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Having a hard time sustaining your client and make work with them again. The client will stay and come back with you if you have a high-quality work and deliver good results. Here are the tips on how you will make your client come back with you that will help your freelance.

1. Deliver results

Do whatever task you’re going to do when you say you are going to do it. Most of the people won’t do what they say, some might going to do maybe depressing, however, if this is your mindset clients will not come back to work with you again. Make sure to break this habit, doing deliver commitments consistently will help you to build your reputation and reliability that will help you, to remain your client or come back sooner or later once the projects are finished.

2.) Ask questions and provide solutions

Asking questions to your client isn’t necessary, but will help you to figure out what’s in your mind. After you ask the questions and gather all this information to create solutions to make the business grow and improve the process and point them in the right direction. In this case, the client might re-hire you due to your solutions that help their business to improve sales.

3.) Be honest

No matter how good you are in freelancing, if you are not honest it will be useless. Prioritize long-term relationships with your client over short-term revenue. Be honest with your clients remember “Karma is around the corner” so whatever have you done good or bad it will come back to you. In the end, the client will know if you are doing your work well or not.

4.) Accept responsibility

Whatever tasks that clients will give you accept it no matter what, even though it is hard for you due to mismatch of niche. You can use Google to search for those particular tasks if the tasks are quite hard for you, reach someone who has experienced these tasks so that they can teach and guide you if what you need to do in order to finish the tasks that your client provided. That’s the best thing that you can do to provide a good solution and finish the tasks quickly. The client might contact you again if the projects are done due to your diligence and hard work

5.) Stay grateful

Express your gratitude with something as simple as saying thank you, let your client who pays for your work feeling good about it. If the client enjoyed working with you, the chances of getting hired again are great because they showed immediate interest after you worked with them. Freelancing is about producing good work and maintaining strong work relationships in that way you will sustain your client and they will collaborate with you again sooner or later.

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“Why with the Filipino Virtual Assistance online academy?” you may ask. The Filipino Virtual Assistance offers online job courses to freelancers, virtual assistance services to brands and businesses and franchising opportunities. Our mission is empowering families, one freelancer, at a time. Our number goal is YOUR success.

When you enroll with an FVA course, it also comes with:

A FREE apprenticeship so you can get an online freelancing experience (most clients look for this before hiring)

Hiring opportunities through our FVA Services where potential clients can come and hire you

You will also have lifetime support from the FVA Family and a Coach guiding you all throughout the process.

We are excited to help you. Level up with FVA today!

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How You Will Approach Your Client To Raise Your Rates is often asked to us in the freelancing world. Many feel like they deserve a better payment after they gain more training and experience but don’t have the courage or guide how. Here are the tips on how you will approach your client to increase your rates and convince them.

1. Prove that your service is worth it

If you can prove the value of your services and results that you have delivered to your previous client. It would be great then your service will sell itself no matter what is the price. How you will showcase your previous results to your client? You can show them your testimonials. The client will love to see things that are tangible prove your worth to your clients and they will happily pay you a premium price.

2. Know your ideal client

If you know who your ideal client is, then you can easily increase your rates while maintaining your clients. Make sure to be specific in your niche and you are well-positioned to serve. Find out what type of businesses they are running, what features are they looking for. If you can do that all it is better, you will able to target a specific niche of clients and you can charge much, much more.

3.) Explain why you need to increase your rates

Justify yourself why you deserve to increase your rates, relate back to them your previous results and how the business benefit from what you did. Make sure to approach your client in a nice way, for example, “Raising your rates will allow me to take closely on the projects we do together and will mean better turn-around times for you and will more focus on your business” Then make sure that what you promise to your client you can deliver it.

4.) Focus on giving value

When you make your request, you should focus on value. If you can give results why not ask to raise your rates. You could communicate your expertise that has grown. You can say “Over the last year. I’ve helped many business owners to expand their businesses using my ability and skills. You can also say that you helped businesses to increase their sales of up to 20 percent. In that case, chances of raising your rates will be great”.

Know your worth

We hope our article “How You Will Approach Your Client To Raise Your Rates” helps you a lot in your freelance journey. All of us want high-paying rates, however, you need to prove that you can have the capability to increase their sales and you have a proven result. It will take dedication, hard work, and consistency to fulfill and get there. Make sure don’t stop believing in yourself just keep moving forward no matter what and you will far from others.

