1.Make Sure That You Are Running A Business
Don't forget you are running a business! Most of the smart passive income freelancers want to make money in a short time and they only focus on how to pursue high paying funded projects. This would tend to make up a low profile for your smart passive income freelancer life. Organize your finished projects and make a personal presentation portfolio website and fanpage on facebook. Write useful articles and share over the internet on it's blog page. This will make a good impression on your freelancer life and career. According to my experience, I see most of the smart passive income freelancers haven't a website showcasing personal portfolio of products & services. So, how can the bidders begin to trust you? Smart passive income freelance marketplaces are extremely competitive and you can be put out of this freelance market, if you fail every time you low-bid the projects. If you think you are building a real business, prepare the requirements for your business, not only skills and experience but also finished work portfolio, sales, marketing, business card and client support. You will see in the world out there that most of the freelancers have only skills and experience, but they have no marketing strategies, no business network built, no hotline or web presence for client relationship management and support, and no pre-made portfolio of work, so they're constantly looking for a job, rather than running a business.
2.Build Your Own Brand
Potential clients will evaluate your skills and you need to identify your portfolio - brand you. If you think you are running a real business, and you are, you need to build your own brand. Building a personal brand enables you to charge more for your expertise and make you seem experienced and knowledgeable. In portfolio website, your bios, speech, verbiage, content, projects, articles and socialmedia network profiles are important. Tell the customers how your services and products are uniquely for them. Building a brand isn't easy. You need not only, speaking engagements but also need an online presence. Speaking engagement is very important for communication between prospects, clients and your brand, establishing you as a knowledgeable expert. Some will disagree with your services and products. In this case, you need to be clever, re-frame it and give feedback to them. Just say thanks for sharing their comments and reviews. So, be wise and never speak against your audience and their wishes.
3.Keep busy, make yourself work even, if you haven't got a project
If you still haven't got a project, make your own project such as creating you own website, blogging, attending social media events, seeking prospects clients and otherwise, promoting your brand. Making yourself work will result in expanding, updating and upgrading your skills, expertise and experience. Don't think you have no project. Think about in-terms that you are now creating a funded-project, put it out there as such and see how much money you can get to create such a system. Promote your self-making funded-project to social networking and as a result, potential prospects and clients will join you. An important thing you need to know about making your own funded-project, is to see if there is a market for it and what price point the market will bare. That's called marketing research. Some freelancers say, they have no project and never make their own projects, as a result, they fail in the freelancer lifestyle and then, go back to the employee life and again work for companies, on building some one else's dreams.
4. Don't Ignore the Local Market
If you think you are a real smart passive income freelancer, don't ignore the local market. Some smart passive income freelancers haven't experience in the local market, and they want to bid jobs in freelance markets such as freelancer, upwork, truelancer, fiverr, gigs and more. If you are doing it like them, stop this action now. A good freelancer should have a high profile in the local and internet market. Local markets can help you to earn more money more so, than freelance marketplaces, at times. If you are willing to forego, the internet market, make sure that you have enough of a high profile and clout within the local market. No one wants to pay money without knowing about your references, and history. References are everything. So, focus on the local market and be smart. The local market consists of your potential prospect, clients and repeat customers.
5. Learn How to Negotiate and Explain Additional Service
As a smart passive income freelancer, you need to negotiate with your prospects, clients about your project rates and earning potentials. Don't low ball you earning rates. It is also a failure negotiation fact. Everybody want their job to be executed, as better in quality than their competitors and at the same time be competitive. They are not going to pay lowest rates for you. But don't estimate very high earning rate and subsequent bids. Don't cheat your prospects, clients and be honest. Just estimate as close as possible you earning rate and compare the quality and services to your present and past clients. If you are good in negotiation and presentation, you will get the additional project from your clients and be able to up charge 10% when it comes to the actual rate. Client satisfaction is very important and you should provide value added service for your client. Value added services and additional services are not the same. So, you should clearly know the differences. Don't be too verbose with your clients, spell out in outline format what you can do, until you clearly know what your client's needs are. Article where the client is and where that person wants to go and map out a plan for how to get there. Try to know your client's need and requirements, at first-hand. And then, provide what your client to be best, of your ability, and over deliver, under budget - if you can.
Conclusion
An important thing for success as a smart passive income freelancer is treating it as a business. You are the founder and CEO of your brand. Make your own projects, make your own rules, and decisions, you're your own boss. Attend to social events, and build your business network. Promote your business on social media networks and meet your potential prospects and clients, if you can. Take 100% responsibility for your actions and be smart. Never cheat your clients and be honest with your products and services. Your brand is your face. Be a success as a smart passive income freelancer.
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