How to become your own boss? Be a Freelancer

Every Skilled and knowledgeable person want to do something on his own. After 5 to 7 years of career span people start to thinking about to start his entrepreneur journey or start up. Some years ago it was very difficult to be an entrepreneur or individual consultant due to cost of offices, procedures with govt. officials etc. but after the internet evolution everything goes online so now its the best time for Skilled, knowledgeable person start his own entrepreneur journey by becoming a Freelancer.

Its obvious question we have that why to become a freelancer?
If you work for a company then you have to go office on the time everyday, you haven’t choice with whom you like to work, you have to carry multiple responsibility, office politics which ruin your work life balance, less flexibility and due to all of these reasons you get very less time to spend your time with your family, friends and follow your passion.

So resolve all of above problems people choose to be a Freelancer as you just need a laptop or desktop, internet, good profile with portfolio and desire to give your best. Every person has a desire to do travelling, desire to choose where to work, desire for when to work, work life balance and freedom to make choices.

When you do freelancing you can select your client, take up the projects that you like, you can decide your work schedule and most you can work from anywhere be it from home, hotel while travelling, you have the power decide your clients and as you are the only one decider you can maintain healthy work life balance while earning good bucks. So Freedom, flexible work schedule, power of select the projects, clients and time for family, friends and passion are the most reason to start the freelancing.

Once anyone decided be a freelancer, its time to Creation of awesome Freelancer profile.

For the profile creation go to freelancing website and fill up all the real details such as Name, you Skills, work experience and your portfolio. When any person enhance profile with a video, professional website, brief overview with important and relevant skills its become an awesome Freelancer profile as every details at one place.

Once profile is created its important to have a knowledge from where get the freelancing work. There are various Freelancing websites such as Upwork, Freelancer.com. People per hour, Fiverr, Simply Hired, https://www.codementor.io/, X-Team and TopTal. These freelancing websites list the various job posts from data entry to video editing, accounting to law services, copywrites to script, blog writers, marketing to website, mobile app development. Means freelancing websites can give an opportunity as per your Skills, interest and availability.

Sometimes its very important to know which skills person should utilize get the work continuously from freelancing websites as most people are multi skilled. Best freelancing niche as per freelancing websites, many research are Artificial intelligence, Blockchain Programming, Data analytics & data science, web app, mobile app development. Best marketing niche are SEO, PPC, SEM. Accounting, copywriting and virtual assistance.

Now, person has decided to become a freelancer, created an awesome freelancer profile, visiting freelancing websites to check opportunity as per his freelancing niche then you have a question how to become a successful freelancer?

To become a successful freelancer you need to give a attention details to every requirements according to your freelancing niche and write a proper cover letter in which you must give some kind of solution, suggest the possibilities how the work can be done and getting the client into the communication so during the communication person should understand the core requirements, concerns and asking the right questions so you can conclude the best possible solution as per client’s budget, preferences considering user experience, target audience at the first place. Its very important for a person connect with right people, companies by LinkedIn, Blogging, email marketing to build a lead list for B2B Lead generation, nurture the leads, creating the value in the freelancing niche and get the work. Many freelancer runs Google Ads, Facebook ads for more reach to their target audience, work. Google, Facebook ads get traffic to the portfolio website but doesn’t give the guarantee of leads, more less traffic, less lead happen when Facebook ads doesn’t work.

To become a successful freelancer its good to have some marketing , sales skills and sales pitch to convenience the client. Sometime sales pitch help for the conversion.

All over its determination, right freelancer profile, networking and marketing strategies from SEO to email marketing are the components to become a successful freelancer.

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