Work from Home as a Freelance Designer

Work from home becoming a freelance designer has become a common choice recently in past few years. There are also lots of competitors into bidding from around the world, so getting a project in the freelance market will not be easy. There are freelancers from low level economy country, who are willing to do the projects in the market with a very low price which is ruining the price in the design market. Some of them can deliver a good result, some are just not professional, and usually makes the buyer hate on hiring in the freelance market anymore. Talking about your decision to quit your job and deciding become a freelancer is a big step, and it is a hard make decision to make, so here are tips for freelance designer.

Steps

  1. Create and Publish your portfolio. Choose and display your best work from your portfolio and put it on your personal blog or website portfolio. If you do not have it, then you need to make it, because it is important to show how professional, how credible, and how your style of design
  2. Do Writing in your Blog. Writing is never been easy for some designers, it is another skill that is needed to be learned. The purpose of writing on a blog is just show about yourself, who you are, what you do, and to get more credibility and appearance online and offline, it will also help to increase your personal brand and your visibility.
  3. Research the Competition. Getting the first project in the freelance market is going to be tough, because you are competing your bid against lots of freelancer in the world, as explained, some will ruin the price of the bid. We suggest on you bid on very low price on the first bid to win your first project, at least you will have a job history and a rating for your profile.
  4. Do not Spam. You must read the project description before bidding, do not standardize your proposal, be personal to your buyer, ask when you do not understand the project, and tell them if you have understood and ready to begin the project. Standardizing the proposal is considered as spamming in some freelance market, even though creating a personal proposal will take more time to do.
  5. Give Your Buyer Great Experience. Giving a great experience to your buyer when he is hiring you is a big must, because this thing is the one that will lid you to another great project, and referral, keep your buyer happy, even though sometimes you will do overwork compare what you are going to earn in your first project. When your buyer is happy, they will ask you to do more, and this time is your time to charge them with your real rate

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