Freelancers -- where do you find most of your work?

Belen Casado said:

First I read Daniel's skills description and thought: 'That's great!'.

Then, Holly said something that's key: 'talk about your customers, not yourself'.

And I found the 2nd non told characteristic of these winners we've the luck to have here: they're focus ontheir actual and potential clients.

So we have:

1)    Believe in yourself and in what you can do

2)    Focuson your clients

 

Daniel, I think that you are for sure agood writer, and in your words I feel you're trying to convince yourself, whileI saw it clear when I visited your website. It seems to be your main strength.

 

To have another example and not take advantage of Daniel's story alone, I'll talk about mine.

I’ve been an e-learning project manager for 2 years in e-learning consulting companies, a post that in fact included ID and script writing, translating, etc. But I used to visit lots of clients todefine the project, set times, costs and goals.

 

Since February I’m in a much smaller company so I’ve started using Articulate to produce my courses. Before, I used to have a whole team of designers, writers, voice pros, etc. That’s why I found so interesting that most of you seem to put voice in your courses, while I still hire professionals.

 

So now I’m the one-man band and I’m learning a lot, a lot, reading all the community offers here.

 

I’m also good at writing (in Spanish), have also published and still have projects to be published. I’m a certified life coach and have been a trainer for years. I really like and enjoy ID and always try to create a demo of my own with what I read/see here. But e-learning is not my strength –it’s writing.

 

The thing is that I don’t know who the client is. I don’t know whose problem I can solve. I’ve written kind of a self-helpbook and people are attracted to it, but don’t know why, who, where to find them. I can do many different things and it seems that each is addressed to adifferent public.

 

Regarding e-learning, I feel that Ishould translate my courses into English, or I’ll do nothing. In Spain, my English is really good, but I cannot compete with native English speakers IDs in Elance or oDesk.

What do you think?

 

Belén