As a Freelancer, your goal is to attract and retain as many customers as possible because essentially more customers equals more profits right? Being that you will often get only one chance to showcase what you can do, you need your first impression to be your best impression.
I have been a freelance writer for about eight years. I’m somewhere shy of being an expert, but well versed enough to have discovered a few things that work. I must be the only freelancers my friends know, because as I watch my friends cross over to “our side,” they’re always coming to me for advice. I always willingly agree to dole out what I know, but then I realize two things. First, I’m talking to my new competition. And secondly, I can’t remember how I started.
I used to work as a freelancer for several years and know that the most important thing for a freelancer is self-organization, discipline. You have no boss to stimulate you working even when you don’t want to. Even though I think the famous song “I don’t wanna work today, seems just like I wanna stay in my bed because there’s no stress” sounds in the head of each second every morning, it doesn’t matter if you’re a freelancer or an employee.
As freelancers, sometimes it’s hard to generate creative ideas as quick or as easy as we wish we could. People will normally give you similar advice like brainstorming or taking a walk. But what if we delve deeper into these well known ideas for boosting your creative side? Or what if someone handed us some brand new ideas that are backed up by different studies?
Successful bloggers are often addicts to information gathering. However information gathering is not enough. You also need to be able to filter all the vast quantities that you consume everyday and identify that which makes sense to your audience. After this, come up with a way that allows you to communicate this information to your audience in a practical and appealing way.
To succeed in blogging, you will need to read a lot. Reading books and stuff on the Internet, especially blog posts of successful bloggers and writers is one way to become an information maven. Since most bloggers specialize in their niche, this will also give your research some direction and help you filter and identify ideas for your blog posts. Reading however is not the only way to gather information. Being on the lookout and observant is another way. Successful bloggers say that they always get blog post ideas from even non-related events and experiences in life. Some experiences or events offer an analogy that can be applied and put into a blog post which can add more impact if readers can relate to it.
A good marketer not only knows how to do a great job in marketing but also how to listen to his or her audience. If you don’t understand who your target audience is, you will not understand what they need. As a blogger, you want to know what resonates with your audience before you start writing. As you get to know them, you will know what they like and where they need help. How can you do all this?
When your main focus is supposed to be on the work you are doing for your clients, it’s tough to have to switch gears and start dealing with the ‘money side of things’. So we’re here to share some programs with you that will hopefully save you some time (and money). Here’re the three programs to check out:
Happy New Year! We’ve bid 2011 farewell and are now welcoming 2012. As with every start of a new year, there’s always a feeling of hope and uncertainly for what’s to come our way. As freelancers, we ask ourselves, ‘Will this be a productive year with plentiful amounts of work? Will 2012 be an excellent year financially?’ While we can’t give completely accurate answers to these questions, here are the top 3 predictions for freelancers in 2012.
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Freelancing is my life. It's what I know, it's what I'm good at, and I can't imagine doing anything else. You can call me "Freddie the Freelancer"… because I'd prefer not to use my real name for reasons that I'll tell you about in a moment.
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