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    The Simple Guide to Freelancing: Branding Yourself for Success
    The Simple Guide to Freelancing: Branding Yourself for Success
    The Simple Guide to Freelancing: Branding Yourself for Success
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    The Simple Guide to Freelancing: Branding Yourself for Success

    By Wolfgang Matejek

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    With the job market uncertainty as it is, there may be a compelling reason for you to work as a freelancer.
    For one, you can earn extra income with freelancing, utilising your existing skills and knowledge in your spare time. Secondly, the skills and experience you use during your freelancing period will also add to your skills portfolio, giving you more opportunities to carve out your desired niche of where you may wish to start your own business career in the future.

    While this all sounds quite simple, there are potential hurdles you may face. While I am not able to tell you what these may be, since everyone’s approach to becoming a freelancer may be different, I can however tell you that whatever those hurdles may be, you will need to overcome them one way or another.

    With my ‘Simple Guide to Freelancing’ I am going to share with you a lot of what I have learned over the years.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWolfgang Matejek
    Release dateDec 22, 2016
    ISBN9781370919406
    The Simple Guide to Freelancing: Branding Yourself for Success
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    Wolfgang Matejek

    Wolfgang (known as Wolf to his friends and clients) works as a freelance Talent Consultant for major corporations around the world, providing training services to their teams. He also frequently appears as a public speaker covering topics related to running and growing a small business. Some of his courses for both business and self-development can be found on his website. Writing books is more of a hobby rather than a major income source to him. But as he says, 'it's a great way to sharing my knowledge with even more people'.

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      The Simple Guide to Freelancing - Wolfgang Matejek

      WM Resources Ltd presents

      The Simple Guide to Freelancing

      Branding yourself for Success

      By Wolfgang Matejek

      Copyright Notice

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

      may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

      without the express written permission of the publisher

      except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      First Edition, 2016

      Published by Wolfgang Matejek at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2016 Wolfgang Matejek

      Visit my website at http://www.wmresourcesltd.com

      Visit my online training programmes here

      Contents

      COPYRIGHT NOTICE

      INTRODUCTION

      FREELANCING – WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?

      YOU ARE YOUR OWN BRAND

      SETTING YOURSELF UP AS A BRAND

      DEFINING YOUR VALUES AND BRAND VISION

      LET’S BUILD YOUR BRAND

      WHERE CAN YOU FIND WORK

      HOW TO ENHANCE YOUR BRAND AWARENESS

      HOW TO & HOW MUCH TO CHARGE FOR YOUR SERVICES

      LEGAL STUFF – TERMS & CONDITIONS, PRIVACY POLICY ETC.

      INVOICING FOR YOUR SERVICES

      CLIENTS – YOUR DAILY BREAD & BUTTER

      RESOURCES

      OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

      Online Training Courses

      Introduction

      With the job market uncertainty as it is, there may be a compelling reason for you to work as a freelancer. This in itself offers a two-way prong of opportunities based on your skills and knowledge.

      For one, you can earn extra income with freelancing, utilising your existing skills and knowledge in your spare time. Secondly, the skills and experience you use during your freelancing period will also add to your skills portfolio, giving you more opportunities to carve out your desired niche of where you may wish to start your own business career in the future.

      While this all sounds quite simple, there are potential hurdles you may face. While I am not able to tell you what these may be, since everyone’s approach to becoming a freelancer may be different, I can however tell you that whatever those hurdles may be, you will need to overcome them one way or another.

      I myself started my career in the corporate world, before deciding to become a freelancer in the world of bespoke IT CRM systems training and personal development. The major hurdle I faced was the drop into the unknown. I was facing the situation of where do I find paying clients for my services, or working potentially for people I have never met, and establishing myself as an expert in my field among others.

      My perseverance though paid off and I landed my first big contract with an international corporation, which not only was very exciting to work for, but in addition paid very handsomely for the work I delivered.

      I haven’t looked back since, as

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