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Freelancer: Another Way Of Making Money Online by CLOUDGOSSIPS(m): 12:39pm On Aug 30, 2016
In this country where Job is scare... Please, read this and feel free to ask questions:

THIS IS FREE TUTORIAL TO MAKE MONEY by Sola Mathew, the Visioneer of CCN

We gonna start a class here

Slow And Steady Start

Freelancer is a better term for self-employed.
Major types of freelancing work which are popular on internet are Web Development, Graphics Designing, Article/Content Writing and Data Entry. But freelancing is all about the stuff that you can do the best and offering it to the clients who require your service in exchange of a price.

The Line Of The Century - If you are good at something, never do it for free. Now-a-days, a very popular skill that is on the rise of freelancing platform is SEO and Digital Marketing.
Almost everything that you can think of doing as a service, it will find a category in almost all freelancing sites, say from audio-video editing to blog-commenting and even virtual assistance.

Here Are The Top Ten Freelancing Platforms:

1.www.freelancer.com
2.www.elancer.com
3.www.upwork.com (Previously oDesk)
4.www.peopleperhour
5.www.guru.com
6.www.99designs.com (Specially for graphics designer)
7.www.fiverr.com (Service Oriented)
8.www.toptal.com
9.www.ifreelancer.com
10.www.freelancewritinggigs.com

These are the most popular and famous ones. Once you decide what you are good at, I don�t think it will be hard for you to Google the top ten freelancing sites for that particular skill set or category.
For example, if you are good at web development, sites like freelancer, elancer and upwork have lots of projects waiting for you. Similarly, for graphics designers, 99designs and fiverr open the gate of opportunity.

Trick To Begin With:

As a beginner always try to find a few freelancing sites which are relatively new in the marketbecause it is not yet crowded with experienced people. Therefore, you will have greater chances of getting a project awarded sooner than later, simple reason for that is, almost all will have few to no reviews at all.
Now, once you have found out what you are good at and noted down the sites(both old and new ones) especially suited for your skill, it is time for opening a profile in those sites. Lets go. This is just the introduction, so you can imagine the exciting time ahead.

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Re: Freelancer: Another Way Of Making Money Online by Gmajor(m): 1:32pm On Aug 30, 2016
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Re: Freelancer: Another Way Of Making Money Online by adebayo3449(m): 2:08pm On Aug 30, 2016
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Re: Freelancer: Another Way Of Making Money Online by Ekob(m): 2:33pm On Aug 30, 2016
CLOUDGOSSIPS:
In this country where Job is scare... Please, read this and feel free to ask questions:

THIS IS FREE TUTORIAL TO MAKE MONEY by Sola Mathew, the Visioneer of CCN

We gonna start a class here

Slow And Steady Start

Freelancer is a better term for self-employed.
Major types of freelancing work which are popular on internet are Web Development, Graphics Designing, Article/Content Writing and Data Entry. But freelancing is all about the stuff that you can do the best and offering it to the clients who require your service in exchange of a price.

The Line Of The Century - If you are good at something, never do it for free. Now-a-days, a very popular skill that is on the rise of freelancing platform is SEO and Digital Marketing.
Almost everything that you can think of doing as a service, it will find a category in almost all freelancing sites, say from audio-video editing to blog-commenting and even virtual assistance.

Here Are The Top Ten Freelancing Platforms:

1.www.freelancer.com
2.www.elancer.com
3.www.upwork.com (Previously oDesk)
4.www.peopleperhour
5.www.guru.com
6.www.99designs.com (Specially for graphics designer)
7.www.fiverr.com (Service Oriented)
8.www.toptal.com
9.www.ifreelancer.com
10.www.freelancewritinggigs.com

These are the most popular and famous ones. Once you decide what you are good at, I don�t think it will be hard for you to Google the top ten freelancing sites for that particular skill set or category.
For example, if you are good at web development, sites like freelancer, elancer and upwork have lots of projects waiting for you. Similarly, for graphics designers, 99designs and fiverr open the gate of opportunity.

Trick To Begin With:

As a beginner always try to find a few freelancing sites which are relatively new in the marketbecause it is not yet crowded with experienced people. Therefore, you will have greater chances of getting a project awarded sooner than later, simple reason for that is, almost all will have few to no reviews at all.
Now, once you have found out what you are good at and noted down the sites(both old and new ones) especially suited for your skill, it is time for opening a profile in those sites. Lets go. This is just the introduction, so you can imagine the exciting time ahead.

08139244243

Kindly share with your friends.
cn I add u on whatsapp?
Re: Freelancer: Another Way Of Making Money Online by CLOUDGOSSIPS(m): 6:28pm On Aug 30, 2016
Ekob:
cn I add u on whatsapp?
why not!
Re: Freelancer: Another Way Of Making Money Online by CLOUDGOSSIPS(m): 6:30pm On Aug 30, 2016
Thank You for following this trend... I've been busy with a client's work.

Now, let's continue:

Account For Payment Transaction-

Now before proceeding, you must have an account in paypal because all money transactions from freelancing sites to you will happen via paypal. If you don’t have paypal account, open one because it is very easy to open and link your credit/debit card or even bank account and thereon, very easy to handle. In place of paypal, different freelancing sites also support money transfer through different third party site like escrow, but kindly check the site details for those if you have one such account for money transaction. But the best option is wire transfer(direct transfer to your bank account) because in this case, less money(commission) is deducted in comparison to third party sites like paypal and others. That is because money is transferred to paypal from freelancing sites and then to your card or bank account but in wire transfer it is directly from freelancing sites to your back account.

