Continue from our previous post - As a Full-Time Freelancer, Are You Ready to Go Back to 9-5 Job?, this article will reveal few of the avenues which can streamline the transition back to a "Proper Job" life.

Mindset

Do not in any circumstances think that you have been a “Failure” in the world of Freelance work. Instead, you should know that your retreat is not considered as a “Fiasco”, it was a step that was undertaken by you which just simply did not work. You should be proud that you did not hesitated at the first place and you tried which you thought might work for you. If you can figure out why it was a stillborn attempt for you then later on you can always come back by rectifying that mistake. Thus have a strong mindset in the interview confidently utter that you thought of it is a possibility and nothing more.

Plan Your Way Thorough

Some folks in the interview might try to pressure you about the reasons you left freelancing. In that case, do not be afraid to apply some prevarication as that’s what is needed at that specific moment. Say that freelancing was barring you from having an effective social life or you needed some space to accomplish some of your own personal project. This will inevitably bring a stoppage to their incessant inquiries about something that doesn’t really matter much.

Do Not Be Too Open

In case if are hired, do not reveal that you were freelancing with some definite purpose, because there were some people who would always think that freelancing is a real optimum way but they would be too afraid to start themselves. These people might be filled with jealousy and might end up harming you in some way. So better not be too much of an open people.

However, everyone has to have a start and it is not always so smooth to make that transition from the bottom level to the next desired level of high-paid SEO writer; and that is why this article will bring forth few of the proven steps that you should undertake when the correct time comes.

Managing Clients

When you first raise the issue of hiking up rate\post, it is probable that many of the clients will resent. But if you can make them understand that you also have a life aside from working 14/15 hours a day, and that you needed some rest to actually perform more effectively, clients will take note of this and there is a good chance that they will finally agree on your points. Because one good thing about SEO Copywriting Clients is that most of them are either Business owners or Account Executives at some marketing establishments who understands the need to respect quality and the same time the necessity to have profit for the writer; as a happy and satisfied writer can produce better quality of work.

Setting Up a Minimum Level

This is one of the vital points which you should raise when you have effectively become quite experienced and mature in this field of SEO copywriting, that is, to set a minimum level which you wouldn’t break at any circumstances. Thus, the complex the project, the higher the charge, while the less complicated it is, the rate will be low, but WILL NOT go down below the minimum set level. This clients will understand that you are dealing with some serious issues and have a certain expectations. Thus through your professionalism, a reliability can be brought about from the client’s part onto you. They won’t mind paying more in exchange of guaranteed quality work from you.

Firstly, he got the idea of turning his online entertainment to a source of income from his father, who introduced him to few of the money making practices such as blogging, AdSense, link building and basic SEO. Later on when he became more serious about this opportunity. He asked a domain of his own from his dad, and consequently got one. He then launched his own Blog about the online gaming he was so fond of. Carl produced original content and with time, he realized that his blog/forum has made a tremendous inroads and he was earning really well. At that time he launched few other blogs and virtually duplicated what he was doing with the first one, and the step paid off, as even the other blogs were running high thus multiplying his total revenue a great deal.

His experience and knowledge about the field of Online Money making is quite extensive and well-reputed. He believes people should readily start work on the field which he is confident of doing well. Intentionally resembling his favorite speaker Anthony Robbins who puts the whole issue in this way: “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

Before he rose to fame, he also tried few other blogging areas such as technology, gossips and health but were largely unsuccessful. However, when he rose to fame, it created a massive wave and even Google put him on the Rank #1 in its search result for “Make Money Online”.

Thus Carl proved that if you are passionate enough about something, you can achieve it despite being faced with adversaries of various dimensions.

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This article will thus shed light on few myths about sales and why should you be proficient at this aspect of your freelance business.

A Matchmaking Game

To many people, a sale is just a manipulation from seller’s part to sell the product. However, this is not true. What salespersons do is they try to make a match between their services and the need of client. In the end, both of them are benefited from each other. It is the building of a relationship that can be really handy when the client needs some kind of solution.

A Numbers Games

Off course you need to charge the customer a certain amount in exchange of your service. In the end, you also need to generate a certain amount for you business and life. Different business may have different number values, but the basic principle is same for every business. Thus there is nothing abstruse behind a freelancer’s aim to sale his service.

Do Not Neglect

Many freelancers will try to avoid sales activities when they are busy with projects or other things. This is a blunder that may seriously impede your revenue generation. You should conduct sales activities at least one hour per day. Set aside some extra few hours per week to review your sales status and evaluate your sales strategy.

