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Because Money Matters: How to Earn More Money as a Freelancer in a Gig Economy
This book will show you what you need to get started as a freelancer, especially if you want to run your business on Fiverr.com. If you are a freelancer wishing for better success, this book will help you get to the next level where you get paid top dollar and have the freedom to choose clients and projects.
You will know:
•The advantages and disadvantages of being a freelancer and whether a freelancing business is right for you.
•How to find out what you want to do.
•What it takes to become a successful freelancer earning his/her worth.
•How to set up your online shop for your freelancing business.
•How to price your service using the C.O.S.T. model to reflect the true value of your expertise and the work you do.
•How to get and retain clients and referrals through excellent client service.
•How to properly manage your business without stress while staying competitive, current, and relevant.
•How to use the BASIC test to ensure the effectiveness and professionalism of your written communication.
•How to handle different types of clients.
•How to use the 48 ready-to-use message templates to communicate and negotiate effectively with clients in various scenarios.
You will know:
•The advantages and disadvantages of being a freelancer and whether a freelancing business is right for you.
•How to find out what you want to do.
•What it takes to become a successful freelancer earning his/her worth.
•How to set up your online shop for your freelancing business.
•How to price your service using the C.O.S.T. model to reflect the true value of your expertise and the work you do.
•How to get and retain clients and referrals through excellent client service.
•How to properly manage your business without stress while staying competitive, current, and relevant.
•How to use the BASIC test to ensure the effectiveness and professionalism of your written communication.
•How to handle different types of clients.
•How to use the 48 ready-to-use message templates to communicate and negotiate effectively with clients in various scenarios.
188 pages, Paperback
Published January 11, 2018
About the author
V.V. Cam
15 books65 followersV.V. Cam's philosophy of life exemplifies the saying “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” When it comes to exploring the ever-changing world of self-publishing, V.V. has proven she is no stranger to embracing new worlds and ideas. She has not only learned how to fish, but also has spent her life teaching hundreds of others to become self-reliant.
V. V. Cam is a Canadian, best known as the author of the Because Self-Publishing Works and Because Money Matters series of practical and actionable self-help books. With her usual pragmatic advice, compassionate voice, and succinct writing style, she shares through these books the lessons and wisdom she learned.
The two books in the Because Self-Publishing Works series share the knowledge she learned while helping her husband publish and market his book. Because Money Matters: The 8 Principles to Build Your Wealth starts her first book in the series about gaining and growing wealth.
Visit: http://www.because.zone/books-by-v-v-cam
V. V. Cam is a Canadian, best known as the author of the Because Self-Publishing Works and Because Money Matters series of practical and actionable self-help books. With her usual pragmatic advice, compassionate voice, and succinct writing style, she shares through these books the lessons and wisdom she learned.
The two books in the Because Self-Publishing Works series share the knowledge she learned while helping her husband publish and market his book. Because Money Matters: The 8 Principles to Build Your Wealth starts her first book in the series about gaining and growing wealth.
Visit: http://www.because.zone/books-by-v-v-cam
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January 12, 2018
‘A freelancer or freelance worker is a person who is usually self-employed and is not necessarily committed to an employer’.
Author V.V. Cam has a fascinating history – she and her family had to flee Vietnam to Hong Kong by boat when she was just 13 and in Hong Kong she was housed in a prison that had been turned into an overcrowded refugee camp. That was where she started her journey to become the happy and successful wife, mother, and entrepreneur that she is today. While working in an electronics factory earning money to help her family survive the hardships of daily life, she taught herself to speak
and write Chinese. A year later, a church sponsored her family to start their new life in a small town in Ontario, Canada. She put her language learning skills to use again, this time mastering English. She soon became one of the top students at her school and helped the office staff with her typing and office skills. Along with her industrious family, she learned to sew and made money sewing for local shops and for friends. Her resume soon included an impressive list of accomplishments: She worked her way from seamstress, waitress, bartender, and receptionist to IT support specialist and trainer, to real estate agent and broker. She has worked in executive positions with large organizations managing finances, human resources, and relationships and has built a couple of small businesses. In her spare time, she created two high-traffic and successful websites that offer teaching tools and support to the Vietnamese communities. She’s also founded a philanthropic organization that provides micro loans for poor people in Vietnam.
