I found a blogging site called FreelanceSwitch. The website it can be found at is http://freelanceswitch.com and consists of a plethora of writers blogging about a number of different topics. Mainly involving the struggles or triumphs of people who are considered “freelancers”. A freelancer is basically a self-contractor who goes around and does a wide variety of projects from anyone who offers them. Two of the individual blogs that caught me eye were “Are you getting clients from LinkedIn?” and “6 Steps to Focus Your Blog Content to Your Target Audience.”
In the blog post “Are you getting clients from LinkedIn?” I found it pretty shocking the number of people who are now getting jobs straight from social networking sites. LinkedIn is a site that you can share ideas with other professionals in the same line of work that you are in. This helps out freelancers because they can find jobs from anywhere in any line of work they wish to choose. The blog stated that LinkedIn has 120 million members world wide, which 950,000 members use the word “freelance” in their title. I found this interesting because it just makes you realize how much the Internet affects the way we function now days. It is apparent that if you are looking for a job but you aren’t technologically advanced, or know how to work the Internet, then you are going to struggle finding a job.
I thought that the blog post “6 Steps to Focus Your Blog Content to Your Target Audience.” Was relevant to our class, because we blog three times a week and should know every secret possible to be successful. The 6 steps are to: Define your niche, define your customer, research your customer, plan your blog, develop your content, measure your success, and wrap it up. All of these steps can be useful in the way I write my blogs from now on. Overall, FreelanceSwitch is a great site if in the future you find yourself as a freelancer.
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