I have 7-plus years of experience in freelancing. In this blog post, I will share with you my experience that how you become a successful freelancer following my tips and tricks.
This first thing that you should keep in your mind before you start. Freelancing is not easy. If you are thinking that you will join a freelancing platform and there will be hundreds of projects waiting for you. You will start from the very first. Believe me, it does not work like that. Until or unless you are experienced freelancing.
It will only be easy if you spend your time researching freelancing platforms, learning skills, and became good at it. Otherwise freelancing is very tough. If you have noticed there are a lot of beginners confused and asking questions on online platforms. Because of no experience. So prepare your mind that freelancing is not easy and there is only one way to create ease in freelancing which is hard work.
Client satisfaction as a freelancer – Most Important:
Let’s suppose you have learned a skill and started getting orders on a freelancing platform. What’s next? The next most important thing is client satisfaction. If you don’t know what client satisfaction means. Let me tell you that. You got work online, completed the work with your skill/services, and delivered it to the client. Now the client is not happy with your work or either your communication.
So, learn how to satisfy clients and how to communicate with them. You can learn easily from youtube tutorials and can improve your communication and polish your skill. You will also learn from the experience when you will communicate with different clients. In starting everybody makes mistakes in communication and it’s common. Just focus on learning.
Complete the work before the deadline:
You may have heard this terminology before that freelancers sign a contract of price and deadline. So you have to complete the work before the deadline. It is essential that everyone follows this point. When you fail to meet your deadlines and behave immaturely about them. You lie to your client about situations and deadlines. When you don’t take deadlines seriously you will lose the trust of your client. So the client can give you negative feedback or can avoid you next for important work. When you meet deadlines and give quality work to clients they will recommend you to others.
Consistency is the key to freelancing as well:
Consistency is the key to everything and in this case, freelancing. In starting you don’t have work and skill so stay consistent every day and learn both. If you do not work consistently you will blame others because of this or that person I can not succeed in freelancing. There is no person except you, you are the one who can make yourself successful and there is no shortcut or ambassador to success.
Learn new skills and evolve every day:
When you learn a skill and start working on it. In the future, more people will come to this technology and the niche will be saturated due to high competition. The number of orders you get every day will decrease over time. So learning new skills is the only solution to this. Spare one hour every day to learn a new skill. Because technology is evolving every day. So if you stop getting orders with your one skill you can gain work from your other skill. Try to evolve yourself with time and technology to stay in the market.
Final thought – Getting Started as a Freelancer:
I have covered all the important tips that I have learned in my freelancing journey. It was not easy for me because I don’t have a post like this to read and learn. Please let me know if you find any of these tips and suggestions useful.