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How to Start Making Money Online as a Freelancer

Joining a team
There are several companies that work on creating groups of freelance professionals of different specialties. They screen all the freelance applications and select the best out of them. Companies like www.aquent.com are reputed and have been in this business for many years and can be trusted.

Initially, when setting out to find freelance jobs, it would seem tedious and unending, as you go about biding for various jobs and applying to classified ads. But soon enough, you will find the methods that work best for you and you will learn where you need to concentrate your efforts on.

How to be competitive
Once you have started freelancing and landed yourself jobs, now its time to think of getting projects consistently.

You may get the first projects easily, but further projects depend solely on your skills, experience level, and your ability to complete the project in the time frame given. Being the best competitor on the block is the only way to go. Keep upgrading your skills if required and get additional training if necessary.

Dormancy kills
Never be dormant. Bid on as many projects as you can to stay in the game. Keep searching for projects and bid….search and bid. This is the only way to stay in the competition.

Being Proactive
Help clients with their business issues. Give them ideas to improve their business and profits and cold call them if it helps. Mail promotional postcards to clients. Give annual or seasonal discounts to long-standing clients to show that you appreciate their business.

Understand before bidding
It is always a good idea to wait on your bidding, until some other freelancers place their bids. This enables you to learn the average rate that is being bid.

Ask questions
Nobody likes people who think they know everything, without even understanding the requirement of the person looking to freelance work. Clarify all your doubts
before bidding, and this will create a sense of trust in the person offering the work. They will understand that you are the type of person who will do a detailed job by understanding the subject and that they can count on your for quality work.

Be in the picture
Show off your expertise in your field and be seen. Pitching articles to publications or stories to blogs or the website greatly helps. Submit tutorials to various websites in the field, or you can even write an eBook or report on the subject and promote it online, all the time promoting yourself as a freelancer.

A word of caution though. Wherever you look for freelance work online, there is no way of knowing if the person who is posting the job opportunity is genuine. With experience, you will understand how to segregate the good opportunities from the bad ones.

It will be a cakewalk landing projects if you understand what you are getting into and know how to go about it. Be the best and let others wonder how you do it.

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