21. Be Updated

There are plenty of freelance sties are coming into existence basically everyday. Some of them containing really useful and different kind of tools that may really help in your work. Thus always keep an open eye about what great new thing that are coming out that can be relevant to your projects.

22. Do Not Forget the Old Clients (80/20 Rule)

There is a saying that 80% business will be done from the existing list of clients who you served already. The remaining 20% will be the new persons that are being added in the list of happy customer smile. Thus you should master the art of keeping them up-to-date about your projects and services and at the same time keep an open eye on the opportunities that they may bring along.

23. Get Referral Business

Referrals are the key personnel who will push your business forward by referring to you in places that they see fit. Many of them will do it for free out of satisfaction from your work or many of them will exchange some deal with you. All in all, you should have a large base of effective referrals.

16. Team up

It is often a good approach to partner up with other freelancers for a single project or you may partner them for you own need. For example if you are working online, the you may develop a tie with other type of service provider such as designer, SEOs, writer, marketer etc. It is kind of work delegation but in this approach you are directly dealing with someone professional and at the same time, freelancer. So correspondence becomes easier and more effective.

17. Be Professional

Being professional is one of the key factors that needs to be attained to be successful in any attempt. So a professional approach could helps to close a contract.

18. Effective Invoice Management

If you do not send your invoice timely as set before, you will get a delayed payment. So you should use various online and offline tools that let you have a sound invoice management facilities. Also, if you exchange money through online, always use the notable options such as AlertPay or PayPal.

11. Use Your Time

It is vitally important that you make every possible attempt to make use of your work hours to achieve some progress with the project in hand. If you squander away the work hours on a regular basis, then it is very difficult to catch up later on. So try to focus and prioritise the working hours for useful work only.

12. Being a Blogger

This is always a good idea to publish your work related stuffs that may help you promote your business in a better and globalise manner. Write about the nature of your work and also publish contents showing how your service can help the customers to grow their business. This will eventually attract the customers if the content is catchy enough.

13. Networking

It is a good and effective idea to network as much as you can with common mass and fellow freelancers. This will surely help in spreading words about your work and thus getting the leads. The fellow freelancers can also help you in passing their own project if they are too busy or if they lack the required skill set. All in all it doesn’t at all hurt to have an expanding network of people, both clients and other freelancers.

14. Save Ideas

You should save any creative idea that may flitter through your mind during a project or you find from some other place. Though it may not be needed for the running project, it may help you in future projects thus greatly saving your time and reducing your effort. More importantly, by doing this you are using your thoughts and creativeness in an optimum way.

6. Be Dedicated

If you are taking up a project, you are certainly putting yourself into a commitment with the client and you should do your best (But be logical about your own life as well) to produce optimum result.

7. Keep a Record

It is best to keep a record of every expenses that you have to incur. If you have a dedicated room designated as office in your home premises, then you should have separate record keeping books for home and official expenses.

8. Do not Under-Sell Yourself

It is important to understand that at the initial stage you may not be so successful with high prices per project, but, it is also a fact that if you sell yourself too cheap. It will affect your name in a negative way as well. Thus be logical and use the following formula to go about setting project rates:

• Rate = RM R / H hrs
• R is the desired salary that you expect in a year
• H is the total hour in a year that you think is possible for you to work on projects.

The general trend is to have 15 workable days in a month with 8 hours of work, thus it gives you a total of 1440 hours in a year. The rest of the time will be spent upon other purposes such as administrative tasks, marketing, enhancing skills, having some breaks, etc. Once you know you hourly rate, apply to that in each project to determine the final rate. Besides, you should also increase your rate with time as you grow more experienced and professional.

This article is introducing the 25 freelance tips in a five series article. Below is the initial first five workarounds:

1. Be Selective

Be choosy about which work you should accept and which you should leave out. Because, some clients will have projects that are either way too spread out or they will offer low rate for their projects. In that case it is just a time waste to engage as the project will bring too little of a profit for an extended amount of work.

2. Improve Reusability

When you work for multiple clients at the same time, in many cases you will have two or more clients dealing with similar kind of project. In that case you should do your research in such a way that you can use the information for both of the projects, thus not having to undertake multiple research attempts. Your clients will not be bothered about this at all, in fact they will be happy that you have completed the task faster than they expected.

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 8 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. (Now, this blog has a 1000++ readers, are you one of them?  If no, Join us now!) Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 8 How-To Tips

8. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

7. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don’t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.