How to Be a Successful Online Freelancer -Your Online Freelancing Guide to Making Money at Home in the Lousy Economic
By Angie T. Lee
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About this ebook
Tired of the Monday through Friday grind, working for someone else? Thinking about joining the ranks of thousands of happy, work-at-home internet freelancers?
Then you need this guide which will teach you everything you need to establish and run a successful online freelance business. The guide begins with insights into how you can discover, develop, and market the skills you can sell online.
It brings you up-to-date on the internet's hottest freelance sites and other potential work sources. Become an Internet Freelancer offers advice on how to identify desirable clients and how to write winning bids for them. An entire chapter, full of tips from a successful online freelancer, is devoted to growing your moneymaking business.
Lastly, it offers some advice about how to lower your risk and diversify your online efforts.
Make Money and Be Your Own Boss Online.
Angie T. Lee
Ebook author and editor Angie T. Lee is currently a homemaker in sunny California. She possesses a zest for life and has an eclectic range of interests including cooking, tending to pets, learning various instruments, spending time with friends outdoors, and much more. Mother to two college graduates, she spends a sufficient amount of her time entertaining these interests and has picked up quite a few tips along the way! From event planning to healthy living to relationship advice, Angie is eager to share her guidance and knowledge through writing. Take a look at her ebooks for friendly advice!
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How to Be a Successful Online Freelancer -Your Online Freelancing Guide to Making Money at Home in the Lousy Economic - Angie T. Lee
How to Be a Successful Online Freelancer
-Your Online Freelancing Guide to Making Money at Home in the Lousy Economic
By Angie T. Lee
Copyright 2012 Angie T. Lee
Smashwords Edition
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including scanning, photocopying, or otherwise without prior written permission of the copyright holder
Table of Contents
Introduction to Online Freelancing
Your Skillsets
List Your Skills
Check Your Skills with a Test
Acquire New Skills
Seize the Day
Getting Started
Build Your Portfolio
Create Your Freelance Site Accounts
Other Potential Work Sites
Increase Your Rates over Time
Always Focus On the Future
Now, Get Jobs!
Who Are Your Clients?
How to Write Bids
Managing Projects
Growing as a Business
About the Author
Disclaimer
Introduction to Online Freelancing
You’ve probably seen plenty of advertisements about how to make money on the internet. However, for the most part, people’s notion of how to make money online boils down to:
•Affiliate marketing
•Product creation
•Auction routes
Want to learn some other means to finding honest, steady work that helps pay your bills, supplements your income, or even gets you out of that office job and into your own, work-at-home opportunity?
The truth is, more people than ever are finding the Internet to be their ideal workplace. They have found a way to say, Take this job …
to the 9-5 cubical farm grind and start working fulltime for themselves. We’re talking about freelancing, a common practice in countries around the globe. In the United States alone, more than 40 million American workers reported at least some freelancing income in 2009. That represents a huge increase from just 5 years ago, and much of it is because of the Internet.
Think about it, how almost all content creation has gone digital in recent years. Even traditional media such as newspapers, TV stations, and radio are publishing on the Internet, with the help of highly specialized content providers.
That’s why, especially in our current bear economy, it’s important to know exactly what income-generating options you have. If you are a writer, designer, programmer, or someone who really doesn’t enjoy his/her job and knows you have creative skills to offer online - the world of online freelancing may be for you.
I’ve contended for years that people can start online freelance careers without some of the requirements that may hold you back in the brick-and-mortar business, a college education, real world work experience, and references. In fact, all you need is persistence and an understanding of the system. Once you establish your presence in the system that has an endless appetite for content, you’ll find it increasingly easy to make money,