If you are a professional freelancer who is fully committed to making a career out of freelancing and ultimately making money in the process, you should naturally be very selective as to what freelancing platform to choose for your business.

If you are a professional freelancer who is fully committed to making a career out of freelancing and ultimately making money in the process, you should naturally be very selective as to what freelancing platform to choose for your business.
Freelancing is often associated with freedom, flexibility and control of one’s own life, and for a good reason, freelancing is all those things and much more. To put things into perspective and help you truly understand what freelancing is, simply contrast it to a full-time employment of 9-5. Assuming you’re employed and are familiar with what the corporate world is like, freelancing is complete the opposite.
Nine months later and $150K you’ve borrowed from family and friends, you have the first version of your revolutionary platform ready to go and so naturally you launch it with a drumroll. You’ve built your platform without much thought of anything else, let alone client’s acquisition as you believe they sure will come, for after all your platform is so revolutionary and more importantly designed to meet the needs of your target audience. There’s only one problem, no one shows up to your $150K party! But why, you wonder?
The innate human need to belong and fit in is often one of the major causes of such self-destructive behavior. Countries and communities worldwide are structured in such a way to support the ‘follow the follower’ system which often leads to a mediocre life at best. But why live such a life of mediocrity? Why follow the followers?
Despite all the popularity, freelancing isn’t necessarily for everyone. Similar to entrepreneurship, freelancing entails dealing with uncertainties on daily basis. Unlike conventional employees who work 9AM-5PM, freelancers don’t have it all figured out, instead they have to go out there and make things happen. For starters, in addition to being professional in what they do, they have to be very creative and resourceful but most of all, exceptional sales people in order to find prospects and ultimately convert them into clients. Freelancers can’t afford to fail for that could mean the end of them and their freelancing careers.
Every entrepreneur that launches a business faces seemingly insurmountable obstacles, challenges and dilemmas from the get go. Those challenges, obstacles and dilemmas include but are