How to become a Freelancer?
If you want to make money online with your skills then freelancing is the best way for you.
You can also start freelancing as a side hustle or a part time job at the beginning and after you become expert you can switch from part time to full time career.
What is freelancing?
Freelancing is the process which is done by the freelancer.
And freelancer is a person who is independent to do work with one or many companies and industries.
Basically, freelancer provides services to the companies or individuals.
Freelancer is not working in one company , it's depends on the choice of freelancer to take projects from several clients at a time or not.
In short , freelancer is independent person who provide services to clients and get paid for the work they done.
Advantages of becoming freelancer:-
You will get the freedom to do the freelancing, because you are not working in a particular one company.
Control of work you can control the work load hours for you based on your potential.
You can do freelancing from anywhere in the world and also work from home.
Freelancer can do the work on their flexible hours with their comfort zone.
And last but not the least is that you are your own boss while doing freelancing.
Disadvantages of become freelancer:-
There is no guarantee to become a successful or getting clients as a freelancer.
The Freelancers are increases day by day so if you are not expert then you will isolated from the Industry.
If the clients gives you a project , then it's your responsibility to complete the work and submit to the clients.
It's hard to get more clients as a beginner freelancer.
You will not able to make a consistent income if you get not enough clients at the right time.
How to become a successful freelancer?
I will show you a step by step process for become a successful freelancer.
Step:-1
Register yourself as a freelancer on the websites like
Upwork.com
Fiverr.com
Freelancer.com
Toptal.com
Truelancer.com
Guru.com
Elance.com
Ifreelance
Peopleperhour
99design
Craigslist
Simplyhired
Hireable
Writer access
Flexjobs and many more
Step:-2
Build your brand with your own perfect website.
You can build website for yourself to showcase your skills and promote yourself as a brand through the website.
If you have a website the it is good for you to shows your skills and portfolio to your clients.
Step:-3
Understand the requirements about the project for your client.
First you need to understand what is the requirement of your client and then you can do the work as per the requirement.
Step:-4
Decide the pricing of your services.
You can charge according to the requirement of your client.
As a beginner, you need to charge less for getting more projects.
Remember one thing is that your charge should be legitimate.
Step:-5
Communication with clients.
You need to stay in touch with your clients for specific project.
You can communicate with your client if any query is occurred.
Step:-6
Always deliver more.
If you will deliver more than the clients expectations then you will become valuable person in the client's point of view.
And there are more chances that your clients gives you more projects in the future.
Step:-7
Networking and relationships with clients.
Your network is your net-worth.
So build the network and relationships with your clients is important.
If you give valuable work to your client then he will hire you in future and also recommend you in his network.
And by this technique, your network will expand and relationships become stronger and you will become the successful freelancer.
Some tips and tricks to get a clients as a beginner freelancer:-
1)Clearly describe your work.
Your work is important for the client , so describe your work clearly on the freelance platforms.
2)Make a strong personal brand on social media.
Share your knowledge of the particular work like designing, copywriting, web development, app development, creative writing etc on the social media and make a brand of yourself.
3)Make a blog or website.
Nowadays, make a blog or website is easy and you can build it yourself through the step by step tutorials which are freely available on the internet.
4)Start work with clients for free.
You can tell to your clients that you are work free of cost for them and after if they will like your work then they will give you a paid work and recommendations to the others.
5)Share your expertise.
Share the expertise you have in the particular work on the internet and social media platforms like LinkedIn ,Facebook , Instagram ,Twitter ,YouTube and also on your website.
And if you have a time then go to the question and answers website like Quora and then give the solution to people who have doubt in your industry or work that you want to do in freelancing.
I hope you will get a valuable information from this post. And in future I will give you such a good information.
If you have any queries then comment below I will try to solve it.
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