Get trained and certified

“Why with the Filipino Virtual Assistance online academy?” you may ask. The Filipino Virtual Assistance offers online job courses to freelancers, virtual assistance services to brands and businesses and franchising opportunities. Our mission is empowering families, one freelancer, at a time. Our number goal is YOUR success.

When you enroll with an FVA course, it also comes with:

A FREE apprenticeship so you can get an online freelancing experience (most clients look for this before hiring)

Hiring opportunities through our FVA Services where potential clients can come and hire you

You will also have lifetime support from the FVA Family and a Coach guiding you all throughout the process.

We are excited to help you. Level up with FVA today!

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Setting your personal and professional freelancing Goals for 2020 will be hard if you don’t know what things you need to do this 2020. Here are the simple ways that you can do to set up your personal and professional freelancing goals for 2020 so that you’re fully blasted.

Personal Goals

Personal Goals will be hard if you don’t have any plan and dedication to achieve it, you should smart in your goals be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely so that you have a list and timeline to achieve all those goals this 2020.

Here are ways that you can do:

1. Spiritual Goals

Pray at least 10 minutes a day to give thanks to the blessings that we received for today, make sure also to read 1 chapter of the bible a day so that you will be able to learn and spread the good news to others.

2. Food for the Soul

Stress in freelancing is normal sometimes we need to travel once a year so that we can enjoy and relieve our stress if you have time to go to the beach every quarter together with your family to enjoy and bonding together. Go to Spa/Massage/Salon once a month to make your beauty stand out again.

3. Taking care of your Body

Eating unnecessary food is our stress reliever, this 2020 eliminate soda, sweets and processed food you can eat carbohydrates but make sure to lessen it. Sleep at least 6 hours to replenish your body and have more energy tomorrow. Instead of eating unnecessary food why not to eat vegetables that will give you nutrients and combine exercise like 1 hour walking every Monday-Wednesday-Friday to improve your blood circulation.

Professional Goals

Professional Goals can help you focus on where you need to improve yourself and goals will help you to think about where you need improvement and here the ways on how you will do it.

Here are ways that you can do:

1. Skills Goals

Take a course whether it is online or non-online skills to sharpen your skills you can consider a simple Udemy course or you can consider FVA a lot of courses that will broaden your knowledge make sure to choose the right fit for you, as it will help you on your freelancing career.

2. Savings Goals

Savings should be our top priority no matter how much is your earning, as long you are doing it consistently you will go so far and just in case you want to buy things or if there is an emergency happen you have money to use and the best thing to save would be today so that you have a prosperous life once you retire.

3. Self-Growth and Empowerment Goals

Reading is essential so that your knowledge will be increased and especially you will learn a lot when you read books. They said knowledge is a power that no one can steal just keep reading to exercise your mind and help you in your future journey.

Podcasts will be tough when choosing, as there are many to choose from when choosing a podcast. Make sure you will learn from it and it should fit apart from what you want as it will help you to benefit in the long run.

The workshop will guide you to make you better and will help you to develop you as a person, not just that, also you will develop the skills that you can use in your future clients to help them to achieve their business goals.

Mentoring goals sharing is caring once you know a lot you can share them with others, you can train them and find opportunities to teach them or mentor them until they will stand by their own in that case you help them a lot on their freelancing journey.

Rock Your 2020!

No matter what goals are in your mind this 2020 as long as you do it consistently no matter what will happen along the way just continue, learn from your mistakes and I’ll promise you can achieve all that goals.

The yet is to come always trust yourself!

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Freelancing is a growing industry today. More and more people prefer working online because the pay is higher, there is the flexibility of time and one can manage contracts and hourly rates through online freelancing. There is however a struggle as the competition is high and most don’t have the right guidance on how to get started, effectively. Applying in different remote working platforms will take time and effort to be able to get those jobs. There is a tough competition and one would need to work hard in order to get invites and be hired. Many are not starting right or not working smart. Here are 5 ways on how to land a client without applying.

1. Make sure you are easily found

Clients might across in your application on Google or in any freelance platform. You have chances of getting hired once they see your portfolio. Credibility is very important in your freelance career, as they will respond with you and message you and contact you. They might interest in your niche or in your experience that you had chances is you will get hired by them. This is why it is important to build your portfolio and be noticed by clients looking for a virtual assistant.

