“I never dreamed about success; I worked for it” – hey, it’s not my saying! It’s quoted from “Estée Lauder,” a famous American entrepreneur. Most of you won’t agree with the point, but you might change your stand once you go through this article.
Razzle dazzles about outsourcing have been going on for quite some time in Bangladesh. Some racketeers plan to entice people with showy and pompous advertisements to be millionaires overnight. People are often getting deceived by these scams of earning easy money online. Some people even get confused thinking this sector is the widely criticized MLM business. But what is the actual reality?
Even though the term “Outsourcing” is not well known to our country’s people, the racketeers’ enticing advertisements attract people’s curiosity, while the term is becoming more commonplace and appreciated. However, some people are scorning it, which is not expected. People didn’t know the word even ten years ago. Much has changed in outsourcing since then.
Third-world countries suffer massively from the unemployment problem due to economic discrimination and mismanagement in this ever-changing and competitive time of globalization. Bangladesh is no different. Due to this unemployed, people with low income are also compelled to find other sources of income to live. Outsourcing is widely accessible, taking advantage of this situation, and will continue doing so in the future.
But is outsourcing the solution to all these problems? Well, not entirely, but it can provide the answer to a significant extent; however, many “IF” s are affiliated with the solution.
You may notice “Earn easy money online” ads spreading widely throughout this country. I am just saying that if lots of money could be earned this quickly over the internet, won’t people worldwide quit their job and get busy making money first by taking a computer and an internet connection? The reality is a little different; if you have efficiency, you will succeed in outsourcing.
What’s the difference Between Outsourcing & Freelancing? Freedom of doing and getting a job, which you won’t get in any other profession. Another thing is you will get proper valuation and wage for your work. In sum, Online Outsourcing is the medium of earning decent money by doing a good job, where you will have to be efficient first and then come to the right platform to work to be successful.
Let’s talk about “what is outsourcing or freelancing?” first. Quickly, it is companies getting their various jobs done over the internet. There are multiple marketplaces where the allocation of these jobs takes place. Getting the job done by an outsider of the company is outsourcing. The central theme of freelancing is occupational freedom, i.e., earning money by working independently. People who do outsourcing jobs from home are called freelancers.
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Some immoral companies bag the students’ money by enticing them and pushing them to danger. Many of them said they lost money on learning CPA marketing. These issues are not only wrong but agonizing too. I will talk about some companies directly involved with fraudulence and big money in the name of freelancing but do not teach anything.
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Some training centers that deal with betting and dating in the name of CPA marketing are frauds. They barely teach what is already on YouTube, where their primary motive is to bag money from people who are ignorant about outsourcing.
Online courses must be taken with caution. You have to check the trainers’ credibility, ask for the guidelines they will follow, and you SHOULD NOT make money transactions just seeing some pompous ads ever. Here are some reasons why you are being deceived:
Scammers deceive you because you have more temptation, want to be a millionaire overnight, and only think about making money rather than learning anything properly.
They are promoting their showy ads and do not get their learners to value them that way; it is a big problem, a universal problem. Marketing and product value often do not match; you have to have a minimum idea about the product. You will get interested in seeing those glamorous ads if you do not have the right idea about selling.
I get a lot of calls about outsourcing jobs at Advance IT Center; people want to know about what I give training to and what benefits they will get doing these more or less. It hurts me when they ask if they will earn 50 to 60 grand monthly. I politely reply that it is possible, but no one can guarantee it is possible quickly. You have to be confident, hard-working, and perseverant overall. Besides, it would be best if you did many studies and were interested in learning from excellent resources. Most importantly, you have to use your creativity to get work in this competitive market; only doing courses will not help in this regard. How deeply you know about your work is crucial to your success.
“There are two kinds of professionals in the world – the one who works hard and the others who work hard and smart. The greatest success comes to the people who find a balance between hard work and smart work. This is certainly true in the world of internet marketing.”