This approach to her fellowman is so very evident in this BECAUSE MONEY MATTERS: How to earn more money as a freelancer in a gig economy – one of her finest books in a growing list of superb self-help tomes. She opens with a Prelude ‘Why this book exists’ – ‘It is said, “In a gig economy, temporary, flexible jobs are commonplace and companies tend toward hiring independent contractors and freelancers instead of full-time employees. A gig economy undermines the traditional economy of full-time workers who rarely change positions and instead focus on a lifetime career.”‘I’ve learned a lot about the freelance world. I want to share my knowledge, my experience and the lessons I’ve learned with you. I’ve also included tips, tools, and samples to help you along the way. Running a single-person freelancing business requires a variety of skills and abilities. I’ve chosen to focus this book on earning money by attracting and retaining clients, because without clients, your business cannot make money. As a result, this book will not provide how-to information about registering your business, writing contracts, issuing invoices, keeping records, or filing taxes. This book will show you what you need to get started as a freelancer, especially if you want to run your business on Fiverr.com. If you are a freelancer wishing for better success, this book will help you get to the next level where you get paid top dollar and have the freedom to choose clients and projects.
In V.V. Cam’s inimitable manner she assures us what her book will teach us - The advantages and disadvantages of being a freelancer and whether a freelancing business is right for you, How to find out what you want to do, What it takes to become a successful freelancer earning his/ her worth, Where and how to set up your online shop for your freelancing business, How to price your service using the C.O.S.T. model to reflect the true value of your expertise and the work you do, How to get and retain clients and referrals through excellent client service, How to properly manage your business without stress while staying competitive, current, and relevant, How to use the BASIC test to ensure the effectiveness and professionalism of your written communication, How to handle different types of clients, and How to use the 48 ready-to-use message templates to communicate and negotiate effectively with clients in various scenarios. Strong ideals? She meets them all with a very well written guide.
Brilliant book by a caring person (who happens to communicate very well indeed!).
Author V.V. Cam has a fascinating history – she and her family had to flee Vietnam to Hong Kong by boat when she was just 13 and in Hong Kong she was housed in a prison that had been turned into an overcrowded refugee camp. That was where she started her journey to become the happy and successful wife, mother, and entrepreneur that she is today. While working in an electronics factory earning money to help her family survive the hardships of daily life, she taught herself to speak
and write Chinese. A year later, a church sponsored her family to start their new life in a small town in Ontario, Canada. She put her language learning skills to use again, this time mastering English. She soon became one of the top students at her school and helped the office staff with her typing and office skills. Along with her industrious family, she learned to sew and made money sewing for local shops and for friends. Her resume soon included an impressive list of accomplishments: She worked her way from seamstress, waitress, bartender, and receptionist to IT support specialist and trainer, to real estate agent and broker. She has worked in executive positions with large organizations managing finances, human resources, and relationships and has built a couple of small businesses. In her spare time, she created two high-traffic and successful websites that offer teaching tools and support to the Vietnamese communities. She’s also founded a philanthropic organization that provides micro loans for poor people in Vietnam.
