When you first begin freelancing, you’re going to have a lot of excitement and energy for the work. This means that it will feel less like “work” than your full time job does and so it won’t be terrifically difficult to work full time during the day and still do your freelance work at night or on the weekends. But as the excitement wanes, you’ll have less energy for the job, so it’s critical to use that period of time when the excitement is high to the greatest advantage possible.
It is during this time that you should set goals for your freelance company. The best method of doing this is to sit down and work through a business plan template. This will help you to find the focus of your work and to determine both short and long term goals. You should do this early on because it’s a tedious task that will be easy to put off later when you’re beginning to feel like working full time and freelancing on top of it has left you with no time to do anything else. You should set realistic goals for the upcoming month, six months, year and five years.
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