How to do data entry work
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
the scanned document usually send you a
PDF of like a textbook 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 to 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
applying 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 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 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
the screen would 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 Microsoft Excel
you just need to know how to navigate
and just basic skills in Excel how to 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 command just practice
there and as you practice you should
increase your words per minute or wpm a
The good word per minute to start 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 are 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
the first place that entry work is easy to
do it doesn’t 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 other 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
the difference in pay also there’s no room
for growth even if you become a very
good data entry person you’re still data
the 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 low and they want they want
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 or if you want to look
for other kinds of jobs
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