Here are some tips on how to can establish your freelancing branding:

2. Referrals

When you are a freelancer, networking is a must. This has worked out and has been proven and tested to work. Your co-freelancer might refer you to other clients to work on the projects. In this case, you haven’t excelled in an effort to find jobs due to your network connection. When you provide excellent value to your client, they come back with you working again and chances your work of ethics will be known. The more you will provide value, the more referrals will come. Clients will suggest you to their friends because they see your hard work. With referrals, you did not spend any time finding clients, they are the ones who will come your way.

3. Build relationships

Don’t limit your network to potential clients only. Also, include other people who are outside your niche as well. This may include local and international friends, relatives, acquaintances, school mates, etc. The more you advance your branding and build relationships, the more you will increase the possibility of getting contracts our of these relationships.

4. Get a mentor

Getting a coach will save you time. An expert’s advice can save you not just time and effort but productivity and possible income as well. While many freelancers are trying to have their Upwork profile approved, you can learn the techniques on how this is done through a coach. The years of expertise a mentor experienced, the ups and downs and effective techniques can be all shared with you and this will save you a lot. You will learn how you can build your portfolio and be a business partner to your clients. In this way, you will learn the right set up on how clients will just come your way and not only the tips in starting freelancing properly.

5. Subscribe to FVA’s YouTube channel for free online freelancing training

The Filipino Virtual Assistance has embraced the mission of equipping families one freelancer at a time. The more we operate, the more we hear out both the newbie and seasoned freelancers’ needs. With this, we created our YouTube Channel to give assistance to freelancers. We desire every freelancer’s success. So don’t hesitate to subscribe and get free online freelancing training so you can set your freelancing niche the right way and attract clients!

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We hope this article “5 Mistakes Can Affect Your Freelancing Career” will help you to avoid those mistakes. Don’t afraid when you encounter a lot of mistakes throughout your freelancing journey, as it will lead you to succeed and make this a stepping stone use them to strengthen yourself and make sure to get up and come back to stronger. Here are tips so that you can avoid these 5 mistakes that can ruin your freelance.

1. You Are Pushing Your Boundaries

You are pushing your limit even though you cannot do it, Some freelancer is cramping due to more projects that need to finish. Make sure to balance on what you were doing to provide good results and high-quality work. In that case, you will have a long term relationship and the client will be happy in your work and might recommend you to another client.

2.) You Are Not Reading Enough

Reading is essential to you in order to broaden your knowledge, make sure to read sites, read blogs or news. It is great when it is related to the freelancing and if related to your niche so that you will stay up to date on current events and new about freelancing. It also helps you to find new places to get a client and ensure that you are familiar with what they are working on and their audience before sending any proposal.

3.) You Take Rejection Seriously

Freelancing is trial and error, some freelancer will take rejections seriously especially if this happening consistently. Don’t lose hope spending too much time asking “Why not me who got hired?” it will lead you to delay you from pitching another client that might actually want you. Instead of worrying about rejection that you encountered, focus on improving and enhance your skills. Start asking yourself how to move forward.

4.) You Don’t Have An Active Online Presence

Social media accounts are very important to promote your freelance branding. Having a personal website help as well, growing your audience will be your advantage to have more clients in the future it will give them a look into your personality. If you don’t have any social media make on immediately. You’ll be missing out on your opportunities, to get one client and it might ruin your future gigs.

5.) You Make A Lot Of Excuses

Whatever things you need to finish or that needs to do, finish it immediately so that you will meet all the deadlines. Don’t make any excuses to do these projects, in the end, you will suffer from it due to many pending projects that you need to work on. If you can do it right away don’t hesitate to do it and avoid any excuses to finish the projects that you were working on.

Conclusion

We hope you learned a lot in this article “5 Mistakes Can Affect Your Freelancing Career” One of my favorite quotes “Do not be embarrassed by your failures learn from them and start again by Richard Branson” If you will correlate this to freelancing failure will be permanent if you will quit. Use those failures to strengthen yourself and your freelancing to improve because those who quit will not succeed.

Get guidance from the Filipino Virtual Assistance, if you need one today, we are here to help you succeed.

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Aside from free courses and resources, one can also be acquainted with different freelancing tools. It is important to note that freelancing is still work. Thus, one needs to have a skill he can provide services with to different clients and brands around the world. Data entry tasks and other administrative assistance have a lot of competition. Most importantly, newbies in the freelance world need to be equipped with freelancing skills and tools. Here are examples of freelancing apps and sites you can start with.

