More or less of us have heard the term Data Entry in the field of e-commerce. But most of them don't know what data entry actually is ? Today in this article I am going to share with you all the basic ideas about data entry job, it's pros and cons. However in the last portion of this article I am going to share with you names of some websites which are famous for data entry jobs for the freelancers.
Data entry is collecting various information from the internet by a person for the beneficial purpose of his own business or other's business. These data can be the names and prices of products, which is called product listing, these also can be information about various company's websites and their detailed contact information relevant to the person's business etc.
Data entry is the act of entering information into electronic formats by using word processing or data processing software hosted on a computer and it's data entry operators who perform these tasks. In truth, though "Data Entry" sounds technical, you can get many of these jobs with no previous experience. In fact, beginner-level jobs in the data entry field are available even for those with no previous experience, though adequate keyboarding speed is a must.
Actually data entry is also one kind of freelancing job or work, in this work a company or any individual person (buyer or client) hire another person (freelancer) who is expert in data entry, the freelancer collects so may data from the internet for the benefit of the buyer or client’s business. If the buyer or client owns a website then the freelancer will collect information about all the other websites, their web address like url, their contact info, their location etc for the benefit of the buyer. Even the freelancer also can collect so many information of products to be added and sold through the buyer's website.
These are the names of some useful desktop software applications those are useful for accomplishing data entry jobs :
* Microsoft Word
* Microsoft Excel
* Microsoft Access
* PDF Form Data Entry etc.
The MS Word acts as a word processing tool which helps the freelancer to write and store the collected information from the internet for the purpose of using them in the future. The MS Excel acts as a tool which re-arranges the data or information collected from the internet and store them into a tabular format. This tabular format is also called a spreadsheet or workbook. The PDF form data entry is another useful tool that converts a PDF file or a e-book to a document or a text format.
Here are the names of some Content Management System (CMS) based application those help to easily publish the results of our data entry projects in the form of a website article, news or report etc.
* Magento
* Wordpress
* Joomla
* Drupal
* Volution etc.
Here are the name of some e-commerce websites where we can find the Data entry jobs. This data entry jobs basically include finding out the names of some new items of products to be added in these e-commerce based websites. This work is called "Product Listing". Product listing platforms are :
* OpenCart
* BigCommerce
* Amazon
* eBay
* Alibaba
* Craigslist etc.
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