PREREQUISITES OF FREELANCING

‘’Every body cannot be a freelancer, if you are foolish/crazy enough to try once more after you fail, you can be a freelancer”

Before starting freelancing there are few things you should do if you are looking for a long term career in freelancing.

 First determine what you want to do in life? If you are: the misfit, the rebel, the round peg in the square hole, one who see things differently, not found of rules, that can work hard, can have sleepless nights, can learn new skills rapidly, and have a broader vision/mission of life, then you can do freelancing. Set a goal for your life : be rich, be famous, put a ding in the universe, do it for family or for a pretty girl/boy:P

Find what are the skills you are good at and you love to work in that area. There may be some  skills that are you are good at but you do not like working in that area and vice versa. The important  thing here is find the area that you love to work in and then you will excel in that area very rapidly

After you have selected the area that you love to work in, develop some samples/projects (smaller) in that area. The easiest way to develop samples can be many. You can work on projects of your friends, family or nephew--mother-grandmother‘s father. You can pick a project description from Freelancer.com and work on it, calling it “project/Essay for myself”. Your semester projects/Assignments/Reports can be your samples also.

 Get a reliable electricity connection, buy some extra batteries for your Laptop or UPS (can also damage your Laptop).Having extra monitor/Display will also increase your productivity. Get a reliable internet connection. If you can afford, get wired and wireless connection both. Find around you cafe’s, restaurants that can offer internet connection if your internet connection fails.



Get an account on all social/Professional networks like Facebook, Linkedin, Yahoo mail, Google Talk, Hotmail and Skype, and set them professionally. This gives the client an opportunity to communicate with you the way he feels comfortable. You should not have non-professional ID’s like JugnuShezada, parifromheaven etc. It literally hurts you stature as a professional .Put as much details as you can. Have a descent profile picture.

Get an account on dropbox.com (iCloud,Box,others can be searched on Google).It will give you space to upload your sample/project files and access them from anywhere on any device. You can collaborate with your fellow freelancers through DropBox using shared folders. You can also get the links to your samples and send it to someone. Sometimes a client will share a folder with you so you can get the bigger files.

Get an account on Teamviewr.com, using this software you can access client desktop or vice versa. You can run programmes, show results and transfer files to clients.Teamviewer also have got more functionalities, play around it.

Get screen capturing software like Camstudio (others can googled).It will help you to capture your screen and your audio comments so that you can show your client the working procedures of the project.

If client says something verbally about the project scope,price and shedule,get it on your contract on Freelancer.com,in this way you can avoid disputes later...

In the next post we are going to make an impressive profile on Freelancer.com

Now you are ready for a roll-coaster ride:)

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