Deciding your own schedule. Choose your own projects. Do as much or as little as you want. This independent lifestyle that seems like a dream. But when it is not.
Accompanied by all the flexibility and freedom to work in your bedroom came as concerns nerve racking if you will be able to pay all your bills this month. Elusive that consumers will eventually pay up long? Can you not afford to replace the broken-down vehicle with a functional and keep up with your loan payments?
So yeah, it's good when the sun is shining on you. But unlike the work that brings guaranteed salary in monthly cloudy day (?) Can severely burn a hole in your financial sector. By being in the boat myself, I can assure you that it is not a fun place to be in. So what has helped me in those dark days and helped me eventually along splendidly? These simple strategies.
1. dig into your network
When will begin to get rough, do not hesitate to reach out to your friends? Be prepared to get a lot of pushback, and do not feel too bad about it. Most people are too busy making their own meeting go out of their way and help someone else out. However, it would be a good Samaritan out there who can guide you the chance interesting or who will put you at least on someone else if they can not use themselves.
You have been active on various forums, communicate with friends and colleagues for years. You may have built a reputation for yourself and, in all likelihood, your network knows you are good at. This is the time when you tap into these networks and addressing opportunities for themselves. Research shows that social networks are used by employers to find candidates. A study presented by Google, the most successful workers tend to be most active on social networks.
LinkedIn is the best place to start, but not limited itself just to LinkedIn. Facebook shows that your friends with common interests. Twitter allows you to reach out to just about anyone from Bill Gates to near your home.
Find people in your niche and do not hesitate to contact them for the opportunity.
2. Establish a joy of creation
Human actions are motivated simply by the prospect of reward. Professor Wolfram Cambridge University from Schultz has shown us that when the expectations of us from any action that is low, and when these actions are met with rewards unexpected, the amount of dopamine released into our brains are larger. In contrast, when working with a clear expectation of rewards that are not met, the resulting nerve wracking.
Take note of this study and prepare for the worst when you're face down on the front of a professional. Do what you do best - writing, drawing, craft, singing, whatever - without great expectations attached to your actions. Do it for the joy of your craft, and the results will follow automatically.
3. Learn new skills, explore new tools
Time low in your freelance career is a good time to retool itself, both literally and metaphorically.
You can choose to upgrade your current skills, check online or at your local community college. I know friends who have built businesses bakery successful after attending a free workshop on baking and decorating cakes in her collection of local shops. Sites like edX, Alison Khan Academy offers hundreds of different modules in a wide variety of subjects Free. Many universities offer certification programs online that look great on your resume, upgrade your skills and abilities will not cost you an arm and a leg.
Besides getting new skills, you can use your down time to learn about new tools that make the job faster, easier and better. We often have independent double up as their web design, content, and marketing our registered accounting. Traditionally, we do not have the money or resources to achieve our favor. Luckily, the Internet is now the power of the free tools that allow us to do just that.
MarvelApp example, allows you to turn your samples and ideas into realistic and mobile networks capable of sophisticated simplicity of its prototype. No need to hire the web developer or designer to strike.
You have a load of publications and helping with the blog and announced market you're social - Snip.ly make the preservation of content a breeze, PDF Split Merge allows you to mix and remarketing and book your whitepaper and Piktochart lets you open blocks boring of industry data to the content that sees the audience C- suit your.
Finally, if you want a better handle on your Independent Business Finance (who does not?), Check out Nutcache payment tool for tracking and time free and easy to use.
4. Spend money to make money
When you are down on your luck, it seems like every penny saved is a penny got. While this may be true for the generation of your parents today, you need to invest in your business to see the back of it. Just as experience makes investors into the stock market money during the Running Bear and sees his money up when the market inevitably rebounded to run a cow, created a fund for promoting your services when orders stop coming in, and your business need that extra boost.
If you have a website or blog, promote it using AdWords and other PPC. Are your users active on Facebook? Advertise to your target audience with perfect advertisers pay on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest, as the case may be. Using such a Retargeter to communicate to the user that has visited your website already and has expressed an interest in your services. This is a good time to restore the database your email. Using tools such as MailChimp or Vertical Response email campaigns to build ROI driven to bring measurable results.
5. Moonlight: Poetry does not pay the bills
When things are not looking up in the region's core expertise not hesitate growth. It is literally living on the hope that your next big client is just around the corner, but independence does not have the luxury of a "wait and see" time. Bills need to be paid the wheel of life need to be greased and all of that comes at a price.
Hundreds went out of the Council of multi-disciplinary work on the Internet and try your luck in the area that may be a tad out of your comfort zone. Besides the usual suspects like oDesk and Elance PeoplePerHour or Fiverr to find some really out of the box freelancing opportunities. Who knows the new project just might mean starting a whole new career!
In closing
In good times, just go with the flow, but remember to breathe and have a little fun for yourself. When things slow down, try the tips mentioned above details to keep your head above water. Peak and troughs in your career to be expected. With the resources and storage of position, a decline that is unconquerable.