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Today’s highly competitive world has taught us to maintain a standard in terms of quality in all jobs that we deliver to our customer. The ever-cherished tradition of ‘quality delivery on time’ is the key to survive when the competitors are breath down our necks. Professional companies and individuals have also accepted that the complete in-house solution may lead to an unwanted financial and management burden. The globalization and Internet era has made every professional very close. So, the concept of outsourcing has also found its zenith in today’s professional world.

The outsourcing is primarily to focus in the line function of their key business arena and outsource the staff functions to somebody whose line function matches with your required staff functions. The fact of life is that a medium software company is less proficient in graphics design and on the other hand a graphics design company is less exposed to programming solution.

Let us take a simple example. Tally is financial software, which is used by many people around the world. The people have felt the need of using such software and reducing the monthly overhead cost of the accounts department. This may also be noted that the competition has started bringing down the sale price like anything. It starts with a computer and ends up with a ball pen. Now how to keep the sale price low? It’s not possible to keep on bleeding for years together, and then the company is bound to shut down. The most scientific way is to cut down on the internal cost. How to accomplish it?

The significant result of such a phenomenal change has resulted in the emergence of companies like Elance, IT Match online, Get A Freelancer, Write a Lancer and so many. Their primary job is to liaison between vendors and a prospective buyer. You will find hundreds of jobs getting posted on any of these sites and there are lists of prospective vendors or freelancers, who get these projects by bidding. So, there is a job exchange at every point of time, where by the buyer has the option for choosing the best vendor, the vendor has got the option of earning from a job of his expertise or choice, and the freelancer companies earn their commission. So, everybody benefits.

One might be thinking, whether it is his cup of tea. The wide variety of jobs includes Programming, Designing, legal advise, real estate solution, Writing for Blogs & forum posting and even data entry. So one may find the job as per his profile, expertise and likings.

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The Money Making sites found below allow authors to create what is called an authors bio. An author's biography (or bio for short) is a brief description of the most notable accomplishments of a writer. A bio should include things like the authors’ area of expertise, hobbies, education, interests and links to writing samples.

In order to automatically get website and business owners contacting you, selling yourself in your author's bio is a necessity. For this reason, some time and thought should be put into your bio to make sure it is well written and shows you're a qualified writer.

A good way to determine what should be in your bio is to take a look at your strengths. What have you produced that makes you a strong writer and what is your specialty? If you don't specialize or have a single standard theme of writing, then think about what overall theme you'd like to have. What topic interests you the most, that you plan on basing your writing around?

A theme could be practically anything you can think of, from golfing enthusiast, real estate broker, world traveler or Disneyland ride operator. The theme you choose is your unique slant into a field of expertise. By selecting and embracing a theme and writing articles related to your theme, you'll become perceived as an expert in no time.

Focusing on your theme will allow you to position yourself as an expert in it. For example, you're a stay at home mother of two small kids and enjoy creating crafts and painting. These traits would put you in the position of becoming an expert in raising children, making crafts or painting. Focus your bio on one specific passion and own it to become perceived as an expert.

To create your bio you'll want to present your expert status by describing yourself as passionate about your chosen theme. In a just a couple sentences, first enthusiastically describe your love for "your theme." Then elaborate on your expertise, occupation and secondary hobbies/skills. You can take a look at the back of books you own to see how other famous authors write their own bio's.

Continue to be clear in your focus and whenever possible maintain a personal but professional summary of yourself. Make sure you add a link to any writing samples you have and you've created your author's bio.

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It's been said that no one ever outperforms their own self image. Unless the task we're trying to achieve is in tune with who we feel we are, we'll fail. And we'll keep on failing until our image of self grows to include the task we're aiming for. Only then will we succeed. As long as the task lies outside our self's territory, it'll remain unreachable.

But the solution to this is simple—change who you think you are. Most people, however, can't figure out how to do that... because that solution also lies outside their self.

Now, some folks have flexible self images that are easily expanded. So when they tackle something new, they meet very little resistance from within themselves.

They don't self-sabotage, they don't make lousy choices, they don't go halfway and then quit. They simply go from here to there, without having to battle through a bunch of self-defeating behavior. People like this, however, are in the minority.

Most of us struggle with self-sabotage every day. It's like some part of our inner self seems bent on defeating us. It not only SEEMS that way, it IS that way.

No matter how longingly we imagine ourselves soaring to the skies, no matter how wide we spread our wings to catch the wind, when it comes time to lift off, we discover our wings are weak or broken. They fold and fail to sustain our flight. But of course, there's a reason for this pattern, and a solution.

When I first came to Japan, twenty years ago, I'd never amounted to much. I'd had lots of interesting and exciting experiences, but never earned significant money. Never been viewed as a "professional" by anyone. I was easy-to-get-along-with, knew how to do lots of different things, was well-read in many different fields, and enjoyed talking with people. But I had my level, and I never rose above that level... never really tried.

Then I got to Japan, and without actually intending to, I began hanging out with people who thought differently about themselves.

And one day, after several months in this strange new place, I woke up and realized I was now earning a very comfortable living while working ridiculously few hours. Major Japanese multinationals were calling me and asking for business advice on matters that would usually be turned over to mid-level executives.

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Chapter 10: It’s Up There—Now What?

Well, now, you got your website up.

But, this ain’t no flippin’ “Field Of Dreams” movie.

If you build it, they will not come! Not until you show them it’s there!

First thing to do, especially since you now have Google Adsense on your site, is to get Google to spider your site.

“Oh yeah,” you’re saying. “Google’s going to just pop on over to my site and plug it into their search engine!”

The answer is, “Yes, they will. But, only if you tell them to.”

For that you need to get Google Sitemap, which is included in the supplementary edition of this e-book. Once you have ran this piece of software, you will go to the Notify Google button, click on it, and then Google’s spiders are sent out to your site to check on it.

Now, this can cause a problem, because it will spider EVERYTHING! Including your download sites!

Unlessssssss---That’s right, you tell it not to. No problem!

Here’s how you create a robots. txt that is loaded up to your site in your main directory as text, (that’s with the . txt extension.)

Any folder that has files in it that you do not want spidered need to be put on a list in . txt format.

Most computers have Notepad on them, but any text editor, (not necessarily Office, or Wordpad) will work.