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Environmental wise, internet shops of cafes are not designed to cater a mood for writing. But if you have no other options, it could be your best move.

Writing for online companies isn’t that complex, neither it is easy. You need, at least, good written English communication skills of course to start. You cannot write an article if you have a poor command in English, that’s obvious.
Now, to set you in motion, here are some tips to help you start your online career from scratch.

1. Create your Resume. Assuming you already are reading this in an internet café, then you probably wanting to ask me how to write or create your resume for online application. Well, if you are planning to start an article writing job and you haven’t even had an experience, then just create your resume as is. Do not put something in your resume that will mislead your clients online, they will eventually know. And lying is a big no no. Remember, online job is all about trust. Just be prepared to be asked for trial paid or non-paid article to be written by you.
2. Always have a working email or at least an exclusive professional email address to be presented for your future or prospective clients. To be upfront, clients hate to see high schoolish email addresses like dragon_782_killerxxx@yahoo.om or shamrock4242143rocksolid@yahoo.com . they just leave an impression that these emails are created a decade go and filled with spam emails. Use gmail instead, not degrading yahoomail, but I highly recommend it. Keep it short and professional looking like jaybarcena@gmail.com or jofficial@gmail.com .

3. It might be obvious, but check your email at least once every day. And for God’s sake, don’t spend P10 just to check your email then go Facebooking. If you find out that there’s no email in response to your job application, try making your time useful. Find other job postings to apply on. It’s the internet man, it’s full of opportunities.
4. Build your portfolio. A portfolio is very very important. I could not stress it enough. It is a collection of your accomplishments. It could be a list of your built websites for web developers, a gallery of your applications for app developers, links to your works for multitaskers, or sets of articles written for article writers. It is very normal to have no portfolio at this stage, for all of us started at the point where we all have to begin from zero. So, if you wish to be an article writer, you may as well write few articles. If you have no idea how to write one, ask google, they always have answers. If you wish to be a virtual assistant or multitasker, then check out how to do the basics of Wordpress site building.

5. Read read read, oh did I mentioned, READ. Read as much as you can, research as much as you can. You have the internet, grab the opportunity to know. So go on! Make that P10 into a P500-per-hour job.