Freelancing-one of the greatest gifts of technological evolution, is all set to change the way work is done forever. With the help of freelancing companies all around the world, experienced web developers and designers are now able to work from their home, mom’s who have newborns are no longer jobless and the list goes on.

One of the important reasons why freelancing has now started thriving is because of the global economy and payment systems that needs less documents from you and offers lots of services starting from funds transfer to your bank account to funds transfer to accounts anywhere in the world.

In this rescission hit world, it is time for every member of a family to buckle and work somewhere to earn something. Talent and desperation alone will not get you proper work anymore, finding new ways is the only way to earn handsome money irrespective of the economic situation.

Below given are 10 useful and honest tips that will help you to be a very successful freelancer, follow these and I promise you will not regret it.

Lying is a bad thing

Be honest with the details you provide to different freelancing sites. You may never know how these freelancing websites are linked up, and if a clients searches for your name in Google and gets results where you have the same profile picture and totally different information about work experience, skills etc, trust me, you have lost it.

Have a keen eye

Take time while registering on freelancing sites. Read the details provided instead of glancing through them, for example, websites like Fiverr.com encourage users to have a video profile and lists users with a video profile at the top. So it is necessary for you to know the uniqueness of every freelancing site where you are registering yourself.

Don’t be greedy

When the freelancing site asks you to enter details about hourly rates, make sure that it is reasonable. Compare your hourly rates with the average hourly rate in the website for the particular work you are willing to do, see what the newbie’s are charging instead of looking at experienced freelancers. Try to quote as a low as possible until you get your first job.

Don’t charge outrageous amounts

There might be some buyers who have no idea about the current rates for a particular job and they may hire you for a higher hourly rate than you have expected. This doesn’t mean that you can continue charging them outrageous amounts all along, at some point of time the buyers will find out the actual rates, and if you are charging them outrageous amounts, they will make sure that they and the people surrounding them stay away from you for a long long time.

Know the ways to communicate

Every freelance website or forum has their own way of communication, for example, some freelance sites like Odesk asks you to send cover letters to the buyers and some others ask you send a private message, and there are other freelance sites that gives you several options to communicate with your buyer. Know the most used communication method before even thinking about contacting the buyers, this will help you to get your freelance jobs in no time.

Cut entertainment, concentrate on work

It is obvious that you will be distracted by many things in your home. You should know the fact that freelance job is as serious as any other regular job, choose a place where you will not be disturbed, avoid watching TV or listening to music while you are working, and make sure your status message in Instant Messengers tell people that you are busy with work. These are things that will encourage your buyer to give more work to you and will help you to concentrate on your work.

Buyers are your friends

Most of the buyers who provide freelance jobs to you aren’t that formal as regular employers. Be friends with them, wish them on special occasions, enquire about their family and friends, they will love it, do it from your heart. This will make your clients very happy, and even if you are not working on their projects anymore, they will consider you for future work without a doubt. Don’t be very formal and play with the rules, the one and only rule that you have to follow is the rule set by your client and nothing else, so it is important for you to adopt to each and every clients working style as they all are very unique.

Keep your clients informed

No buyer expects you to work on all seven days. However, there are jobs such as email reply jobs and chat support jobs which need you to work for all the 7 days. Try to keep your clients informed about an off that you are planning or inform them in prior about your non availability except for the emergency situations. Your clients are totally dependent on you and it will be heart breaking for them if you disappear for a day keeping them in dark.

Freelance job is a spider web, know that

Yes, it is just like a spider web where every thread of the web matters. You should be a wise spider to create a web in a way that you are never going down even If a thread loosens, you should always have options and this is the only way to get continuous freelance work. However, this does not mean that you need to work on 10 different jobs in a single day, know your strengths and limits and pick jobs accordingly.

Big heart and big thoughts

You should be a visionary and always should be ready to lead people. There will be situation where your client will ask you to manage work, you should never hesitate to grab the opportunity. Entrepreneurship is the end of freelancing where you stop working for clients and start managing people with ease and earning 10 times more than previous. If you haven’t become an Entrepreneur after 5 years of freelance work, there are only two things that could have happened. You have clients who give you more than what you expect or you aren’t a successful freelancer.

Follow these top 10 points and I’m sure that you will be a successful freelancer in no time!

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