24 Freelancing Lessons I Wish I knew Before 2023

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The article will tell you what you should have before you began your Marathon.

1. Having a skill which is valuable in the market.Make sure it has a demand. It’s no use if there’s no demand for skill.
2. Marketing your skill is equally important as to having one skill. If don’t market yourself then no body else will.
3. Find market of your skill. Start networking there.
4. Selling your services and products even if you’re a beginner is better approach. You’ll learn more if you have hands on experience early on.
5. Building relationships with your Industry leaders , people aiming for the same game and newbies along the way. Makes you have a sense of community who might have your back in future.Just get in their radar through your work or for your work.
6. Outreaching will take you places when you don’t have any leads. Always outreach even if you’re not short on clients.
7. Build email subscription that will have benefits in the long run.
8. Distribution is really important in this game.
9. Treat your social media as a your virtual portfolio and act as a landing pages.

9. Always Update your profile whether its a LinkedIn one , twitter or fiver and upwork. Updating makes your work

10. Create user based content or product. There’s no use if people don’t find your product useful.

11. Offer services to people in the form of packages. You can include one or two services like game development services and designing services. Offer free services to people at start.Then, move to paid ones.

12. Send cold emails to people for business enquiry.

13. Solve problems for people of your industry.

14.Nothing is earned in your in your first 3 months other then experience and learnings.

15. If you’re new start with quantity.

16. If you’re at an intermediate level make consistency your friend.

17. If you’re have some experience in the game then stick with quality.

18. Better Strategy would be a balance between consistency+ quantity and quality.

18. Instead of planning and thinking. Start doing cause this will bring instant results.

19. Use LinkedIn to your full advantage. Otherwise, it’s will remain like this only.

20. Consistency is a rock for all your work.

21.Tweak your Strategy of you feel their has not been improvement in past 4 weeks.

22. Health and sleep are your maintenance activities to keep you ahead in life. Don’t compromise on them if you want to stay in the game.

23. Stay in the game longer until you’re familiar with all the ropes of your work and you have developed skills , experience and knowledge to overcome the challenges thrown at you. You’ll be happier if not in the present then maybe in future you’ll be satisfied.

24. Your best defence is research against changing tide. Learn if you have to or otherwise you’ll be forced to learn things.
25. Find job boards for remote work. Check them out once in a while.

These was the set of compiled list of things you should know when you start freelancing or any other skill you can refer to while you do your research.