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Summary: This book helps get work
Review: I am so excited about this book because it has some realy dynamite ideas and suggestions for finding work online. I've already nailed a good job with the techniques that I learned reading this book. Great read. I would highly recommend this readto anyone thinking about working online.
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Summary: A Word About Job Surfing
Review: I noticed the review below, and I really must disagree whole heartedly. The book was written in 2000, which probably makes some of the links outdated (I really doubt if the reader below actually followed them), but there's a ton of information in the title about how to freelance work online. Great sources for information, great ideas on how to get set up, and, more importantly, real life profiles from freelancers all over the world who are actually making it online. I've contacted some of them myself and have collaborated their stories in the book. So I know that the material is credible.If you're looking for a book that will show you how to magically materialize freelance work, this book won't do it... nor will anything else. There's too many people out there who think that freelance working is the pannacea to getting rich. It's not and the book points that out). It does, however, give loads of valuable and worthwhile advice to freelancers who are thinking about taking the Information Highway to work. And, to a disabled person using the Internet to find valuable freelance work in order to make a living, it is a Godsend.
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Summary: A Word About Job Surfing
Review: I noticed the review below, and I really must disagree whole heartedly. The book was written in 2000, which probably makes some of the links outdated (I really doubt if the reader below actually followed them), but there's a ton of information in the title about how to freelance work online. Great sources for information, great ideas on how to get set up, and, more importantly, real life profiles from freelancers all over the world who are actually making it online. I've contacted some of them myself and have collaborated their stories in the book. So I know that the material is credible. If you're looking for a book that will show you how to magically materialize freelance work, this book won't do it... nor will anything else. There's too many people out there who think that freelance working is the pannacea to getting rich. It's not and the book points that out). It does, however, give loads of valuable and worthwhile advice to freelancers who are thinking about taking the Information Highway to work. And, to a disabled person using the Internet to find valuable freelance work in order to make a living, it is a Godsend.
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Summary: Absolutely a 5 Star Read and Referrence Material
Review: I read the "Save Your Money" review below, which was pointed out to me by a friend in my writers group, and I adamantely disagree. The reviewer says that the book is "essentially a list of 30 Job Search websites. WRONG! Obviously this reviewer, who didn't leave a name, did not read the title. The book begins with an articulate and obsorbing review of the history of freelance work dating back to Fuedal Age. It then provides a detailed and very compelling timeline on working online, and how doing so can be of value to the average working freelance worker. The applicability of freelance work is then expanded to include all freelance workers, not only writers and creatives. The book then outlines specific technologies and tools that are available to today's freelance workers, and how these tools can be employed toward finding gainful work in the freelance markets. I, personally, have used several of these tools and techniques to successfully find freelance gigs, one that is keeping me busy almost full time. There is golden advice within the pages of this title. The last few chapters of the book then reviews several websites that are available for freelancers to use in finding jobs. The sites are preedominantly freelance sites such as freelanceworkexchange.com, r144.com, and freelance.com. So, "A Reader's" assessment below that only 1 or 2 sites in this title are for freelancers is obsurd. This title has developed an almost cult-like following amongst the members of many freelance websites. The author writes columns for two nationally acclaimed writers publications, and has personally responded to several of my email queries about how I can best pursue freelance work online. The wealth of information I received back from the author personally has been invaluable to my career. I say this title is a must for anyone doing freelance work who wants to do it online using the Internet.
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Summary: Absolutely a 5 Star Read and Referrence Material
Review: I read the "Save Your Money" review below, which was pointed out to me by a friend in my writers group, and I adamantely disagree. The reviewer says that the book is "essentially a list of 30 Job Search websites. WRONG! Obviously this reviewer, who didn't leave a name, did not read the title. The book begins with an articulate and obsorbing review of the history of freelance work dating back to Fuedal Age. It then provides a detailed and very compelling timeline on working online, and how doing so can be of value to the average working freelance worker. The applicability of freelance work is then expanded to include all freelance workers, not only writers and creatives. The book then outlines specific technologies and tools that are available to today's freelance workers, and how these tools can be employed toward finding gainful work in the freelance markets. I, personally, have used several of these tools and techniques to successfully find freelance gigs, one that is keeping me busy almost full time. There is golden advice within the pages of this title. The last few chapters of the book then reviews several websites that are available for freelancers to use in finding jobs. The sites are preedominantly freelance sites such as freelanceworkexchange.com, r144.com, and freelance.com. So, "A Reader's" assessment below that only 1 or 2 sites in this title are for freelancers is obsurd. This title has developed an almost cult-like following amongst the members of many freelance websites. The author writes columns for two nationally acclaimed writers publications, and has personally responded to several of my email queries about how I can best pursue freelance work online. The wealth of information I received back from the author personally has been invaluable to my career. I say this title is a must for anyone doing freelance work who wants to do it online using the Internet.
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Summary: Save your money
Review: This book is essentially a list of 30 Job Search web sites. The author obviously had a good idea for a book, spent a week looking up job search web sites on a search engine, and rated the first 30 that he found. Why he would incude the bad web sites is beyond me. 20% of the links were either dead or linked to other sites that were also rated. Only 1 or 2 had freelance opportunities and nothing to write home about. The book is too $ to return, but believe me - save your money. thought I would do a kindness by preventing others from wasting their money.
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Summary: Save your money
Review: This book was the best source I've found for searching jobs on the Internet. It gives a fascinating history of how job surfing has developed and where it's going and how I can use that history to anticipate the future for getting jobs online. I'm getting my jobs now almost exclusively online, and I'm making more money and having more leisure time. It's great. This book is great.
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