How To Become a Freelancer in India? A Comprehensive Guide.

How to become a freelancer in India? what actually freelancing is? From where to start in freelancing?

A lot of such questions that might be wandering in your mind right now, right? Keep calm, just stay connected with this blog till the last...

The problem of unemployment in our India has increased considerably. Today about 60 to 70 percent of people are unemployed and the reason for unemployment is the lack of jobs.

Thousands of youth are sitting at home every year with a degree. Because according to their studies they do not get relevant jobs and educated people never like to do any small work.

For this reason, the number of unemployed in our country is very high today. But with the advent of the internet, many things have become easy, even many ways to earn money through the internet have been found.

While using the Internet, you must have seen an advertisement in many places where it is written that how to earn money sitting at home?

This question must have come in your mind? How can you earn money sitting at home? In fact, there are many ways to earn money on the Internet, such as blogging, YouTube, online marketing, web designing, etc.

All these works are done online while sitting at home, but to earn money online, we have to do a lot of hard work with patience.

Making money in the case of blogging and YouTube is never so easy. It takes both time and effort. But after consistent hard work and with patience too, one can easily earn good money by working on it.

Well the interesting thing is that among these online ways to earn money, there is another way which is different and by which you can generate good income in less time and that way is freelancing.

Yes, you must have read or heard about freelancing through which many people are earning handsome amounts of money today.

In today's blog, we are going to tell you about freelancing in which you will be told what is freelancing? How does it work? And how to become a freelancer in India?

So that, you too will be able to generate quite good income by doing freelancing at home. So let's first know what freelancing is?

What is Freelancing?

If a person has a talent or art and uses it for another person and that person gives him money instead then it has been called freelancing. 

As simple as, right?

This means that if you have a lot of talent in something like Photoshop, writing, painting, music, design, image editing, voiceover, etc.

If another person has to get some of these works done, whether he has to get the photo editing or has some design done. And if you have the talent to do that work then you can work for that person.

Instead of work, he will give you its price and this is called freelancing. The person who serves or takes service online with money or the person who freelancing is called a “Freelancer”.

Freelancing can happen in many ways, no matter what the online job is like, whether it is content writing, blogging, designing, SEO link building, video making, digital marketing, graphic designing, animation, all these things are included in freelancing.

If you are an expert in any of these things, then you can work in freelancing. In freelancing you do not work for any particular company or firm, but for this you have to find the client yourself.

On completion of the work of one client, the work of another client has to be completed and this process continues in this manner.

Freelancing is a skill based job by which a person earns money from his skills and experience.

Let us now know where the work of freelancing takes place?

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We told you about freelancing and freelancer, what is that and what is their job. But the question arises here? How do freelancers and their clients interact with each other?

In a freelancing business, all the work is done online, so clients and freelancers cannot see each other physically. So how do they deal a project with each other?

So let me tell you that there are many ways to find online freelancers and clients. For example, a person meets a freelancer or a client through a social networking site on the Internet.

Or, through another person or organization, the project is settled between the client and the freelancer. But the best way to find a freelancer or a client is the freelancing websites.

Through the freelancing websites, Freelancer gets work because it completely gains the trust. The freelancing website provides a platform where clients and the freelancer can find and interact with each other. 

In today's time, there are many freelancer websites on the Internet from where you can do the work of freelancing.

Some of the major and popular freelancing websites are Fiverr, Upwork, Toptal, Peoplehour, Freelancer, Project4Hire, 99 Designs, etc.

This is a great website to earn money from freelancing at home, but it may also take some time to succeed here. You can make your identity through these websites.

Once you are successful in freelancing business, you can work here for upto 50$ per hour. The special thing about working in freelancing is that there is no time limit, so you can work in it whenever you want.

In freelancing sites there is a kind of bridge between the worker and the work giver. Both clients and freelancers are registered on these websites.

When a person or a company needs to get some work done, he goes to a website like upwork or Fiverr and posts his work.

After that freelancers apply to do that work according to their skill and experience. And the client only hires the freelancer whose work and price he will like.

The freelancer finishes the work at the time set by the client and gives it in return. The website through which freelancing is done, also gets a commission from both Buyers and Freelancers.

After knowing this lets know how to do the job of freelancing in India?

So as we have already said that freelancing is a skill based job in which a person earns money from his talent.

That is why if you want to become a freelancer in India then first identify your talent i.e. what actually you can do? What is the work that you like the most? Like this... 

And after identifying your talent, work on it continuously and make your skills better. To become a freelancer in India, it is very important for you to be professional in any one work. 

Like suppose you are a content writer, you like writing and you can explain things well, So in freelancing you can work as a content writer.

But if you like to write, but you do not understand what things you should do in order to perform better. Then you will do this job well.

I mean to say that, in whatever profession you choose, you should have complete knowledge of it and at the same time that work should be included in your daily habit. With which you will be able to complete the work in a fixed time.