EIGHT GOLDEN TIPS EVERYONE WORKING AS A FREELANCER MUST KNOW

Today, I want to share with you eight golden tips everyone working as a freelancer must know. Whether you are a beginner or a professional these tips will help you scale your freelancing business so stay tuned and don't miss this small short blog.

Hi everyone I'm Mehandi and today I want to share with you some important tips as a freelancer working online.

Tip number one

which all beginners will think about and sometimes it will stop them from working. This question: how we will get paid? some people think the internet is somehow virtual we can't get paid they have this type of thinking other people say that PayPal is not available in their country so how they will get paid and they worry about this a lot and sometimes they stop working because of this thinking today, please I want to tell you to stop thinking about how you will get paid if you get an order and you get some money you will find a way to get your money don't worry about this just start, work hard, improve your skills, provide your skills and you will find a way to get your money. a simple example: you can sign up to Payoneer.com you can create a virtual bank account and connect with Fiverr you can connect with any service and get your money don't worry about this before you start you will find a solution. This is step number one.

Tip number two

don't start working and provide services without having a portfolio. What is a portfolio? Simply it's a small website where you show your work. As an example, if you are a graphic designer maybe you work in motion graphics, logo designer, whatever you do programmer, developer, web designer, anything you do you must share your work. you must publish your work online. so, people can see what you can do. so anyone now who wants to order something from you can see your work before he orders and this will give you a positive impact on your account. especially, if you're a beginner and you don't have any reviews yet. you need something that proves to people that you can do the job and the best way which is a must is to have a portfolio and don't tell me I don't have money to create websites. Search in Youtube or Google on how to create a free portfolio. you can have tons of tutorials, so tip number two: create a portfolio for your work.

Tip number three

create tutorials if you can publish youtube videos, believe me from my experience you will get a lot of clients just by sharing tutorials and your work on youtube you can simply if you work in DIY stuff you can capture some images and some videos and publish on youtube or maybe on instagram or whatever share tutorials and share what you do online on social platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and so on and especially on YouTube and especially public tutorials as an example when I started publishing Freelancing tutorials and videos believe me till today almost every day every single day I get clients asking me to provide them services and honestly 90% I tell them I can't do it because I don't have time for that so youtube believe me changed my business and especially in freelancing, where I get a lot of requests simply from youtube if you don't want to create videos you can create articles you can create a blog and share tutorials on your blog any kind of content that shows your work will help you promote your freelancing services also you can create courses free courses or maybe paid courses on udemy on skillshare or whatever also this will help you to promote your work and tell people about your skills and what can you do.

Tip number four

which is also very important to improve your communication skills what I mean here is simply improve your English communication skills you know when you provide services online you will talk to people worldwide and the top language today top spoke language today is English at least you need to know how you can communicate with people in English if a client asks you to have a small zoom call explaining the project you have to communicate with him you have to talk with him or you will simply lose the job so also dedicate some time to improve your English I'm not talking about being professional I'm not a professional in English but I know how to talk I know how to express what I want and I know how to write in English so I can talk to people that's it.

Tip number five

Don't ever provide a service for free your time your work your knowledge is valuable even if you can do some services in five or ten minutes this is because you spent a lot of maybe years testing and learning and experiencing things then today you can do it in five minutes so don't ever provide a service for free people in their subconscious don't value a lot free stuff so always charge for your service what you can do is provide maybe an add-on for free or maybe you provide a discount for free for some of your clients so maybe to build a relation between you and them and so on what you can do is to provide content for free so we can go back to tip number three to create youtube videos for free to create blog articles to create courses for free in this way you can use the free content to promote your paid services and this is what exactly I do in my business I provide a lot of free content on youtube I provide free applications free stuff a lot of free stuff but all this free content is promoting in a way my paid services my paid courses my paid services whatever I sell and so on okay so never provide your premium service for free value your time and value your effort and value your work.

Tip number six

choose the perfect chair to select the perfect set up I mean perfect is good for your health for your back for your body always and this will be very important remember that your health is much more important than money so always you have to think about your body in your health before you start working so always have a routine like every 30 minutes stand up walk do some exercises to keep your body healthy and don't suffer from backaches and neck problems and so on remember that your health is more important than money.

Tip number seven

which i think is very very important in terms of freelancing which is promoting outside freelancing websites i mentioned this before in my freelancing videos but this is really very important don't simply publish your gigs on fiverr or publish your profile on upwork or whatever and just sit down and wait for a client ninety percent of times you will fail things doesn't work like this we have a huge big competition today in 2021 so always try your best to promote to do what we call brand awareness let people know about you outside freelancing services and websites so you know in my case i don't work on freelancing websites i hope i have my own freelancing website i thought about this before so i sell my services on my own private freelancing website and this is very important try your best to promote yourself to promote your work outside fiverr and outside freelancing websites and this also is based on tip number three which is creating content a blog youtube channel social profiles portfolio all these will help you grow outside freelancing services and on the long term you will have private clients who contact you always to get your services and this is very important so don't ever rely only on fiverr promotion or freelancing websites to get you clients it doesn't work like this okay so tip number seven promote always outside freelancing services.

Tip number eight

is simply patience in general whenever you start a job or work online or whatever you need to have some patience because patience is one of the most important keys for your success in your business you have to post your jobs your skills your portfolio your website create content maybe for two-three six maybe one year and then you can see results on the long term but if you do this you will see that at the end you'll build an online business a strong online business that will never go down and you can rely on in your life so you have your own business from home be comfortable you don't need any jobs, you work full time from home I think everyone here loves to achieve this if you like this blogpost please go now hit the share button this will help me a lot to support me and support my blog to create more and more content. Please don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications to get every new update. I will give you a lot of ideas to promote your gigs to promote your services and to be successful as a freelancer online see you later.