Tips to start a career as a freelancer

I began my career as a freelancer full approximately a year ago. The result can be fairly for my efforts. Basically I am not too keen to find a project and sometimes within a month is busy with personal projects. But for me the start-up became a freelancer enough to make me happy because in a month I got a few clients and some have quite loyal. Therefore I want to share tips that can start a freelance career as well. Here are my tips:

Before starting there are some criteria you should meet in order to facilitate your career as a freelancer. Not a necessary condition but very influential freelancers will advance your career. Terms include:

Mastering the English language, at least read and write. Otherwise you will find it hard to communicate with your client.

Have sufficient skills to compete with other freelancers. You must have the capability of reliable prior to entry into the world of freelancers because if you disappoint the client will have an impact on your reputation beyond.

Internet access is smooth because of all the work and communication via the internet then this is almost certain conditions must be met.

Has its own website as your portfolio so that clients easily find out who you are. Not absolute but it is helpful to convince clients that you are the person he was looking for.

Sign up for a website provider of project. List of web can be tried to see in my previous article "The website for the creative freelancer". For a start I suggest using getafreelancer.com (GAF) because many small projects that you can try to follow. In addition to complicated ga must test, make proposals, and other procedures that are widely used on other websites is not too limiting GAF freelancer in the number following the project bid. Unlike other websites that severely limit the amount of participation in the project bidding for a free account. To have a greater chance you have to participate in the offering to pay the dollar to other websites.

After registering, please search project that you want to follow. Here is the advice in choosing the project:

Choose the projects that you can certainly finish. If you need to do research first before joining the bidding.

Do not be greedy and instantly make a bid on a project of great value. Start with small projects with the aim to collect and review feedback from the client as much as possible.

Read in detail the requirements of the project and make sure you understand what is desired by the project owner.

We suggest you choose your specialists, such as your specialist WordPress, Drupal or other CMS. Thus you have the appropriate feedback to the specialist and the more convincing your other clients when you bid on a similar project that you have ever done before.

After selecting a project, it is time to persuade your clients to choose you in working on his project. It can be as follows:

Briefly introduce yourself and your abilities.

Reassure the client that you understand what your clients want.

Give suggestions or ideas that can make better client projects.

Show me what you've previously made, should show your work which is roughly similar to the project that you bargained for.

If your clients are interested in and reply to your message. Do not waste the opportunity. Persuasion and convince clients that you are not going to disappoint a client. But make sure the requirements, work procedures, costs, and payments have been clear before you deal with your clients.

Congratulations, you are selected to work on this project. When the email notification has arrived in your inbox, you should immediately prepare for the start of your project. You can use some collaboration tools to facilitate communication with your clients.

During the construction project, be sure your clients know what you're doing. Minimum of 3 days once you give your report to clients. The more frequent the better, misalya once a day.

Ask your client review and comment for the project you are working on. For example the display is finished, ask if there are comments that the changes do not need a massive change when you do this at the end of the project.

Make sure the client requests during the construction project does not deviate from the requirements of the project. When only small changes then you could just meet, but if the changes are big you might be able to propose changes to the project budget.

Make sure your clients are satisfied with your work to complete projects on time and in accordance with project requirements. Because your client will likely ask you to do other work when he is satisfied with your work.

Such tips from me in starting your freelance career. Because of the possibility if you do not start off well and you feel a failure by freelance then you can be traumatized and did not want to do it again. Though it could have been a failure not because of your disability, but only because kekurangtauan you how to start well. Good luck.