Want to start FREELANCING but don't know how ? In this blog i will be sharing top 5 amazing tips which will surely help you to start with your FREELANCING journey and start with your work experience.
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Here are 5 tips to start off your freelance work career :-
1. Just Start
2. Start with your contacts
3. Team work
4. Get social
5. Be jack of all
1. Just start :-
When i say Just start i mean you do not need to be an expert in the field which you want to start freelancing. If you keep thinking that you want to be perfect and only then you would start to take take live project and learn in the process. So let's discuss about it briefly.
The first tip is just start man just start now hearing this you will be like wow then my evolved what amazing tip just start we didn't know about this yeah.So just read this blog before you actually hit in the comments and write all those hit come just read this . Let me explain what i mean by just start so when i say just start what I'm trying to say is even if you're a beginner it is not important to you to be the master of particular technology.If you're getting into it lets take an example of web development even if you have very basics of web development let's say you just studied basics of HTML CSS in JavaScript and if you are wondering whether you are not ready enough,whether you're not perfect enough, whether you are not mastered that particular technology or language.Then I'm really going to tell you one that if you're going to be running behind perfection out of a beginner's level then you'll never start FREELANCING.You'll always be under confident and thinking that okey i am not really sure,I'm not really prepared and that though will procrastinate your FREELANCING so what I'm trying to say is just start off with whatever knowledge you have and then you can build on top of it .So you don't have to be an expert you just need to start.So yeah that was tip number one 'Just start' .
Let's move on tip number two.
2 . Start with your contacts :-
To get your first live project, first freelance order, its always better to start of with someone you know. Maybe your relatives or your friends who have their own business might want a website or software or app. You can approach them and the benifit of this is you can experiment more,since they are in your contact and they already know you . The risk is less even if you mess your first project or if you delay the timeline.Let's discuss about it,Now you are all hyped up you are all pumped up , you are like okey I'm going Start I'm gonna start and you're all excited about this but you're like okey.So where do i get my first contact where do u get my first buisness where do i get my first freelance order right,so the best way to start from is to start from your contacts from your family, from your friends, from your mutual friends and long distance family members who ever have a business now the reason why you should start off with your family and your friends is the level of risk is low.You know when you are approaching a random person the risk of you making a mistake in the project is very high and the stakes are high.So let's say if your relative or your uncle is having a business and he is a chartered accountant and he has his own form, you can approach him and tell him that you're into web development and you want to develop a website for his form that you will take so and so amount of time and probably want to change or not.I would not recommend that you charge for the first time maybe especially if he or she is your family member but you can do it if you feel.I'm not saying that you should not charge but yes the stakes will be very less.The risk will be very less because he or she is your family member or he or she is your friend right so even you make a mistake even it's the time get delayed you can still get off easily.If you are doing it for any stranger you can get into some trouble rate so the best way to start off is to start off with your friends and family.And trust me guys a lot of your friends and family definitely must be having some kind of business before each you can develop a software for which you can develop an application for which you can develop a website and what not.So it can be pretty much everything and anything.So yes start off with your contacts that's the tip number two let's move on to the next step.
3. Team work :-
I don't even need to explain why should team up but in short , teamwork will help you get more knowledge from your team members. You will learn a lot more, the project success rate increases and risk and responsibility decreases.Plus you learn to work in team. So let's discuss it briefly....
You need to team up,you need to collaborate,you need to partner up,so now you are pumped up,you are excited,you are ready to make your first move into the FREELANCING world and you have also figured out you are going to starting off with your contacts, with your relatives or may be with your own parents business.Let's say you are wondering about business and but you lack little that little bit of confidence so the best way to overcome that is to partner with some of your friend,who is like-minded.So let's say you want to get into web development and you want to develop a website for your own family and your dad or mom has some business and you want to develop a website for that. For example your mom or dad is a dentist or a doctor and he or she has her own clinic.So you want to develop a website for that clinic.You can do is approach your friend who is also into web development and you can tell him that hey man you know I'm trying to develop this website let's do it together and the biggest advantage of this is that you will have one more smart mind working on the project you know so when you have one more or more than one minds working on a project.There is a lot of knowledge transfer as is happening between the two so let's say you are stuck at some module maybe your friend can resolve that and why say versailles you know maybe he or she is stuck at some problem and you can resolve it so the speed of the development of project increases and the success rate also increases and you learn a lot from your friends and more amazing thing that you learn is you learn how to perform team work.You know when you are actually completing your educational career and when you start off with your corporate career you gotta working in teams right that's obvious because it's not about individuals it's about team when you work in corporate environment and the best example and the best experience that you can get is by freelancing and collaborating with others , so teaming up really really important . It will also boost your confidence because then you can divide the risk, you can divide the work among members of your partners and will give you a little bit more confidence.
