Introduction

In the industry of freelancing there are many types of jobs. All industry are requires a unique type of skills and ability to succeed in that. But there are some of skills and abilities which are common in all freelancing industry. We are discussing about those common skills in this post, those skills helps you recognize person in the market. No matter what are you or what you want to be; such as- SEO Google expert, blogger, content writer or copywriter, these skills help you and you need to implement these skills in your work culture.

Hard skills

These types of skills generally people receive for various sources, those skills which are measurable and teachable. These skills are very vital for any freelancer to perform well in his area.

Here are some examples of hard skills

• Proficiency in programming and expertise in the coding for creating websites
• Capability to manage, fill, and create a page of word press for an employer or client
• Proficiency using fixed sharing of file and image sharing of images software and platforms
• Basic knowledge of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and understanding of keywords
• Capability to balance, keep, and manage payroll records and accounting records
• Use to with programs of computer and numerous software and hardware
• Involves growth monitoring skills, reaching to customer , and ROI( return on investments )
• Ability for targeting on your writing skills in freelancing career and all others

Soft skills

These skills generally part of personality growth and traits and after they need improvement in those skills by learning. These skills help you to maintain your work culture and daily routine task. These are not critical for all job role but these are desirable and useful skills which all freelancer required, especially freelance writer.

Here are some of those skills

• Strong and effective skills of communication and capability to direction follows
• Personable and friendly mood and capability to prompt in the professional way
• Thinking critical and applying reasoning, especially performing under pressure
• Capability to be at level headed and be calm in those situations, where stress appear
• Capability to get criticism in constructive type without having it as an attack on personal level
• Become self- motivated and capable to monitor yourself when require
• Dependability and the capability to handover on promised  deliverables and deadlines

Writing-Specific Freelance Skills

We already find out basic and common skill which helps for all freelancers but from here we review some skills which are helpful for those who want to become successful in freelancing writing.

1. Content Writing

if you are writing a content then you need to always thing and imagine, how your content become unique and effective for that you need to do few thing like – organization, storytelling.

2. Proofreading and Editing

Freelance content writer always focus or aim on how they submit their best content in the works, and that is called proofreading and editing.

3. Social Media

To stay up to date with your latest experience of learning is also primary skills, and that allows you to add a new skill in content writing and you can present this skill in front of your client with the name of social media content writer.

4. Word Processing

 We can say this is very simple or softer skills in compare with other to become master, with the help of this you are able to type accurate and quick, which is also a prominent part of the jobs of freelancing writing.

5. Content Management

Those writers who do Freelancing writing should earn experience with CMS (content management system) such as word press only they want to provide content management service to their clients.

6. Advanced Writing Skills

If the content writer wants to become expert in this field then he needs to learn and become master in these skills; such as- concise language, tone, flow, voice and analysis.

7. Grammar

Using skills like Grammar are essential to any writer or we can say for this industry. Utilizing this tools help you to recognize your popular and common issues in grammar and that issue have to fix as soon as possible.

8. Research

This is another essential and requires skill in freelance writing or in this industry. Because you have to complete knowledge about what you are writing for your client, and knowledge needs source and source are not those thing which you can find easily you need to research about those sources. So that’s why research is prominent for the industry.

9. SEO

Having a basic knowledge of SEO is essential for freelance writer, because SEO helps you to building your list of clients. This also important to have understanding of SEO because freelance writing is all about how you works and how happy your client with your service.

10. Interviewing

In this case interviewing is not defines as a conversation of people but it is also important to gathers information from people.

11. Formatting

Formatting means when a client gives you a job to a freelance writer, than it is your duty to submit the work with proper format. Formatting also help to improve readability of people and present it effective as well.