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If you haven’t done any projects, you should first create a few samples for your website. Want to start a freelance web design career? Showcase a few great web design samples on your site (you could even host them yourself as demo sites if you haven’t had a client yet). You can give away free themes, plugins etc if you’re trying to launch a web development business. Looking to start a freelance WordPress blogging business like yours truly? Add a few writing/blogging samples to your site, and so on and so forth.
Samples will help you to establish credibility, authority, experience and professionalism. Then flock job boards where your clients post Country Email List jobs and apply. But if you’re not one for job applications and the works (although they can help with the bills in the meantime), how about developing your own products or service packages?
If you dislike the idea of staking out job boards, and want clients to come to you instead, you have to develop products, or rather service packages, to sell. Are you an aspiring WordPress developer? You can package premium WordPress themes and sell them for a yearly subscription just like Nick Roach of Elegant Themes.
You can create paid consultation packages. You can offer your blogging service as packages with different price points. You can create any product you can imagine, and make a killing provided there’s demand (Envato studio is full of freelancers offering services). Look for a problem in your particular market (niche) and then offer the solution. This solution becomes your product. This of course assumes you have considerable traffic to your online business, something we will cover in a few. In the meantime, let’s talk about charging the right fees.
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