Personal branding is a misunderstood concept among freelancer. They consider branding is only for the big brand and companies like Coca-Cola, Google or Apple.
Marie Forleo Interviews Renée Mauborgne – “Blue Ocean Strategy”
Marie Forleo Interviews Renée Mauborgne – co-author of the best selling book “Blue Ocean Strategy”. A must-watch interview for everybody working in an overly competitive environment.
Influence – The Psychology of Persuasion
The book shares 6 weapons of influence aka Reciprocation, Commitment and Consistency, Social Proof, Liking, Authority, Scarcity and how it is impossible for anybody to reject an offer when under any one of such influence.
9 Mistakes Freelancers Make When Pricing Their Proposal
Price isn’t the only factor to win projects but it is still an important factor. As a freelancer, if you don’t put the right price, chances are you will either be underpaid or not have enough projects.
How to Get Upwork Profile Approved in 2019?
Is your Upwork profile rejected? If you don’t follow these guidelines, you are sure to get the profile rejected yet again. So how to get an Upwork profile approved even if it has been rejected previously?
Positioning The Freelancing Services Right – Leaf Out of Tata Nano
Understanding positioning from the failed project of Tata Motors aka Tata Nano and then use it to position the freelancing services rightly for better freelancing rates from clients.
How to Add Freelancing Work Of Client On A Resume?
Answering – How to add freelancing work experience? What should be the job title of a freelancer? How to provide references of clients? What are some of the common interview questions? What shouldn’t freelancers add to the resume?
3 Main Reasons To Freelance And Why Money Isn’t on the List
Once money becomes the driving force to be a freelancer, the focus shifts from working on something you love to working for clients to invoice more paid hours.
7 Types Of Content Developers Should Blog
As a new freelancer and blogger, don’t take the blog as the main source for clients but work towards building it as an additional source of clients.
9 Tips for Freelancers to Build An Everlasting Client Relationship
As a freelancer, you need to make sure the client is at ease when he starts working with you and you should look to build an everlasting business relationship. Relationships with existing clients can help you with a lot of repeat business and referrals.
3 Crucial Things to Focus In the First Year of Freelancing
The first year of freelancing shouldn’t be to break even as a freelancer. It should be more to create a level playing field for next few years. You don’t want to rush to get clients but the first few years is the survival time with an opportunity to learn.
How New Freelancers Can Get Their First Client – Step by Step
Freelancing isn’t all about writing a proposal on freelancing sites and wait for the clients to respond. Alternate channels to getting clients will always provide the stability one needs for a freelancing business.
3 Habits Of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs and Freelancers
I found a very common and noticeable difference in the habits and daily routines of people who are successful and those who aren’t and it has nothing to do with the hard work. So what is then?
6 Blogging Fear Among Indian Freelancers And How to Overcome Them
6 most common fear among Indian freelancers that keeps them away to start a blog. They are the fear of English, the fear of writing, the fear of technical know-how, the fear of running out of Ideas, the fear of marketing and finally the fear of failure and how to overcome each of them.
How Individual Freelancers Can Price Their Proposal?
Price isn’t the only factor in a proposal for it to be accepted or rejected but it is still an important factor to consider. If the best among the top proposal has to be selected and if everything else remains the same, the price can be a factor.
How to Make More Clients Respond To Your Proposal?
The mistake I see in the proposals of freelancers is they write about themselves. I like to turn the table and talk about how I can be of help to the client and their business. There are certain words in the proposal that can turn things around. Changing these phrases in your proposal is the key.
10 Type of Clients Every Freelancer Should Avoid
Freelancers typically accept clients on a first come first serve basis but if you allow all the clients in, you may need to say NO to a client in the future you don’t want to. One should pick and choose.
PeoplePerHour Proposal Template & Tips to Win Clients in 2019
Consider the proposal as an opportunity to introduce yourself, highlight the expertise and ask relevant questions to create a lasting impression in the mind of the client that you are the best-suited person to get the job done.
As A Freelancer Is There Any Guarantee of Monthly Income?
Freelancing is a business and one has to consider it as a business. In business, you don’t have a guarantee of a monthly income but if you want the guarantee for your career path, one can have it.
Why I Get Paid Good Hourly Rate On Upwork & How You Can Too?
My Upwork hourly rate and earnings are publicly visible which leads to a question hitting my inbox: How I get such good hourly rate on Upwork?
How To Stop Wasting Time Online And Be Lot More Productive?
Each one of us has 24 hours in a day out of which only 8 to 10 hours are dedicated to working. If you allow things to drag in your productive time, you may end up wasting too much time and achieve lot less.
