HOW TO DO ONLINE DATA ENTRY WORK

In today's lesson let's talk about how to do data entry work so there are lots of data entry jobs on up work and on different online job portals it's one of the most common jobs you can find and easiest to get a job for so first of all what is that entry work so there are two kinds of data entry work or two kinds of work that clients consider to be that entry the first one the most common one is when you're encoding data from a scanned document usually they send you a PDF of like a text book or something like that and you put it into a Word or Excel document so just whatever you  see and then you just type it in Word or Excel some other data entry work can be copy and copy pasting data from one form to another so you could be looking at let's say a directory of businesses and you'd be copying and pasting their  data into Excel and the Excel spreadsheet take note that copy pasting from data from one form into another usually involves data research skills so sometimes a client will tell you do research on the different let's say email  addresses of contact people in this company so you're gonna have to do some research to find those email addresses  in addition to data entry so just be aware of that when you're applying for a job be sure to read the Job Description  properly before submitting an application first of all what equipment do you need okay so you need a computer  definitely you can't do this on your mobile phone you need Microsoft Word or Excel or even if you don't have Microsoft  Word or Excel you can always use the free tools Google Docs and Google sheets optionally it would be really good if  you had a second monitor because if you have two screens you can have the scan PDF on one of them and you can  have your own screen on the other and then you can just look between those two screens it's very easy what some  people do is they on one screen they have half of the screen be the like Microsoft Word and half of the screen be the  PDF scanned document so either way but a second screen would really help you do your work faster since you can also see more what skills do you need well you need fast typing skills and then you need to have basic skills in  Microsoft Word Excel or Google Docs and Google sheets so you don't need to know formulas and complicated stuff in  in Microsoft Excel you just need to know how to navigate and just basic skills in Excel how do you improve your typing  skills so typing skills are very important for data entry because the faster you can type the more work you can get done  and the higher you can get paid so you can go to a website like typing test comm and just practice there and as you  practice you should increase your words per minute or wpm a good word per minute to start off is 60 words per minute  if you can type in 60 words per minute then you're above average and you're you should be good to do that entry work  and if you can reach a hundred words per minute that's even better and I usually type around 100 words per minute so  if you can reach that speed then you can do a lot of work and get paid a lot higher so where do you find jobs you can  go in upward comm freelancer com go Lance comm you can even create a profile on fiverr.com and almost all the  different online job portals will have that entry work so why would you do that and entry work in the first place that entry  work is easy to do it doesn't really require skills and it doesn't require education so you don't need to let's say for  example enroll in one of my courses I have the VA boot camp you don't need that if you're just gonna do data entry  work but it's really easy to do and you can get started on it immediately and your only training probably would be your  typing test increasing your typing speed some reasons why not to do that entry work first of all it's boring there's no excitement you're just typing typing typing and that's it so it can get very boring the pay is a bit low compared to  ther jobs if you do like if you become a virtual assistant you can charge five eight ten fifteen dollars an hour data entry usually you stay around three two maybe six dollars an hour so there's a big difference in pay also there's no  room for growth even if you become a very good data entry person you're still data entry you can't become like a  supervisor or a manager unless you venture once again into other areas like virtual assistant and if you are planning to become a virtual assistant or do writing work and things like that you don't want to have the low paying jobs in your  up work profile like that entry that's a low paying job you don't want it to appear in your up work profile because clients  are gonna think that your rate is really low and they want they won't be willing as much to pay you higher all right so  that's it about dead-end few work you can go ahead and apply for data entry jobs