This approach to her fellowman is so very evident in this BECAUSE MONEY MATTERS: How to earn more money as a freelancer in a gig economy – one of her finest books in a growing list of superb self-help tomes. She opens with a Prelude ‘Why this book exists’ – ‘It is said, “In a gig economy, temporary, flexible jobs are commonplace and companies tend toward hiring independent contractors and freelancers instead of full-time employees. A gig economy undermines the traditional economy of full-time workers who rarely change positions and instead focus on a lifetime career.”‘I’ve learned a lot about the freelance world. I want to share my knowledge, my experience and the lessons I’ve learned with you. I’ve also included tips, tools, and samples to help you along the way. Running a single-person freelancing business requires a variety of skills and abilities. I’ve chosen to focus this book on earning money by attracting and retaining clients, because without clients, your business cannot make money. As a result, this book will not provide how-to information about registering your business, writing contracts, issuing invoices, keeping records, or filing taxes. This book will show you what you need to get started as a freelancer, especially if you want to run your business on Fiverr.com. If you are a freelancer wishing for better success, this book will help you get to the next level where you get paid top dollar and have the freedom to choose clients and projects.
In V.V. Cam’s inimitable manner she assures us what her book will teach us - The advantages and disadvantages of being a freelancer and whether a freelancing business is right for you, How to find out what you want to do, What it takes to become a successful freelancer earning his/ her worth, Where and how to set up your online shop for your freelancing business, How to price your service using the C.O.S.T. model to reflect the true value of your expertise and the work you do, How to get and retain clients and referrals through excellent client service, How to properly manage your business without stress while staying competitive, current, and relevant, How to use the BASIC test to ensure the effectiveness and professionalism of your written communication, How to handle different types of clients, and How to use the 48 ready-to-use message templates to communicate and negotiate effectively with clients in various scenarios. Strong ideals? She meets them all with a very well written guide.
Brilliant book by a caring person (who happens to communicate very well indeed!).
February 3, 2018
She provides plenty of practical advice in simple-plain English
“In a gig economy, temporary, flexible jobs are commonplace and companies tend toward hiring independent contractors and freelancers instead of full-time employees. A gig economy undermines the traditional economy of full-time workers who rarely change positions and instead focus on a lifetime career...This book will show you what you need to get started as a freelancer, especially if you want to run your business on Fiverr.com. If you are a freelancer wishing for better success, this book will help you get to the next level where you get paid top dollar and have the freedom to choose clients and projects.”
I think these lines from the book introduction already give good enough motivation to many readers interested in freelancing.
I've read all four books of Virginia Cam's, and she always makes clear in the beginning pages who should read her books before proceeding the act-ü-al act-ii-on, so any person who’s thinking about becoming a freelancer can check it out in the preview sections like the “Look-inside” on her Amazon.com landing page before they pay for the purchase.
The book’s not cliché; it will not only tell you the advantages of being a freelancer, but also various disadvantages, so you can pre-view, pre-dict or fore-see if it is right for you to run a freelancing business. Once you are convinced that you’re a right person to start a freelance business, or a person who can change to fit in the basic requirements with some efforts as the book instructs, it will lead you to find out what you can or really wanna do along with what it takes to be a successful freelancer with a valuable expertise of your own.
FYI, 1.6 How to Find What You Want to Do on pp. 17-21 is really realistic and helpful in that matter.
This book provides detailed information to help you create your own freelancing business especially in Fiverr.com; it is like a step-by-step instruction guide of how to run your freelance business on Fiverr.com.
Like her other books, this book, too, provides the links to various useful websites like free on-line classes for specific knowledge and skills to help you learn, improve and be ready for your potential work opportunities.
Bonus: She is a great writer. I've never found any of her books confusing the readers. Her words are well-focused on the main point with respect and regard. Through this book, all readers will learn how to choose words and sentences to communicate with others and make them your loyal clients.
“In a gig economy, temporary, flexible jobs are commonplace and companies tend toward hiring independent contractors and freelancers instead of full-time employees. A gig economy undermines the traditional economy of full-time workers who rarely change positions and instead focus on a lifetime career...This book will show you what you need to get started as a freelancer, especially if you want to run your business on Fiverr.com. If you are a freelancer wishing for better success, this book will help you get to the next level where you get paid top dollar and have the freedom to choose clients and projects.”
