What is freelancing? Freelancing Career Guidelines!

Freelancing is an independent job or independent profession. That's why many people think that if you can earn money through freelancing at home without working under someone else, why should you only work under someone else?

If you want to know more about freelancing, then reading today's post will clear all your ideas about it.

We will discuss the following topics in detail about freelancing in today's post-

1. What is freelancing?
2. What is a Freelancer?
3. What are the benefits of freelancing?
4. What are the disadvantages of freelancing?
5. How much money can be earned by freelancing?
6. How do I build a freelancing career?
7. How to learn to freelance?
8. How to start freelancing?
9. How do I get a job in the freelancing market?
10. How do I understand the remuneration?

In order to know the details of freelancing or before building a freelancing career, you must have a clear idea about all the above.

What is freelancing?

Freelancing is the process of making money by reaching out to clients online by concluding work contracts with different clients online from home.

Usually, a person submits his CV to get a job in a company after graduation. After looking at the CV and at the end of the interview, the company hires him if it deems him eligible. The person then receives a fixed salary at a monthly rate by doing regular routine work in the company from 10 am to 5 pm.

In the same way that freelancing is done, a person applies for jobs in various online freelancing marketplaces in order to get a job in a subject that he has experience in or that he can work well in. The client then verifies the suitability of his work and if he deems it appropriate, hires him to do the job. This is why freelancing is called a type of job.

However, there are many differences between a normal job and a freelancing job. Normally any job has to be done at the scheduled time every day. Otherwise, you will not be able to hold your job. At the same time, if you can't do the job properly, sometimes you have to be reprimanded by the boss.

But in the case of a freelancing career, there are no such set rules. Here you can work independently. You can work when your mind wants, and you can refrain from work if your mind does not want to. This is why freelancing is called a free profession and most people prefer to do freelancing.

But if you want to be successful in your freelancing career, you need to work hard. Because if you work in freelancing with the attitude of working independently or whenever you want, you will never be a good freelancer. The more time you spend in the freelancing marketplace and the more regular contact you have with clients, the more you can earn by freelancing. At the same time, if you maintain time like a normal job without working independently, the client will feel more comfortable working with you.

How do freelancers work?

Understanding how freelancers work or how freelancers get jobs will make it clearer to you what freelancing is all about.

Suppose you are a freelancer and I have a garments company. Most people don’t know anything about my company because my company is new. So I want to create a website called My Garments so that people can know about my company through that website.

In this case, creating a website will require many types of materials. First of all, a logo must be made in the name of Garments. Then you need to create a website with the company name with the logo. At the same time, in order for the website to be seen by people by searching on Google, the SEO of the website has to be done. Then I will need a logo designer, a web designer, and an SEO expert to create my company's website.

Now I am looking for a good quality logo designer in various freelancing marketplaces to create my company's website. To find a logo designer I will do a post in the freelancing market with a description of my logo design. After seeing the post, various freelancers will apply to get the job done. By looking at the profiles of those who will apply, I will contact the person who I think is a good quality logo designer.

Then I will give the job to the logo designer after discussing how many dollars it will work, how it will work, how long it will take to work, etc. Then when he submits the work to me, I will pay him.

Moreover, when you work regularly in different freelancing marketplaces, you will automatically become acquainted with different people and businesses, so different clients will contact you directly through your profile to get their work done. When you can be a freelancer of this level, earning lakhs of rupees a month by freelancing will not matter to you. Basically, this is how a freelancer works online and earns money sitting at home.

What is Freelancing in simple language?

Freelancing is the process of earning money by working online through contracts with various individuals and organizations using one's talents and experience.

Moreover, from the above discussion, it is also understood that although freelancing is a free profession, there is no opportunity to work freely in order to improve one's position in freelancing and earn more money. The more time and effort a freelancer can spend in different freelancing marketplaces, the more money that freelancer can earn by freelancing. And those who take freelancing as a free profession and work independently will never succeed in freelancing.

What are the benefits of freelancing?

The biggest advantage of freelancing is that there is freedom here. There is no responsibility for the work and there is no chance for the boss to complain.

• It is possible to earn a lot more money than a normal job.
• There is no work limit. The more work, the more money.
• Multiple payments per month are available. Which is not possible with any offline job.
• It is possible to earn more money by spending less time.
• Work can be done sitting at home. No office is required.
• No investment is required.

What are the disadvantages of freelancing?

Just as there is a downside to everything you do, there are some downsides to freelancing. So before entering a freelancing career, it is good to know the disadvantages of freelancing. If you do not succeed in entering a freelancing career without knowing the reason, you may fall into financial difficulties.

The Difficulties of Freelancing:

• There is no security or guarantee of work.
•  Sometimes it will happen, you will not get a job for the whole month.
• Since most people do not understand the subject of freelancing, they do not consider freelancing a respectable job.
• You have to do your own work. There is no opportunity to do it with others.
• There are some difficulties with payment in our country.
• There is no opportunity to communicate directly with the clients.

How much money can be earned by freelancing?

How much money you can earn by freelancing will depend on your work skills. The better the quality of your work, the more jobs you will get in the freelancing market and the more jobs you get, the more money you will be able to earn. Here you need to increase the amount of money you can earn through work by proving your qualifications with skills.

Freelancers usually earn money through contracts in hours, days, and weeks. In this case, the better the position in the freelancing market, the more work he can get and earn more money.

As you can see in the picture above, according to the 2019 report, Bangladesh is in the 7th position in freelancing. Our neighbor India is only 2% ahead of Bangladesh. Our country has about 26% of the freelancers in the world. Moreover, our neighboring country Pakistan is in the 4th position in the freelancing career. I believe that by 2020, Bangladesh will move closer to Pakistan in its freelancing career.

How to start freelancing?

You already know that freelancing can be used to earn money online from home. So to do freelancing online you need to have a computer or laptop and internet connection.

Then the most important thing that will be needed for freelancing is that you have to have the skill to work on anyone subject. Now you ask yourself, what work can you do well, which you can do very easily if someone asks you to do it. If you have the experience, skills, and desire to work in any job, you can earn a smart amount of income by freelancing. You can't do freelancing if you don't have skills in any subject.

If you do not have experience in any subject, then you need to learn a job well first. When it comes to job learning, I would say that you must learn the job that you are interested in doing and the job that you think you can easily learn. In this case, spend 6 months to 1 year to learn the job.

Last word: To be a successful freelancer you must work with skill.