step-by-step: how to actually work [from home] as a freelancer

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In 2021, her career advice went viral on the internet (tiktok.com/erinmcgoff) when she shared her original template for the dreaded job interview question, "Tell Me About Yourself." Since then, Erin has continued to work full-time as a film director and editor, while also creating career advice content on the side. McGoff credits her success to her ability to research, passion for education, and personal experience as someone on both sides of hiring.
Upon graduating from film school, Erin received a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center to support her debut feature documentary about Laos, THIS LITTLE LAND OF MINES, which went on to receive festival accolades and international distribution. McGoff has also completed three short documentaries, SOUTHERN SUSTAINABILITY (2018), NEW YORK IS SILENT (Pulitzer Center, 2020), and DARROUZETT, TX (PBS, 2020). McGoff has worked with a variety of brands including Google, Microsoft, Meta, National Geographic, Intel, Walmart, ZipRecruiter, Capital One, Hilton, etc. You can view Erin's work at erinmcgoff.com
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@AdviceWithErin 8 ай бұрын

What questions do you have about freelancing!? I'm going to make more videos :)

@elBrytoPOGO 8 ай бұрын

Was the "Freeance Guide" @15:28 an intentional nobody's prefect moment? Real question. Have you ever found yourself in a position where two freelance jobs had a conflict of interest?

@jerlinjoseph3129 8 ай бұрын

how do you get your first client ? cuz I just started freelancing on fiverr, freelancer and so many other places, but still could now get my first client. What would you recommend to do ?

@AdviceWithErin 8 ай бұрын

hahah yes - typos are my great weakness for sure 🥴 too bad Grammarly doesn't work in Premiere! And it's a good question. You should always keep a tight seal on any information a client shares with you. If something feels like a conflict of interest to you, make that call. @@elBrytoPOGO

@AdviceWithErin 8 ай бұрын

I go allllll through how to get your first client in my webinar & freelance guide! DM me "FREELANCEREPLAY" on Instagram & I'll send you a recording! @@jerlinjoseph3129

@amandajkrieger 8 ай бұрын

Hi! This video was so helpful! I've been on Fiverr for a little over a year and wasn't worried about the platform fee because I didn't expect to make enough to pay taxes. But I did, so for that reason and a few others, I want to move off the platform. Do you have videos about rebuilding a client base after leaving a freelancing site?

@kristinae.7084 7 ай бұрын

Consider grant writing as an in-demand freelance job! I had to quit my full-time nonprofit job due to health issues, so I started offering freelance grant writing services for nonprofits. Immediately I got more work than I could handle-- the nonprofit world desperately needs grant writers! I have been self-employed for 6 years now, and I can make a living working part-time and arrange my schedule completely around my health needs (as long as I meet my deadlines). It's awesome!

@anneisabelle001 7 ай бұрын

This is my goal too!

@CandiBass 8 ай бұрын

I’m so glad I found you. I’m already without work and I never thought about freelancing like you expressed it. Being out of work for over a year but coming from a mindset of always needing to have a job takes a toll mentally. Video editing and animation are my new career choices as a creative so I’m excited to move forward. Thank you for new perspective.

@constructingadditionalpylo8597 8 ай бұрын

I left my job 2 months ago and have been trying so hard to get a new job but nothing is moving for me. I keep feeling like the universe is trying to tell me to focus on my sewing business and doing clothing repairs.

@alynecorradi6154 8 ай бұрын

Ughhh I ADORE you Erin!!! This is the video I really needed. I admire you so much!!!!

@fulaahmed9762 7 ай бұрын

Definitely obsessed with your channel and your content is something we really need ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@courtneykrueger2714 8 ай бұрын

Best video I’ve ever watched! Thank you so much!

@karincecilie 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Erin! I'm just starting of and I felt like this video made it super easy to get an overview of the steps and where to go! Yay! And I actually just finished my website yesterday and published it through squarespace as well. Love how easy it is to build on there. And thank you for saying the thing about the websites being important. Because they are! Sending you big hugs from Scandinavia!

@AnneH-od4yj 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this, it's good to see a video that lays out steps without an attitude of secrecy or elitism.

@platyadmirer 8 ай бұрын

Before leaving college I thought one could never have a job so secure as a salary job. Now I know it is anything but, and am so happy to know there are other options. Thank you Erin!!! ❤

@jetsetternick3588 8 ай бұрын

Remarkable material!! Subscribing now 🎉🎉

@IndigoIndustrial 7 ай бұрын

No workplace healthcare is a significant risk in the US. Easier to deal with if you have family support. Not so much of an issue in the UK.

