 How to earn more money freelancing even if you're a total beginner. Hey, have you wanted to earn more money as a freelancer? Maybe you're already an experienced freelancer and you want to increase the amount of money you're making or maybe you're just starting. Maybe you haven't freelanced before and you want to know how to do it. Well, freelancing is a great way to make money and in this video I'm going to show you how to maximize the amount of money you can make as a freelancer and we're starting right now. Have you ever wondered if you could make it as a freelancer? I'm going to tell you the answer is yes. Most exclusively yes. They are looking for freelancers in so many different areas now from data entry to programming to whatever it is and you're going to find that if you go on one of these sites like five or you go on one of these sites like Upwork or you start performing work and you do a good job, I mean you got to do a good job of course, you're going to get reviews and as you get reviews and you get more and more reviews, you're going to get more and more jobs and after a while it will be a backup of jobs because people are hiring people online now as freelancers in record numbers. I mean they never considered it before and now they realize what a good deal it is. I mean if I want to hire somebody to build my website and I have a business and I say well I'm going to hire a full-time web developer and I'm going to pay them $100,000 a year, I've got to pay that person all year long whether they're working on websites or not but I can go to a freelancer site and I can say I want to spend $2,000 and have a website built and save myself $98,000 well that's a pretty good deal so what I'd like to do is give you some steps that you can use to increase your amount of money that you earn on these freelance sites. Number one, pick a niche, pick a niche and specialize. Now you may think to yourself JR if I go on there and I can do all kinds of different jobs I'm gonna make more money. You actually won't because you're not specialized. I know myself when I'm hiring somebody on any of these sites and I hire a lot of people I want somebody who's really good at that one thing okay so if I'm hiring somebody to work on let's say our Magento site I want a person who is a Magento expert I don't want somebody who can work on every single platform and does SEO and also does designs and does business cards and does logos I don't want that matter of fact I won't hire somebody like that if they have all those things listed I know that they're really not an expert in anything and when you pick a niche and you concentrate on that one particular niche you are seen as an expert to the people who hire these people and I know this speaking from my experience because I hire people in these areas. Number two get clear on your service offerings the more clear you can be on what you do and what you charge the better off you are. Now if you go to something like Fiverr you pretty much have to put exactly you know what you do and what you charge for those services but when you get it as something like Upwork or Freelancer.com it becomes a little bit more gray. My suggestion to you is have some packages set up maybe you develop websites for people and you could say a basic 10 page website is $1,495 you have to supply the content because what happens is a lot of people who go on these sites to hire people they don't know really how much they should pay they don't know what they're going to get for that and if they can go to somebody who looks like an expert who has all this spelled out and exactly what it cost they're much more likely to go with somebody who has some predetermined pricing and list of work that they're going to do then somebody who says I don't know let me see the job how many hours is it goes back and forth and all that good stuff when you do that it puts a lot of stress on the person who's hiring because they don't necessarily know you know what they should be paying you they don't know what should be done because they don't know how to do it that's why they're on the site that's why they're on the site hiring somebody else so you got to keep that in mind. Number three decide what your ideal client looks like so you know are you going after really large corporations are you going after individual businesses are you going out with people who just starting out are you doing one-off jobs for people whether you'll you know do logos and designs and stuff like that decide who you want to work with now I think this is super important because you do have to work with them okay you're going to have to have communication with these people and there's nothing worse than saying you know I want to work with you know individual business owners and you're getting a job with a big corporation where you have to go through the level of marketing and the vice president the president to make a decision when a job that you you only doing for say $195 you don't have to go through all that so understand that you've got to decide who your ideal client is you're going to be much happier in doing so and also keep in mind if you're deciding on your ideal client you're going to know what you want from them what what what information you're going to want from them what knowledge you're going to want from them what time frames all these different things so it's really important to decide who your client is going to be in advance number four create a high quality portfolio site man I can't impress this upon you enough most people who hire on these freelance sites the first thing they do is look at your portfolio I know it's the first thing I do I've hired people for voiceovers on telephones