1.You’ll need self-discipline
In freelancing , it’s so important to give it your all and work late nights. But what those late nights really do is make you so tired that getting up in the morning is difficult.If you sleep and wake up late, your entire day gets difficult. Instead of working through the morning, you’re working through the night.
2.You must learn to negotiate
In a full time work you paid a fixed salary each month-with full year, medical insurance, paid leave, and other things. In freelancing your earnings are directly dependent on your rates and timing of your work hours and there are no perks in freelancing.
So if you want to be succeed, you need to be able to negotiate reasonable freelancing rates for yourself. There’s nothing wrong with starting out with low rates – as long as you steadily raise them as you gain a reputation for yourself and are always improving your skills to deserve higher pay.
Failure in negotiate rates means that you’ll be stuck with low rates and nobody else is going to help you raise your rates.
Tip for raising rates: always quote a rate that is higher for your new clients compared to your present clients and work your way up as you get more projects for freelancing.
3.You have to deal with clients!
When interacting with clients you have to be direct, and helpful in your communications with them. There’s no room for exasperation or sarcasm even when they are horrid to work with. Your client is now your boss and you have to treat them like one assume like this and work with them.
4.You must have extra savings
Before you leave your full-time job, start freelancing on the side. It’ll help you gauge your chances of success and when you do switch to freelancing, you’ll have some clients already.
But here’s the catch. After a while, you may feel confident that their payments can keep you afloat, but don’t expect when you do go full-time with freelancing that you’ll have the same clients beating down your door with work.
5.You must know what’s trending
If you are a freelancer, you’ll need to stay on top high of the trends in your industry to stay ahead of the game. It doesn’t mean you waste time trying out everything, but figure out which trends affect you directly and how you can use them to your advantage.
6.You mustn’t let emotions take over
Freelancing give you sometimes a buffer against irate clients, unreasonable demands, and rejections. Instead of hearing the news from your boss , you’ll be hearing it directly from the client.
Whether it’s a rejection , an unreasonable demand, or just a disgruntled client, you’ll need to handle the situation with tact.
Keep your emotions in check and instead of going on the offensive, do damage control. Clients are your life changer, you can’t afford to alienate them.