Step 7: Sustaining your Freelancing business
Sustaining your Freelancing business means ensuring that you can live with it and not worrying about the bills.
Common worries among Freelancers is losing clients. Make sure that you are filling up your sales pipeline with fresh leads and prospects every now and then. They are those who you can nurture and convert into paying clients later on.
As much as possible, never settle with a single client only. Unless, of course, you have very solid reasons to do so.
As I’ve shared in the early part of this tutorial, I said that Freelancing is a business.
Well, that’s because it really is. 🙂
Although I’m able to transform my Freelancing career into a business in my own way, one way or another, you will or should be doing Freelancing with that same business mindset as well.
When I started Freelancing, my original goal was only “to get hired”, have an online job, be part of a team, and earn from it. But later on in my Freelancing journey, I realized that what I do as a Freelancer can actually be scaled and be able to accommodate more clients.
There are several ways you can increase your income or revenue as a Freelancer, of course!
You can charge higher fees while working with only one or two long-term clients, just like what I’m doing with my ventures AdWorx and BlogWorx.
Or you can acquire more clients to scale the earnings, which I usually do for my other venture TekWorx.
As you continue doing Freelancing, in the process you’ll discover so many opportunities that you’ll come to a point where you will:
- Create a Team
- Outsource Projects
- Generate Passive Income Sources like Affiliates or Info Business
…and among other things
Online opportunities are endless. Just make sure that you really take actions the moment you aspire to have them.
Final Words
If you have reached this part, thank you!
I hope that the entire contents of this freelancing course, both text and videos, are able to help widen your perspective of Freelancing.
As a Professional Filipino Freelancer and Trainer, it is my mission, advocacy, and purpose to introduce digital jobs and online freelancing to more and more Filipinos.
That said, I’d appreciate it if you can join me on this journey and share this with anyone whom you think can benefit from this.
For questions and clarifications, feel free to comment below.
The Resource Person: Bert Padilla is a Certified E-Commerce Trainer. He’s also an online entrepreneur operating TekWorx.Digital. In 2018, he started sharing his online expertise as Trainer and Resource Person for one of the programs of the government’s Department of Information and Communications Technology or DICT. Inspired to help more and more Filipinos through digital training, Bert launched TekWorx.Training in early 2019.