What Freelancing Skill do you Offer? One of the first things you need to have as you begin your freelancing career is to have one or two skills. If you want to break boundaries in the freelancing business, your skills must be of high interest to the market. Now, I want you to understand that you don’t have to take up all the skills out there. All you need is to empower yourself with one or two and master them. That will be easier, right? Several skills that interest the market include writing, data analysis, software development, UI/UX design, graphic design, and others. Once you have selected your skills, you should select an area of specialization. What do I mean? For instance, in writing, there are blog articles, copywriting, creative writing, website management, email marketing, and others. Selecting one or two of these will help increase your chances of being hired by clients. 

  Create a Freelancing Profile The first thing a client will see when they want to hire you is your profile. Your profile represents you. Whether a client is trying to offer you a job through a freelancing platform or on social media, the first thing that will introduce you is your profile. One of the functions your profile will serve is to help your potential clients understand your abilities. If you want to get major headway from start, set up an excellent profile. Your profile should compel a client to work with you. 

  Build your Portfolio A portfolio contains your experience with the services you offer. Before a client can be sure you can handle his job, he would like to see how much experience you have. Your portfolio can easily help you with this. If you are new to freelancing, creating a portfolio might be strange to you. However, it is not a difficult thing to do. Create your portfolio through either or all of the following: • Create a blog • Create different samples of your work • Volunteer for free jobs or work for low-paying projects. 

  Link-Up with Other Freelancers or Join a Freelancing Community Another important thing you should do is to link up with other freelancers, most especially those in your niche or area of specialization. If you want to be a successful freelancer, you will need to connect to other freelancers. This way, you can learn from them and they can connect you to better opportunities. Your best bet is to join a freelancing community. On a freelancing community like the ones that specialize in your niche, you will meet bigger freelancers who have been in the freelancing game more than you. What else is better than learning from those that are already successful? Join freelancing communities on social media or physically around your locality. 

  Follow the Process and Grow your Freelancing Career Once you have created you’re attractive profile and portfolio and you have joined a freelancing community, your freelancing career is on the right path. What you then need to do is to be patient with yourself as you learn through the process. You may need to start small and then follow the process of growth. Freelancing is all about growth. Likely, you will not make it big immediately. However, as time goes on, you will become better. Clients with higher pay will begin to hire you. At a point, you are likely not to pitch for jobs before clients will offer you their projects. Isn’t that excellent? Jobs will begin to find you. This is the definition of being successful. One of the careers you can be a success at is freelancing. However, you have to grow into it. Follow the basics and success will follow you.