A simple and quick introduction to Freelancing. Be your own boss. You can find everything about: - What is freelancing? - Why freelancing? - What should you freelance in? - How to start smartly? - How to find clients? - What if the freelance marketplaces have gone?! - Some important notes.

2. Tarek Alabd
- Computer Engineering, Tanta Univ.
- Certified android developer
(Google-Udacity).
- Founder & Chairman @ GDG Damanhour.
- Flutter Developer & Public Speaker (TOT)
- Talks in tech field and some other fields.
- A lot of projects & works as a freelancer
& Nayf Group
- Content Creator on YouTube
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3. What I’ll cover today:
● What is freelancing?
● Why freelancing?
● What should you freelance in?
● Start smartly!
● Finding clients
● What if…?
● Notes

4. What is a freelancer?
● Self-employed person who offers services
● Often = several jobs for multiple clients at one time!
● earns money on a per-job basis (hourly - daily)

5. Why freelancing?

6. What should you freelance in?
Skills
Art
Demand

7. What should you freelance in?
How do you know what the market needs?
● Research industry reports, blogs, articles and etc
● Talk to somebody in the industry (mentor)
● Consult a recruiter
● Research the announcements in LinkedIn and freelancing
websites.

8. Start smartly!

9. Start smartly!

10. Start smartly!
● Benefit from the experiences of others
● Be honest with yourself and your capabilities
● Must have a portfolio
● Have to be patient

11. Finding clients
● Existing personal networks
● Networking events
● Volunteering
● Freelance marketplaces
Common sources of finding freelance works

12. Freelance Marketplaces
● Upwork
● Freelancer
● People Per hour
Global marketplaces

13. Freelance Marketplaces
● Fiverr
● Gigster
● Toptal
● 99designs
● Guru
Local marketplaces
● Envato Studio
● DesignCrowd
● Nexxt
● Design Contest
● Task Rabbit
● Hireable
● Writer Access
● Bark
● mostaql
● khamsat

14. Portfolios
● Projects
● Platform to display it
Your capacity to earn depends on the quality of your portfolio

15. Platforms for portfolios
● Design => Behance or Dribble
● Programming => Github
Your capacity to earn depends on the quality of your portfolio
● Video Editing => YouTube or Vimeo
and so on

16. What if they
gone?!

17. Self-Branding
● YouTube
● E-commerce
To create a uniform public image that demonstrates your values
and overall reputation.
● Web & Mobile

18. Notes
● No skills => Start with photoshop or programming
● Must improve your English skill
● No ‘for free’ at all
● Don’t always work at home
● Improve your skills
● Be patience