Freelancing is a contract-based profession where instead of being recruited in an organisation, the person (freelancer) uses his skills and experience to provide services to a number of clients.
Freelancer using third-party platforms like Freelancer.com, Fiverr, 99designs, etc. to get business or use their network to get more business and provide services to their clients directly.
In simple terms, freelancing is when you use your skills, education, and experience to work with multiple clients and take on various assignments without committing to a single employer. The number of assignments or tasks that you can take just boils down to your ability to deliver on them as asked from them.
25 Types of Jobs You Can do as Freelancer
1. Web Development and Designing
You all know about web development and designing. You have to design and code the website and give it to your client.
2. Teaching and Tutoring
You have to teach and tutor online over Skype or Google Hangout. Job is pretty simple you need to organize various sessions and give lectures.
3. Freelance Writing and Copywriting
You have to write for various clients. Freelance writing could be anything from ghost writing to article writing for a blog or website.
4. Creative Design
Creative design could include a vast area of design related work. For example take PowerPoint presentation or desktop designing with Adobe Photoshop.
5. Sales and Marketing
Here you got to generate leads for your clients. You have to market a product especially on the internet. Marketing could be anything email marketing, social media marketing etc.
6. Graphic Designing
Graphic designing is all together a different field. You got to create graphics for printed and electronic media. Graphic designers are huge in demand as a freelancer.
7. Mobile App Development
App development is very hot especially for mobile platforms like Apple and Windows. You need to develop Apps as a freelancer for your clients.
8. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is also a popular freelancing job that can be done from home. You need to pull a website and rank high on Google. SEM or search engine marketing is same thing.
9. Branding and Public Relations
Branding and PR jobs are in high demand if you are a freelancer. These services can be given working as a freelancer from your home. The campaign that you are going to run will be on Internet.
10. Admin Support or Assistance
Administration Support or assistance could come in various forms like being virtual assistant or managing a certain kind of project.
11. 3D Modelling and CAD
3D modelling and CAD is an advanced subject however the demand is great if you want to work as a 3D Modelling and CAD designer.
12. Game Development
Game development is also quite similar to app development. However, here you will code about games that are played online or offline.
13. Translation
Translation jobs are also in great demand if you are a freelancer. You need to translate something from one language to another. There is legal translation and medical translation also.
14. Web Research
Web research or internet research is quite an easy job for freelancers. Here you will be given different types of tasks like surveys, filling form, taking poll etc. Basic research work!
15. Legal Services
Legal services are for law graduates or students of law. Clients seek various services like corporate cases, criminal, property, family, paralegal etc. Here money is great!
16. Transcription
You might have heard about transcription jobs. Transcription jobs could be anything from general to legal to medical. Medical transcription jobs are most popular among freelancers.
17. Article and Blog Writing
Although we mentioned freelance writing and copywriting in the very beginning of the article but article and blog writing is different. Here you write blogs and articles for bloggers.
18. Photography
Freelance photographer is one of the most popular freelancing jobs. I should have mentioned this much earlier in the article.
19. Customer Service
Customer Service jobs for freelancers are there but not quite popular as others. There is other different customer service like giving technical support to the client.
20. Social Media Coordinator and Community Manager
Social media coordinator or community manager jobs are not for everyone because you need to have experience. Here you need to know about platforms like LinkedIn, Google Plus etc.
21. Logo Design and Illustration
Logo design and illustration could come under creative design. Design logos for websites and create magical illustrations.
22. Audio and Video Production
Audio and video production comes under creative design.
23. Data Entry Jobs
Data entry jobs are nothing new and you might know about them. You have to see images and write it down into a word file. You have to finish certain pages in a day.
24. Human Resource Management
HR manager or human resource managers are required by the clients. You can do this job online as well offline from your home.
25. Architecture Services
Finally, you can get a job as a freelancer for various architecture services. The most popular one is interior designing. You can deal with clients from your home.
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