Freelancers A to Z #020. How to Teach Yourself New Skills, Boost Your Confidence and Make Your Freelance Business Thrive?
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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As a freelancer or if you are entering the world of freelancing, you may have a lot of questions in your mind. You would want to be mentally prepared for the business when taking up a role that requires your undivided attention.
Freelancing is pretty cool and helps you out a lot but maintaining the quality of your work is another task. As a freelancer, you need to be able to tackle an issue and help your clients get what they want. Not letting words get to you and making sure you build upon your existing skills is very important. Won’t you agree?
If you are a freelancer and want to stay confident, help your business grow, or even want to use social media for getting new clients, then just breeze through these tips. Your success is waiting for you.
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How to Boost Your Confidence as a Freelancer?
Working as a freelancer means you need to be at the top of your game. Yes, there may be clients who would tease you but it is all part of the job where you make sure that you stay confident.
This article lists down ten ways to be confident as a freelancer. First and foremost, the article asks you to stay confident by addressing what undermines your work. Once you have nailed that, you need to face your finances to see how well your income is.
Don’t work alone, seeking help whenever you want, and also pushes you to celebrate successful projects. Build your confidence by facing your fears and focusing on your strengths. Having a positive mind and thinking positive thoughts would ensure that you become more than what you are.
The article says that you need to embrace your failures and never to compare yourself with other freelancers. Learn new skills and control what you can, the website says, and you are sure to soar in the sky above.
These small yet crucial steps are important to excel to make sure that your confidence does not falter and you find success.
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Top Sources to Learn New Freelance Skills or Broaden Your Existing Skill Set
We already know that to make sure that you stand out in the freelance world you need to learn new skills.
But where would you learn them?
This article lists different types of skills and where you can learn them from.
Udemy and Coursera are the famous sites where you can learn new skills but here are a few more that the article states. If you are looking for ways to learn ServiceNow skills, then you are in luck because the article provides courses in both Udemy and LinkedIn. Easily accessible and enjoyable.
The article also says you can learn the DaVinci resolve editing by accessing LinkedIn learning and logging into your Udemy account. Still not sure? Social video marketing, Highcharts, and Pytorch skills are all new skills that everyone wants to learn. The article links down different courses that can help you get the skills you need to make your freelance business grow.
Ranging from Keras, Caspio, LearnDash, and Kendo UI to Statistical Modelling and Motion graphics, you can learn different skills from different online courses that are available to you with just a click.
Whether you choose Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, or Udemy, all three have made promises that they have fulfilled.
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How Can Digital Marketing Certificates Boost Your Freelance Career?
Are you looking for different ways to propel your freelance business by using digital marketing certificates?
Here are 16 ways you can make your mark and boost your freelance business.
One way is to learn how to do digital marketing with Coursera, easy peasy. Then starts the real work. You can propel your freelance business, the article says, by making Instagram and Facebook ads.
The website also gives you another set of options to make sure your freelance business gets a boost and that is by viral marketing, blog content strategy, and SEO websites. These three are very popular with freelancers and having these would for sure make your business bloom.
Using google analytics, email marketing, and branding your business along with making sure you get what you are worth is another thing to master, as per the article.
This article lists down all the ways you can boost your business and create a stabilized working environment. It’s definitely a must-read.
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Top Tips on How to Use Social Media to Get Clients as a Freelancer
As a freelancer, you do not want to limit yourself to just one platform. Everyone loves and uses social media. Using social media for your benefit and getting clients is a new way to make sure you stabilize your freelance business.
This article helps you by listing down all the ways you can use social media to get clients. The article says that one way you get social media clients is by learning your field and using different platforms, such as; Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to promote your services.
You can use different and established freelance platforms to build your portfolio as well. But to make a social media clientele base, make sure you have an eye-catching portfolio. The blog also pushes and urges you to build your network instead of saying limited to one specific community.
Email marketing, as per the website, is a very fruitful way to make sure you get around and land your mark on the freelance world. Another way to get social media clients is to build your brand and curate content that is admirable.
The article helps you by posing different ways through which you can make your social media platform stand out, utilizing it in a manner that ensures more clients.
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How to Grow Your Freelance Business Using Outsourcing?
There are different ways to grow your freelance business. One way is by subcontracting your work to help your freelance business grow.
This article is a very helpful guide for those who are looking for ways to expand their freelance business and reach out to more people. You can start to hire people for your freelance and convinces you why you should subcontract your freelance business.
The website says that subcontracts can increase your capacity, balances rush orders and helps to keep your freelance business running. You can hire types of help to assist your business such as virtual assistants, a subcontractor, or full-time or part-time employees.
The article also gives you different links that can help you get a virtual assistant, unloading all the built-up work. With an employee, you can delegate your tasks.
How can you delegate the work?
You can give others the work you don’t enjoy doing, subsections of a project or a project that deals with a specific field, and even administrative or client tasks. Delegating tasks can help your business grow because you can oversee different aspects of freelancing.
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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 I’d like to present you a playlist with over 12 hours of music perfect to listen to while you work. 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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