Freelancing And Virtual Assistant Work

6. Freelancing And Virtual Assistant Work

Freelancing actually gives you an easier method for getting started than starting a full-fledged digital agency.

Obviously, you can freelance in areas like SEO, copywriting, etc. But you can also do things like transcription, video editing, making show notes from podcasts, editing audio, translating documents, translating books, etc.

The main thing you need to get started as a freelancer is experience. Advertising can also be a challenge... but finding clients gets easier as you start putting real, measurable effort into it!

How To Get Started As A Freelancer

First, you have to figure out what you are good at.

Are you good at Photoshop? Are you a web developer? Can you build an app? Can you design awesome ads? Are you great at advertising? Do you have experience with search engines? Are you a copywriter? Are you good at copy editing? Are you good at proofreading? Can you crush it at video editing?

For this type of business, you need to play to your strengths and do what you are good at.

You should also strive to choose a niche that you love.

Finding work as a freelancer, at that point, is mostly about finding other businesses (including ecommerce store businesses) that want to pass off some of their workload to someone else.

This could be digital businesses, a local company, brick-and-mortar businesses, ecommerce stores, business owners… your clients could really be anyone who is already making money, who is looking to scale, and needs skilled help to make that happen.

You could step in and fill a role for these types of clients as a freelancer… and this would get you out of that 9-to-5 job grind, where you could get some flexibility and open up your opportunities a little bit more.

You could then leverage that to go on and start your own digital marketing agency, or work on building up another side-hustle or passive income business of your own.