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The purpose of our website to give some basic understanding of and insights into starting and carrying on a freelance career at oDesk, one of the top freelance websites today.  Here we discuss many aspects of the freelance career but there are a lot more that you must know to make your career more successful. Telling you everything from A-Z is obviously not   a good teaching strategy, therefore we have left  some parts for you to study on your own. One such area is dispute resolution mechanism, which we just passingly mentioned. oDesk is also prepared to provide you more and elaborate support when you need while learning these lessons  through the contractor learning center and the oDesk forum. Besides there are a lot of internet material you can find on these topics.

Above all, there are a lot of other things which cannot be taught in any way, but those are   the   most important lessons in one’s freelancer career. Those lessons are to be learnt from experience. How to handle an angry buyer, how to do a quality work in a shorter period of time, how to maintain   long term relationships with buyers are some examples.

Like Rome, a great freelance career can’t be made in a day, and this truth you should have understood by now. It calls for your passion, determination and hard work to a great extent. Many freelancers spend hours and hours on oDesk without doing anything particular, just to read the contractor profiles of the top contractors and the jobs posted. By looking at the amounts of money, the good feedbacks and reviews they have earned, and the sky-high hourly rates they charge and the eye catching prices of the jobs posted you can ignite the fire within you to achieve their level, to make money like they do, on oDesk. Let’s face the truth; we do this simply for money and it is the sole motivator for many of us to achieve success in out lives.

There are a lot of other benefits which oDesk offers to its contractors, any discussion of which is not permitted by the limited space of this small eBook. One example is oDesk health benefits. We can expect a lot more in future, since freelancing becomes increasingly popular and common phenomenon, which offers viable options to those who are unemployed, underemployed and all the others who just want to make the ends meet.

It will be our pleasure if we can contribute to your successful freelance career.

We wish you the best of luck!