Opportunities are plentiful if wishing to earn some extra cash freelancing in your spare time. Although one of the benefits to freelancing is the ability to set your own work hours, it can still be quite a demanding job if wishing to meet the deadlines and build a reputation as a reliable service provider. Before being able to decide on what service to offer, it helps to take a moment to research the different freelance opportunities available. Let’s look at some of the most popular choices –
Writing – if at least a competent writer it is possible to find a wide-range of job options freelance writing. Depending on experience, a writer has the opportunity to write online content for websites, which is probably the easiest route to go if new to offering your services as a writer, or write for in print publications. In-print work might be more difficult to come by but it might well pay at a more attractive rate. It helps to put in the effort to create unique and well-researching content to build a long-term working arrangement with your future clients. Also, if you are just starting getting started in freelancing, it might benefit to research the latest writing practices, such as a need to understand search engine optimization (SEO) if writing web content for instance.
Graphic Design – a skilled graphic designer with a quality portfolio of work behind them has the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects, which can range from website based, magazines, corporate reports, advertising material, and newspapers. If just starting out, it might benefit to start with website based graphics as this type of work is the easiest to come by. Creating logos for websites is one area where there is great demand.
Virtual Assistant – if preferring to take on freelance work where you accept many different roles then it might benefit you to become a virtual assistant. Some of the jobs performed might consist of writing web-based content, maintaining the day-to-day running of a website, data entry and audio typing to answer emails or business related phone calls. More wide-ranging opportunities might be available for those with extensive experience in an office based environment.
Online Tutor – for someone with the right qualifications or teaching credentials the opportunities are there to become a virtual instructor. As the learning institutions and colleges expand on the availability of web-based courses, the search for online instructors is ever-expanding, with most of these working from home. Also, freelance language tutoring is on the rise, where you can get paid quite well teaching English to business students, from such countries as China and Japan.