4. Get social :-
Getting social will help you reach beyond your contacts and it gives you a platform to showcase your work to the world. Start with a facebook page or Instagram page or any social media platform which is free. Latter you can have your own portfolio website. Also it makes your work look more professional. Now let's discuss it briefly...
Tip no four is sort of something that is not really essential but it will definitely help you when you want to out grow your business when you want to outgrow your FREELANCING projects and the tip number is to get social. when i say get social,what i mean is you need to be a little bit active on digital media that is the social media platforms . You need to create a facebook page,you need to create an Instagram page,you need to create a small blog or website if you want but I would really recommend this because creating the social media pages will help you more than your friends,More than your family.It will help you to reach out the entire world and I have noticed that there is a lot of negativity at times. When it comes to social media people say that you get addicted to Facebook, you get addicted to Instagram but you know what the irony is the people who complain about all these social media platforms are also complaining on these social media platform itself.So instead of taking negative about all these social media platforms.How about you try to utilise it you know even YouTube is a social media platform where many youtubers make information videos for people.You watch a lot of informational content,you get a lot of knowledge on social media.Actually we need to use it positively for your benefit in a positive way not take it negatively. So Yes being social is very important you might get your next project,next FREELANCE order from social media platforms as you move ahead so you know once you've exhausted your list of contacts.Once you've exhausted all the list of family members you can actually go social you can promote your pages,promote your work online and that will really help you a lot and creating a digital identity on social media creating a website creating a blog. Creating a page gives it a professional look and you can show case your work there also so this was step number four. Let's move on the last step ...
5. Be jack of all :-
This is my personal favourite.When I say be jack of all,I mean try out various technologies rather to master 1 particular technology (Programming language, framework or anything.) When you are beginner , it's better to try as many different technologies as possible even if you do not master them all.For example you can try web development then switch to mobile apps or software development and use different technologies in them as well.This will create wide range of technologies under your skill and then there's less risk if one of the technology becomes outdated.
Now let's discuss it briefly : -
The last tip is shot of like my personal opinion,personal advice, personal suggestion it's not exactly a tip but it will surely help if you are a now the tip is you need to be jack of all and King of none.So what I mean by jack of all and king of none.When you are starting off with your FREELANCE career I am assuming that you are a collage student,a IT student and you haven't really got into the corporate world so you don't have a lot of experience.So when this is the case I would suggest you guys that you try out a lot of different technologies than sticking to one particular technology.Let say you want to become a master of PHP and you are like okey am going to do web development and I'm only gonna stick to PHP but you know that technology keeps on changing a lot of things become obsolete outdated and new new technologies keep on coming .So what if PHP gated outdated,then what you gonna do.So instead of that how about you first start off with PHP then try a little bit of asp.net as well then get into JavaScript so this was for web devlopement let's say maybe you hop into android devlopement, mobile apps, let's see you hop into software development into Cscarp or Java apps and whatnot you need to diversify yourself.I need to having each and every knowledge about each and everything little
bit at least,at least in the fundamentals.So what am going to say is you don't have to be master of one particular technology.Atleast a big pas level but you need to know a lot of things atleast at the fundamental level.So this reduces the risk what if tomorrow one thing you can easily switch to another thing and its always good to have a lot of knowledge.So after you complete your collage you will be getting into corporate scenarios and in that you will be obviously working on one particular technology.So it is always good to have a lot of technology background that is verity of technology and backgrounds.So because then you can switch between your job.If you worked on different technologies you easily make that switch.So this is always advisable and it is not necessary you can always master one particular technology but at business level I would not suggest that.
So these were my 5 tips for starting off with FREELANCING.I hope these were very informational to you if you feel that this blog is helpful to you do share with your friends maybe it will help them also definitely share with anyone who want to get info about FREELANCING
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