Interview: Joe Daley On How To Get Started In Freelancing & How To Stand Out As A Freelancer

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How do you stand out as a freelancer? How do you beat the competition and win new clients?

In this interview, Joe Daley, the founder of FreelanceMyWay, joins me to talk about these questions and more.

Joe Daley is a serial entrepreneur with experience that goes back to 1999. He’s been building all kinds of businesses from selling wholesale products to building anti-spyware software, greeting card websites, and more for many years.

His latest venture is a brand new freelance marketplace called FreelanceMyWay. Which he plans on using as a platform to solve many of the issues freelancers currently have with other popular marketplaces.

Joe is also the founder of LogoMyWay a crowdsourcing website where freelancers get to show their skills and compete to win prizes for the best design.

As you can imagine, Joe has years of experience working with freelancers and building businesses. He shared great advice for freelancers on how to stand out as and how to get started as a freelancer.

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10 Easy Ways Freelance Illustrators Can Make Money Online

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One of the most difficult things about being a freelance artist is finding work.

Finding freelance illustration jobs online is not an easy task either. Search any popular freelance platform and you’ll find less than 100 outdated job postings for illustrators.

No need to be discouraged. There are many different ways you can make money online as an illustrator.

In this post, I’ll show you some of the ways other freelance illustrators make money online. And prove to you that you can really make money drawing and selling your art online.

Keep reading to find out how.

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20 Mind-Blowing Freelancing Statistics That Prove Remote Work Is The Future

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Is freelancing just a hot trend or a great way to build a profitable career? What’s the future of freelancing going to be like? Will there be freelancers by 2027? Let’s find out.

One of the biggest questions beginning freelancers have is whether or not freelancing is a good choice for a long-term career. Well, I can go and on about how profitable freelancing is, how everyone will be working from home in the future, or why it’s better than working at Apple.

Instead, I decided to gather some evidence and prove to you that freelancing is a more stable way to work than most other jobs. Here’s proof.

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How Much Should I Charge? 4 Ways To Calculate Your Freelance Rates

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Figuring out the right price to ask your clients is one of the first challenges you come across as a beginning freelancer.

How you calculate your freelance rates is important because your price has to be just right to win your clients. Because if your price is too high, the client may never respond to your proposal. If you charge too low, the client will suspect and think of you as a cheap amateur freelancer.

There’s no need to make this a problem. Whether you’re a beginning freelance writer, designer, developer, or a marketer, there are a few tricks you can use to figure out the ideal price for your freelance services. And I’ll show you how.

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Which Freelancing Site Is Best For Beginners?

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Starting to freelance is a lot like starting a business.

First, you have to develop skills and build your portfolio. And then you have to figure out what kind of services you’re going to offer.

But, the key to getting more work and winning clients is to find the “right” market to sell your services.

Imagine if Samsung spends months developing a great Android phone and go to Apple Store to sell it. Would anyone want to buy it? Of course not.

It’s pretty much the same in freelancing. It’s important for a freelancer to find the “right market”, or in this case the right freelance site, to sell their services from the very first day to start a successful freelance career.

While most experts and more established freelancers may advise you against using freelance sites to offer services, I believe it’s the perfect way for a beginner to start freelancing.

There are both upsides and downsides to using freelance sites to sell services and find work. But, as long as you find the best freelance site that fits your category of work, it will make your life so much simpler. It’s how I started my freelance career as well.

In this post, I will help you find the right platform to offer your services as a beginning freelancer. Let’s begin, shall we?

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How I Went From Making $500 To $5K A Month Doing Freelance Work

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Earning money online looks easy. But, in reality, it takes a lot of hard work and skill to make a profitable income working from home.

I learned this the hard way. When I quit my job to become a full-time freelancer, I had no idea how hard it was to get a client and how competitive it is to land a job on freelance platforms like UpWork.

I struggled for almost four years earning barely enough money to pay the bills. Then, things started to turn around when I managed to land my first high-paying gig that paid me $500. Today, I’m a freelance writer earning a stable income.

How did I get here? Well, I’ve learned a lot of great lessons by making a lot of mistakes. I’ve explained them all with the secrets to my success in my new book 21 Days To Success In Freelancing.

In brief, here’s what’s happened.

Interview: Joe Daley On How To Get Started In Freelancing & How To Stand Out As A Freelancer

10 Easy Ways Freelance Illustrators Can Make Money Online

20 Mind-Blowing Freelancing Statistics That Prove Remote Work Is The Future

How Much Should I Charge? 4 Ways To Calculate Your Freelance Rates

Which Freelancing Site Is Best For Beginners?

How I Went From Making $500 To $5K A Month Doing Freelance Work

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