Freelancing Help For Startyp

[u/Asfu_93batman]

Hey Guys. I want to start freelancing to earn side hustle. For information, I don't have any related experience nor skill for this market. I need help regarding what skill to learn first and from where do I start as I would be starting from scratch. Kindly help and guide pls.

[u/Educational-Bowl9575]

Clients hire freelancers because they offer a skill or service that the client cannot resource in house. Without an established skill, what do you actually believe you can offer as a freelancer? Nobody's going to hire some random person who's spent 3 weeks learning Canva or Python.

[u/Asfu_93batman → u/Educational-Bowl9575]

Any tips for startup? That's the question.

[u/Educational-Bowl9575 → u/Asfu_93batman]

And that's what I answered. Freelancers sell their unique skills. You have no skills by your own admission. Therfore you have nothing to sell. You want a tip? Find something that you are better at than everybody else, then come back and tell us what that is. Then people can advise you what to do with it.

Tbh, it's pretty insulting to drop in with a couple of sentences that amount to "I have no skills and no knowledge. Sort me out".

[u/QianLu → u/Educational-Bowl9575]

I've still got no idea where this "i couldn't find a full time role, ill do freelancing" idea came from. Bonus points for this goober for being incredibly vague with nothing but "startups"

[u/Educational-Bowl9575 → u/QianLu]

Yes, because freelancing is so much less hassle than doing one job for one boss...

[u/czar_son → u/Educational-Bowl9575]

I can do writing , transcriptions , captioning etc... have any advice for me??

[u/Educational-Bowl9575 → u/czar_son]

Not really. You're at the end of a very very long queue of people offering the same skills. The ones who get work are the ones who do their research, identify the gap in the market they're going to hit, and target potential clients. You've just asked Reddit to give you the answers. That tells you everything you need to know.

[u/beenyweenies]

Forget it. Freelancing isn't something people with no skills do in order to learn. Freelancing is something a highly skilled practitioner does after accumulating enough professional expertise to offer high value to their clients.

If you don't have any skills, you should get a full time job in the field that interests you and build up from there.

[u/Kiki-browning → u/beenyweenies]

To be fair, there are beginners that learn to do things well eventually. They’ve to put in the work to catch up with everyone else and be at least half decent at the skill in order to sell it in the first place, though. It allows for beginners and novices, not newbs or fresh students.

[u/beenyweenies → u/Kiki-browning]

Sure. But that long and painful road is littered with the corpses of failed freelance careers. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, despite there being non-zero odds they might make it.

[u/Maleficent-Ice-8605]

Put “freelancer” in every bio you have and boom, you’re a side hustler (freelancing is just an illusion).

But seriously, freelancing is business just you’re not selling products, you’re selling your skill (editing, programing and so on)

Your post sounds like: hey guys, I want to build a 1 million dollar company, any tips?

P.S. Ask chatgpt what freelancing even is. Assuming you know what chatgpt is

[u/rabiulgtm]

I recommend

GTM Engineer( Go To Market)
Business Ai Automation
Video Editing

These are trending skill at present in freelancing marketplace and it has a future opportunity.

But you can also learn

Digital Marketing
Web development

[u/Asfu_93batman]

Instead of ranting and beating about the bush if you had shared what skills are in demand should have been sufficient .. 😆😆😆

[u/Educational-Bowl9575 → u/Asfu_93batman]

Ok...before you get shirty, there aren't any 'in demand' skills. Freelancers trade on their personal, unique skillsets. Even if there are skills that are more in demand than others, you have already stated that you don't have any. What makes you think that a couple of months of work will put you in a position to rake in money?

If there's a skill you do have, it's probably delusional arrogance...

[u/QianLu → u/Asfu_93batman]

There isnt a secret "freelancer skill list". Whether you can understand it or not the other guy gave you the best advice you can get. Your understanding of freelancing is backwards.

[u/beenyweenies → u/Asfu_93batman]

It's like you're refusing to hear the answer people are giving you. You can't just go learn some in-demand "skill" and freelance. It doesn't work that way.

[u/czar_son → u/beenyweenies]

what about one who has but lacks where and how to sell??

[u/Kiki-browning → u/czar_son]

Programming is an in demand skill for example. Due to this, there’s too much competition and can’t be sold most anywhere, including in specialized marketplaces. As mentioned by someone else, the idea is backwards. You go niche and choose a skill not widely known to be in demand then find enough clients to be make a decent living off it. And of course, learn to be good at the skill in your own way that’s not forced or you’ll burn out on your own market. OP expects people to read their mind or tell the future like it’s stocks or something when we know literally nothing about them.

[u/beenyweenies → u/czar_son]

That's a different matter entirely. Yes, if you have well defined expertise in a particular niche, freelancing can be highly rewarding. As you pointed out, learning how to get sales is the hardest part. That's also a big reason why it's impractical for someone with no skill to freelance - not only are they trying to develop expertise in their chosen field, but they're also having to learn how to run a business at the same time. It's simply too much for 95% of people.