The definition of "freelance" (from the English freelance) is translated into Russian as "non-contracted work", "work outside the state", "remote work", "telework", "telework". All these expressions are true and mean, in principle, the same thing. The essence of the work is that the employee is not present in the office and does not appear in the staffing of the company and accounting documents.
Freelancer Earnings
Freelancers do not like to answer curious questions regarding the amount of money they earned. Moreover, such issues are considered tactless. But the point is not the reluctance to share experience.
A specialist who makes a living on the Internet never knows where, on what content and at what time he will make a profit. Since the freelancer is a free person, he does not work under a contract, and he knows the factors such as the cost of future orders, the number of work performed and the generosity index of the client. Therefore, it’s impossible to know in advance what freelancer’s earnings are “waiting” in the network today or tomorrow ... Unless he himself wants to talk about this in detail on the pages of his personal blog.
Components of success
A novice freelancer, having barely registered on one of the earning sites, is unlikely to immediately earn an amount that can be called decent earnings. For successful promotion, a beginner needs to:
1) master the skills that allow him to be called a specialist in the provision of one or more services;
2) regularly replenish the portfolio, improve and gain new experience;
3) learn to meet the requirements of most customers;
4) do not get hung up on one task, try to take several orders at once and learn to combine them, switching from one project to another;
5) constantly be in touch with the employer;
6) show diplomacy in relation to customers;
7) do not forget that the deadlines are not less important than their quality;
8) learn how to divide complex work into several stages and perform the simplest and then the most difficult sections of the work.
Beginners who fail to cope with complex orders often begin to complex, agreeing to work for a minimum payment. In fact, there is nothing terrible in such a tactic if experience comes with small fees and, importantly, albeit slowly, the rating on the site that the freelancer has chosen as a platform for earning increases.
On income - in more detail
Experts who set out to determine the income level of citizens belonging to different social strata found that the earnings of Russian freelancers are approximately two salaries of employees whose jobs are tied to offices. According to research, the average monthly salary of a freelancer is about 40 thousand rubles. The richest freelancers are programmers and web designers.
After the results of research on the topic: “Earnings of a freelancer,” the feedback that was received, testified to the incompetence of the researchers. According to the freelancers themselves, most of them, contrary to expert estimates, earn much less than the indicated amount (40,000) and their average earnings are formed mainly from several small projects, the cost of each of which ranges from 1 to 3 thousand rubles.
If you really want to ...
According to experts, the most prosperous are IT specialists. Most employers disagree with this. The fact is that not every employer agrees to hire freelancers. These freedom-loving seekers of earnings on the network, according to some employers, have the habit of abandoning tasks that are difficult for them to cope with. But the remaining 30% of employers note that by inviting remote employees, they save on taxes, salaries and rental space.
Meanwhile, the majority of people who are satisfied with remote work and freelancer earnings (55% of them), demonstrating high labor productivity, have higher education and high-class professional training. According to statistics, only 26% of full-time employees have higher education. A curious fact: the most diligent and educated freelancers were the housewives involved in raising children.
Writing texts
The compilation of unique texts, or copyright, as well as the modification of ready-made texts, or rewrite, are some of the most common types of on-line earnings. All that a copywriter needs is to correctly express his thoughts, have a personal computer and access to the Internet. In addition, this type of earnings has two significant advantages:
- earnings on the Internet by a freelance copywriter or rewriter do not include any investment;
- it has never occurred to any customer to find out the level of education of a copywriter whose texts correspond to the requirements set.
What do beginners not know about?
Many potential copywriters are interested in one question: "What problems will a newcomer, who has just registered on a freelancing exchange, face?" Decent income on the Internet as a freelancer is experience, time devoted to mastering the necessary skills and persistence in achieving the goal. Even a person who writes first-class texts once had to deal with customers for the first time.
Searching for orders, freelance copywriters (rewriters) either rush to specialized exchanges or advertise on sites where potential performers and employers gather. On the latter, as a rule, there are a lot of "incredibly profitable" offers, promising incredibly high profits with a small load. In fact, it often happens that, working without raising his head, the copywriter is left without money: when the moment of reckoning comes, the "employer" either disappears or informs the contractor that there will be no payment, since his text is illiterate and uninteresting.
There are so many scammers in freelance that some “young” network workers, faced with several swindlers, abandon further attempts to find work on the Internet. Earning a freelancer becomes for them "another scam."
However, in the Global Network there are quite a few companies that really pay the employee his work without pestering with promises and talk about dizzying and easy money.
Earning a freelancer primarily depends on how much time a person is willing to devote to work (just because no one will give money). Needless to say, freelancers who work and get paid look very differently at this way of making a profit?
Customer interaction with the contractor
The relationship "freelancer - employer" - from the most important components of remote work. The adequacy of the client is indicated by such factors as the style of work, the complexity of the tasks, the willingness to pay for someone else's work, a fair assessment of the amount of work and so on. By working with “abnormal” clients, freelancers spend more time and receive much less income.
During the first interaction with the customer, the freelancer needs to not only make a good impression on the new employer, but also decide for himself whether he will cooperate with this person in the future.
So how much do copywriters earn?
According to the results of research activities of specialists engaged in collecting on-line information, approximately one fifth of remote workers earn 40-60 thousand rubles, and only 2% of on-line employees managed to overcome the 150 thousandth line. Network employees who are engaged in copywriting, but have not yet mastered this profession to perfection, earn from 25 to 40 thousand rubles a month.
The average earnings of a freelance copywriter depends, first of all, on the efforts made. People who take their work seriously (make up a personal work schedule and correctly calculate working hours) earn about $ 300 a month. In this profession, money comes with experience. An experienced copywriter can earn 500 dollars. e.
Can a person without any skills make money online?
Here are a few simple earning options:
- Collection of information from thematic sites. The essence of the work is as follows: a specific query is entered into the Google search bar, after which contact information is collected from all the sites that are in the search results. Having saved the received information in a text file, the freelancer exchanges the obtained information for money. Earning a freelancer in this case depends on his scrupulousness.
- Checking sites for cross-browser compatibility. The freelancer finds out what the site looks like, being open in different browsers and, after taking screenshots, sends them to the customer, after which he receives payment.
- Collection of information from the pages of online stores. The contractor collects information about certain products and sends it to the customer. In some cases, clients ask the contractor to rewrite the acquired information in their own words, and then the freelancer’s earnings increase.
Popular types of earnings on-line also include:
- medical, legal and other consultations;
- writing comments or evaluating the site;
- writing answers-comments on sites, "questionnaires";
- recommendations regarding the modernization of sites and online stores.