Three Unique Aspects of Freelance Career   by Trafficlancer

Freelancing career nowadays is very lucrative and worth while. You can either understand the various aspects, nuances and make a successful career out of this money-spinning field or strike a hasty retreat after making your feet wet once. As an insider, I strongly recommend you to understand the following three major aspects of freelance career in order to explore and conquer this most rewarding vicinity.

Tangibility:

Mark my words. Nothing is intangible in a freelance career. The field is crawling with statistics of every imaginable aspect. If you are a copywriter, you may be bombarded with how many copyscape matches detected with your content. If you are doing data entry, you may be showered with what is the percentage of accuracy your final outcome resulted. Take any attribute or skill. Numbers, percentages and statistics will chase you until you are exhausted and give up.

The Way Out

Turn the tables on to the opponent. Check your final draft, coding, creative banner or a web design. List out all tangible elements and present them to the Buyer in a professional way. Give them before they ask you. Check your content with the copyscape and make it crawl under the filter. Foresee the elements which are going to be checked by the Buyer. Do not give the Buyer a chance to intimidate you with statistics. Maximize the positive elements and wipe out undesirable elements before submitting your final draft. Remember. Freelance career is entirely tangible and if you are not prepared, the statistics will haunt you before you could see your check.

Simultaneity

Believe me. Every task you do in freelance career is simultaneous in nature and nobody have all the time in this world to wait for ever, for you to respond. Browsing for the projects, Project invitations in your inbox, bidding, and personal message board communications, replies, more enquiries, more assurances, selection by the buyer, acceptance by the provider, Escrow payment, release of the project instructions, doubts and clarifications, first draft or first batch of service, final draft, scrutiny, satisfaction and acceptance and release of the Escrow payment. Every task and element mentioned here happens simultaneously. In real time and on-line. Not all at once. But as chain of events.

The Solution

Don't you ever be the reason for the slash of this chain reaction. Always be proactive and expect what is next. Over respond to every event. Do not procrastinate or put off even a minor task. Remember. You can not store your services in a rack and deliver it in a later date or stage. Freelancing is a simultaneous career.

Let me give you a fine example. One day while I was sleepily browsing the project posts, I accidentally clicked the refresh button and the page refreshed. A new project post appeared at the top and I know that it was posted only a few seconds before. I immediately applied via a two liner bid, and to my surprise, I got a PMB message instantaneously.

Knowing that the Buyer is now before the monitor, I answered with a link to my Portfolio of published samples. Exactly after one hundred and eighty seconds, I got an appreciation note and a choice of accepting or rejecting the project. With shivering forefinger, I clicked the left side button of my mouse, placing the pointer on the embosomed 'I Accept' VB Button in the interface website.

I won a project which goes on for a period of nine months, in a matter of SEVEN minutes! I am guilty in a weird way that I didn't give my fellow freelancers a fair chance to bid at all. The point is, a successful freelance career is having a simultaneity aspect entwined in every task you do.

Heterogeneity

No. Not everybody in this globe could translate a book in mandarin to English. Even in your area of interest and skill, you may not be able to apply for all the projects that are posted. 95% of the bids goes to the recycle bin and never even attracts an enquiry. Not everybody in the copywriting freelance career can write for the American audience. Only a fraction of people in this world can design an ad banner in the language Tamil. Freelance career is extremely heterogeneous in nature. Can't help it. In the ocean of freelance open projects, your fish may be swimming in a remote dark corner.

The Obvious Way Out

Know your limits. Wait for the perfect opportunity. Your place, first language and country are equally important to your skills and experience. Apply and accept projects according to the expectations of the Buyer. Fulfill them in entirety. Have awareness of not only what projects to accept, but to deny as well. Remember. The freelance career is highly heterogeneous.

Any newbie can confidently make a career out of freelancing, after analyzing the three major aspects explained above. All the very best.

About the Author

The author of this article is known as Trafficlancer in the freelancer's domain. He drives traffic by writing SEO content for his clients. Many more useful articles by this author is available at www.freewebs.com/articlelancer

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