Freelancers A to Z #019. Top Tips and Tricks to Broaden Your Freelance Career
Freelancers A to Z is a series of roundup posts with captivating curated blog posts, podcasts and articles.
My purpose is to give you as a freelancer a place where you can find support and help with productivity, motivation and time management issues. Here you will find simple yet powerful hacks to improve your productivity and boost your freelance business instantly.
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Freelancing is growing as time passes. Almost every single person out there is a freelancer and is earning a good income to sustain themselves. Sure, jumping the bandwagon is all fun and games but as a freelancer, you need to make sure you stand out.
If you are an already fully established freelancer, you need to advance your career and diversify your income. Staying small scale would do you no good and soon enough you will remain limited to a few loyal clients.
Standing out is important and so is your mental and physical health. As a freelancer, you want to be at the top of your game, provide the best of the best; something that no one else can promise.
Doesn’t matter if you are an established freelancer, a newbie, or someone who wants to enter the freelance world. If you are looking for ways to make your big break, implement these freelancing tips and get what you want.
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How to Diversify Your Income During the Shutdown?
As a freelancer who has been in the business for quite a while now, you would be thinking about diversifying your income.
This blog is a helpful tool for someone who is looking for ways to diversify their income as a freelancer. Making a point of treating your freelance work as a business is one way to go but the article also pushes you to establish multiple income streams instead of sticking to just one.
The blog also gives you an example of a real-life freelancer when the industry was shut down. How the freelancer managed to work despite the shutdown is something that you need to carry. Find a new angle and a different perspective.
One way to diversify your income, the article says, is by looking for a different market at the same time making sure you are in touch with your existing clients. Add a flair to your service to make it stand out and invite more people.
The article gives you examples to make sure that you can diversify your income and be happy about it.
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Top Tips & Tricks to Broaden Your Freelancer Career
As a fully established and successful freelancer, now is maybe the time to advance your freelancer career. Check out this article and it gives your different tips and tricks to broaden your freelancer career.
For one, they say that you can turn your freelance into an agency. Where the word agency may sound scary, the article says that it is when “you run a company that provides a service to your clients”. A very clear way is that you can broaden your work, your services, and employ more freelancers.
The article also pushes you to create a source for passive income. Passive income is a great way to make your mark because all you have to do is create it once and earn from it over and over again. The article gives you a list of different things you can try to earn a passive income.
Following these steps would guarantee a way for you to broaden your freelance business and get more income.
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How to Stand Our on the Market as a Freelancer?
How can you make sure that in a world full of freelancers, you stand out?
This website gives you four ways to make your pitch stand out from the crowd. To make sure you get clients as a freelancer, you need to know how to pitch your services. The first thing to do, says the article, is to make your pitch a tad bit personal.
How? You can add something that makes you stand out and personalize your pitch using strategy. Another point added by the article is to make sure you focus on the needs of the client.
A catchy pitch shouldn’t just list down YOUR details, add a little something for the client to look forward to. The website also says that to make clients click your freelance business is by adding references and providing a free service.
When you add references, it boosts your credibility and helps the client to place their trust in you. Adding a free tip or service in your pitch would for sure make your pitch stand out.
After all, who doesn’t like free stuff!? With these simple steps and tricks, your pitch for your freelance business will surely make the front page.
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Top Health and Self-Care Tips for Freelancers
Working as a freelancer is pretty difficult and requires A LOT of energy.
To make sure you give quality work, you need to maintain your health and follow these self-care tips. Selfcare and a healthy lifestyle are really important as a freelancer and this article gives you tips to make sure you don’t falter. First, you need to know where your hours are going.
The more time you spend browsing the internet and procrastinate can demotivate you.
Another thing the article says to take into consideration is that you put your health first by exercising. It is when you have a healthy body that you would have a clear and calm mind. Your health can be maintained as a freelancer, the article says, by prioritizing your work and making small deadlines to achieve.
Sometimes you get tons of work and don’t know what to focus on. So what do you do? You succumb to multitasking. Take that out of your life and system. Make sure that you plan your meals in advance so that you don’t have to worry about what you are going to eat.
The article also points out that by creating a work-life balance and eliminating all distractions you can get the work done and have an enjoyable social life.
We don't want to worry about work while chilling with our friends, do we? The better your health, the more productive you are.
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7 Freelancing Skills You Can Learn and Start Offering Your Services Right Away
Want to be a freelancer but don’t know what service to sell?
If you learn and master even one out of these 7 freelancing skills, you are good to go.
Content writing is pretty ‘in’ right now and everyone seems to be doing it.
The article says it too but they also ask you to niche it down by targeting a specific market. Design and video editing is another skill you can learn and showcase your creative mind. With everything on the internet and on YouTube, you can easily learn a new skill by practice.
Programming and marketing are also getting a lot of attention and as freelancers, you can get a lot of people on your team.
The article says that now companies look for freelancers and if you master these skills, you are off to a great start. Voice over is also admired and a lot of people earn just by doing voice overs as the market of it is not far-fetched. The article also pushes you to provide tutoring or coaching to students by providing a service.
See! There are many ways to sell your services. All you need is hope, determination, and skill.
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All work and no play…
The last thing I would like to share with you is music. It has a special place in my life. For that reason I listen to music when I work. Hoverer, as some of you already know, it’s also because I want to cut off the noise caused by my neighbors.
This week some calm sounds to chill in these crazy times. Enjoy!
Last but not least: in the next issue your playlist can appear in this place. So leave in comments your favourite music that you love to listen when you work.
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Mariusz from the Time Continuum App
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