bid low on jobs.
You will get the people who want cheap work.
Once you get a few under your belt then you can up your price.
Also if you write, you can come here to the Warriors forum and tell everybody that you do it.
Heck, even if you don't advertise I see people multiple times a day posting needing writers.
If you can do something technical like code or build websites then Elance and Guru are also a good place.
Also there is rentacoder.
The Sitepoint marketplace is also a place where you can find many of these types of jobs.
Can't do anything like I just said? Well, there is a administrative assistant area on these sites as well.
People are always needing grunt work done so once again go to Elance of Guru.
com Granted, you are not going to make a killing and this is probably something you don't want to do forever BUT it is a very quick way to make money.
I've been doing it for about 6 months now.
The other great thing about doing article writing/copywriting...
etc for these places is that you get a real feel for what markets are hot/doing well.
This is a place many Internet Marketers go to get their content done, so you start to get your finger on the pulse.
If you are a graphic designer then, once again go to Elance, Guru.
com, sitepoint and of course advertise on the Warriors forum.
I'm starting to get a little repetitive but I just want to be clear that if you can do pretty much any type of service is it probably covered by these places.
Another idea is to quickly learn how to submit to directories and then have people pay you to submit to directories.
I don't think this is as good as the first ones though, unless you already have this knowledge, and what you described in the question would not.
So you would have to take a couple of days to learn how to do it.
Much better, if you ask me, to leverage your pre-existing skills and then you can branch out into the internet stuff.
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