This document provides information about freelancing and how to be a successful freelancer. It begins with definitions of freelancing and freelancers. It then lists some of the top freelance sites, including Upwork, Freelancer, and Guru. It profiles four successful freelancers - Brian Wong, Sahil Lavingia, Alex Mangini, and Carol Tice. Finally, it offers tips for becoming a successful freelancer, such as making a marketing plan, planning your days ahead, and learning to say no to new clients when you don't have capacity.
3. How does the thought of MAKING MONEY
ONLINE sound to you? It's a worthwhile idea, for
sure. But how much money can you actually make?
How does it work? What kind of opportunities exist?
These questions and more will be answered throughout
this section.
Introduction
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5. • Definition of freelance in English:
adjective
Self-employed and hired to work for different
companies on particular assignments :
adverb
Earning one’s living as a freelance:I work
freelance from home.
noun
A freelance worker.
Definition : Freelancer
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6. Freelancer:
A person who works as a writer, designer, performer,
or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day,
job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary
basis for one employer.
A freelancer or freelance worker is a term commonly
used for a person who is self-employed and is not
necessarily committed to a particular employer long-
term.
Definition : Freelancer
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As the demand for highly skilled, specialized
employees increases and more top businesses turn
to freelancers, an increasingly high number of
people are tuning in to the many advantages of
becoming a freelancer.
Now we give you some examples of
freelance sites:
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9. TOPTAL : WWW.TOPTAL.COM
If you're an experienced, talented software engineer
looking to work with top clients, Toptal is probably the
choice for you
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10. UPWORK: WWW.UPWORK.COM
The recently rebranded pairing of oDesk and Elance, the Upwork
platform has been used by over 9 million freelancers. Featuring a new
chat interface optimized to allow customers and freelancers alike to
match and start engagements rapidly, Upwork makes the entire process
as frictionless as possible.
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11. FREELANCER : WWW.FREELANCER.COM
If you have a competitive streak and love proving your skills,
Freelancer features competitions that allow you to compete with
other freelancers to win notoriety and engagements. With millions
of projects posted, winning a contest is a great way to get your
name out there as a top freelancer and attract more clients.
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12. GURU : WWW.GURU.COM
Guru keeps you engaged and makes freelancing easy. The Guru
Work Room is great for keeping track of your commitments and
work hours, and their daily job matches make sure that you stay up
to date with the latest great opportunities. It features many types of
work, including management and finance, legal services, and more.
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13. COLLEGE RECRUITER: WWW.COLLEGERECRUITER.COM
Harnessing the power of our nation's youth, college
students or recent graduates use College Recruiter to find
freelance jobs across a broad range of categories. With
free resume tips helpful blog posts, and more, this
platform is a great way to get a freelancing job that might
turn into a career.
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16. If you are a tech and gaming
enthusiast, chances are that you
have heard a lot about Brian
Wong.
He is a young entrepreneur,
founder and CEO of Kiip. One of
the things you probably don’t
know about Brian is that he started
off like many freelancers. At the
beginning, he used to design ads
using Photoshop and earn money
freelancing for clients.
Successful Freelancers
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17. Kiip has been growing
rapidly over the last two years
while partnering with major
companies, such as, Disney, Carl’s
Jr, Kodak, PepsiCo, Sony,
Guinness World Records and
many more. The startup made
Brian the world’s youngest and
venture-funded entrepreneur and
Mashable named him in its 2010
list of “Top 5 Young Entrepreneurs
to Watch.”
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19. Sahil Lavingia is a young
talented designer and serial
entrepreneur who we all should
watch. He has designed series of
applications and worked for
reputable and renowned brands
in the media industry including
the design of Pinterest, one of
the world’s most popular social
media networks.
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20. World renowned and famous
singers like Girl Talk, Wiz
Khalifa and David Banner
have used this platform to sell
items, and that proves
Gumroad is on the right track
to success.
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22. Alex Mangini is the owner
and founder of kolakube.
He’s a young entrepreneur
who started off delivering
services to clients before
creating snazzy thesis skins
for WordPress. Alex is a
very talented and creative
entrepreneur who
combined his Photoshop
and web designing skills to
create themes that push
the business over the edge.
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23. Before getting more
serious into selling
themes online, the first
product he sold was a
thesis premium skin
used in blogussion.com
(before he sold it) and it
remarkably generated
over $20,000 in sales.
Then, he devoted all his
time and efforts to
building Kokalube.
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25. It doesn’t matter what type of freelancer you are. What
matters is how you value your skills and how you are
capable of turning them into something greater than
yourself. Carol Tice is a great example.
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26. She is the woman behind MakeaLivingWriting and wears
many hats. One of them is mentoring. In her mentorship
program she teaches her students how to generate high
figures income from writing online.
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28. Being a freelancer means a lot of freedom to
plan your own days at work, but it also does
require discipline and planning. Being your
own boss, you need to be good at making the
right rules to succeed.
How To Be Successful Freelancer ?
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29. 1. Make a marketing/business plan
You need to know how you will find clients, you
need a plan in place.
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30. 2. PLAN YOUR DAYS AHEAD
Allow yourself an hour or so
at the beginning of each work
week, or the last hour of the
previous week to plan the
upcoming week. Then it’ll be
easier for you to plan how to
spend your hours to reach the
deadlines you have upcoming.
The more ongoing projects
you have, the more important
this is.
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31. 3. LEARN TO SAY NO!
If you don’t have the time for another client at the
moment, it’s important to be able to realize it and say
no. It is the most fair thing to yourself, your existing
client and the new ones that knock on your door.
Worst case scenario is saying yes to too many and it
having consequences for existing clients. You always
want to make sure you have enough time to give your
current clients the best service you can.
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