Is the online freelancing right choice for you? whether online freelancing be your main career?If yes, then online freelancing becoming a challenge for you as an online worker in my opinion.
As you know, as an online worker would receive some of the following challenges :
* There is no certainty of income
* Online freelancing have stiff competition, as it allows all job seekers from around the world competed.
* Require more creativity to be able to compete with your competitors
For those of you who have not reached your target, it may be a boredom or a burden that makes you very stressful in living your career as an online freelancer.
So, how to survive in a world of online freelancing?
Following a few simple tips you can use as a reference to support your freelancing career :
1. Keep Updated Your Online Profile
As a professional freelancer, you certainly want to be employed by the employer. How do you attract your clients and how they are attracted to you.
Therefore, always update your online profile :
* Improve the quality of your online resume
* Highlight your best online portfolio
2. Boost Your Profile Promotion
As I emphasize before, that self marketing is one of the most important things to support your freelancing career. No matter how great your skill level, quality of your resume, or the quality of your portfolio ... it would not mean anything if you do not do marketing yourself. Therefore, you must have innovation in promoting yourself to be seen by employers.
3. Build Your Networking
Why the networking so important in your career freelancing?. In my opinion, with the network you have, you can develop ideas, build relationships, and can obtain the information you need to support your freelancing career. Therefore, you start improving your network relationships.
4. Get inspiration in Your Freelancing Career
Inspiration?. Yes. Productivity of your work can not be separated from inspiration. Almost all the fields need inspiration to improve their work productivity. A graphic designer, writer, web developer takes inspiration to pour his/her ideas into a masterpiece. Therefore, find your inspiration, so that your work is always looks unique, fresh, and interesting.
5. Improve Your Project Management
Management?. One of indicators to support the success of your freelancing career is management. Without good management, you will be very difficult to control your project. Therefore, always improve your project management planning.
6. Build and Keep Relationship With Your Clients
Building relationships = Building Trust. As a professional freelancer or a professional worker, something that can not be ignored is how to make our clients comfortable and happy to hire you. Thus, allowing you to be employed in long-term contracts.
7. Stay Focused in Your Productivity
Constraints in some implementation of the projects is unfocused. Therefore, if you focus... allows you to work more purposeful and orderly. Ultimately, can increase the productivity of your work.
8. Evaluate Your Freelancing Progress
You are know : the success or decline of your freelancing career. Therefore, do analysis or evaluation of your freelancing career development. It will give an idea : your goal has been achieved? You are cut out as a freelancer?.
9. Keep Enjoyed in Your Freelancing Career
Do anything makes us comfortable is the most fun. Just as well as your freelancing career. Try to enjoy whatever you have achieved, and how you can develop for the future.
How do you think?
Have you comfortable with your freelancing career?
Happy freelancing, keep working, keep health, keep enjoyed! :)
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