I work with a lot of freelancers. Easiest way is to work at Upwork/freelancer.com/PPH( look for growth hacking tricks for those platforms).If you are a decent developer, you can reach 1Cr type revenue with little hustle. From there, you have to scale like an agency. Basically, get a USA citizen as a front for marketing (commissions basis) and do marketing. Most of the guys plateau at this level. PS: Use Philippines guys as VA and talented developers in remote countries as subcontractors.

Thanks a lot for your response. I know Upwork/freelancer.com but aren't they most competitive place to start? As I heard it takes lot of time and effort to get event smallest of project for first time

Software Engineer

Try Toptal as well. About competition, you have to be innovative. First 5-7 reviews, you get by hook or crook. Check for growth hacks in forums etc.

Founder

Freelancing in which field? Design? Content?

Starting as a Solo Freelance develoer and then expand into agency

Brand Communications

Hi, Would love to know if anyone is doing freelancing full time or part time. Like how you folks started? How do you find clients regularly? Do you have indian clients or from US or Europe? Love to...

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Hi, Would love to know if anyone is doing freelancing full time or part time. Like how you folks started? How do you find clients regularly? Do you have indian clients or from US or Europe? Love to know more about this as I want to get started in the freelancing world.

Freelancing Advice

Freelancing Advice- Grapevine

Hi everyone ,
I want to know if there are any freelancers out there or have knowledge of it ? I want to start freelancing and made an account on fiverr and upwork but I don’t know to start initially. Also, would leaving the job in the long run be fruitful for the sake feelancing as I see a lot of people make a lot more than corporate job. And last but not the least , I see a lot of people struggling to get money out of clients.

Advice about Freelancing

Hey folks,
I want to dip my hand in freelancing.
My job is quite laid back and i have a lot of free time.

I have been grinding leetcode in my free time but I'm bored of it. So, I decided why not use this to expand my real working knowledge and earn some side income too.

Any experienced freelance person, please guide on how to start and where to. I know it takes a serious hustle to break the first client. But starting itself seems daunting to me.

Thanks for your time

Start freelancing

Anyone who is doing freelancing rn, how did you start with it?
How do a working professional get started with it as a way to learn more skills?
What all freelancing work have you done?

How did you start with freelancing?

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Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I’m curious to know from the freelancing community in here about their journey and how freelancing has been for them. I’m also trying to understand the challenges they are/were facing working with clients in India and what platforms they often go to to look for freelance work.

Freelancing in India

Growth And Strategy

Coders on grapevine, need your advice. I want to start part time job or freelancing to earn extra money. I have 7 yoe in JavaScript (reactjs, react native). 
Where should i start my search?
What should I expect in terms of client expectations?

If any of you are doing freelancing, I would love to hear about your journey.

Freelancing

Any advice on how to navigate the freelance/gig worker market? 

Also - would love advice on how do I start?

Considering Freelancing

Community Manager

Anyone who does freelance/part time work other than your regular job? Anything like copywriting or content writing etc, How did you get the opportunity? How did you build a profile?

Freelance or Part time work

Product Manager

I am seeing lots of 22 years old who have opened their digital marketing agency and earning really good money by working with freelance clients who pay in dollars. 

I am starting up and I want a source of income. Don't really want to go to corporate job. 

Haven't had much success with freelancing. Cold mailing hardly works and gig websites like Upwork etc have lots of competition at some really cheap rate. 

What are the best way to getting freelance work with international clients? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Getting freelance clients

Product Marketing Manager

Any tips on how to get started. I along with two of my friends are looking to get into freelancing. And we are a perfect mix of engineers. I am a Backend dev with 2+ years of experience and one of my friends is a lead AI engineer, the other is a fronted engineer with extensive experience in react. 
Any help/lead would be much appreciated.

Freelance?

Backend Engineer

Hello Everyone!!

In the freelance market, which tech stack are you people mostly getting projects in?

Also, please provide a little roadmap/pointers to start freelancing (tech only).

Freelancing Trend ?

I am a SDE(expertise: Angular  + .net core ) with 3 yoe , thinking to start freelancing on weekends .
best portal I should checkout?

Freelancing advice

Anyone here doing freelancing along with 9 to 5 jobs to earn extra bucks? Any tips on starting up? How much do you make? Is it worth it? Do you use company laptop? 

1.5+ years in day to day job here. Looking to learn new things by building and what better than getting paid for it. Debunk my myths if any.

Anyone doing freelancing along with job

Hey folks, wanted to understand a couple of things from experienced folks here -

1. What does freelance consulting look like?
2. How to start working in freelance consulting(shadowing/independent projects for free/volunteering etc.)?
3. Are there any hard barriers to entry(YoE, MBA, T1 grad for example)?
4. What platforms should one use to obtain projects that pay decently well - 2-3 hours daily leading to ~30k earnings monthly? If this is an unrealistic expectation, how does the payscale build over time?
5. Any other insights/comments that would affect the decision to work on freelance consulting.

Thanks in advance!

Path to working freelance(consulting) sustainably

Analyst

I have been searching for job for almost 4 months now, due to layoff. The job market is pretty tough these days so I thought of trying out freelancer path. Even after having a really solid resume and work experience, it’s difficult to get freelancing jobs. I am exploring upwork and freelancer platform but it’s of no use till now.
Do you have any such freelance platform recommendations (which works) or someone you can connect me to ?

Trying to start freelancer career after layoff

Calling out all folks have indulged in freelancing gigs building software.
1. How has your experience been
2. How can one start - any sort of guide/websites that were most useful
3. Any other help/suggestions.

Background - 6+ years in tech, worked in good product companies.

Freelancing gigs guide

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Have worked in multiple industries leading and setting up content teams. Marketing content, long form, short form, all of it. 

Wanted to explore if having my own clients would be a better deal? In terms of exposure, money and flexibility? 

Also how do you land clients? I am open to start with freelancing before going all in.

Thoughts and suggestions please 🙏🏻

Starting a content agency! Advice, tips, words of wisdom please 🙏🏻

Brand Communication Manager

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

Any thoughts on career transition from full time at big companies to freelancer? 

I have 5.7 years of exp of FSE. and would like to settle as freelancer in near future. 
I want to experiment this option for 1 year and if not succeeded is it okay to switch back to full time emp? Is it worth taking the risk considering my financial status? 

I see these are pros and cons
Pros:
Complete wfh.
Direct contact with clients no boss/manager

Cons:
Income will be effected if no project. 
Continuous search for projects. 
Risky. 

Any other pros and cons one can think of pls mention in the comments. I would definitely try this option for atleast one year.

Transition to Freelancer in India.

Software Developer

29M , 7 yoe. Have a full time job plus running my own freelancing gig servicing multiple clients across the world

Not a techie. Earning 1.75cr a year AMA

If you are an over performer and doing great work at your company, I request you to also start working for yourself. You have no idea how much you can make just working directly for clients.

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