I've hired people for working on web so I've hired people for all kinds of different things but the first thing I almost always do well I'd say second thing is look at the portfolio the first thing is I look at their ratings but I look at their portfolio I look to see what they've done and you know even the person that I hired to do our voice recordings on her telephones at work you know I listen to her voice I listen to her do different types of voices I said is that the kind of image I want to present to my customers when they call in so that was something else I did I listen to her portfolio she had a portfolio of different recordings I do the same thing if somebody's working on a website I look at the portfolio what kind of websites did they build what do they look like super important that you have a great portfolio that will get you more business than probably anything you can do number five start freelancing before you quit your day job now you may have you know very starry eyes and you say well you know what I'm going to go make a quarter million dollars as a freelancer you may you may not I know when I started my business I made sure I had income before I quit my job because I still had to pay the bills okay you don't want to be a freelancer that's living in a tent in downtown LA that's not what you want to do so what you want to do is start doing this and figure out the nuances of it figure out the kind of customers you're going to have get some money rolling in have some money in the bank don't just quit your job become a freelancer and I'm not to say you can't do that but I just think it's advisable that you get something going you have an established client base you have an established portfolio you have all these things that are ready and in place long before you quit your job number six and this is one of the best ways to earn top dollar level up your skills I mean be really really really good at what you do you may be good at doing websites but are you good at doing responsive websites so you do good at doing websites to get good conversions are you good at doing websites that load fast whatever your skill is whatever you're trying to do as far as a freelancer make sure you're really super good at it take some courses I mean there's courses on everything out there now and you can become an expert by just taking some of these courses but make sure you really level up your skill level number seven build your credibility super important that you do this guys super super important that you do this and what I mean by that is do something other than jobs to increase your credibility you can speak you can do interviews you could write ebooks you could produce a youtube channel you know I'll give you an example of the youtube channel this is a youtube channel okay I'm teaching you on youtube right now I'm teaching you how to make money online and I have you know close to 800 videos on the subject so when somebody says you know what do you know about making money online I go well there's 800 videos that says I do know what I'm doing there's a business where I've sold millions of dollars of products that says I do know what I'm doing when people see these credentials that you've created it gives credibility they look at it and they go well the person knows what they're doing they've done other stuff other than just charging people for services they've proven it by coming out with all these other things that ebooks a great thing you can do an ebook pretty quick it can be 20 30 pages long but if you write an ebook on best practices of SEO or top ways to get subscribers to your youtube channel you know the nine things you have to do to get subscribers to youtube channel and you're actually doing freelance work for youtubers they're going to look at that and go well this person knows what they're doing so make sure you do something along those lines to improve your credibility now I alluded to this a little earlier but number eight is determine your pricing know what your worth is okay in the beginning you're going to be afraid to charge much money you just are okay that's just the way it is rarely do people say I want to charge $2,000 an hour that's what I'm worth I wouldn't have done that matter of fact I didn't do that but that was the last job I did was $2,000 an hour and initially when I was going to do some consulting for people I was like should I charge $97 $197 and I think I had settled on $497 a month and you got a couple phone calls a month you know two hours a week or something like that then I went to like a thousand and then 1500 and then 2500 then 4500 and one of my last jobs it was 60 grand for 30 let's see 60 90 days 60 grand so it came out to basically $2,000 an hour and that was a lot of money and I don't want to do that I found out I don't like doing that I don't like doing that because usually when you're doing consulting one-on-one like that the person that you're giving them information to won't always do what you want and that drove me crazy now some people did but I wanted a hundred percent of people to do what I told them to do and they don't so that drove me crazy but the point was I could go from $97 to $2,000 because all I did was increase what I was charging because I had more people that wanted to do it interesting concept number nine leverage your network for introductions you probably know somebody in your field of expertise right now you need to start talking to those people you need to start letting them know hey I started this youtube channel I started this website I'm doing consulting on HR okay so any companies that are having any HR issues you know I'm their person I can go in for two hours I can actually