How to Start Your Freelancing Career

Beginning freelancing career is a peace of mind thing. You can deliver your full talent at its peak level with out any boss. You are the one and only boss of your freelancing career and the work you are delivering. Who is a freelancer, a person who works freely with a huge client list from across the globe delivering designing, programming or any other Technology or internet related services.

The main beauty of freelancing is that you will have the opportunity to meet 100's of different employers rather than one steady employer. Freelancers who delivers also may get appointed as a permanent contract worker for a particular contract. At the starting phase, you should place bids for easy projects with best payouts. As your rating and ranking increases, you becomes more popular with in the client arena and you will be opted for large projects on the basis of your ranks. At that time you need to employ other freelancers to complete a particular project.

Any one with any sort of talent or interest in a particular job can be a freelancer. At the very early stages of your freelancing career, you need to hard work in order to fix your position among a group of clients. Think about a world where everyone is rushing to procure a job somewhere, at the same time you are working from your own bed. No boss no manage and no restrictions. This state is priceless and makes you feel better and better. You will get paid for holidays too. You can decide your hourly rate of work. If your work is perfect, clients will also offer some additional bonus for you.

Okay, now we are going to discuss about some the best ways to make a lot of cash using anyone of your talent.  Freelancer sites are the best way to grow your brand and reputation.  So who is a freelancer? Anyone can be a freelancer, with any of the skills like programming, graphic design, web-design.  

 

Clients will place their projects in freelance websites, every freelancer have the opportunity to place bids to a particular project posted.  At first it will be difficult to get a start, if you have got a start, you will be rated by the client and your ratings will be shown in the site. 

 

When you place your first bid be careful, write your bid in a professional manner.  Don’t put too much scrap to your bid. Key points must be written with the bid and rest (payment and all) should be sent via Private message to the client. This will help in getting a special interest also you are securing your valuable information from other freelancers.  

 

Most of the clients will pay through PayPal; hence it is a must you have to sign up for a PayPal account.  The most important feature of Rentacoder is, they have a certification system for freelancers in association with ExpertRating.com. If you are a first time freelancer sign up with Rentacoder.com and get certified in topics of your expertise.

 

Some tips for making your profile appealing.

 

Edit your profile completely, and include all contact information with an email id under your own domain (if you have a domain), If you don’t have a domain sign up with a free email address.

 

Make a Logo and upload it to your profile, the logo should indicate your area of expertise. Don’t select all the categories of work.  Only add works which suits to your expertise.

 

Get certifications ( if available).  Create a professional blog and share its URL when you place very bid. The blog should contain samples  your work.  This makes reviewing your talent much much quicker and the bid will be yours.

We will have more in upcoming articles,so stay tuned. Good luck guys.