Here we brought you a step-by-step guide to help you started your own freelancing business.
Know your skills
The first and for most thing you need to do is Knowing your skills. Find out what you can do what are the abilities you have. Are you a designer or you can code so well? Or you are the master of animation else you can write very well. As soon as you identified your skill. You can jump to the next point.
Prepare yourself
Once you identified your skills and area of your work you will need to have the basic equipment to execute your work. Below are some tools a freelance will require.
( i ) Computer: Some of the work like Sketching, Painting etc, doesn’t require computer, but to keep their records and maintain the data a computer will help you a lot to keep the things in a managed way. If you are and Designer or Programmer than you will definitely require a computer.
( ii ) Mobile/Telephone: You should have a personal number typically for your business to contact with the clients and get contacted by clients.
( iii ) E-mail: You need to have an email address to communicate with the clients if you can’t reach through phone/mobile. Most of the clients prefer contacting through emails rather than phone.
( iv ) Accounting Software: To maintain all the transaction and receipts you will need an accounting software. It can be managed in excel or with an accounting software.
Tell to the world
To get your first freelancing project you need to tell people about you, about your work and let them know you are available for work.
Here you will be thinking that how can i tell the people about me?
( i ) Join the community: You will find lot of community/forums related to your freelancing business like if you are a designer then you will find so many design based communities if you are an programmer then you will find so many programming related communities. Join them and tell people about your business. This can be a very good way to make your business identity. lot of people seek for the designers, programmers, writers etc, in the communities
( ii ) Make a website: Make a website for your business and show off your stuff to the people and promote it. For this make some sample of your work and post on the website for the people to see the quality of work you can provide.
( iii ) Share with friends: Share your business with your friends. Let them know that you are available for the freelancing work and tell them your qualities.
Create some examples
Create some of the example of your work and show them to the people so they can see your quality of work before they order something.
Giveaway
Create some examples of your work and give it away for free. This formula do nothing but increase your presence among people.
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