Your First Freelance Job: How you should handle it

Everyone has to start somewhere, and even you would have starting as a freelancer with some freelance job or the other. The first freelance job that a person ever does is a learning experience, and depends on how it turned out, it can even be memorable. Here are some tips to handle your first freelance job. 

Inform your client that it is your first freelance job: 

There are many concepts in the world of freelancing that are supposedly known by the client as well as the freelancer. Of course, since you are new to this world, there are chances that you might not know what an escrow is, or you might not know what a timezone specific deadline means, etc. 

Though these concepts are important, there is nothing in them that should make you lose a lucrative freelance job.  If you do not inform your client at the outset that you are a newbie, he or she may take it for granted that you are comfortable with these concepts and it would not be a good picture if the client finds it out later in the day about you being a newbie. Therefore, inform them prior.

Wait for Approvals: 

 Unless expressly notified not to, it is a very good idea to send part of the work for approval, so that both the client as well as the freelancer is sure that they are on the same page. This is very important if you are working on a long term project,  because it saves on a lot of rework for you, as well as it saves the client the trouble of going through the work again and again. 

This does not mean that you get the right to slack off on the job just because you are waiting for an approval on a particular aspect of the job. Continue working on your own speed until the client reverts to you with any changes. Once you receive these changes, make them and then send them to the client as soon as possible. 

Stick to the Brief: 

Of course that thing can be better like that, but the same concept that worked in your job works in freelance, the client is always right. There are some cases where the client will ask for suggestions from your side, or decide you give you a free run on the project, but other than that, stick to the brief.