People often get discouraged, knowing the extent of lengths they have to go to be successful in outsourcing. It is not entirely their fault; they are misled by those flashy ads, which promote success stories of people earning a lot of money in a short time doing their courses. It may be true that a handful of people are making that kind of money, but you have to remember that exceptions cannot be an example. That kind of success depends on the people who are teaching and the people who are being trained. You will be in the dark if I cannot teach you accurately and vice versa. You must be equally attentive to what you are learning and work hard to know correctly about that.
Now many of you are confused about where you should start.
Many of you get discouraged midway as you face unanswered questions. Helping groups, Google and YouTube, are helpful, but you must admit that you cannot be a professional just by learning from those. You need a guide or mentor to quickly show you the right path to success. Again, many people do not understand easily unless being taught by hand; it is a fact that not everyone is equally talented.
These are some reasons people knock on the doors of coaching centers; in search of mentors who will guide them to the correct path and teach them the real deal. Where there will be no broken link in case of learning and the target of achieving gets easier.
People often look up to their mentor solely to find work for them. Yes, he will teach you ways to earn and source of earning, direct you on how to be successful quickly, and be confident. But he has other things to do apart from that. He will show you the way, and your job is to practice more and more and finds work in the platforms taking a substantial amount of time every day. This will keep you on the path of learning effectively and give ideas about the work you will do simultaneously. It will be most effective if you work on related projects while learning. Therefore, in this stage, you only have one motto, “Learn, learn, and learn.”
Courses and pieces of training are systematically needed things to learn things quickly. Learning on their own has a possibility of misinterpreting. There are no professionals without any professional course or degree. To be a professional on a specific subject, you have to learn not about that subject only but also; complementary and supplementary things. That is why engineers need to know about social science, business professionals need to learn mathematics, and there are many examples. Again, a profession has different levels, like workers, executives, managers, or directors. Learning from Google and YouTube is sufficient if you want to be stuck to the worker level. However, you must do something more to be at the top level.
Digital marketing, SEO, Graphic Design, and programming are not so easy that doing a few courses will make you a professional. Certificate courses are for two or three months targeting a specific subject. That will help to create your working capacity but will not make you an expert. Professional courses are for the long term. They combine complementary things apart from the leading academic subjects. It creates in-depth knowledge about that subject, making it easier to provide solution design and executing power for any situation apart from doing the job correctly.
A concept deeply rooted within us is that outsourcing means working for Upwork, Fiverr, people per hour, freelancers, etc. So they go to these marketplaces, create a profile and place 10/12 bids; 99% say GOODBYE to the outsourcing world with getting callbacks for interviews. They do not understand that this is a competitive market and are not the only ones bidding. This sector is not for you if you are not perseverant, confident, and a hard worker. You cannot just dream; you must work harder to make those dreams a reality.
We have to reduce our dependency only on Upwork, Fiverr, PeoplePerHour, and freelancer.com. Many of you are learning SEO, Social Media Marketing, video marketing, web design, graphic design, and article writing for outsourcing. These works are available not only on those online marketplaces but also on our local markets. Maybe the pay is a little low, but you must test yourself before shooting for the stars, right? So, you can give our local markets a try as well.
Make yourself perfectly efficient; you will achieve your dreams.
As I am working on SEO, my advice will be to make a website selecting some high-paying topic after learning SEO apart from searching work in marketplaces, write 30/40 articles and post them correctly on your site. Do good SEO, create backlinks, and marketing on social media- apply for Google Adsense once there is good traffic on your site. You can do the same thing by creating 20 YouTube channels and uploading helpful videos of highly searched topics. Follow the same method of websites and apply for Adsense, completing the needed items. AdSense will be approved if you do everything correctly, and if you have five sites with good traffic, earning 30/40 grand a month will be easy. Creating five websites will take one month and around six months for SEO. You dream about building a career in freelancing, and you can’t even give six months to develop yourself? Come on!
Why are you looking only for marketplace jobs if you know how to do them? When you waste searching tasks, you can move ahead if you do the abovementioned work. As a result, your efficiency will be increased, which will help you find jobs in marketplaces. Just say the link of your work in the cover letter while bidding; it will help you get work in 80 percent of cases. You will get more confident as your portfolio keeps getting heavy. While applying in the marketplaces, target small jobs, which you can do accurately. No matter how low the pay is, build a strong base.