Infograhic Sites:

Video Editing Sites:

Lead Generation Sites

Canva

Venngage

Piktochart

Easel.ly

VISME

Infogram

Visualize.me

Snappa

Animaker

BeFunky

Biteable

Mind the Graph

Clipchamp

Online Video Cutter

WeVideo

Wideo

Powtoon

Video Toolbox

Kizoa

Hippo Video

Magisto

Kapwing

In the rise of freelancing industry in the Philippines and around the world, it is important to be competitive and relevant. One can do this by having a specialized skill, providing proof through different portfolios and sending personalized applications geared to give solutions to businesses spotted in each job post description.

Be the best freelancer out there! Be the one who is able to give exemplary assistance to different brands around the world, especially in these trying times.

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Free Freelancing Courses and Resources

There are a lot of ways in which one can start freelancing. With the time and resources available right now, one can definitely learn how to become a freelance workforce. Here are some free learning tools you can start with:

Udemy – Udemy is a paid online course site but they also offer free courses like Using a Photographic Light Meter, Use Crowdfunding Effectively With Indiegogo and Kickstarter, and Learn How To Build A Corporate Website Using Joomla! 2.5.

Harvard University – Harvard opened some of their online courses and made it available to the public. There are online courses on web programming, game development, and mobile app development.

There are also a lot of video resources available on YouTube and Vimeo.

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There is a rise of the freelance workforce as more people desire to live comfortably by working remotely. More freelancers are working from home to spend time with their families.

In addition, the workforce is changing as more people leaving the security of an 8-to-5 job for the flexibility of freelancing. They can spend more time with their family. They don’t need to go out to commute and get stuck in the traffic. Instead of spending time commuting, they can be productive working from home.

Furthermore, people swap their corporate job to freelancing. According to CNBC, “There are now 57 million Americans in the freelance economy, up from 53 million in 2014.” To add, “freelancers doing skilled services earn a median rate of $28 an hour, earning more per hour than 70% of workers in the overall U.S. economy.” Also, “51% of freelancers say no amount of money would entice them to take a traditional job.”

Meanwhile, Rappler reported that there are more than 1.5 million freelancers in the Philippines and “by 2020, almost one in 5 workers will be a freelancer or contract workers, according to a 2012 global study done by Big 5 auditing firm Ernst & Young.” With the recent COVID-19 pandemic more people had shifted to finding possible income through remote working.

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There is a rise of the freelance workforce as more people desire to live comfortably by working remotely. More freelancers are working from home to spend time with their families.

In addition, the workforce is changing as more people leaving the security of an 8-to-5 job for the flexibility of freelancing. They can spend more time with their family. They don’t need to go out to commute and get stuck in the traffic. Instead of spending time commuting, they can be productive working from home.

Furthermore, people swap their corporate job to freelancing. According to CNBC, “There are now 57 million Americans in the freelance economy, up from 53 million in 2014.” To add, “freelancers doing skilled services earn a median rate of $28 an hour, earning more per hour than 70% of workers in the overall U.S. economy.” Also, “51% of freelancers say no amount of money would entice them to take a traditional job.”

Meanwhile, Rappler reported that there are more than 1.5 million freelancers in the Philippines and “by 2020, almost one in 5 workers will be a freelancer or contract workers, according to a 2012 global study done by Big 5 auditing firm Ernst & Young.” With the recent COVID-19 pandemic more people had shifted to finding possible income through remote working.

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Rise of Freelancing

There is a rise of the freelance workforce as more people desire to live comfortably by working remotely. More freelancers are working from home to spend time with their families.

In addition, the workforce is changing as more people leaving the security of an 8-to-5 job for the flexibility of freelancing. They can spend more time with their family. They don’t need to go out to commute and get stuck in the traffic. Instead of spending time commuting, they can be productive working from home.

Furthermore, people swap their corporate job to freelancing. According to CNBC, “There are now 57 million Americans in the freelance economy, up from 53 million in 2014.” To add, “freelancers doing skilled services earn a median rate of $28 an hour, earning more per hour than 70% of workers in the overall U.S. economy.” Also, “51% of freelancers say no amount of money would entice them to take a traditional job.”

Meanwhile, Rappler reported that there are more than 1.5 million freelancers in the Philippines and “by 2020, almost one in 5 workers will be a freelancer or contract workers, according to a 2012 global study done by Big 5 auditing firm Ernst & Young.” With the recent COVID-19 pandemic more people had shifted to finding possible income through remote working.