Freelancers Tips, Tricks And Suggestions. What Would YOU Tell A New Freelancer?

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June 10, 2016, 11:42 am

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Freelancers Tips, Tricks And Suggestions. What Would YOU Tell A New Freelancer?

Most new freelancers becomes one without any true insight regarding the business. They read a lot of amazing success stories that inspires them. That is often why they begin their own freelancer journey. Due to what they've learned and read about and from other successful freelancers. The truth is different from what they've been reading..

It's not easy to become a successful freelancer, no matter who you learn from and no matter what you do. It takes two to tango and in this case, you're on your own. You need the necessary knowledge to gain experience and you'll be using that experience to move on to become an established successful freelancer.

Below I want us to give all new freelancers only one advice each. What to do? What to sell? How to think? etc. Share your experience, tips, secrets and knowledge. Name only one thing each time you reply so this FAQ can be filled with tons of valuable information!

As the starter of this I'll go first:

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't earn money online. You can. Anyone can. It depends on WHAT you provide and obviously.. HOW you do it..

Best Regards,
hitmeasap

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TommyCarey

- Don't get eager for money, you'll fall into traps if you do.
I know when I started I saw something that said "Get paid $350 a day to post ads!" and I paid $197 to learn how to place adsense ads. I want to punch my past self every time I think of this

Do you research before buying something, especially online courses to learn IM. You can most likely learn everything you need, for free, on a big forum or popular IM blog.

- Don't let people widdle you down for a lower payment.
So many of my "clients" wanted to get me down to a lower price. I always tell them "Sure! But I'm removing this, that and those if we reduce your payment." If they're worth it, people will buy.

- Don't advertise something you're not.
If you sell SEO, then sell SEO. Don't add on a service just because a client wants it. Learn new services on your own, don't use clients websites as test subjects. I've seen so many people put up a website for "Buy Twitter Followers" and such, but they had no clue how to do it and learned along the way. This only hurt them since they got negative reviews right at the start. Learn a system, then sell it. Or find someone selling a great service at a fraction of the price and outsource the work to them if they're reliable

- Be patient!
Don't set up a website overnight and think you'll make $1,000 tomorrow. It takes time to establish a good client base, if you offer a great service, they'll keep coming back ;) My first couple of years in Internet Marketing I didn't make much money. It's probably because I had a normal 9-5 and could only spend a couple hours online before I fell asleep at my keyboard lol. After I got laid off I was doing 16 hours a day and puling in a good amount of cash, but those were the glory days when I could spend $0.25 per click on an SEO related keyword and make $10 on it. Not bad, but not anymore

- Don't get complacent
Always be evolving and venturing out to find new revenue streams. So many times have I seen people in this industry get stuck on one website because it was making good money and then everything goes south and now they can't make anything online. They have to rely on their previous earnings to stay afloat and if they don't think of something before the well runs dry, they're screwed. Set up one website, get it profitable and somewhat automated with scripts or virtual assistants, then set up a second revenue stream and so on. I have about 20 websites up an running right now, all of them aren't profitable, but I hope they will be within the next year

[u][b][size=160]- Don't get eager for money, you'll fall into traps if you do.[/size][/b][/u] I know when I started I saw something that said "Get paid $350 a day to post ads!" and I paid $197 to learn how to place adsense ads. I want to punch my past self every time I think of this :( Do you research before buying something, especially online courses to learn IM. You can most likely learn everything you need, for free, on a big forum or popular IM blog. [u][b][size=160]- Don't let people widdle you down for a lower payment.[/size][/b][/u] So many of my "clients" wanted to get me down to a lower price. I always tell them "Sure! But I'm removing this, that and those if we reduce your payment." If they're worth it, people will buy. [u][b][size=160]- Don't advertise something you're not. [/size][/b][/u] If you sell SEO, then sell SEO. Don't add on a service just because a client wants it. Learn new services on your own, don't use clients websites as test subjects. I've seen so many people put up a website for "Buy Twitter Followers" and such, but they had no clue how to do it and learned along the way. This only hurt them since they got negative reviews right at the start. Learn a system, then sell it. Or find someone selling a great service at a fraction of the price and outsource the work to them if they're reliable :D [size=160][u][b]- Be patient![/b][/u][/size] Don't set up a website overnight and think you'll make $1,000 tomorrow. It takes time to establish a good client base, if you offer a great service, they'll keep coming back ;) My first couple of years in Internet Marketing I didn't make much money. It's probably because I had a normal 9-5 and could only spend a couple hours online before I fell asleep at my keyboard lol. After I got laid off I was doing 16 hours a day and puling in a good amount of cash, but those were the glory days when I could spend $0.25 per click on an SEO related keyword and make $10 on it. Not bad, but not anymore :( [u][b][size=160]- Don't get complacent[/size][/b][/u] Always be evolving and venturing out to find new revenue streams. So many times have I seen people in this industry get stuck on one website because it was making good money and then everything goes south and now they can't make anything online. They have to rely on their previous earnings to stay afloat and if they don't think of something before the well runs dry, they're screwed. Set up one website, get it profitable and somewhat automated with scripts or virtual assistants, then set up a second revenue stream and so on. I have about 20 websites up an running right now, all of them aren't profitable, but I hope they will be within the next year :)

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