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I completely forgot about another popular “Amazon Affiliate Marketing” method called the trillion-dollar market. This market is golden storage for those who do good SEO and article writing. If you are good at keyword research, competitor analysis, on-page SEO, and off-page SEO, earning 1000 dollars per month by running an Amazon niche site will be no problem (niche is the product or service on which your website will be based). Once you get a niche site rank, you usually will not have to do anything normally, and the income will be automatic. That’s the most verified mean of passive income. And this is my favorite earning platform. You can earn passively by doing the work of others.
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Difference between active and passive income:
Suppose you earn 20,000 Takas each month from your job. If you lose your job or quit, you will lose the source of that money, or you can freelance for clients and earn 30,000 Takas monthly. If you do not get work there anymore, you will lose your source of income. The money you earn from working regular basis is your active income.
Using your money effectively generates passive income. Rent from a house, fixed deposit income, etc. You build a house with your payment and give it as rent. You will not have to do anything for the monthly money you earn. This is a perfect example of passive income offline.
Ways for passive income online: You will not need that much money, time, or energy like offline passive income to make passive income online — Amazon affiliate marketing is the most intelligent and flexible source for passive income. Where you create an affiliate niche website, post a substantial amount of articles, optimize the search engine well, and bring that site to the first page of Google search. Once your site reaches a good position, you will start earning money. Working for a place well for about a year is enough to make 500/600 dollars per month. After that, you won’t have to give much time to that site. You can maintain the area well, working only 7/8 hours per week. This way, there will be a monthly fixed income without accomplishing much. Passive income is such a system where you don’t always need to be there to earn money. Passive income is a dream for many people, as it is like making money while you sleep.
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Working online means the whole world is your market. Your success is secured as an affiliate marketer just by working sincerely. You are your boss here to whom you don’t need an explanation. So, what are the steps of
Amazon affiliate marketing? They are:
- Product/Niche selection process
- The keyword research process for Amazon affiliate
- Competition analysis
- L S I/ Long tail keyword research process
- Keyword finalization process
- Domain research/ domain finalization process
- Hosting selection
- Amazon product review writing process
- Outsource review content
- Creating an Amazon niche website
- Selecting WordPress Theme Setup
- Plug-in setup
- Publish articles
- Advance link-building strategy to bring your site to the first page of Google search
- Opening an Amazon associate account
- Setup Amazon tracking ID
- Payout system
- Monitor niche sites overall.
I have been talking about ways of earning money, but you have to remember that the result will be zero without developing proper skills. You must be passionate about your work and abstain from dreaming of being a millionaire overnight.
Always keep in mind that “Slow and steady wins the race.” While doing anything, we must not forget that nothing worthwhile can be achieved in a single day or overnight and that every achievement takes time. The patient and persistent effort will beat the labors of a spasmodic (irregular) Hercules.
You studied for almost twenty years, thinking of getting a job. Then how do you expect to earn more than that job, only spending 2/3 months on outsourcing? You must develop your skill on particular topics and give a significant amount of time. That is not twenty years, obviously, but by working hard for six months to a year, you can earn more than the job you got studying for twenty years; this might seem imaginary to you, but it is the truth.
Related: Warning for Freelancers
The funny thing is that people dream of earning thousands of dollars but are unwilling to put a little effort into that. The odds of success in one chance are pretty high, and you may naturally fail the first few times. But you have to start over and try again. If you do not play, fearing that you might lose, you will never win. To win, you have to play and be present on the field. Edison invented the electric bulb after failing more than thousands of times. But he said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 1000 ways that won’t work.”
So, let us begin your journey to achieve your dream without further ado. Go ahead with your capability. Never think that you cannot do it or it is not possible for you. If you get stuck, there must be some lacking somewhere; try again and overcome that. In short, give your best, and success will keep following you.
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