My freelance work eats up a lot of my time that I already need a household help to do the daily household chores. Just doing blogging tasks alone keeps me working at the start of the day until late in the evening. I’m trying to work within the US time zones since I get more work opportunities that way, so I get to stay up late until after midnight and wake up near noon.

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Opportunities come up often each day and I almost do not run out of things to do. I would rather opt to pay someone to do a portion of my daily duties. This includes some tasks that allow me to get some substantial traffic for this blog. I’ve already outsourced one task as a part-time job for another person to do. I intend to hire more people to get me relieved from such tasks and let me concentrate on pressing tasks, such as coming up with freelance article pieces for this blog and doing bits of SEO at the same time.

Every worker has to learn how to manage a set of tasks that are to be done during the day. As I am relying purely on my active work to earn income, I had to prune out parts of my freelance job. Make a list of tasks that are to be done during the day and before numbering these tasks according to priority, eliminate the time wasters first. The points are mentioned below:

• Do the task at a later date. If the job can be postponed then do it so. Find a free day or free time to do the task.
• Have another person do the task. I already got other people do some chores to relieve me the stress of too much work to do.
• Find another way to simplify the task. I found a number of duties that I can simplify. Sometimes using software can help me simplify such task. Learning another method can be difficult in the beginning, but if done effectively then it could be a great time-saver.
• Determine tasks that can be done by batch. This is much related in simplifying tasks. In my case, I do blog visiting and commenting at the end of the week, instead of doing it when I do not have things to do. I do blog redesigns at the end of the week too.
• Make the most out of idle time. Here, keeping a list can be handy. Sometimes I find myself faced with too many tasks to do and I do not know which one is next to my list. The list can be helpful when there are some idle periods.
• Determine resources that are useful to the job but takes up too much time. I’ve upgraded my PC to a faster one so that I can run the latest software, which demands more out of hardware. I’ve upgraded my internet connection so that I can also work fast. A slow PC is counterproductive so I am looking towards upgrading it.
• Just drop the task from the list. There are simply some jobs that are truly time wasters. For me I changed my IM status from busy to invisible, since I realized that simply talking to someone really wastes a lot of my time. I turn on my visibility to the person whom I need to talk immediately.

Proper planning of activities will surely lead to better ways of maximizing time to the fullest and having loose extra time change at the end of the day for replenishing work energy.

I’m really amazed at what the stem cells can do. Despite the controversy surrounding this research, I really think that the advantages outweigh the disadvantage of this system. I learned recently that a woman’s mentrual blood can be very beneficial. Now a newborn baby’s umbilical cord also do magical wonders in treating diseases with stem cells before this cord is thrown away.

According to Cryo-Cell, the most established family cord bank, stem cells from the umbilical cord is can treat over 70 diseases and can be used in thousands of transplants. Stem cell technology overcomes the limitation that drugs, surgery and alternative healing cannot cover. The cord blood can also be used to treat a wide range of diseases. This even gives hope to a cancer victim because of this technology’s high rate of success.

Stem cell research is still ongoing with the value of cord blood being studied for cardiac and neurological diseases. Investing baby’s umbilical cord for future use can save someone, so let Cryo-Cell help.

Are our mobile phones ready for connecting to our favorite social network?

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The world has embraced social networks for a long time and it has definitely connected people even after moving on to another job. My social network in Friendster is mostly a collection of my classmates in grade school and high school years, as well as those people whom I’ve worked with. Some of them are still in the country (the Philippines) and others have moved on to find opportunities in other countries.

Leading social networks are taking steps to connect mobile phones to social networks. I do agree on the article about the slow acceptance of social networking in mobile phones. However, mobile phones are getting better and powerful and it would not be long before most people can get to keep in touch with their social networks in their hands.

“Eat all you can” is a concept that worked at many restaurant establishments. I’ve tried my hand on some “eat all you can” meals and I just could not stomach it all in. I often have extra food left. But there are a handful of guy who just cannot get enough of these “eat all you can” goodies that are offered. Of course these meals do not come too cheap, but I agree that the price for these meals is reasonable.

This “eat all you can” concept is what Altnet had adapted to attract new members. Their free 7 day trial is a great catch. I really think this free 7 day trial is enough to get a taste of what the website has to offer. Of course, there is still nothing that beats paying for the membership to continue with the unlimited download service and enjoying full length album CD quality music for up to three PCs!

Altnet is 100% legal and is endorsed by major music companies. Sony BMG, Atlantic and Universal Records are some of the leading music companies that work with Altnet.com to provide such music from the world-famous artists that we all love.

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I’ve just mentioned in a previous post that not everyone can get their skills to make money online. I’ve noticed that most skills that are needed online are those that are related to building the internet. It is easier to make such money online for people who already have these skills:

1. Programming: this skills has already been even when the internet age has not started. Programming skill is still a much-sought after skill and this has diversified well into many areas and programming languages.
2. Graphic design: anyone who is into logo design can easily find jobs in this area. There is also a constant demand for Flash and multimedia designers. CAD skills also prop up once in a while.
3. Web design: there is always an demand for this one as small businesses put up their wares or internet presence online.
4. Writing: good writing skills in English will always be in demand especially in making content for the web.
5. Data Entry: this is probably one of the easiest outsourced jobs that can be done with the basic knowledge in MS Office applications and the internet.
6. Medical Transcription: this is a growing field for those working at home. Transcription often involves creating consolidating medical reports. This would still require months-long training. Experienced ones can gain a good income from this job.
7. SEO and SEM: I’ve put this into a different category because I really believe that this one needs a different set of skills. There are also some people who are purely do these kind of work. Search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) works hand in hand to make a website easily accessible to search engines as well as promote its publicity using the world wide web as the main medium.
8. Network administration: there are a few online jobs that are geared to work on outsourced network administration tasks that are often time-consuming and needs a lot of work done.
9. Personal assistant: there is also a growing demand for virtual assistants. This job is basically a combination of clerical jobs that can be outsourced.

The rapid internet growth has truly made more jobs that many can just simply take some part-time jobs off the internet. It has really made it possible not just to find some published information off the web, but to provide more means to earn such serious job opportunities online.