How Freelancers Can Build a Personal Brand
Personal branding isn’t about building a virtual professional brand profile but it is about building a personal brand with professionalism.
How to Find Long Term Clients On Upwork?
The clients who say they want someone for ongoing support for the long-term on freelancing sites like Upwork is to reduce the price of the initial job or want to make sure they aren’t ripped off because they aren’t sure of the cost to get the task done.
Should I Dropout of College And Start Freelancing?
The answer will vary from person to person and from situation to situation but let us take a couple of common scenarios for freelancers to answer.
How to Use Local Events to Find Long-Term Clients?
We waste hours and hours of valuable time on social media and yet when it comes to meeting clients in person, it is considered as “too much time consuming”
One Thing I Learned in College That Made me a Better Freelancer
One thing I learned in my college days that helped me immensely to quit my job and become a much better at freelancing is …
Why Freelancers Don’t Get Paid What they’re Worth?
Why Freelancers especially the web solopreneurs aren’t paid what they are worth? The reason isn’t the competition but the perceived value of services.
Is Fiverr A Good Marketplace for New Freelancers?
Is Fiverr a good marketplace for new freelancers who are starting on freelancing. If yes how can one survive the competition and do quality work for $5
How Freelancers Can Better Manage Their Time
Here are five of the most crucial time management strategies every freelancers and solopreneurs should adapt to better manage their time.
Do Freelancers Need to Pay Money to Work on Upwork?
New freelancers who wish to start using Upwork doesn’t need to pay any money to start using Upwork. Register with an email address and build your profile.
Key Highlights of Payoneer 2018 Survey of 21,000 Freelancers
Payoneer surveyed over 21,000 freelancers from 170 countries about their education, background, earnings and more. Some of the key findings are:
How to Avoid Negative Feedback on Freelancing Websites
Some clients are not so easy going. So here are some of the best ways to handle the negative feedback left even by not so easy going clients?
How Developers Can Use Social Media Marketing To Get Clients
Social media marketing for meme website that aims to drive a lot of traffic for ad views is different than a freelancer marketing their services to clients
How Much Money Should I have Before I can try Freelancing
How much cash should I have in my bank account before I can quit my high-paying full-time job and try freelancing? Anything I should remember before I quit?
Upwork Proposal Template For WordPress With Examples
I have tried many proposal templates but this template has worked for me to win clients in the competitive Wordpress development niche.
How to Overcome The Uncertainty of Working As A Freelancer
As a freelancer, how to overcome the uncertainty of variable income and dealing with clients from various geo and overcome the fear of being self-employed.
5 Must Have Internet Marketing Skills For Digital Age Freelancers
Every freelancer must keep up the pace of the changing digital landscape especially on the marketing front to take freelancing career to the next level.
How Work From Home Freelancers Can Balance Personal Life
The 10 things I do to make sure I have a good amount of balance of how much money I make as a freelancer and enjoy the personal life as well.
How to Find Time to Freelance When You Have A Full-Time Job
You have to act smart to freelance along with a full-time job. Here are 10 things you can do to find time for freelancing along with a full-time job.
5 Characteristics I Look for When Hiring Freelance Developer
Let me share some of the qualities that I look for in developers that I prefer to work with for my clients and to an extent for my own personal projects.
How Individual Freelancers Can Take Long Vacations?
As a freelancer, vacation may sound tougher than they actually are. Once you take a vacation, you will find that it isn’t that tough.
7 Must Have Elements of Every Upwork Proposal in 2019
If your Upwork proposal has these 7 elements in the right order, there are higher chances that client will take a note of your proposals more often.
How Freelancers Can Build Regular Source of Clients
The tough part of freelancing is getting clients, the toughest part is getting clients on a regular basis to take up freelancing as a choice of career.
Is Freelancing Experience Relevant When Applying for a Job?
There are many experiences of a freelancer and what’s relevant depends on the job he or she is applying for. So let me share each experience of a freelancer
Can Part-time Freelancer Earn Full-time Income Doing Freelancing?
Yes, a part-time freelancer can earn full-time income or even more working part-time as a freelancer provided he works smarter and not harder.
Common Upwork Profile Mistakes & How To Fix Them
An incomplete Upwork profile is a crime but then having your Upwork profile just reach that 100% complete mark isn’t the point either.
5 Mistakes Freelancers Make When Dealing With Tough Clients
Freelancer doesn’t have to deal with tough clients by choice but you realize client is tough only when you work for them.
7 Most Common Upwork Proposal Mistakes in 2019
Writing more proposals and being quick in sending the proposal to the project just posted is the not the key to success. The conversion ratio of the proposals is.