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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Free Videos Saved My Freelance Life


Like many people just starting out in the freelance work-at-home business, I really had no concept of where to even begin in my search for a way to make some extra money doing something I enjoy.

A new co-worker at my day job saved the day when she told me about Rent A Coder (RAC) as her way of surviving the bills until she could land a regular day job. She said that RAC was a lot better than other similar sites she had tried for getting web design jobs, so I decided to join it to look for video and voice-over work. Well, I was immediately overwhelmed by all the detailed links; the reams of information to read; and all those project history statistics that are presented in the multiple page descriptive profiles of everyone on RAC. But then, I'm easily confused under the right circumstances. There is so much to click on, so much to read; so much to learn; so many links and so little time. I thought I'd NEVER get it all figured out.

Well, after a couple of days of randomly clicking links on the site in desperation, I swallowed my pride and asked for help. I appealed to my new co-worker while on break to please give me a brief explanation of how Rent A Coder worked and that was when she pointed me to the FREE videos on RACsuccess that show how to navigate the Rent A Coder website and how to utilize its many useful tools.

When I got home that night, I checked out RACsuccess. I was amazed to find over 40 instructional videos that walked me through every major link on the site. In fact, I was so grateful for what she had shared with me that I bought her lunch the next day! In the time it took to watch a few videos, my eyes were opened to the whole new world of freelancing at Rent A Coder. Now when I need to know how to do something at RAC, the first place I look is on the FREE video page at RACsuccess. The videos are even neatly categorized so you can find what you are looking for quickly. So far, I have been able to find everything I was looking for easily.

When you sign up for the free videos, you also get a FREE 14-page report called: "Formal arbitration and how to avoid it" which can help keep you out of trouble even before you bid on your first project. It's a must read!

By the way, my co-worker has not been much help to me since that time. A few days after she told me about Rent A Coder and the free RACsuccess videos, she left my company to start work on a long term freelance project she'd found on Rent A Coder. If I had known sooner how to navigate RAC as well as she did, maybe I would have had seen that job in time to bid on it myself. Oh, well... I'll beat her next time.

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With the free
introduction videos from RACsuccess that completely show you how to use Rent a Coder you'll learn your way around the Rent A Coder site in no time at all.