{Virtual Work Opportunities for the week of June 11th….scroll down…. but we’d love for you to read our advice on how to land these great opportunities first!}
I was laying in bed last night past midnight. Not asleep. This is so rare for me. I’m a hard sleeper. But, I treated myself to a Sunday afternoon nap and therefore…. the mind was still raring to go.
Here’s the dark side of freelance work that isn’t talked about enough.
Recently I’ve spent good time with prospects on strategy / get to know you calls only to not get the contract. They seemed all in and even gave me the start date but then, crickets.
I’ve also had clients really draaaaaaaaagggg out work, getting contracts started, etc. So contracts I thought would end in May, are still open in June. (and I was nice about it and let them….because, well, that’s good business sometimes.) That means….May revenue wasn’t what I expected it to be.
Frustrating right? But that’s the reality of freelance work and it happens to all of us (but isn’t a reason to NOT do it ok? Your day job could drop you in a hot second with no severance pay as well.)
So at midnight I jumped onto Upwork to reply to a couple messages from prospects who sought me out and asked me to interview for their projects (nice, huh? the right stuff in your profile and that happens!)
Just a few minutes browsing on Upwork and FlexJobs and my fears were gone.
In fact, I had to force myself to sleep and wait until morning to get up and reach out to those prospects. The work is out there. Are you finding flaky clients and prospects in one niche? Try another.
Secret Insider Tip:
I’ll go on a limb and say most people running those really fun looking online businesses are really struggling to be profitable themselves and can’t get organized enough to even task a team. I know this because often I’m in that uber-busy place where I want to give my VAs more work but literally can’t find the time in the day to prep it. So if your vision is working with all these cool mompreneur biz chix boss mom types, perhaps expanding a bit and finding more stable work will let your business establish better first? Shared with love. From one overwhelmed freelancer to another.
Check out our favorite opportunities this week. Where we try to avoid slow, flaky prospects and point you to the best opportunities out there.
This week we found lots of stuff for experienced virtual pro’s at good rates!
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Week of June 11th
{These virtual work opportunities are pulled from various sources around the web each week. Some are free listings and some require a membership to sites such as FlexJobs or HireMyMom. If you want the best clients, long term business and the highest rates, we suggest using these sites over free Facebook groups. To learn how to refine your search for the highest dollar virtual work opportunities, try our fast class.}