How To Be Successful at Freelancing?

As the business is growing, business owners hire virtual assistants for several reasons. You can take comfort from the fact that there are thousands of business owners out there looking for virtual assistants for different kinds of tasks. But, out of thousands and thousands of virtual assistants from different nationalities, how can you be successful at freelancing?

4 Tips to be successful at freelancing.

1. Invest in yourself through training

Before going out of your house and meet people, you have to be properly dressed so people would take you seriously. Building on that, you have to be equipped with the proper training and knowledge before presenting yourself to clients. Getting yourself trained doesn't mean you have to spend money. There are a lot of sources online where you can get training for free. You can go to Youtube, Google, or join relevant groups on Facebook where a lot of freelancers are a member of and you can learn from them. But the most effective way to be trained is through paid courses online like the freelancing course of FVA Business Consultancy. This is one of those things where investing in yourself would really pay off. These online courses were already prepared and programmed according to what you need to learn as a newbie to jumpstart your freelancing career. When you have the proper training, you will be confident to present yourself to clients and certain to get the jobs done with quality. Through training, you will have a wide array of services you can offer to business owners. Business owners will notify you when they see that you are equipped with the skills needed to get the job done and this is one way to be successful at freelancing.

2. Establish Online Presence

Just like when you want your crush at school to notice you, you want to be always where he/she is. And when you're in the same place, you would talk loudly, you would talk about interesting topics to sound smart, you would annoy him/her if that's what it takes to be noticed. The same is true in this field. Most, if not all, of the transactions in this field from applying, submitting proposals, interview, orientation, job proper, to your compensation, are done online. With that being said, you have to initially establish your online presence for you to be noticed by business owners. How are you going to do that? First is through social media. These social media sites which include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and many more, can really do magic for you if you know how to optimize them. Make an account on one or more of these social media sites, add people, increase your connections as many as possible and leverage these platforms for you to show business owners what you're capable of doing and how can you help them further their business. Post interesting content and engage with your audience as much as possible. Whether you believe it or not, some virtual assistants were hired through one of these platforms like Instagram.

Second is through other online platforms like Upwork and OnlineJobs.ph. A lot of business owners go to these platforms to hire virtual assistants. Create and optimize your profile on these platforms and submit stunning proposals to jobs posted by clients. Let your profile talk. Before clients contact and invite you for an interview, they would go through your profile first and see if you're a candidate for the job. Moreover, highlight your skills and update your profile to let it speak to your client.

The third is through your website. If you are into writing blogs, you can also establish your online presence through your website and post blogs that are interesting especially to your target market. Your website speaks everything about you, so, like what you can do in your Upwork and OnlineJobs.ph profile, you can also put in your website your portfolio, services or skills you offer, and how possible clients can contact you. There are more ways to establish an online presence for you to discover and be successful.

3. Portfolio or samples of your work

One of the ways to be successful is showing business owners what you're capable of doing and how good you are at what you do through your portfolio. A portfolio is anything under the sun that could show your clients what is done and how it's done. If you're a newbie without any experience at all, you can offer to be a social media manager, for example, for your friend, manage his or her account and make that as your portfolio. You can transcribe any video from Youtube and you already have a portfolio for your transcription skill. All it needs is your creativity and resourcefulness.

4. Be unique and persevere

In an ocean full of fishes, it's such a challenge to get noticed by business owners and be successful. But how can you spot the queen in a colony of ants? How can make yourself stand out from a sea called freelancing? By being different. Sometimes it may be scary to be different because why would you differentiate yourself from something that worked with others. That's the case because seeing that it worked for someone doesn't mean it will work for you too. You have to find your own place, your own system that will work for you.

Persevere and don't give up as well. It will not be an overnight success. You have to work hard for it. You will receive a lot of rejections, a lot of failures on your way to success. Just learn from the experience and move on. Remember that your worth will not be valued in the wrong place. Just persevere and you will land your first client soon.

Hope this is helpful and thank you for your time.