Excellent and easy tips, if you decided with starting freelance business online. With the great flexibility, comfortability and the freedom to work from home as a freelancer, today more and more people see a great chance to leave the traditional 9 to 5 jobs and build a new career.
According to the new study in 2018, there are more than 100 million people in the world, who are earning money and working alone from their homes.
I don’t doubt that the idea of working as a freelancer from your home never crossed in your mind.
But to build a reputation as a freelancer and to grow your trustful client list that will allow you to earn enough money to be independent from your traditional job, takes time, hard work and is not easy at all.
With this blog post I will give you tips and explanations, how you can start to make money as a freelancer.
Important Tips to Earn Money as a Freelancer
What is Your Specific Niche
The most of the beginners as freelancers always are making one of the biggest mistake, when they are trying to establish themselves as a successful businessmen online.
And that is defining the specialized niche which is a huge mistake and it’s a thing that you really need to pay attention.
If you go and browse online to check who the most successful freelancers are, you will realize the ones who have defined their niches by their expertise.
By defining your targeted niche online, it will give you also advantage to be easily discovered on Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines.
You will become also a wanted expert who offers services in that specific segment online.
I will number just few examples that can be chosen for your targeted specific niches:
- Offering Your Writing Skills
- Designing Websites
- SEO optimizing
- App Developer
- Blog Editor
All these are broad topics and areas where you can offer your services, but to get successful results you need to go deeper, narrow down and to look for specified profitable niche where you can build your reputation as an expert in that segment.
Determine Your Hourly Rate
Also the thing that you need to determine when you start with offering your service online as a freelancer is your hourly rate and believe me this is really important for your online business.
Do calculation for you:
- Does your online income cover all your expenses?
- Are you enjoying with your freelance job as you wanted to be?
- Are you busy with your clients?
If your answer on these questions is negative, than you need immediately to analyze and determine your hourly rate.
Once you determine your hourly rate, the same time you can acknowledged your online clients how much you will charge them for giving your online services, which is good for building your steady profitable online business as a freelancer.
Offering Additional Services to Your Existing Clients
So to keep up with your success and to maintain your steady income, there is nothing wrong if you offer your additional services to your existing clients.
Many of you will say you are up-selling, which is going to result with losing potential client.
It depends of the client, which is your job to find out the right one and the way how you will approach to your client to offer you additional services, you don’t need to be pushy and aggressive.
Whenever is happened to discuss with your clients about their projects or future business plans, use the opportunity to offer your additional expertise to help them with their business.
Implementing Alternatives Methods
To build a good reputation as a freelancer and to earn enough constantly money working full time from your home will be not easy for you, not only as a beginner, but also as an experienced freelancer.
Really to be honest, will be the times when you cannot maintain constantly getting of new customers and also to keep the existing ones.
So in order to prevent decreasing of your online income, you will need to consider implementing alternatives methods that will support your business.
Will be good for you to create a website and start blogging, you can write an eBook, you can be guest in podcasts or you can do webinars for your customers. These are excellent ways to earn some extra income.
Join the Freelance Networks to Reach Your Clients
We already know that is a really good way to find new potential clients with word of mouth, but as a newbie freelancer you will need also to start promoting yourself online on specific website to get in touch with clients regarding your services that you offer.
Here are some of the websites that are really good place to start as a freelancer:
- iFreelance.com
- peopleperhour.com
- freelancewriting.com
- freelancer.com
- 99designs.com
Go and sign up to make your profile on these website and start offering your helpful services, which is a good way the clients to find you easily and choose your offered expertise for their businesses.
But if you want to separate and to prove yourself, to go above your competitors with your services as a legitimate expert in your field you need to be Inbound Certified.
A great place to get Inbound Certification that will prove you are on top of your knowledge in your field is HubSpot.
Using the Old Fashion Way to Reach New Clients
You know in order to reach your clients in your specialized niche you will need to have your own website, to join the freelance networks, to join the groups on the social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Pinterest.
But I want to tell you there is another great way, which many freelancers don’t use to reach their customers and that is the old fashion way the word of mouth.
Don’t underestimate this way of spreading the word about your freelance job. Talking about your business with your friends and other people on the street, in the bar, in the school, while you travel or any other place, it is really helpful for your freelance business to get new customers.
Connect with Other Freelancers
So we already know that to be and to work as a freelancer in the most cases, it means you are working alone from your home. But it doesn’t have to be on this way, I mean you can connect with other freelancers who are in the same or similar niche like yours.
On this way you can cooperate and support each other, which is going to be of benefit for all of you. With mutual cooperation you will reach more clients, which means better chances to earn more money.
Your Decision
If you still consider about starting freelance business, then really I recommend using the tips that I mentioned in this blog post to help you from the beginning successfully to start with you freelance job.
Best Regards!!!
