Before jumping into freelancing, you must know at least top 5 freelance skills you can learn quickly. It is a very important aspect as it will lead your way to earn. Most of the time people fail to earn in freelancing just because they lack the requisite skills. The very first step is to know these skills and then we should learn them.
I have posted a detailed blog about types of skills including soft freelance skills in my earlier blog post “Top Fields in Freelancing in 2021”. Briefly, soft skills are easy to learn and in a short time too. So, it is very important to learn these skills to start your freelancing career.
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Why its important to learn top 5 freelance skills?
I recommend learning these soft skills to a newbie mainly because of two reasons:-
- Starting the career
- Start earning to boost confidence
After learning these skills, the next step is to choose a main field like digital marketing, creative designing, or technical by making websites. Those fields will be your bread and butter in the future and will not only provide you regular work but also make you a brand. In the meantime, you can learn these top 5 freelance skills. These skills will provide you an opportunity to start earning.
In demand freelance skills
In this blog, we will learn the following top 5 freelance skills also known as soft skills:-
- Background removing from pictures
- Email signature creation
- Make beautiful jpeg images/ banners (using CANVA)
- Transcription
- Survey Form
Let’s start all those top 5 freelance skills one by one.
1. Background removing from pictures
It looks like a very easy task but believe me or not it can take hours of designers to professionally remove background from some images. You will find a lot of jobs either via direct freelancing or indirect freelancing. If you don’t know the difference between them, please read my blog “difference between direct and indirect freelancing”.
It is professionally done by designers using Adobe Photoshop and mainly they use “Pen Tool” to do so. However, here we are discussing soft skills, so I will tell you the easiest way to do background removing from pictures without using any software.
There is a very good site to automatically remove an image background with the help of just a few clicks https://www.remove.bg/.
By going on this site, you will have to click on “Upload Image or drop a file option”. After that, you can further edit this image by adding a background or erase/ restore required areas. That’s it. Congratulations, you can now download background removed images without doing much.
Tip: In case a client asks for a PSD file. You will have to just install Adobe Photoshop. By opening this image in it and saving it as PSD can resolve this issue.
2. Email signature creation
It is another wonderful soft skill to learn in the list of top 5 freelance skills. It is not a bad way at all to earn money in freelancing world. First of all, let’s understand what is an Email signature creation? As you know everyone has an Email account. It can be Gmail, Hotmail, etc. Similarly, businessmen and professionals run their businesses and mainly work via E-mail.
For this purpose, they need professional and good looking Email signatures. They either don’t have much time or don’t know the process to create one. By learning this skill, you can easily create Email signatures. For this purpose, there are different sites including https://www.mail-signatures.com/signature-generator/
You’ll go there and by entering all the details, you can create an automatic Email signature for your client. Normally it includes Name, Job Title, Phone number, mobile number, company data, graphics, social media links, etc.
3. Make beautiful jpeg images/ banners (CANVA)
In the list of top 5 freelance skills you can learn quickly, it is the most important one. It is a useful tool discussed here. A lot of time to learn graphic design is required. Though many of us know the basics of designing but either don’t have software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign or don’t know the art to use them. In either case, you can do it by going to the CANVA site i.e. https://www.canva.com/
You can use a free account or buy a pro account to create images. You can make posters, infographics, presentations, resumes, logos, Instagram posts, YouTube thumbnails, Facebook posts, and many more things. There are thousands of templates and by using them you can do it in minutes.
4. Transcription
It is also a soft skill and provides you an opportunity to work from your home. Transcription is mainly done to type audio recordings. It is not a very hard task and just needs good typing and listening skills. You can improve your typing speed by spending some time on Typing Master. There is a sentence having all alphabets, “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. Just try to type this sentence again and again without looking at the keyboard to judge your skill.
For experience, you can go to YouTube and start transcribing videos for your experience and portfolio. It is pointed out that in the YouTube videos settings, there are options to slow down or accelerate video speed as per your convenience.
5. Survey Forms
Last but not least, you can create survey forms to earn money. This skill is more about brainstorming. After making questions and their options, the next step is to create survey forms. It can be done by using Google docs. https://docs.google.com/
Firstly you will have to login using your Gmail account. Then go in forms and by creating a blank form, the process will start. Now we have to enter our questions and their options one by one. The questions can be multiple choice questions or with short answers. Moreover, other options including adding images and videos with questions are also available. Many clients especially NGOs, university students, and offices need Survey Forms and it has a good scope in freelancing.
That’s it these are the top 5 freelance skills you can learn quickly.
Highest paying freelance skills:
All the above skills are the highest paying and most demanding freelance soft skills. Moreover, some of these freelancing skills are with less competition. Now its your turn to learn these skills and start your freelancing career. It is recommended to spend as much time as possible on these top 5 freelance skills to polish them. After that, you can work on any platform like Fiverr. If you don’t know Fiverr read this, “What is Fiverr?” Best of Luck ♥