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Although there is much competition in the freelance marketplaces, as the majority of the workforce is diverting to work from home, still, there are enough opportunities for newbie’s to coagulate their feet in the era of the digital world,
In this ultimate guide
I would like to share freelancer jobs, the pros and cons of freelancing, the best freelancing sites, queries about freelancing, and their best possible answers along with the most demanding skills, their utilization, and popular ways to make money online.
What are the freelancer jobs you can do as a student?
How much can you earn from freelancing?
What are the pros and cons of freelancing?
· What are the freelancer jobs you can do as a student.
There are plenty of services one can utilize at online marketplaces, but most of them depend on your skills and expertise, here is the detailed guide for newbies, especially students who can take benefits.
· Content writing
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Writing is probably the most recommended type of work for those, wondering to start freelancing for the first time. Especially those studying essay-based degrees and spend most of their time writing anyway.
Freelance jobs in this category are highly in demand, you could be asked to prepare an essay for a lazy student, create and post-Facebook, Twitter status for a busy businessman, to write a short story or product disruption for an online store,
Even you can create blogs and articles for websites, newspapers, and magazines, plus you can complete online assignments for other students and charge them a good amount of, money online in Pakistan
While trying your hand in this field you should be aware of some websites, newspaper owners. Even some big names take advantage of your student status and expect you to work for them for free. So before agreeing to take any project ask them complete project details and budget fixed or rates per hour.
· Translation
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If you are fluent in some international languages, you can earn a decent amount of money from this skill too. Plus from some languages, you can earn more than in others.
· Graphics Designing
This field is the most challenging and require top skills and creativity to meet the demand of the Client, not only do you need to own some of the world’s best industry-standard software, but you should be top skilled and creative to use it with its full potential,
In this category, you can create animated videos, cartoon ads, to appear in newspapers or magazines, or PowerPoint presentations in seminars, etc.
Being markets most demanding category graphics designing helps, earning money, for service seller; you will not only just need to be fully skilled and creative, but meet all the desired qualities of the freelance graphic designer.
Writing and designing books.
Students are always good at writing and research, this skill can be beneficial to boost you are earning online, this service is hugely in demand in online market places by the buyers and the sellers,
Other than this, you can create your own eBooks and sell them at online stores link Amazon kindle. Thus the key to success is how you are utilizing your expertise.
· Programming and IT
Whenever any new app, website, software, is launched a programmer, or IT expert is tasked to build and make it easy to use for common customers, in fact, every IT project happens after the lines and lines of coding work.
As well as this may offer you, IT support to giant organizations, or even small businesses can help websites for SEO services to make them searchable and ranked by the search engines so that more and more customers can reach them, you can also manage their databases, etc
This service will make you able to, make money, in very good amount, if you need to learn this skill in Pakistan you can take advantage of Digiskills. pk for free courses sponsored by the ministry of IT.
·Freelance victual assistant
As a virtual assistant service provider, your role in the industry will be to prepare transcripts, listen to important calls, plan the buyer’s schedule, and arrange travel tickets, or do research for his or her reference. This job needs great attention to detail, good timekeeping skills.
This industry has a lot of competition, but sure with great skills, you can make a good amount of money, even if you work, part-time.
How much does a freelancer earn from freelancing?
Being a freelancer you will find two types of projects. By fixed price, by per hour rate, as per the competition status where remote jobs are available to the worker living around the globe, there are fewer chances to get a job with high tag rats of your services,
Therefore to stand out of the crowd and earn the money you deserve you should have a strong grip on your application,
If you have advanced skills, just highlight them to potential clients. As a result, you may be able to demand high rates for your services.
Knowing all this you still have to be realistic about the money you could earn from freelancing. But having a good reputation in online markets would definitely help you more jobs than others.
For the safety of your earnings, you should fully follow the instructions given by the website you are working with, make sure to avoid clients who want to pay you outside the website. Otherwise, you could be banned from the website to find new jobs.
Here are some best freelancing websites
· Fiverr.com
Fiverr is one of the best marketplaces that provide thousands of jobs of different categories round the clock to freelancers; you just simply need to register on the website. And create gigs for your services; you can create up to 7 gigs of your services with the free version of subscription,
The biggest advantage of this site is that it lets you create your gigs (a gig is a way to offer your service proposal) in any field.
Up work came into being by the merger of two great market places Elance and odesk in 2014. Having millions of registered freelancers and clients. At this site,
freelancers can find any type of jobs, either paid by the hour or large projects,
On this website, freelancers can list, up to 20 of their skills after registration. To find a job, a freelancer has to set up his profile and look for jobs that meet his skills.
There are more sites like the above one's, on the web, providing a large number of job opportunities, what you need is, to polish your skills and find a job to make money,
What are the pros and cons of freelancing?
Working from home is not as easy as it seems. Every advantage has its own consequences.
Let’s face some of the pros and cons of freelancing.
· Pros
· By working from home you can pick your time for work and studies.
· You can take a break any time and can keep a balanced lifestyle.
· No one can rule you, you are free of your boss’s screaming.
· You can work with the clients, round the world,
· Take a break and go out of your nest, any time as you feel tired,
· With a good reputation, you can make a lot of money, the opportunities to earn money, are unlimited.
· Cons
- It is neither easy to find jobs nor it has a stable way of generating income
- Needs to work hard as a large number of people are competing for the best projects,
- Working individually means most of your work will be done by yourself. ,
Now, as you know more about freelancing, if you still desire to make money online, just stop thinking and open your pc to get registered with any website and start selling your talent, believe me, millions of dollars, and unlimited opportunities are waiting for you.
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