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It's a scary process to move from one company to another. Now imagine moving from one company to no company. Imagine a world where there are no dress codes, cubicles, pompous bosses, and strict hours. Sounds appealing right? It should; but beware moving out of the hand holding of a company into the independence of your own home or office can be more of a challenge than most could ever comprehend. First off, you need to be focused. Having 3 hour coffee breaks and 5 hour lunches will most certainly lead to bankruptcy and your new home under a newspaper on a sidewalk. Little dramatic? Possibly, but nonetheless could be a distinct possibility unless one knows what they are dong. Now it's time to give you the fearless entrepeneur some tips on how to succeed with Taskcity.
http://www.taskcity.com is mostly made up of IT professionals that come from small and medium sized companies. This means unfortunately for the freelancer you have to do the work of a whole company on your own. There are some very easy steps you can follow though to be successful within the Taskcity company.
First, become a registered professional. Easy enough. Now, you have to go ahead and bid on projects. This is where things might get a little more tricky. Being a freelancer you are only one person and can only do one project at a time. But, seeing as that you are new and want to gain an identity in the market you need to work on as many projects as possible. With Taskcity's bidding process you will have to bid on as many projects as you think you can do at a time. While it is highly unlikely you will get all the projects you bid for, you also need to be prepared for winning more bids than you might have planned. Never bite off more than you can chew. With every project you can't complete or you complete poorly your reputation goes down. Its better to do 3 projects well, than 10 poorly.
Another huge advantage you can make for yourself is properly outfitting the portfolio Taskcity provides you. Don't let it sit there with only one or two links, or pictures in it. Fill it out as much as you can. Put everything you were ever proud of in there. The more buyers can get an idea of how good your work is the more likely they are to want to use your work. The more information you have about yourself the more comfortable people might be with taking the risk to try you out. If it's clear everything you've ever worked on has turned out well business as a freelancer for you will most likely be a cakewalk.
So far we've discussed how to gain comfort with the customer's by developing your portfolio and how to gain comfort with the market by bidding on anything and everything you can handle. Now it's also important to gain a comfort with your life in this new position of highly increased independence. Being a freelancer means many things: independence, flexibility, potential profits, and even a boost in self confidence. But, the one way to make your business better in freelance work is to make yourself better. Now that your on your own you need to be well rounded. In a company you simply have to be specialized in one area and are able to separate yourself from everyone else in the company. Not in freelance work though. You need to do all the accounting, marketing, financing, management, and at the same time provide a finished good or service to all of your customers. Also it should be a never ending process to develop your personal IT skills as well. It is never to late to familiarize yourself with new programs, software, or hardware.
Take advantage of times when business is slow and increase your personal skills and you will find the slumps in your business will grow shorter and further between. Taskcity is the perfect home for new freelancers. We offer the opportunities to develop your portfolio and resume. Taskcity offers freelancers an environment where the average Joe can compete head to head with all the corporate officers, and be just as successful. At the end of the day wouldn't that be satisfying, knowing you can take the place of a whole office of people. It should be.
The three most important things to remember when beginning to freelance is to be flexible, thorough, and diligent. Without one of these three things it would be like trying to run a car without a battery, engine, or fuel. Miss one of the three and no matter how good the other two are nothing is going to make it work. In the end though the potential risk is offset with all the tools http://www.taskcity.com can provide you. Maintain diligence, flexibility, and desire for your work to be thorough and you can be as successful as the huge company that stuffed you in a cubicle, and tried to take away your free-thinking spirit.
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