Most people who want to create a financial independence don’t make a deep research before they start working online, depending on the type of job they’re looking for which can be part-time or full-time work, they just want to make money as quickly as possible using the knowledge they have.
They begin their search on the best freelancing platforms, signing up and listing their services with the specialization in any field they may know.
According to the experiences of many successful freelancers, here are the most things you should take into consideration and some things that you have to avoid. These things are very important for all freelancers and valuable to stay at the top in the freelancing world.
So, let’s start with the Do’s. The things you should do include:
1. Being clear and exact
At the time you write a description about your services, be very clear with what you have and exactly write about what you can do for your potential clients, write about your offers and what you can do to make a successful project.
And if you use supportive resources that describe your services like an image, or a video, make sure they display all the needed info about what you are offering and make them catchier. Using an image and/or a video can be a main reason that convert visitors into buyers.
2. Making a deep research
Before listing any gig or bid on your chosen freelancing platform, you’ve to do a deep research to get fruitful results. You need to know how to optimize SEO, how to write an attractive description, and what’s the best way to make projects more secure.
Also, you’ve to find out what’re the most skills people are looking for, and other things that can help you improve you offers. To do so, simply use Google as the first source to find helpful resources about what you want to learn.
3. Being patient
Many beginners lack this. As a beginner, being patient is the key of freelancing success, it can take days or maybe months to get your first order. This is something more than you might expect to start getting orders.
Offering a great service and following successful tips cannot guarantee you get hired from the first place, but they can improve your chances to get orders.
4. Being helpful and dedicated
to get great results, you must be active on the freelancing platform, always check and see if someone wants to contact you and ask about your service.
The keys to make clients trust you and your service is responding on time and helped them out even if they don’t order. You must be helpful and dedicated to your work.
5. Being honest and ask questions
Beginners find it difficult to ask clients about the details they need to finish the work they are hired for. If that happen, you maybe mush your clients to be mad of you and give you a bad review.
To avoid that, you have to ask about all what you need to complete the tasks with no problem. So, don’t be shy, just be honest with your service. Sooner or later, the client will realize if you lied or not.
As we saw the needed steps to succeed in any freelancing platform, the following is a list of most things every freelancer should avoid. These include:
1. Using illegal resources to get your service rice up
This thing must never be used anyway. It’s the most reason that can destruct your service. In any type of service, there’re cheaters, but this is not a reason to use it for your ease.
Many beginners and even old freelancers who use illegal sources to increase their ranking, level & reviews, but you have to make your gigs and bids legally stand up.
For instance, Fiverr provides its users with levels to increase their gigs, the levels rice up when a freelancer reach a specific criterion including the number of orders s/he get, the cash limits…etc.
Many cheaters ask others who they know and pay them to buy their services and make 5-stars reviews. This way leads cheaters to be on the top of the page with higher levels.
Using this way is ethically wrong. So, to make clients trust you, AVOID IT! Don’t think of earning money by this way, remember, working hard is the best choice of self-respect.
2. Lying with you can do for the clients
Being honest means never lay on your clients. This point should be covered in this “don’ts” section. Lying in your bid or gig by saying things that you can’t do can easily get your services rejected.
To avoid that, write about the only offers you can do and you’re good at. It’s very easy to let visitors notice if you can do the work as they want it to be or not.
3. Being rude and respectless
Being ill-mannered with anyone asks you about something won’t help you improve your freelancing business at all. You have to be respectful and you should learn to speak politely with people.
If you are rude and speak with no respect, no one will even want to deal with you, and no one will talk to you about his/her projects.
It’s normal that client make mistakes, all you’ve to do is staying calm and be kind with them. Many buyers give tips if the communication and assistance of the freelancer is very good.
Never forget, working hard is the key of success. It can take time, so you’ve to learn patience. All the successful people worked very hard to achieve their goals and the result is being in the place where they are today. So, the rule that you must remember in “No pain, No gain!”
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