you know work for them as a freelancer you know 10 hours a month or whatever it is but start letting everybody know what you're doing I think a lot of people don't do this because they're afraid that it won't work out and they're going to look bad so many of our decisions are made by what we're afraid what people are going to think and it's the silliest thing in the world you don't need to worry about that what you need to worry about is making money and the best way to do that is just use your network okay let them know what's going on let them know that you can help and let them know that you're charging for your services number 10 get good at sales oh the dreaded s word the dreaded s word sales I don't want to sell anybody anything I'm too honest for that it's so tired of hearing that selling is probably one of the best skills in the world because think about selling what what is selling selling is getting people to believe your ideas and if your ideas are good and they're you know the right thing and they're going to help people out why wouldn't you want to sell those ideas to somebody why wouldn't you want to help somebody out I mean you you sell your kids or not running out in the street right you sell your kids on exercise and eating healthy right you sell them on that okay a preacher or a priest or you know emom or whoever they are is trying to sell their congregation whatever you want to call it on their ideas about you know God okay and you know that whatever you believe there is what you believe there but the point is everybody's selling okay and if you don't have that skill to sell no matter how good your services are it won't be worthwhile okay because you know you could have the best product in the world but if you if you're terrible at selling nobody's going to know it's the best product nobody going to know that it's going to help them out it's going to benefit them so you must must must get good at sales now what can you do if you're not good at sales you can get good at sales right you can just learn how to get good at sales there's plenty of videos on youtube I have videos on my channel just look up sales you're going to find a lot of videos on sales my whole background was on sales and quite honestly you can't sell something to somebody if they don't want to buy you can't the only thing you can do is get people to want to buy your product and you can do that with good sales techniques by pointing out features and benefits and showing them how they can benefit and you know solve their pain whatever their pain is number 11 uh post frequently post frequently and that can be a blog form where you write stuff that can be a video form like what i'm doing right now i do uh five videos a week on this channel plus a live one on saturday and that's pretty frequent it's not as frequent as some people i mean i know some people do four or five videos a day but it's it's frequent for me okay i don't do a video every single day what i do is like what i'm doing today actually i'm recording 13 videos and those will last me for a couple weeks with a little bit of cushion so you can do all of your content in one day you can have a content day every two weeks maybe you write a whole bunch of articles in one day and then you know you put out two articles a week or three articles a week or two videos a week or three videos a week but as you do that your bank of knowledge builds and builds and builds and as it builds so does your credibility number 12 collaborate collaborate find other people who are in your industry who do something similar to you and offer to interview them and have them interview me i just did one recently uh with john christani and uh he wanted to be interviewed so i interviewed him and i wanted to be interviewed so he interviewed me so what happens is we both ended up with two videos for a channel so that other people could see that we collaborate with other people and sometimes that uh credibility by association helps you know right you have that celebrity status because you're with a celebrity um and who's to say what a celebrity is nowadays i don't i don't know you know there are people who do makeup tutorials i'm not making fun of those but some of those people are celebrities they have their own makeup lines they make millions of dollars you have people who are you know cooking eggs in a frying pan and they're celebrities it it doesn't matter nowadays so if you want to be a celebrity you got to act like one now if you're if you're just starting out sure um you're going to feel like you know you're nobody you don't have a right and all that but everybody has a right everybody has a right as soon as you turn around that attitude that you know i do have a right and i do have knowledge and i i am helpful to people and i can help people as soon as you do all those things you're going to find your credibility is going to go up and so is your income you see i understand freelancing only thing that means is that you work for a whole bunch of different people you don't just work for one person and the cool thing about freelancing is that i really like is that you can fire your boss you can fire your boss okay because you can always get another boss you can always get another company you can always get another individual you can always get another job because there's millions of them out there okay there's no shortage of it now i'm not saying that you should be rude to anybody i'm not saying that you should blow people off i'm just saying if there's a situation and it doesn't match with what you want in life and the type of money you want to earn the type of job you want to do you 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