How To Start Freelancing With The Skills You Learn Here At WA

For most of us, making money online is a dream, being able to work your own ours, have more time to spend with the loved ones and unlimited freedom to work from anywhere sounds like the perfect life right?

Since it’s obvious that is completely possible to make money through affiliate marketing, you should know it is not a rich quick scheme so it will definitely take time and hard work.

What if in the meantime you could start earning money online by freelancing with the skills you learn here at WA, wouldn’t that be awesome? Well it’s completely achievable and with a bit of work you definitely can help other small business thrive that do need people like you.

There a lot of ways to monetize the skills you learn here at WA and there are thousands of business worldwide in desperate need for your services.

Here are 5 services you can offer to potential clients:

• Content Creation
• SEO Auditing
• Content Strategy
• Email Copywriting
• Web Copywriting

How to get your foot in the door?

It doesn’t matter if you have a degree or you barely completed high school what matters is what can you offer and how that service can improve someone’s business, if you can prove you can do it, eventually you will get hired.

So how the hell do you prove to potential clients you can solve their problems and that hiring you is a sound decision that will benefit their business in the long run?

You need a solid portfolio of work, the beauty of it is, if you have been following the training and are working on your website you already have samples you can use to get clients.

The articles you created, all the website copy and all the content on your website if properly done can serve as a nice portfolio, have you have an article ranked on the first page of Google? Awesome, you can leverage that to get SEO Writing gigs for example.

Take Action

Ok so even if you don’t have a solid portfolio to show there is a way to get around that, how you ask? Well it’s time to take action, if you don’t have a portfolio you will create one on spec.

A portfolio on spec is a fake portfolio that you create to show off your skills, it’s pretty common in the writing and design world. Most clients really don’t care if it’s real or not, all they want is to be sure you can deliver, with a spec portfolio you can showcase your skills.

For example you can create a fake website on WA just to show your copywriting skills, you can create product descriptions, about pages and etc…

For social media management it will take longer to build a portfolio since it takes time to build a following in pretty much any social media platform but if you happen to be already doing it for your own site maybe you can also use that as a portfolio.

How to find clients

The easiest way to start off is to make a profile on bidding sites like Upwork, although there are downsides to it, it’s a good way to start since there are hundreds of jobs being posted everyday where people are searching for the same skills we learn here at WA.

The goal here is to build a portfolio of work that you can leverage later to find better clients through a solid outbound marketing strategy. At this stage you should be focused on over delivering on quality so you can get valuable testimonials that will impress potential clients down the road. This is will make it easier for when you are pitching for work.

Warm calling is better than cold calling, so identify prospects you would like to work for and research their online presence. If their blog is outdated for example, you already have a lead for you pitch.

Conclusion

We live in an exciting time, there are over one billion websites online and this number will just keep growing. There is no better time to make money online than now. Working as a contractor for others can prove valuable in many instances and it can be extremely rewarding to help other to achieve their dreams. I hope to see you freelancing and using your skills to make some money while you build your business, in the end every experience is a learning experience so take action and go.

What are you waiting for? Take action now and good luck, leave a comment below and let’s start a conversation.