THE MONSTER.COM TALENT MARKET NEWSLETTER

News That Independent Professionals Can Use!

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IN THIS ISSUE: Week of February 28, 2000

-- FREE AGENT GUIDE: How to Make It as a Freelance Writer
-- WEB FREEBIES AND FINDS: Store Your Files on the Web, for Free
-- HEARD ON THE BOARD: Empty Your Cubicle and Pack Up Your Clients
-- MONSTER TALENT MARKET: Pork Producer Commands a Tasty Fee

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FREE AGENT GUIDE: How to Make It as a Freelance Writer

Does choosing a freelance writing career mean living on the economic
margins of society? John Rossheim spoke with a number of professional
writers who say it ain't necessarily so. Read on to get great ideas
about diversifying your sources of income and leveraging the
intellectual capital that you create at the keyboard.
http://content.talentmarket.monster.com/weeklyarticle/

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WEB FREEBIES AND FINDS: Store Your Files on the Web, for Free

At least five sites now offer to make themselves your virtual hard
drive on the Web, for file storage and backup, document sharing,
global access and the like. You register under a user name and
password and gain access to 20 to 100 or more megabytes of remote
storage, which the sites claim will be private and secure. Each
offering has its own catches and come-ons; here's a sampling of the
latter.

I-drive.com hypes unlimited, free space on its Web storage farm;
StoragePoint.com lets you save and access files on its site directly
from Windows 95/98 Explorer; Xdrive.com emphasizes your ability to
write and read multimedia files; MyDocsOnline.com lets you access
files wirelessly with the Palm VII PDA; Driveway.com boasts promising
partnerships with Microsoft and Lycos.

One caveat: Don't assume that your data will be absolutely safe and
100 percent accessible on these sites. Earlier this year, a technical
glitch on Driveway.com caused users to lose access to their Web-stored
files for two days. Ouch.

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HEARD ON THE BOARD: Empty Your Cubicle and Pack Up Your Clients

Monster member Lisa recently asked: "I'm thinking about starting my
own PR firm, probably working from home. How do I go about soliciting
new clients from my current position?"

Read the Free Agent Advisor's answer here:
http://forums.monster.com/viewmessage.asp?messageid=810769

Post your own question on one of these Monster Talent Market message
boards:

Ask the Free Agent Advisor
http://boards.talentmarket.monster.com/forum.asp?forum=800

Ask the Work-from-Home Coach
http://boards.talentmarket.monster.com/forum.asp?forum=801

Or chat live with the Free Agent Advisor Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST or
with the Work-from-Home Coach Tuesdays at 8 p.m. EST. For either chat,
log in to Monster.com Chats and join us in the #Events
room.

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MONSTER TALENT MARKET: Pork Producer Commands a Tasty Fee

Here are three of the thousands of profiles on the Monster Talent
Market this week:

** PORK-BARREL PUNDIT **
The talent: "Contract Winner"
The target project: "Media and political consulting for companies
involved with public/private partnerships."
The desired rate: $125 per hour

** GAUGUIN OF GILLS**
The talent: "Trout Illustrator"
The target project: "Contract illustrator. Specializing in portraits
of fish, especially trout, salmon and char. Lifelike illustrations.
Great for book, advertising or magazine illustrations."
The desired rate: $75 per hour

** OUTSTANDING IN HIS FIELD **
The talent: "Agricultural Expert"
The target project: "Agricultural technology transfer; irrigation
expertise; agronomic and horticultural planning and implementation."
The desired rate: $40 per hour

Check out the Talent Market and build your own profile or project:
http://talentmarket.monster.com

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