If you are thinking about starting your business and wanna establish your career through freelancing, then my friend you’re not wrong. People are now shifting their Interest rapidly as they have got to know that the online market places have now bigger scope, and Pakistan is listed at 3rd Position in Freelancing and other online market places.

If we dig deeper into in, you will get to know that there are several reasons to start your career in freelancing, but as you know that everything which looks quite nicer and profitable has a lot of difficulties to engage with.  But if you ask somebody who has a great grip in this field that how was the journey as a beginner?

They will always tell you that freelancing requires time, and you have to be patient in any cost. Because you know good things usually take time. So here I gather some information about how can you tackle all the problems that you will face during your initial days if you want to become successful and professional freelancer.  

1. Be Punctual With Your Work:

Everyone desires of becoming a professional freelancer, but you can’t be a professional freelancer until you adopt punctuality in your daily routine. Apparently, you don’t have to answer somebody. You are your own boss. And it’s all about investment as like the more you invest, the more you earn.

So that’s why you have to be punctual otherwise, I bet, you are not earning any single penny from this field. As a responsible person, your chances of winning projects will increase automatically. Mostly people get anxious when they don’t get a chance of winning project, and they start thinking to quit.

As you all know every business needs time, the more patience you will show, the more chances of your fame will glow. So whenever you will think about quitting, just remind yourself that good things always grow slow.

2. Make A Professional Portfolio:

Portfolio is always necessary when you are working on an online platform. Because the clients you are working with are all sophisticated and well-educated and know the importance of experienced employee as well. Let’s suppose, you are an expert by profession, and you can do everything related to your field, just tell me how will your client get to know that you are professional?

The answer is he doesn’t know you by face or you are not his or her childhood friend. You should give your clarification by showing your skillset. Like you should built a portfolio about your profession and submit it onto any platform where your client can easily find out that what kind of work you can do.

But the main question is how and where should you go and submit your portfolio? Actually there’s a lot of websites like pinterest and other where you can built portfolio. Let me give you an example that you are a graphic designer, all you need to do is to give your information on any platform whatever you like and upload your work and don’t forget to give link of your portfolio to your client.

3. Health Precautions:

There’s no doubt that you have to be consistent if you want to become a great example for your juniors. Obviously it needs a lot of struggle and plenty of spending time into it. But if you are thinking that you will have to do work all the day then what is the meaning left behind this word “Freelancing”.

If you do this, then you’re not more that like a person who works hard all the day and can’t have spare time to do other activities. Freelancing does not mean you have to work all the day, yes of course you have to do a lot of work but not like constantly. 

You can divide your working hours according to your daily routine, and that’s the main beauty of freelancing. By doing this you can also have spare time for your family and friends. And also you can take care of your health as well.


4. Not Being Distracted:

One of the most important challenges that freelancers have is separating their personal and business life. Additionally to making separate bank accounts and forming an entity for your business, this also means not being distracted by your personal life once you are working and the other way around. You'll create a transparent separation with a strict routine where you begin and finish at roughly an equivalent time every day.

Starting a contract business are often both exciting and daunting, but the following pointers should assist you to seek out some success and luxuriate in the advantages that this manner of working can bring.

So here are some points, to be very honest you can say it experience sharing. By adopting these points you can be a professional freelancer.