How to Make Big Bucks through Freelancing in 2020

4 min readOct 25, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has definitely hit the economy hard. As the economic curve takes the route downhill, furlough, lay offs, and unemployment have become very common.

But remember as the world goes digital, so should you. It’s devastating to lose your job, but there are so many windows open. It’s time for you to resort to Freelancing!

Freelancing has undoubtedly become the hottest trend of 2020. Why?

The reason being simple:

Recruiters get the top notch talent as there is a lot of competition
No much expenses, both proficiency and experience can be hired at an extremely competitive rate
Flexibility is the tastiest cherry on the cake. It’s not a full fledged job, you can work at 2 am or 7 pm. It’s on you how you delegate your time to meet requirements

Freelancing helps built a symbiotic alliance between the hiring manager and the freelancer. The latter earns money sitting comfortably on their couch, sipping coffee. While the former can hire the most cream talent at an extremely affordable price.

Haven’t already? Start freelancing today!

Here are some rigorous tips on how to make the maximum of freelancing. You can a lot of money and become one of the most polished freelancers, if you follow these tips diligently.

Know your niche, precisely

Say you are a content writer and are looking to freelance in content. There will be one thousand projects for content writing, but will you apply in all?

If you do, you have already taken the wrong path. Know precisely which skill/genre of content writing you expertise in. For example, if you love creative writing, solely take projects that demand this skill. Likewise if you are a technical writer, it is important to apply for most of technical writing projects.

Now, why this? With this strategy, you will not only enjoy the project as it something that you are totally quaint in, but also be able to give your 100%.

Don’t be a jack of all traits and master of none. The perils are more, merits few!

Abide by the timelines, strictly

When freelancing, the foremost thing is to show commitment to the project you are doing. Of course, this field is sans any micro management, stringent timings, or a binding work schedule. Don’t take undue advantage of the flexibility and submit your work on the set deadline.

Apart from creating a positive impression in the recruiter, your chances of being re-hired will mount if you are committed.

Be serious, sluggish attitude is a big no. That is, no sympathy for apathy.

Create customised bids

Many freelancing sites offer you to bid on the projects being posted on their platform. Many people make the grave mistake of copy pasting a generic bid for each project sans reading the description.

This is because people believe in ‘first come first serve’ rule. That is, the faster they bid on a project, the higher their chances of getting recruited.

This is absolutely not the case!

Recruiters can easily trace whether you have read the description carefully or not. Irrespective of you being the most swift in bidding, the project will ultimately go to the person who has actually placed their bid as per the project requirements.

Given this, always read the project details properly without any hurry. And then customise your bid, according to what the project entails.

Slow and steady definitely wins the race here!

A good feedback is important

Always ask your recruiters to give you feedback. Be committed and give your 100% to receive a positive feedback.

Feedbacks help other recruiters in filtering your profile amongst many others. If your work is being liked and appreciated, the other recruiter by seeing the feedback on your profile may directly hire you.

It’s just like ratings. We generally prefer or buy a product with good ratings and almost seldom purchase a low rated product.

Same goes with you, freelancers!

So these were some simple tips to earn big money by freelancing.