How To Use Your Typing Skills To Make Money Online

Dec 19
07:21

2008

Mark Barkow

Mark Barkow

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Do you need some spare money? If you can type, why not consider a typist job online? The fact is that there are lots of people and companies that will pay you for your typing abilities.

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 It is important to know how fast you can type to determine how much you really can make. It is vital that you have a complete understanding of what is expected of you. Some of these typist jobs may require you to do some research.

There are plenty of opportunities out there that can be found easily. Many of these companies will even pay you by direct deposit to your bank account. You don’t even have to make a trip to your local bank.

  

Some of these jobs will pay by flat rate based on how much work is required,How To Use Your Typing Skills To Make Money Online Articles some by the page or word. This is standard for the industry, nothing unusual here. They are the methods of payments to be expected. If you can type at the rate of 25 words per minute, and you are paid half a penny a word, that translates into $7.50 or so an hour. The average person that types fairly well can type much faster than that and make substantially more money by doing it. An average typed page has 250 words, so if it were to take you say five minutes to type and you get paid $1 for a page, that would give you $12 an hour. Not too shabby for working at home.

When you first start out doing this, you may find yourself wanting to take every job you are offered. You can do this for a while, no problem. But as you get more experienced you will want to be more selective. You will find jobs that pay more for quicker delivery. This is known by the term expedited. You should never book yourself for jobs that figure to take more than 75% of your allocated working time doing this work. You need some extra time to find the rush or expedited jobs that pay much better, that are available. You also need to allow some extra time to complete the jobs you have scheduled in case something goes wrong and they take more time than you planned to spend on them.

Try to remember that the cost or price for all jobs is negotiable. You will also be much better off having a reputation for the high quality of your work, rather than a reputation for  rushing through jobs that the person that reads your work can detect.

              

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