Starting Your Online Freelance Career

By Maryke-Anne Janse Van Rensburg

With technology today, the whole wide world has become a virtual community. You can sit in your study at home and work for someone in the United Kingdom. You can receive projects, finish them and submit them for payment, all from the comfort of your own home!

Everywhere on the internet, everyone is talking about becoming a freelancer and how easy it is. But let me tell you, it is not that easy to get your foot in the door. There are thousands of online freelancers out there, just waiting for work. Some of them work for ridiculously small fees which make it even harder to find work.

Does this sound very negative? I'm sure it does. But, if you start the right way, you could be making a comfortable income in no time at all.

It is important to keep your resume updated. Keep on adding skills to your resume and never stop learning! If you want to shine, you have to learn and keep on learning.

First you have to find your niche in freelancing. Even though there are thousands of different online freelancing jobs available, it really boils down to four categories:

• Data Entry
• Writing
• Personal Assistant
• Website developer

These categories have different niches.

Data Entry can be anything from adding products to websites to adding articles to blogs. In some cases you could be expected to gather information and send a report in excel. If your administration skills are good, this is certainly one way to begin your Online Freelance Career.

Writing is a highly sought after skill. If you have a certain subject you are very knowledgeable about, you could write yourself into a Freelancing career. You will need to know about keywords, long tailed keywords and keyword density. So it would be good to do lots of research about this.

Personal Assistants are also popular Online Freelance careers. Here you will really need excellent administration skills. You can be asked to send out email, answer incoming call, and could even manage someone's diary.

Website Developers are in great demand, especially Freelancers that can work on the Joomla, WordPress, Dolphin and other platforms. You will have to know how these platforms work and how to install the components, modules and plugins.

You should have a basic understanding about SEO and know how to add content to the website. The two most popular platforms are Joomla and WordPress.

As you can see there are many opportunities in Starting your Online Freelance Career and all you will need to do is, find the one that suits the qualifications or skills you already have.

Maryke-Anne J van Rensburg is an online Freelance expert and has made name for herself on various freelance websites.

Through a lot of research she has found that there are certain skills that an online Freelancer should have and she shares this with all. Creating step-by-step manuals and giving tutoring classes via Skype.

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