Freelancer - Turn your skills into money

Does ‘freelancer’ sound familiar to you!? A freelancer is person who offers services to get paid. Becoming a freelancer is a way you can work independently from anywhere you like and anytime you want. As general term, a freelancer will not working for a single employer in long time contract and
considered as self-employed for working status.  If you have good internet connection and devices to cooperate (Personal computer, laptop, Smartphone etc.) with it, than you fulfill the basic requirements for becoming a freelancer.

   

Advantages of freelancing

There are several perks to working as freelancer, Including;

ü  Flexible places and time. Becoming a freelancer you can choose your own work place and schedule your own time.

ü  Choose the works that fit. You will be able to choose your own job follow your skill and clients need.

ü  Choose your own clients. You may take any client that will hire you at the beginning. As in time you will learn to choose best clients and working regular with them. The thing that every freelancer love is you can fire them (Caution!!! – for certain purpose only).

ü  Easy and fast. You can start fast, as long you already know the skill you offer, you can using network to start finding your first client.

ü  Market for freelancer is large. As long as you have passion on it, marketplace of freelancers are worldwide.

What skills to offer

There are many type of skills to offer and get money it. The skills basically fall into two main categories, there are;

ü  Natural Gift Skills – This skill refer to the gift that you having since your birth. Not everyone have this special talent and people used to call this group as talented people. Having a great voice, good in acting and dancing, be able to compose a song are all fall into this skill categories. You can make money easier from this with additional a passion.

ü  Learned Skills – This skill mostly you get from work experience and your studies. You can offer all software or hardware skills. For this skill category, quality usually becoming the competitive issue, once you pick a job you will learn how to increase your own work quality as you grow.

Why you need to freelance

If you still a student, you can use this opportunities to gain more knowledge and work experience. This also can make you prepare to face employee demands after you graduated. Employments marketplace nowadays very competitive compare to a decade before. Even you have good grade don’t guarantee you will get high salary and better position. Unpredictable world economy become the main factor for country currency changes. By freelancing you can stabilizes your monthly income and expend your own expertise if you are currently employed.

How to become a freelancer

Here are the step to building your own freelance career;

ü  Decide what to offer - (i.e writing, photography, social media management, graphic design and more).

ü  Choose and determine your target market – Find client who need your offer.

ü  Create portfolio – Best using Linkedln. This site help you to promote your own profile.

ü  Start searching your clients – Use your network and consider to find freelancer site.