How to Excel in Your Freelancing Career

[Mika]

Freelancing is very challenging. It is very difficult to get yourself established as a freelancer because you need to be highly skilled, you need to have multiple skills, and you need to have a lot of experience. However, if you meet these criteria, it is really fruitful to become a freelancer, you get more earning opportunities, you earn more, you get flexible working hours, etc. In order to excel in your freelancing career, you need

A notepad full of ideas so that when you have the job contract, you can start working on it right away

Organization skills (organize your workstation for productivity and creativity, organize your work schedule to meet the deadline)

Work hard to meet your income target, for freelancer building a constant flow of money is quite difficult

Manage your stress and anxiety (being a freelancer can be very stressful because you will always have to think about outsmarting your competitor, getting the high paying job, and constantly worry about your finances)

 

[Jasmine]

In order to become successful with freelancing, you need skills, not a general skills but skills in the area that is in high demand. Think about something like data scientists, UX designer, animation, etc. Well, you can also try things like logo designing, writing, etc. but these niches are overtly saturated niches, overtly saturated niches means there are more freelancers than the clients, so it is difficult to get high paying jobs on these areas, IN order to build your freelancer career, you need an online presence. Having an online presence means you have presence on a lot of social sites, have a portfolio website, and have account on a lot of freelancer sites. Being a blogger can really help you to grow as a freelancer. Blogging is a good content marketing strategy. You can share information on relevant topic, rank on search engines and build your reputation as a freelancer.. Instead of working on a single freelancer site, you also need to try multiple sites. You also need to share your resume on social site like LinkedIn. On linkedIn, a lot of companies and individuals hire freelancers. If you have a good portfolio, getting hired trough social sites is really high.