In this article, I am stripping the process right back to bare bones.In the future, I plan to go into more detail as to how you can accomplish each step. Having said that, I know that you don't need me to hold your hand. I know that you are fully capable of using your own initiative to figure out these steps on your own.
1. Assess Your Talents
In a nutshell what are you good at. You should list absolutely everything regardless of how trivial it may seem. Your most trivial skill may in fact be the most commercially appealing. I didn't give my writing skills a second thought, but I can actually leverage them to produce a full time income.
2. Consider Monetization
Now that you have your list of talents, you need to figure out how you might monetize them. As mentioned above, we are not initially talking about speculative business ventures. We are talking about finding people who have an immediate and ongoing need for your talent. Once you have established a base income, you can look to see how you can further exploit your skill for higher rates, or passive income.
A good place to start is online job boards. Although I wouldn't necessarily recommend it in terms of sourcing work, Craigslist is a great way of finding out what people are in need of. Simply Googling your talents and seeing what comes up is also another great method after all, if other people are making money in such a way, why can't you?
3. Start
This is the true beauty of getting started with freelancing. There's no sitting around, waiting for your speculative efforts to come off. You source jobs and you start. That represents a very solid step in the right direction.
