7 Practical Tips For Profitable Freelancer

Freelancing is one of the profitable method of making money online. It is highly dependent on your own skill set as well as the time you spend for freelancing jobs. There are lot of freelancing web sites and you can easily get into them free of cost as there are no registration fees to begin.

The hardest part is to get noticed by employers and get hired for the jobs first time.
It depends on numerous factors like: your freelancer profile, work history, ratings as well as your communication.
Being a profitable freelancer takes time and you could not become rich the next day. You have to spend time in completing the assigned jobs every day and slowly your profile becomes good enough to attract more employers. To begin your freelancing career all you need to get your first job done…
In this article, I will take your through the practical tips which involved in becoming a profitable freelancer that too for the long term.

#7 – Great Freelancer Profile

As a freelance, you do not just by yourself but instead you are working for different people and with different people everyday. And because of this everyday work, you have to make sure that your profile is good, great and presentable.

• Include all work you have finished as well as present or active jobs to show other employers that you are really into freelancing job.
• Make your profile simple yet full of information about you, your job and your expectations.

#6 – Effective Time Management

A freelancer should manage his or her time effectively not only to have time to each and every employer but also to increase the efficiency and productivity. Within time management, there are many factors which needed to be considered for you to have your time managed effectively. Understand the freelancer way of time management.

• Planning, setting of goals for each employer, allocating time that will be spent (approximation) on a specific goal, monitoring, deciding which one to prioritize and then proceeding with caution.
• Remember to work fast but sure in order to fulfill the quantity and quality with ease.

#5 – Focused Area of Expertise

In the time management part, there is a factor there called the prioritizing. It does eventually has a connection with focusing yourself on what you really know or your expertise. In this way, you can eliminate the easier tasks and projects with ease while still having the confidence that you are doing it correctly.

• Let the hard tasks be the last and eat up the rest of the time, do the easier part first to make the time allotted for the other tasks longer than what you planned.

#4 – Practical Hands-on Knowledge

Do things that you have done before and not the things that you just think you can because if it fails then you’ll be sorry. If you memorize what you must do then do not do it, but if you are actually doing something that you are really doing everyday then do it and the result will come out naturally.

• Always keep your learning curve up so that you can build your knowledge every time you work on a job.
• Learn from your own mistakes and don’t repeat those mistakes again.

This way you can build your knowledge every day as part of your work and you will become a successful freelancer soon.

#3 – Wisely Choosing Job Offers

Being a freelancer means you are actually marketing yourself and what you know to other people. In this kind of job, you are not given any time to be trained since you are only selling what you know and not what you don’t know.

• In choosing the right job for you, always remember to carefully study the job you have applied for.
• Know and only get what you can do and do not force yourself to take a huge paying job if you do not know what to do, this will not only waste your time but to the employer as well and may be the cause of bad profile for you in the future.
• Learn these tips to select the best job offers.

#2 – Careful Job Bidding

When it comes to payment and job offers many freelancers expects to be paid more than they are really worth while some are underpaid but this can be avoided by careful bidding. Remember, bid around what you think you must.
Before proceed to bidding for a job, take a pencil or a pen and paper and jot down notes such as resources needed for the job like electricity, printing if it needs to be printed, time and many more.
If you find it hard to get my point then here’s a sample, before I accept a 300 words article, I’ll think how long will it take for me to write, let’s say half hour and researching is included in that time frame as well so it is better to just bid a 2 dollar per article such as this. Hope you get my point.

#1 – Be Professional Every time

Be professional means, do what you said you will do, promises are what employers hold when they employ you so be careful in promising or it will ruin your profile some day.
Meet all deadlines and if necessary submit all work a day before. Check your work if it has error and eliminate those error, remember that you have to submit high quality output since you are a professional.

Conclusion…

I would these are the practical tips to make profits from your freelancing jobs. However, i would also say that these are the most common mistakes done by beginner freelancers.
Just read this article again and understand, all the tips better so that you could avoid them at the earlier of your freelancing career. As i mentioned earlier, it takes time and you have to prove yourself as an established freelancer in the freelancing web sites.

• You can also build a profile outside these freelancing web sites like: building a blog and sharing your knowledge, experience as a portfolio.
• This way, you could attract more customers and slowly you could turn your job as a full-time business. You can also hire other freelancers to work with your projects and hence you can make profits for the long term…

Good Luck