This blogpost will tell you about the best strategies to start earning through freelancing, even if you are a beginner and know nothing about freelancing previously. Even if you are into freelancing, you’ll find how to advance your freelancing career. 

Earning from the comfort of your home is a need of the time and wish of all of us – for which we are here! Freelancing is such a venture to start earning money right from your home. In this blogpost, we will learn about all of this procedure. Let’s start without further ado:

Let’s start finding out how to start freelancing step by step and how you can get most out of freelancing as a career. 

Find a niche

Summary

A niche is market segmentation that helps you getting customers who are looking for experts in a specific skill, and not the ones who are jack of all trades. You can convert almost every work into digital service by researching a little on that.

A niche means a segment of the market you are going to target. Let us understand its importance with an example; If you want to get a minimal logo, which of the following gig will you choose? 

• I will design any design for you
• I will design a minimal logo on Illustrator

If i were there, i would go for the second one, so would you. But why not first? That gig is offering minimal logo within its scope. Why the second one? It is because you are looking for an expert, not a person who is trying things out. If you will target the whole target market, you will face problems in satisfying your clients, if you get some!

So, towards your niche, how will you choose a niche? The answer lies in your interests. Ask yourself about your interests. Ask yourself what you love to do in spare time. Suppose you love to paint in your spare time, take it to another level; make it digital and start learning to make vector arts on Adobe Illustrator. Here is a guide to find a niche, you may find some relevant information related to find your niche. 

Learn A skill to start freelancing

Summary

After choosing a niche, you should learn your interests digitally. You can find the relevant courses on YouTube for free and paid courses on Coursera and Udemy.

So, you have selected a niche according to your interests and ready to change it into living. Now, it is easier for you to learn your passion digitally. Free courses for almost every skill are available on YouTube. Start learning it and practice as much as you can. If you cannot find some course on YouTube, or want to learn it more professionally and more like a course, invest in it by getting enrolled into such course on Udemy or Coursera. But if you are not ready to invest on these, YouTube is best and enough for your learning. 

Expertise the Skill

Summary

After learning the skill, get to top of the skill by practicing it, interacting with some clients near you even on cheap price or by getting into the community related to your niche. It will boost your skills wonderfully.

Now, you have learnt a lot about the skill you are interested in and will surely want to pursue it as a freelancing niche. But before entering into the market, you need to expertise the skill to excel in the niche. To expertise, you have to practice a lot to make your work more accurate and clean. In the meantime, keep working on your communication skills. Learn to talk to client in a way you can convert into sales. 

Now you are ready to step into the freelancing world as per yourself. But wait a bit. Be more perfect! Give yourself a trial of those clients you are going to face. Experience and face the questions clients will raise during working with them. But how? Join the communities that are related to your niche. Join some Facebook groups or subreddits or whatever. Throw your work there asking for suggestions and you can also endorse yourself as an expert in that skill and people may contact you if they need similar work. If someone doesn’t pay you much for your work at that point, don’t bother about it. Communicate with them exactly like clients, although they are “subjects” for you at that time, to be honest. If they appreciate you for your work, ‘screenshot’ that.

I’ll tell you it’s importance later. If they criticize your work, note these points and practice more about these points until you reach perfection. 

This step is critical and should not last more than a month. This phase of your learning about earning money online through freelancing will tell you about your shortcomings, the communication level, the challenges you will face in coming freelance venture. 

Set the value for your work

Summary

Set the core values and prices of your work. You know the hardwork behind that and set the values exactly according to your hardwork.

Now, it’s important to set the value for your hard work. If you won’t get the return according to your expectation and hard work, you will get bored soon and will give it up ultimately. So, set the value for your hard work, set the rates of your service. Set the timings of your work and all other values that you think are important in your work. Don’t set lesser prices as you will get bored after spending some time. 

How to Start freelancing on a platform?

Summary

Now take it to the bigger level, start on a freelancing platform and wait for your orders after setting up a great profile. You will get initial lessons where you sign up for your freelancing startup. Use 3 Cs to boost your sales.

It’s time to launch! The first question is how to start freelancing on a platform. Choosing the platform is not a rocket science. The simplest to start is the Fiverr. You can start from here easily and set up the profile and create gigs of your work. You will get some initial lessons related to the platform for free. Now, it is important to stay active and respond to the queries of the potential clients. Success is never an overnight thing. You need to wait for that. I got my first order on the 29th day of creation of my profile.

How to get orders as freelancer?

Three things are important for ruling this freelancing world: 

• Community
• Communication
• Conversion

These three Cs are important in advancing your freelance career. Community will keep you aware of the current situation in your freelancing world and amending yourself according to the situation and help you stay updated. 

Communication is very important to convert your conversations into sales. As you are not there before the client, your communication will tell the client about your expertise. Your first communication is your profile and gig. Keep it complete and true. It should describe what you are offering and what you are not. The second and main aspect of communication is your direct conversations with the potential client. Your communication makes the client and breaks the client too. So, keep it nice and work oriented to make, and not break the client. You can get a full star rating that fully rides on your communication with the client. 

Third is conversion, if you communicate well, you will convert the potential client into a permanent client. Higher the conversion rate, higher the sales and more importantly, higher the credibility. 

Build portfolio

Summary

Set up your portfolio on some blog platform after you get some compliments for your work and some testimonials. It will boost up your freelancing career.

Setting up a portfolio is important, and even before the Start, it will work well to get you started with bang! You can set up a little blogger or word press blog to pile your work up there. Starting a blog on WordPress or blogger is a much easier task than you think, if you never worked on these before. Here is a comprehensive guide to start a blog. Post there the testimonials, and compliments you have received from your clients, as I asked you to take screenshots of such compliments, remember! Portfolio will boost your sales amazingly. 

Go for Big! Start a freelancing company

Summary

After growth of your business on internet, you need to increase it by making it a firm and hiring staff for taking more orders. You can also establish a physical outlet of your business.

Now, you are getting orders, and growing day by day. But you need to take the things to another level. Freelancing platforms are the property of some third party and not yours. So, you need something that you own! You need to set up your own audience. Be it a website, be it a blog, be it a Facebook or Insta page or any platform you like to use, start growing your personal audience and start getting orders from there too. Hire some subordinates and start making a big firm. You can open a physical outlet or agency for your services as well, to add a little more into your dollars! 

Endnotes

I hope I’ve guided you on how to start freelancing from basics to advance in this short guide. If you start practicing it today, it will take hardly 2 months to reach the “Start freelancing on a platform” step of this ultimate freelancing guide and around one year to reach the final step – Making your firm! So, start practicing this today to become a successful freelancer of tomorrow. Comment below if you have any questions about it. Tata!