Freelancing is working with multiple clients at one time, most of freelancing work is usually short term. Before starting your freelancing journey, ask yourself what you are good at. You may not know it because you don't have training and experience. These tips will help you start your freelancing career.
6 tips in landing your first client in freelancing
1. Know Yourself First
Find what are your skills and focus on it, if you don't have skills be patient working on it.
You need to build your portfolio, this portfolio will be your starting point to your client, there is always a rejection from your client and make it your stepping stone to achieve your goals. Don’t give up easily there is no such lucky thing in freelancing.
2. Know Where to Search
Client always look for a portfolio, it is a document where you put all your work samples. There are many websites where you can create your portfolio. If you want to be more professional I will highly recommend this online training service. It will help you also to find your client even if you don't have experience yet. And it helped me to find my first job as a freelancer.
3. Align Your Work With Your Values
If you have professional values, you'll be sure to find the right clients fast. First responsibility of a freelancer is your client. You can make your own mission, vision and values. Finding good people to work with can be tough but if you have the right values and showing honest enthusiasm for the job you'll be all set!
4. Freelancing Job Posting Sites
Freelancing is for everybody so the competition is really challenging, If you have a resume and complete Portfolio and you’re just starting fresh as a beginner, then this list is for you:
5. Meet with a Fellow Freelancer
There are so many benefits to befriending other freelancers, their stories or journey might inspire you. Who knows they might be the key to you finding your next big client or share some referrals.
How to meet them?
1. Participating in discussions on relevant groups such as Facebook groups with lots of active discussions
2. Your friends of your friends, your relatives of your relatives. You can learn something from gatherings.
3. If you have enrolled in online training services you can build connections with your classmates.
4. Always remember that these types of things take time so go out there and meet some new folks.
6. Social Media Optimization (SMO)
There is always a question on your mind "how can you be noticed?" If you’re a freelancer, consultant or personality, use your professional profile picture. The username should be your complete name and not an alias. It makes it easier for customers to find you when they’re searching for your profiles on social. State clearly what you can offer or what services and contents focused on target customers to give your page more visibility in search. You can add some keyword research that is all about identifying the phrases and topics your target audience is searching for.
You can find relevant hashtags. It's a great way to find trending hashtags that your audience uses or searches. Make sure you take advantage of all the positives that social media networks have to offer.
I hope this article helps.
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