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| DepositPhotos Giveaway: 3 People To Win Accounts Posted: 11 Jun 2010 02:00 PM PDT
Why am I writing this? Because today we have a giveaway to launch with you and we are giving away:3 accounts in Depositphotos each worth 50$! Before we give away details about contest, we will introduce you a little bit more with DepositPhotos website and highlight special issues which make this site to stand out:
Yes, if you don’t need high quality images, but just small eye-candy shots or illustrations to explain your text, product, thought visually – you will be highly pleasant with such option.
Now Depositphotos also have interesting special offer allowing to buy images even cheaper – handy if you need original images regularly, but you don’t want to spend so much money-getting them.
I was surprised there are so many images available, after giving a little search in topic I was interested in I got several pages of specific images, even more than I’ll ever need. Maybe in very specific topics such results would differentiate, but I am definitely pleasant with results and I am sure you will be too.
There are at least 4 ways for you to purchase images from DepositPhotos.com; you can even mix and match them in a single order if you’d like. Whether you’re buying one image at a time or 40 images a day, our low prices and quality service cannot be beat! And one of the options is subscription as well offering different plans you can choose from: As you can see, you have many options to choose from and if you are in need of premium images and vectors, DepositPhotos is definitely one of the best options to consider. Contest Giveaway Details This day we will make it simple – just leave a comment under the article and we will use random number generator to choose winner! Starting from this time – contest will go one week – be sure you come back here after that to know happy winners! If you want to leave thoughtful response however – leave your thoughts in which case you would spend money for premium image, what kind of experiences you have?!    |
| 5 Tools For Freelancers To Manage Their Time Posted: 11 Jun 2010 03:00 AM PDT
You can have a happy family and successful business just by managing you time. Looking at the importance of time management, today we have collected 5 tools which can make your life easier be managing your time for you. They are not completely free but remember to get something productive you have to pay. Working as a freelancer is a hectic job which required time management first so have a looks on all these tools and select best tool for you. 1. Toggl Toggl Toggl provide very easy time tracking and management. You can create tasks in fraction of a minute. This site is different from other sites because you can use it from website, from your computer's desktop ( supports Windows, Linux and Mac) and even from your iPhone. Just download the application and it is ready to use.  Toggl Supports Windows, Mac, Linux and iPhone You can sign-up by creating a new account or you can also use you GOOGLE account for sign-up purpose.  Add Task You can view your all active projects, manage them, search projects and add new project in PROJECTS tab. You can also add/delete/modify clients in CLIENTS tab. Toggle also provide stats like performance charts and reports for the whole team, which you can filter by client, project, task and more. You can download all reports as PDF or CSV files. Toggl offers Free as well as Pro features. Prices are listed below. They provide 30 days free trial for all pro accounts.  Cost
In the end, i may say it is very easy to use time management tool, the task-bar icon makes it easy to see whether you are timing tasks or not. I like the stats feature to see how you have spent you time. Very easy to operate because of its diversified accessibility. 2. Tick Tick Tick is one of the time tracking tools which I will be reviewing. It is web-based time tracking tool you can use it from any of your internet browser. Tick is very good site for is you just want to manage you time in simple fashion, because it considers time the most important part of business. It has very simplified user-interface having just 3 tabs which are Timecard, Projects, and Reporting.  New Project In timecard tab you can create projects, add clients and make new tasks. If you already have created your 1st project, client, and task then you can also add "time to enter" and Notes to the desired client or project. Following screen-shot clears it all.  Timecard Under "Projects" tab you can find all of the projects you have created including Closed Projects, Open Projects etc. You can choose clients and see the time remaining for the project, you can also close the respective project or edit it.  Projects Reporting is essential part of any activity, this tells what is our performance and how are we spending our precious time! You can print the report or export as CSV. If you want report of specific client or project then you can also do this by selecting/deselecting desired options and clicking on Update report button.  Reports Tick offers pro as well as free services following are the tariff and characteristics of available accounts.  Cost
This can be a good choice for the individuals who just want to manage time for their projects. Tick also supports RSS tracking and widgets. Very fast processing you have to configure it once then it is very easy to use. But this won't help people who want to export their time sheets into invoices. Collectively we can say tick is a good pick for time tracking purpose ! 3. Cashboard Cashboard Using Cashboard you can do Time tracking, expenses, invoicing, estimates, and online payments. Cashboard is a complete package for you online business. It can be easily integrated with the Basecamp and number of other invoicing tools, it can keep you receivables and time sheets organized and maintained.  Dashborad Under Projects tab you can create projects and add tasks. Active and Closed projects are listed. You can click on any pre-created project to assign tasks, time, expenses and issue invoices. You can also create estimate from projects and copy items from another project.  Projects Cashboard also offer many more functions but since our focus is on time tracking so we have reviewed Time Management Tool, only. Cashboard offers free as well as dynamic accounts. In dynamic accounts you can configure you account by adding number of employees and clients and then calculate you price. Features of Free and Paid Accounts are shows in image below.  Cost
Finally, we may say the cashboard is a very easy tool to manage you precious time. It has all features that users want to be in the time tracking software like basic functionality and very easily understandable interface. 4. yaTimer yaTimer yaTimer is non-web based application. It is download-able software which will run on you desktop. It is very easy to use and specifically designer to track time. You can place a small window in corner of your desktop which will remind you the task to be done.  Create New Task Once the task is created you can pause, start, and reset the timer. You can also delete the task, mark it as completed, edit it or adjust the queuing position of the task.  Pause-Play There are further options of "Create Running Task", "Create task from template" (you would have to create a template before using this option), "Arrange task in groups", pause and reset all tasks, "print reports" and "view help online".  Features yaTimer offers 14days free trial, I think 14 days are enough to find the advantages and weaknesses of a software. Then you can upgrade to the pro package. They offer 30Days Money0Back Guarantee and offer installation up to 3 computers. Price of paid yaTimer is listed below.  Cost Comments: 5. FreshBooks FreshBooks FreshBooks establish a strong relation between tracking hours, project management and invoicing or we can say that FreshBook is a management tool. It has every feature required by a freelancer to work efficiently. It supports automated invoicing in any currency, collect online payments. You can also use FreshBooks on you iPhone which is most important thing nowadays!  Getting Started When we navigate on the Time Tracking tab Timesheet opens showing calendar, projects, task etc. If you haven't created you 1st project then you can make one by clicking on the sub-tab named Projects, same in the case of tasks.  New Project  New Task Many users also want report feature to judge their performance, FreshBooks have remedy for that, they provide "Reports" feature which can be accessed through navigation tabs. FreshBooks provides variety of reports like finance reports, invoice reports and time-sheet reports.  Reports Following is the tariff of FreshBooks although it also offers free package but paid one has more functions and features.  Cost Comments There are many other sites and tools for time tracking but we found these 5 comparatively useful!  |
DepositPhotos.com is a great resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector illustrations. They slogan is – "Buy It Easy! Sell It Easy" describing how easy it is to do both tasks so you are in the right place if you are searching for premium photographs or trying to sell your work and earn some extra money!
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