A Guide to starting your career as a Freelancer

A Guide to starting your career as a Freelancer
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Freelancing has emerged as a great option for someone who wants to start earning almost immediately without securing any degree or specialisation. Yes, you need to have the potential and skills to start selling SEO services but it is not a rocket science. You can also make a great career in freelancing and go on to make huge money.

For the start, just follow these steps:

1. Learn through SEO Tutorials: Initially, you would need to invest some time learning how SEO actually works. The best way to learn is to find some popular SEO tutorials online that contain enough details. Do not go for shortcuts. A good tutorial is always popular in the social media and thus it should not be hard for your find such tutorials. You can simply search for the tutorials using SEO related keywords.

2. Evaluate: An important step towards learning anything is to evaluate yourself continuously to make sure that you are on the right track. See, if you are actually able to apply things that you have learned so far through various tutorials.

3. Find Potential Clients: Now that you are confident about your skills, you need to start searching for the potential clients. The best way would be to follow everyone who liked, commented, tweeted or showed any type of interest in the tutorial. Identify the people and find out their contacts.

4. Identify the areas that you can serve: It is time to execute everything that you have learnt so far through various tutorials. Try to get in touch with the clients and tell them that you can offer SEO services to improve their website ratings. However, you would first need to identify the improvements that you can offer and explain the same to the client. If that does not work, you can either go back to another tutorial or repeat the same steps or move down to the next step.

5. Find a place to start selling your services: This is probably the toughest part of settling into the job but you need clients to get going. A big company would surely not want to hire an inexperienced freelancer but you can always start with small businesses. They usually have simpler requirements and easy guidelines that are easy to fulfil. A few websites like Yolancer.com are providing great platforms for buyers and sellers, looking for SEO services. It is a wonderful place where you can get a lot of attention. I think SEO Marketplace is the best place to sell your SEO services.

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