Are you enjoying your day job? Really?! Well, you might enjoy it even more if you knew that as a sideline you were making more money from freelance work. Make it happen! Try adding a side gig to your mix and start enjoying freelance work. The benefits are endless, and you will gain both experience and enjoyment as a freelancer.

Freelancing positions are ideal side gigs. The best part, you often do freelance work from home, allowing you to stay in your PJ’s all day! You can work hours that are suitable for you and flex gigs around your other responsibilities.

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Would you like to work remotely? Become a virtual assistant; the role will consist of administrative tasks, updating client’s data, tracking and prioritising a dairy, data entry and ensuring the client's workflow is fluent and highly organised. It is essential to have a quiet home office and a reliable internet connection.  

 

Are you looking for experience in the travel industry? Clients will receive inbound phone calls to schedule, air, hotel and car bookings, and supply precise domestic and international guiding and pricing information. Experience in the travel industry is always preferred; however, if you have the travel bug and understand the basics, you will pick up freelance work very quickly.

 

Are you skilled in short-hand typing? If you are this gig is an excellent option for you and will ensure you get that much deserved freelance work. If you can type 80 words per minute (WPM) and have advanced computer proficiency, your skills are needed! All that is required, a computer and an internet connection.

 

Being a virtual webmaster is a remote role that can offer you an abundance of freelance work. The requirements that follow are; updating clients website content, identifying and tracking website bugs, testing and auditing websites, ensuring websites are safe and secure for users, and constructing some aspects of a site.

 

Be prepared to write a lot! You will have such responsibilities as writing and editing, including marketing communications. Ideally, if you are knowledgeable in journalism or an equivalent, this will be valuable when a client views your resume. Mostly freelance work can be completed at home when copywriting.

 

Proofreading covers a whole array of areas from technical to more simplistic, be descriptive outlining your expertise on your profile. Freelance jobs may include proofreading blogs, articles, ads, marketing collateral, PowerPoint presentations and newsletters. Show that you have experience in this field to get freelance work quickly as there is a whole load of content on the web and businesses are the likely candidates to hire you to proof their work. If you require training as a proof-reader step has short training courses to get, you started.

 

As the title suggests, you will spend a lot of time editing videos. There may even be a team of video editors working alongside you for large scale projects, be ready to collaborate. Video content will likely be a requirement and once completed an upload to Vimeo or YouTube is likely, get used to how this works before taking on a role. Traits that a client will look for a detail orientated and prior experience editing footage.

 

Web development allows you to generate and develop digital design ideas and graphic design concepts be prepared to troubleshoot as this is one of your primary responsibilities. Solving both technical and straightforward issues is necessary and supporting the requirements of the marketing team if any, is part of the job role.  

Utilising a freelance platform such as Skillbox will give you the potential to earn the most as an online tutor due to it's unique 3 in 1 platform, allowing you to work online, in-person or create courses. As an online tutor, you will encounter tasks such as creating documents for exam preparation, updating resources, evaluating reports, checking course curricula and encouraging new approaches. This style of freelance work is easy to apply to a home-based role.

 

You will be required to have general experience in a customer facing role, with IT use proficiency, and reliable communication and data entry skills. This role is fast paced, expect a demanding schedule; however, there is also plenty of opportunities to grow your client base as many businesses use this type of service to attract customers to their businesses.

If you are looking for freelance work from home, head over to Skillbox a freelance platform catering for professional jobs and load a free profile today!