I think these lines from the book introduction already give good enough motivation to many readers interested in freelancing.
I've read all four books of Virginia Cam's, and she always makes clear in the beginning pages who should read her books before proceeding the act-ü-al act-ii-on, so any person who’s thinking about becoming a freelancer can check it out in the preview sections like the “Look-inside” on her Amazon.com landing page before they pay for the purchase.
The book’s not cliché; it will not only tell you the advantages of being a freelancer, but also various disadvantages, so you can pre-view, pre-dict or fore-see if it is right for you to run a freelancing business. Once you are convinced that you’re a right person to start a freelance business, or a person who can change to fit in the basic requirements with some efforts as the book instructs, it will lead you to find out what you can or really wanna do along with what it takes to be a successful freelancer with a valuable expertise of your own.
FYI, 1.6 How to Find What You Want to Do on pp. 17-21 is really realistic and helpful in that matter.
This book provides detailed information to help you create your own freelancing business especially in Fiverr.com; it is like a step-by-step instruction guide of how to run your freelance business on Fiverr.com.
Like her other books, this book, too, provides the links to various useful websites like free on-line classes for specific knowledge and skills to help you learn, improve and be ready for your potential work opportunities.
Bonus: She is a great writer. I've never found any of her books confusing the readers. Her words are well-focused on the main point with respect and regard. Through this book, all readers will learn how to choose words and sentences to communicate with others and make them your loyal clients.
January 12, 2018
Excellently timed book for the current employment trends...
For me “how to” books are the best and V.V Cam’s books are up there with the most useful. This book is the latest addition to her "Because Money Matters" series and is a very worthy addition it is indeed.
V.V Cam has a particular structure and style to her writing – honest, inclusive, and written from hard-won experience and knowledge presented in a concise, yet extremely readable style. She includes many self-check questionaries’ and dozens of links to really valuable websites for the reader to get extra information or guidance.
Although this book focuses on Fiverr.com as the platform on which to build your freelancing business, the breadth and depth of the content and lessons learnt make it suitable for any intending, new or recent person thinking of going it alone. Becoming your own boss sounds very glamorous, but the reality is, the buck stops with you every time: this fact alone makes many an individual think twice about going down this route. The truth is, with planning, preparation and a copy of V.V Cam’s book under your arm you will be off to a great start…and just in time.
The rise of the Gig Economy - an environment in which temporary positions are common and organisations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements, i.e. freelancing – is predicted by Intuit to account for 40 percent of American worker employment by the year 2020. This book is very timely, and for only the price of a cup of coffee, a very worthy investment. Hone your skills, develop your communication abilities and take control of your working life.
For me “how to” books are the best and V.V Cam’s books are up there with the most useful. This book is the latest addition to her "Because Money Matters" series and is a very worthy addition it is indeed.
V.V Cam has a particular structure and style to her writing – honest, inclusive, and written from hard-won experience and knowledge presented in a concise, yet extremely readable style. She includes many self-check questionaries’ and dozens of links to really valuable websites for the reader to get extra information or guidance.
Although this book focuses on Fiverr.com as the platform on which to build your freelancing business, the breadth and depth of the content and lessons learnt make it suitable for any intending, new or recent person thinking of going it alone. Becoming your own boss sounds very glamorous, but the reality is, the buck stops with you every time: this fact alone makes many an individual think twice about going down this route. The truth is, with planning, preparation and a copy of V.V Cam’s book under your arm you will be off to a great start…and just in time.
The rise of the Gig Economy - an environment in which temporary positions are common and organisations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements, i.e. freelancing – is predicted by Intuit to account for 40 percent of American worker employment by the year 2020. This book is very timely, and for only the price of a cup of coffee, a very worthy investment. Hone your skills, develop your communication abilities and take control of your working life.
April 5, 2021
This book is a good primer if you want to work for placed like Fiverr.
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