Freelancing is an attractive business as long as it is done with a proper spirit. Like any other business, you also have to work hard to reach to the success, but the added Freedom-Factor associated with freelancing makes it a lucrative way to go. However, if you find that you have lost your passion for the work, or in other words, can not motivated yourself enough to deal with the challenges, then it certainly is not a good news for you freelance career. Therefore, it is extremely important to keep yourself charged up and not dwindle under pressure. This article will discuss some of the methods that have been widely employed by the freelancers all over the world.

If you are a photographer or copywriter, it would be best if you always keep hunting after new and fresh works and snapshots. One good way to do that would be to subscribe with magazines related to new and innovative ideas.

Another way would be to always remember that accepting ‘Failure’ is tough and hardly acceptable, thus you always have strive to get the best out of what you doing and keep staying as far as possible from the word ‘Failure’. This should perk you up right away. One more way would be to think about the positive sides for which you have initially chosen this field of freelance business. Remembering those will surely bring the motivation back to your work.

Some freelancers engage in multiple types of work, such as graphics designer as well as writer. Therefore, try to have projects for both the sides and thus if one makes you bored at times, concentrate on the other. This mixing will bring freshness each time you start a topic. Few other freelancers will mix their activities between various day-works and projects on hand. This is also a good way to not become bored in one specific task.

Thus as you can there are various ways to encourage oneself to go about completing the projects. If you can successfully ride out this lack of motivation factor, surely you can succeed in this great world of freelance opportunities.

In this series article, I would like to share a way to generate USD180 / MYR 630 per year. As per discussed in Using WordPress To Create Mini Sites, I will have a discussion on the concept of “MINI SITES” in this part.

Mini Sites - It is a form of website, developed in a very short time and contains only 5-20 pages (or may be more) of original contents. Most of the times the designing are done by putting up custom design templates and other free plug-ins.

There are different types of Mini Sites, such as:

Product Related

This kind of web portal will be directed at some specific product or a range of products targeting a specific consumer market. For example may be you target the healthcare market and write reviews of different healthcare products, as well as how to obtain those or order online.

Informational

This kind of sites solely targets on different kinds of informative issues, such as travelling destinations, political issues or small-scale sports and recreational portals. You can place different affiliated links and if the user clicks on them, a certain percentage will be earned by you.

Tools and Tips sites

This type of site is more on knowledgebase market, such as useful tactics in graphics design or Computer Programming. Or it may be freelance business or even engineering issues as well. The users of this class of sites are mostly technical and engineering professionals.

Promoting you side should be easy as you can use different Google Adwords or some per-pay-click services. This will help you to bring traffic to your site. The best part about these mini sites is that once you spend around 8/10 hours to build a mini site, you do not have to go back regularly and update it in a rapid fashion every time.

Just create it, place its link to some other websites and surely you will end up getting at least some traffic, thereby making some cash. Let’s say you generate USD0.50 per day from each mini-sites, you will simply make over USD180 per year. (** We will discuss the ways to generate the minimum USD 0.50 / day in our part 2 of this series posts.)

When there is multiple mini sites are created, you can have some substantial income collectively. However, in that case you also should go back once in a while to those sites and check the user-status or do some upgrade work. Therefore, mini sites can be a great source of some useful side income with very little one-time effort.

With this we end our first part of the series and in the next part we will see the ways to generate the USD0.50/day via Mini Sites. Just Sign up with our Auto-Feed Manager to deliver the next part to your Inbox automatically.

This artcile is constituting the second of our four series part of  review on some really helpful web resources for the freelancers:

CameronMoll

An extremely good site for having a visual impact as this site is exceedingly well designed. It has a very nice Job section including both full-time and freelance jobs. The archive section got a lot of articles and finally they have a portfolio section where the detailed design information of the web site is available. It’s a mixture of many side topic along with freelancing work.

TuturialBlog

This web site is sharing a lots of tips on building web sites. It has other kinds of graphics related news, tips and technique of using many graphical softwares. It has a unique section consisting of the work submission by the author. The web site is nicely decorated and designed.

Blue Favor

A site that has a nice listing of all the projects that they have done, well-designed and pretty neat looking. It holds good real life job and opportunity, both freelancing and full time in the field of mobile and and web solution. All kinds of publishing and usability solutions they also provide thus having a large ranges of work category.

Freelance Folder

It is a slim and slick-looking web site mainly focused on different kinds of articles written primarily on freelancing. It is aimed at helping both the entrepreneurs and the bloggers at the same time. It has a nice RSS feed option so you can yourself keep informed regularly. It is one of my favour sites as I always share their tips with this community. Here is a latest interesting post - What To Do With Dirty Money?

Sitepoint

This web site has a nice Video section of many graphics related software mini tutorial. They also recommend the essential books on graphics design. It also have a reporting and benchmarking section for new softwares. All these comes with a loaded pact of articles on Web Graphic issues and an enriched blog section.

If you miss out the previous excellent resources, check out the Part 1. We will be coming out the Part 3 in two days times. Just Sign up with our Auto-Feed Manager to deliver the next part to your Inbox automatically.