Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

TommyCarey Level X³

August 17, 2016, 2:03 pm

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I always get people asking me what I do, usually when we go out with friends and they have new people with them. Below are a few of the questions I've gotten and my responses to them Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

Questions

How much money do you make?
People will usually ask this because they want to see if it was worth it for me to get into this field. They also want to know because if the number I say is high enough, they'll try to crack into it as well. My response to their question is normally "I make enough to pay my bills, put food on the table, go see a movie or two and have some left over for savings" I won't usually answer this with an actual number unless the person is pissing me off by flaunting how much they make and is a complete annoyance.

What exactly do you do?
Now I don't answer this question thoroughly because I work in the Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Web Design fields. But the most basic answer I can give to explain what I do is this "I do online marketing. Basically people who own websites will come to me if they want to make more money online and I will help them generate traffic through the search engines or optimize their pages in order to increase their rankings in Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Higher rankings means you get a flood of traffic and sales."

What is search engine optimization?
I usually get this after the "What do you do?" question because people haven't really heard of SEO if they work a 9 to 5 job for a company. I'll respond to this by saying "It's the act of building links on third party websites to get the search engines to notice them. When a search engine follows through the link they will see that end result website and give it credit for the link. This increases their rankings slowly and once they get to the first page they will get a load of traffic. I will also optimize their pages so they are following the guidelines set forth by Google."

How did you get into freelancing and online marketing?
My response is always "I kind of just fell into it. I was trying to put up a website of my own because I heard you could make money from posting ads on your page. But then I found out you don't make money from those websites unless you have traffic. And that's why I started learning SEO"

Is it easy to do?
Sometimes I laugh when I hear this question lol Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

I'll typically respond to this, after I'm done laughing, by saying "No it's not. It's a tough job and that's not just because it's difficult to learn, but if you're freelancing you have to be diligent and stay on task otherwise you'll fall behind very quick." this is where they always say "oh that's not a problem, I can stay on task" but they've never done anything that wasn't scheduled for them lol Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

Well those are a few of the basic questions I get each week when talking to new people.

What questions do you get as a freelancer?

Thanks,

Razzy

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Lynne

Ok Razzy, I have some questions for you. I have stalked your profile here a few times and you know what I see? A buyer rating of 0% and a seller rating of 0%... and a Level of X3, but no services.

So how exactly do you freelance here and make money when there is nothing to see?

I am so intrigued because you have such helpful and insightful posts that get my brain ticking away yet your profile is an inigma.

And what on earth is the QR code?

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TommyCarey

I'm an enigma because I don't sell on seocheckout, but I use it often Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

I work directly with the owner of Seocheckout on PingFarm, IndexKings, and LinkCheckPro where featured listings get shown in the results. Well, I don't actually work with him on them anymore because they're all set up. But I did the initial marketing and optimization for those websites and own 50% of them Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

Now as for my seller rating, it shows 0% because I can't sell my $850 to $10,000 Online Marketing services on Seocheckout and be competitive. I can't be competitive because people sell full service jobs that can get the job done for one or two keywords and people see that as the only thing they need to buy in order to get to number 1. I run a full service online marketing company and target the big companies who can pony up thousands a month in order to achieve top rankings. I look for the big fish, not the newer website owner looking to dabble with a few seo service campaigns here and there.

I was asked to help with the community discussion by answering questions that were tough for others to give a detailed response to. I was willing to do the task of answering all the questions I could because I've known the owner of Seocheckout for many many years. I've known him even before Seocheckout was an idea in his head or a line of code on a server Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

I was asked if I wanted to help out on the new community discussion and I was more than happy to help out because the owner of Seocheckout has in the past taken some time out of his extremely busy schedule to help me out with some programming problems that would have cost me thousands Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

So the most basic answer to your question would be... I'm just here to help Common questions I get as a full time freelancer

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Lynne

Oh wow Razzy, that is way cool and it has cleared up my questions! So you get like honorary X3?

Well I thank you for sharing all your knowledge and wisdom here, I love your posts and your responses, which is why I kept going to your profile and finding a big black hole LOL.

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vinaya

I am a freelance writer. When I started writing and publishing, people used to ask me, so you are a writer, what do you do exactly? Most of the time I could not convince people that writing is my profession.
A couple of years ago people understood that writing is also a profession, but they did not know freelance writer. They would be asking, "On which newspaper or magazine do you work." I did not have any affiliation with newspapers and magazines. These days, upon hearing I am an online writer, people ask me, do you actually get paid. When I say I can write an ebook in two days and make $300 from the book people will never believe me.

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Barida

I always get some of such question as regards how I make money working as a freelancer. The funny part of it is that some of those that ask such questions will always have cold feet about learning how it is done, but will like to ask for some funds as regards working on the internet. So, I don't think answering those sorts of questions is necessary for that.

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vinaya

I think all freelancers can relate to these question because the society cannot understand freelancing as a regular income. Most of the people think that freelancing is just a part time work to make little money. They don't understand that people can earn even if they do not have a full time job.

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Corzhens

The first question thrown at me when they learn that I'm into freelancing in the internet is how much I earn. That is the most common concern of people, money that you earn is an important information for them. My take is that they will follow my footsteps if I had been earning big money. Unfortunately my earnings are meager and not to be coveted.

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