Being a freelancer is way easier than 10 years ago. Especially when you can work anywhere in the world, by using internet connection. There are so many freelance website now. From Fiverr.com to Freelancer.com, these are all websites that can help you to built reputation and get closer to the market.
All you have to do is, to promote yourself. You yourself can be the marketer for your own business. In the previous post, I told you about the Russian document translator that I met, remember? She did shared a few tips toward becoming a freelance translator.
Register yourself at freelancer website, microjob website
She did it this way. She registered on Fiverr and some other microjobs site. She got small projects which is like a good practice to her.
Contact a translation company
After a while, with some experience and portfolio at the microjobs site or freelancers website, she contacted a translation company to be their sub-contractor. Surely she impressed the translation company with her Russian document translation tasks that he did before. And now she is working with that translation company. This is sound easy, right? Ha, maybe you can do it too.
Don't forget to promote yourself anytime anywhere
Since she regularly travel, she always bring her business cards with her own translation website (not the company above). Hands out her business card during travel seems a good way to find prospect, especially in the airplane. That's what she told me.