How to Be a Successful Online Freelancer -Your Online Freelancing Guide to Making Money at Home in the Lousy Economic

How to Be a Successful Online Freelancer

-Your Online Freelancing Guide to Making Money at Home in the Lousy Economic

By Angie T. Lee

Copyright 2012 Angie T. Lee

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Table of Contents

Introduction to Online Freelancing

Your Skillsets

List Your Skills

Check Your Skills with a Test

Acquire New Skills

Seize the Day

Getting Started

Build Your Portfolio

Create Your Freelance Site Accounts

Other Potential Work Sites

Increase Your Rates over Time

Always Focus On the Future

Now, Get Jobs!

Who Are Your Clients?

How to Write Bids

Managing Projects

Growing as a Business

About the Author

Disclaimer

Introduction to Online Freelancing

You’ve probably seen plenty of advertisements about how to make money on the internet. However, for the most part, people’s notion of how to make money online boils down to:

•Affiliate marketing

•Product creation

•Auction routes

Want to learn some other means to finding honest, steady work that helps pay your bills, supplements your income, or even gets you out of that office job and into your own, work-at-home opportunity?

The truth is, more people than ever are finding the Internet to be their ideal workplace. They have found a way to say, Take this job … to the 9-5 cubical farm grind and start working fulltime for themselves. We’re talking about freelancing, a common practice in countries around the globe. In the United States alone, more than 40 million American workers reported at least some freelancing income in 2009. That represents a huge increase from just 5 years ago, and much of it is because of the Internet.

Think about it, how almost all content creation has gone digital in recent years. Even traditional media such as newspapers, TV stations, and radio are publishing on the Internet, with the help of highly specialized content providers.

That’s why, especially in our current bear economy, it’s important to know exactly what income-generating options you have. If you are a writer, designer, programmer, or someone who really doesn’t enjoy his/her job and knows you have creative skills to offer online - the world of online freelancing may be for you.

I’ve contended for years that people can start online freelance careers without some of the requirements that may hold you back in the brick-and-mortar business, a college education, real world work experience, and references. In fact, all you need is persistence and an understanding of the system. Once you establish your presence in the system that has an endless appetite for content, you’ll find it increasingly easy to make money,