The Will To Freelance

Freelancing to some, is work, while to others, a hobby.  Although the path most Freelancers take can be cumbersome, not all will be able to achieve financial success.  Typical Freelancers generally freelance as a source for extra income, and unless you know how to market yourself, you will find that freelancing as a full time job will become quite difficult.

Freelancing online has recently become infamous.  Just to name a few; Freelancer.com, Elance.com, and Odesk.com, are all online freelance networking agencies.  All of the aforementioned companies provides Freelancers with the opportunity to gain extra income from other companies and individuals seeking freelance work.  For most, this may sound like an ideal platform, but the reality of it is that there is so much competition amongst Freelancers online, that it drives the market value down for what Freelancers are actually worth.  And with this comes the internet, where Freelancers from around the world must compete with each other for the lowest possible rates.

To say the least, freelancing can be well rewarded only if you can find the right providers willing to pay you for what your worth.

PTC (Paid to Click) Business Model

The "Paid to Click" (PTC) business model is one that refers to a business looking to help advertisers generate revenue by supplying paid for click-throughs on advertisements.  This however, is ironic because the advertisers that endorses these PTC businesses for their revenue are actually paying to crowdsource people to their business for money instead.

Unlike traditional methods of PPC (Paid Per Click) advertising like with Google Adwords whereas you would get quality content click-throughs.  The paid to click industry generates it's own revenue by marketing a portion or percentage of it's advertising fee to a subscribed group of paid clickers.  This in turn, creates bad return on investments (ROI) for the advertiser's because the paid clickers are not interested in becoming potential clients but rather it's for the money they receive to click on ads.

Tho as bad as it may seem, there are an abundance of these PTC internet companies thriving off of other online businesses and merchants, here's an example, watch video below.

Crowdsourcing Cut Short

Crowdsourcing - The term generally relates to a gathering of people in a network online and off.  This network of people establishes itself as a resource to projects committed by companies or individuals.  Crowdsourcing can be used in many ways; data collecting; project analyzing; fundraising; etc.  Although crowdsourcing was recently termed, it was already amongst society before it's recent surge on the internet.  An example of this would be consumer research, whereas it utilizes the masses of people to improve products and services.

In today's world, crowdsourcing has been increasingly popular, especially online.  There are virtually countless of companies looking into crowdsourcing as ways to cut cost or provide feedback.  Many of these companies now outsource the crowd as a cost effective way to provide and handle solutions.  Online agencies now use crowdsourcing as a fulfillment to complete client projects rather than having to do the work themselves.  Examples of these type of agencies are as follows; crowdflower.com, crowdspring.com, and cloudcrowd.com amongst many others.

Although crowdsourcing benefits companies that employs it, that's not necessarily the case for it's "crowd employees".  Some of these crowd workers only get paid a nominal fee due to most jobs being microtasked by myriads of people.  Nevertheless, crowdsourcing is more about optimizing solutions on a mass scale rather than economic achievement.