Communication Channel-

Though almost all sites have the facility of online chatting with clients, but having a skype(a desktop software and even available as a mobile app) account for communication is must. Most clients prefer to chat via skype and clients are like God. Plus, you will be in touch with clients in future through skype very easily by pinging them from time to time asking about how the project is running and requesting them for recommending you to people around them and select you for future projects and so on. But I personally prefer to chat via freelancing sites because you will have a record to things in the site and It will be very handy when a conflict arise between you and your clients, say refusing to pay the money even if he/she had approved that your work is completed. In such cases, support team of freelancing sites goes through your workstream/chat conversation and release the money in favour of you. Anyways dont even think of negativity. Prefer to chat via sites online chat system and at the end of the project ask the skype id of our client.

Personal Profile-

Put your original name. Dont put any fancy or unprofessional name. Instead of a name, if you put your self-owned company name, that wont be bad as well. But initially, I would recommend you to start as an individual. Once you have enough feedbacks and reviews and a live (works you have already done for clients) portfolio, you can change your profile to your self-owned company. This is the ultimate trick. Because everyone knows individual offers cheap rates than branded company especially when you are a beginner in it.
Put your address in such a way so that atleast people can understand the region, dont go into too many details. City and Country will suffice. You can put fake qualification to impress clients. The thing is that you are literally selling yourself. So, a little exaggeration is not a sin. Finally put a professional profile picture, keep your fancy photos and selfies away for social networking sites. Link your transaction account like paypal or whatever option you have. Complete 100%.

Professional Profile-

This is more important aspect because before awarding you any job, your client will first visit your profile to find whether you are trustworthy and capable of doing the job. 
First thing first, dont put a very high hour rate. Keep it low to moderate and as you working experience and reviews and feedbacks start growing, you can increase it from time to time. So it is another trick to keep in mind.
Then another important feature is some websites ask you to give a short bio about you. Dont waste words explaining who you are, use the words to explain what you are and what you are capable of.List the skills and your experience in the field. Even if you have no practical work experience, putting up a certain year of experience will help your cause. This is vital to make the first impression proper so that they proceed to check your portfolio. So before writing the description about you, check a few best sellers in that particular website pertaining to your category and merge a few popular profiles descriptions to make a new and best one for you.
Another point is that you have to choose your skill set which would also be show to the clients, so dont choose something where you have no idea. Always choose those skill set that are related to your category of work. Say, if you are a web developer, choose web designing, web development, UI design, PHP, CakePHP, Javascript , jQuery. BUT suddenly dont choose blogging because that does not go well with your skill set. Once you become popular enough, you can always edit those skill set to showcase your multi-talents. For now, just be specific and follow one channel with its branches.

Showcase Portfolio-

This is the most important part in setting up profile and here you have chance to convince your client to the maximum extent and nail them. Even if you dont have high class projects to showcase, download a few glossy screenshots and banners regarding popular projects and add understandable descriptions to describe it.
At least show three big projects in your portfolio in the category where your expertise lies. And if possible make or download a doc for each project you showcase in your portfolio so that when your clients ask anything about the projects you have done or show in portfolio, you can upload the doc and ask them to review it. This is a super cool trick to nail them further. Make/modify the doc(DFD, how each page works with screenshot, database, languages used and specialities of the project) so that it is understood that you have done it. Now lets proceed to even more important aspects.

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Re: Freelancer: Another Way Of Making Money Online by CLOUDGOSSIPS(m): 3:11pm On Sep 02, 2016
First Work Will Test Our Patience

First work is quite hard for some to get. Frustration builds up. The reason you are not getting your first work is because other guys have more experience and reviews than you. Clients would prefer to go for an experienced person than a fresher unless ofcourse the price parameter crops up. Experienced person always bid at the higher range where beginners provide them at cheap rate to get reviews. So keep your bids low and convince people with your bidding description and dont give up.

Second thing is you have to be online nearly all the time. You can do your work in the foreground and keep the tab open in the background, because you clients may contact you anytime and they wont wait long for your response because someone else has already started convincing them who is at par with your quality. So be sure to respond in time.

Now the point to be noted is that client before awarding a project to the best person, communicates with many people to judge the best person for the job. So once client pings you after checking out your bid and your profile, greet him and explains how you are going to implement the project(an action plan) and the time span required and what additional things you will provide. Always add payment only after satisfaction. This may be risky but believe me it will work and dont worry about payment rather go and check the clients profile and his reviews so that you dont end up with a fraud client for your first work.

Dont be impatient while talking with a client, always be polite even if he asks a question several time. Also a few questions to clarify from your side would add to clients confidence on you and will show your deep interest in the project. State you have done similar project or at least a module of the project in another project you have done previously under someone else. The point is make him/her comfortable with you, be polite and interactive and stats shows that the longer the conversation goes, the greater are your chances of getting the project. Dont be rude or reply in bad mood when the client is taking his/her time to reply back, understand this is a professional life, what you give is what you get. I have also seen cases where client does not award the project but due to ones polite behavior, client promise to ping one for the next project.

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