Any Freelancer will tell you that the hardest part is the beginning is getting things moving, creating a profile and getting those first jobs. You spend quite a lot of your time in the early days creating that perfect profile, working out how to write a winning proposal, and spreading your name far and wide. In these early stages, the pitch or your presentation is crucial. It's worth emphasizing again, that your online presence and profile must be very, very professional. First of all, prospective clients want to see your face, but not just any old photo will do. An image of your face taking a slight angle is best as it shows your facial features.
People want to relate to a human being an individual. And make sure you shoot the picture against a neutral background. This is your business, so why not have the photograph taken by a professional. All freelancing sites have a section where you can enter a description of yourself and your services. This is the perfect place to sell yourself to prospective customers. It absolutely must be well written with perfect grammar, and punctuation.
After all, it's the first contact with your writing skills. And just like a CV, you can list any achievements, qualifications and relevant experience. But the basic minimum you should provide your name, relevant experience the skills that you have In any particular niche, and ending with a call to action. Such a call to action could be a small video, if that's allowed on the side, or leave your skype name and ask any interested parties to call you for a video chat. This is your chance to shine. If a particular freelance site as an instance test completed to the best of your ability, always remember to include a link to your website.
If you don't have one, you should create one. You can also link to examples of your writing work uploaded to Dropbox or Google Drive. profile hacking is quite ethical, and a great way to build a good profile. You simply browse other people's profiles and note the features that you like and they You model your own on the best practices that you see in the marketplace. It's a common thing to be successful, copy successful people. And now you've created your perfect profile, either under your own steam or by profile hacking.
It's time to start posting it online. Initially, I would sign up and post your profile to these four websites. The sites I recommend initially are up work. Fine, Fiverr, Freelancer and eyewriter Upwork Fiverr and Freelancer are freelance sites for many kinds of gigs from coding to writing to photography. I writer is just for writers they Others Of course, but I recommend that you start with these four. Some sites like Fiverr is a marketplace where you can offer a certain gig for a price starting at $5, anywhere up to 350 $400, depending on the extent of your services.
Other sites are more client based, where customers post a gig and some work that they want completing. And you can browse their requirements and decide to apply or not. Of course, the marketplace is saturated on all of the sides. But the good news is that are not saturated with the very best quality work. It's important that you raise your game to the very highest level. If you produce the highest quality work, then you will be in the top 10% on most of these sites, particularly on Fiverr.
I've used Fiverr and similar sites in the past, but I've been short of time and money just to get some comments. Send together quickly. And I've been very disappointed in the quality problems ranging from grammar, spelling, basic punctuation, even up to an including downright plagiarism, where articles are copied directly from the web, and presented as their own work. So you can see on a site like Fiverr if you produce the very best quality work, and it's not plagiarized, you will gain a good reputation. You should spread your wings by browsing the freelancing sites. But in addition, you should create profiles on all the social science sites like Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Twitter, Reddit, particularly LinkedIn, and Tumblr.
And anywhere else you can think of. Create the profile as usual as we discussed Upload a sample of your writing. Email several high authority blogs and offer to write a guest post. post an article for free. This link can be added to your profile to show extra credibility. If you don't have one, create a website with a professional sounding name.
Include samples of your writing styles in different niches. Create a YouTube channel and upload videos. Introduce yourself and what you do. upload two videos a week with writing tips or any other observations about freelancing or writing in general. You could write about grammar or spelling, or anything at all related to craft. Create an infographic and upload it Pinterest.
Also include videos from your new YouTube channel. Search enjoying business groups on Facebook. Any business will do. They often need writers joining discussions on these groups, but do not push your services. Simply join the conversations, offer relevant observations and try to help at the end of any post, simply leave a link to your website. If you have some spare money and you would like to promote your business to try and get it moving more quickly, you could also try Facebook ads.
But you really do need to take care because it's a great way to lose money. One of the secrets to freelance writing is to spread your reputation and knowledge of your services far and wide through social media. However, Whenever you can, in the first week or two, you spend maybe 60% of your time just spreading your name and your services across the social media sites. In the next lecture, you learn how to create a winning proposal.