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Internet has really turned the world to a small village. You can be in United States and employ people in Singapore or China without getting them across the sea before they work for you.
In fact, several companies, now, allow their staff to work from home. When they work for 3 days in the office, they are required to stay back at home for 2-3 days.
Their working at home does not in any way diminish the return on investment of the company as long as the target set for them at home is met. Meeting that target is definitely part of the specifications of their jobs.
Companies that have reached this stage do outsource some of their work to international workforce through online medium although the work is never done online.
Similarly, for freelancing, people who desired to get any work done hire freelancer, situated in any part of the world on any freelancing website.
There is hardly any work you can’t get done with freelancing.
Some smart internet marketers even get jobs at a higher rate and seek freelancers who can do it for them at a lower rate so as to earn good profit. By so doing, several internet marketers have made lasting names for themselves in the online space.
As a freelancer, the only thing that can deny you from getting a freelancing job is if you are not skilled. Only those who are skilled in one field or the other are guaranteed to succeed in this particular online business.
Freelancers who are more skilled command higher fees than ones who can’t deliver as much as them. If you visit www.fiverr.com you will see freelancers charge based on the premium services they can render.
For instance, you can’t hire a website developer, good at developing stunning websites using latest programming languages, with over 15 years experience with just $5 which is the exact price people pay freelancers on Fiverr.
A similar thing is what you will discover if you visit other freelancing websites like Odesk, elance, Craigslist, among others.
You will even discover freelancers who are not skilled rendering mundane services. That discovery alone will broaden your mindset when it comes to working as a freelancer.
Truth be told, there are billions of jobs available all over the world online but that is not a guaranteed that you will see freelancing jobs to do. You have to be prepared for this field: It is very competitive.
All the services you can render online are already being offered by several other freelancers who have been receiving and working on professional jobs years before you will even set your profile on the freelancing website.
To outcompete this freelancers with track record of success from rendering their services, you need to be skilled enough to convince anyone to try you out.
If their previous freelancers disappoint them, they’ve inevitably pave way for you to get some jobs from these clients. Coming across such opportunity should drive you to give your best, better than you’ve ever done before, so that the client can begin to compare your work with the works of their regular freelancers.
Since you are not as experienced as the freelancers you met online, all you have to do is to charge a lower fee so as to attract clients who can’t afford to hire the first-rated experts.
First-rated expert I said…
Don’t be carried away by that word, the more customers you satisfy, the more good customer reviews you will receive on your freelance profile, too. These your customers' reviews are very crucial i rendering your skilled service.
You may not even need to request a review from your first time customers. Most satisfied customers will post reviews of your work after experiencing your mouth-watering service themselves.
The reviews you will be getting from them are as important as the recommendation you will be getting from repeated customers.
From a single recommendation by your previous customers, you can land hundreds of job. Recommendations are worth their weight in diamond. From that simple marketing tactic, companies like Google, Amazon, Paypal and eBay became both online and offline conglomerates in no time.
Their popularity can be traced back to the virality brought about by the word-of-mouth recommendations from the first set of people who tried out their exceptional services.
So, do not hesitate to render your service for free if needs be. You are not going to lose anything in proving to some prospects that you are the best person for the job. Truth be told, anyone who collects anything free from you is indebted to you. Believe you me, most prospects do not know that principle, or probably do but pay lip service to it.
In this kind of online business, lots of people will ask you for samples of your previous works. In your quest to satisfy them, don’t send the works of your old clients to new prospect without seeking their approval for sharing the work you’ve been paid for.
Perhaps, you think like the average freelancer online. Any work you’ve done for a client is no longer your proprietary product.
For me, I strongly believe in referring free service to first time customers. If the service will cost you a fortune to render, it is then advisable to give huge discount, which will not affect your return on investment, to first-time customers.
This does not in anyway give you room to attend to anyone who is after your free service. Anyone doing so is not likely a prospect. I can bet it with you that someone who comes with such intent will not end up being a client.
Lastly, there are going to be good and bad days. Bad days don’t usually last long. So, always prepare ahead for the good days, as they will eventually come.
Then, during the good days, jobs will roll in as if someone paused the button of freelancing connections some days before the time. And don’t be tempted to do all the job alone. If you decide to do it alone, you will keep a lot of clients in long queue. More so, you will end up losing more clients than you think
Rather than to that, employ the service of other freelancers who you are sure can deliver quality services as you. With time, the people you engage will reciprocate your kind gesture, thereby increasing your profitability.
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