Nielsen conducted a survey regarding what Americans do online most of the time. The result is that most Americans spend most of their time visiting social networking sites. These sites include Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter as the three biggest social networking sites around. The percentage increase has been growing exponentially, and this is also manifested at the lower scale, as most of the people visit the worldwide web for Facebook, and in fact, some can no longer distinguish the fine line separating Facebook from the rest of the online world.
This implies that advertisers, businesses and the like should focus more on social networking sites. These are the sites where targeted advertisements should go, because these are where the targeted audience is. In fact, Facebook has already surpassed the 500 million mark, and Twitter has just twitted it’s 20 billionth tweet.
There are still companies that pay to get their advertisement on that big Yellow pages book, but the trends show that consumers no longer spend a significant amount of time reading that book, and in fact, discard it after some time. Most consumers spend their time online, specifically on social networking sites, and so it is just logical that these companies invest more on creating advertisements on these sites.

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The Chinese government has now changed its mind about the internet. It now likes what it sees. Last Tuesday, they have called the internet, ‘the crystallization of human wisdom, the great scientific invention of the 20th century, an important indicator of advanced productivity’. This statement was published in a white paper they released entitled China’s Internet Situation. This paper says that the Chinese government acknowledges the importance of the internet in improving the lives of the Chinese people and its benefit to the economy.

The paper talks a lot about China’s achievements in internet propagation. The government claims that more than 95% of towns now have broadband access. They also aim to improve the internet penetration to 45% from the current 29% in a frame of five years.

They are also proud to say that citizens have freedom of speech on the internet.

Citizens have full freedom of speech on the internet, the paper claims. An excerpt from the paper says, “China now has millions of forums and 220 million blog users, according to sampling statistics. More than 66 percent of Chinese internet users comment regularly on the internet, discuss various topics, fully express ideas and pursue their interests.”
The paper also advocates Twitter as a very good way for the citizens to practice their online communication. Other social networking and blogging sites are a big help as well.

However, the paper strongly upholds that its aim of protecting and properly educating the citizens still stand. This is the very reason why they have banned several sites and search engines before.

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Working at home as a freelancer is an avenue where you can encounter stumbles as you go along the way. Like hello? The freelance gigs don’t come to you served on a silver platter. You could be working in the medical transcription industry and this still applies to you. You need to search for leads and find opportunities incessantly to keep your freelance career going. Unless you’re just satisfied sitting along on your current low paying virtual job, it’s time to brush up on your qualifications, update your portfolio and be wary of opportunities around you.

Successful Freelance Careers Need Effective Marketing

A big help in marketing a successful freelance career is building your own website. It can be a blog that showcases all the things that you’re good at doing or a website that spotlights the services you can offer potential clients. To jack up your online presence, go social with Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. The latter is a good way to widen the network of your professional career. LinkedIn is like an online resume where you can highlight your professional experience and the people who you’ve worked with. There’s a lot of potential partners or clients that just might stumble upon your qualifications, so having a ready resume online would be a good leverage.

Of course, a freelance career should have a goal to expand into a business in the long run. You should be keeping contacts of people who could help you build your business in the future. You should be prepared in managing the resources you have so that your freelance career is always alive and kicking. It’s good to maintain your focus on the goals you have set and be patient when some blocks are hindering you to achieve what you want. A successful freelance career needs a lot of work but with small steps – you can eventually reach your dreams if you are prepared.

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