How to Gain Experience as a New Freelancer

Would you believe me if I told you that every successful freelancer has the same thing in common?

It's true.

Wanna know what that one thing is?

It's that you all, we all, have a day one.

It's the day that comes after you decide to pull the trigger. That day when you finally take a dive into the deep end. It's that day when you finally make an actual move to take charge of your life and income.

We all have a day one.

Believe it or not, you can become a successful freelancer without experience. However, gaining experience can provide more confidence, perspectives, and knowledge to produce better products, services, or valuable content for your target audience. Not only that, but it helps increase your exposure and creditability as a business or someone within your industry. The best way to install trust in your newfound tribe is to prove why you are the best option, which is best done by sharing your experience.

The following are four ways to gain experience within your industry as a new entrepreneur.

Communicate with your ideal or future customers

Believe it or not, simply communicating with your target audience or ideal customers will help you gain more experience within your industry.

If you're a writer...write.

If you're a designer...design.

If you're a...well, you get the hint.

When you communicate in your modality, you learn more about their needs and desires while gaining new perspectives about the industry. The more you understand what your customers want or need, the more likely you will impact.

In other words, you don't need hands-on experience to know what is valuable as long as you "listen" to your audience.

Take a part-time job

To gain experience, try it for yourself.

For example, get a part-time job or go in full-time just to learn. While the goal is to get away from being an employee, that still doesn't mean you can't make a temporary sacrifice to gain all the knowledge you genuinely need to succeed.

Become someone's social media assistant. Take on a role as a writing editor or part-time article writer. These are just a couple examples that can help build your skills as a new freelancer.

Learn their deepest needs by doing as an insider.

Get started...just GO!

To gain experience, do the work.

You don't need all the knowledge or know precisely how everything works to start a freelance biz. In fact, simply getting started is by far one of the most common ways many successful freelancers believe they made it. Dive in and accept that you may not know every single step of the way, but starting is a sure-fire way to begin the journey.

However, you can't realize success without action, and there is no other perfect time than now.

Find a mentor or coach

Finding a mentor or coach willing to teach you and share the wisdom it takes to grow a business is a great way to avoid many people's common mistakes on this journey.

It can also give you the confidence and courage you need to start.

Having someone in your corner with the experience you crave is always, and I mean always, a solid step in the right direction.

The final word

Becoming a successful freelancer doesn't require experience.

Still, gaining experience can provide more confidence, perspectives, and knowledge to produce better products, services, or valuable content for your target audience.

It also helps increase your exposure and creditability as a business or someone within your industry.

Overall, gaining experience as a new freelancer is not tricky.

It only doesn't seem very easy and out of reach because it's different and requires leaning against your comfort zone temporarily. However, gaining experience can help improve your skills and knowledge within the industry to provide additional and more efficient value to your target audience.

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