@alexisf623 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for making these videos Erin! They are so helpful. How do you figure out which types of companies would be willing to take on freelancers?

@AdviceWithErin 8 ай бұрын

Many large companies in tech, creative, marketing are very freelancer-friendly. You start by reaching out just to ask if they have a freelance roster, and if so, that you'd love to be added.

@eliyahubenysrael6272 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this!

@user-pr6kp9nt4g 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing Erin! I didn’t expect to get a whole long-term plan but yet this is so nice and gave me hope, everythings you said was so well structured

@AdviceWithErin 8 ай бұрын

Haha yeah I went a little overboard, hopefully it wasn’t too overwhelming! 😅

@waterdragon55 8 ай бұрын

@@AdviceWithErin no it actually wasn't as it gave me a way to do it as I used to be soo confused on what is actually freelancing

@Sol_Mooney 8 ай бұрын

As an aspiring freelance artist your videos are soo helpful. It's sounds scary (especially the tax stuff) but your videos make all the challenges that come with it way more approachable.

@AdviceWithErin 8 ай бұрын

so happy to hear that!!

@sirgusdaddyix4729 8 ай бұрын

I've been watching your videos for months and I just realized: how am I not subscribed to you yet?

@AdviceWithErin 8 ай бұрын

Welcome, friend! ❤

@chozo1176 8 ай бұрын

This video has been really helpful for an aspiring illustrator! I'd like to ask for some advice - in the early steps, do you recommend taking on any and all work? I have been casually without any professional terms by a family friend to illustrate for their children's book. It's an art style and area of the industry I don't really have any passion for, and something I would like to avoid doing in the future, so while I understand the need to grow your portfolio and connections early, I'm also not sure if it's worth potentially setting a precedent in my portfolio that that's the type of work I want to do and be contacted for.

@waterdragon55 8 ай бұрын

I think if u dont wanmt to do something dont do it as it might then give an impression that u love doing that when u actually don't like it so u should do actually what u want to do and say no to places that u r not interested in as just sayon ur portfolio what u want to do and what u don't want to do so that people will see and if they still ask let them know that I have written that I am not interested in this type of work.

@delayedsantana 7 ай бұрын

Yes absolutely true I think you need to target specifically who you want to target. It’s literally like a algorithm, it’s like indeed start seeing I got a real good sales job and now all indeed does is refer me to only sales jobs!! (I’m 19 and was working at Walmart prior) and I only got into sales for all that experience and skills but now I only get sales jobs!!!!!! (Ps it’s all fixed and I’m welding for 20/hr full time (it is the most I can get rn)) and it’s real stable for me . But yes I don’t think you should be doing work you don’t want to unless it pays really good. If anything your counter can be something like that you’d love to indulge but it’s not entirely your area of expertise and wouldn’t want to jeopardize what she has in mind… and if she doesn’t care than charge her whatever and get paid and ask for referrals

@enricomassaro7437 7 ай бұрын

Great video Erin, thank you for the advices! I have a question: I am working in Supply Chain department of a Pharma company, the skill that I would pick is writing. Writing is very natural for me (in my mother tongue, of course), but it is very different from my daily job. How do you think it is the best way, if it is possible, to keep my daily job while building a reputation as a writer?

@dixiemerchant1052 8 ай бұрын

I’ve discovered you as a 60yr old and enjoyed sprucing up my speech so I recommend you to my 30yr old -who was all excited to tell me she watches you too!!

@user-ir5yx6zz3k 8 ай бұрын

How would your advice change for someone who just got laid off and is trying to create income by building a freelancing career? Would it change?

@LitaMoraes 8 ай бұрын

Thank you sooo much. I really want to try freelancing as an artist, but I have the little problem that I don’t even live in the USA, so, I don’t even know if there’s any difference in this case

@honeymirouwi 6 ай бұрын

Do you have a video that explain how to get a first client and how to send email to get a client? Thank you soo muchh

@gordonbrown4705 8 ай бұрын

I need to out this into practice for my photography!!

@AdviceWithErin 8 ай бұрын

Yes! 🎉

@simfoniaco 6 ай бұрын

I started full freelancing on 2020 and it has been great, but I still get some really dry months. I have a few regular clients that do come back once in a while but I'm struggling to get that flowing. It's super scary sometimes, but then, sometimes it's the total opposite and I need to say no.

@strwbryblondi07 8 ай бұрын

I think this came at a perfect time for me to hear this! I love the idea of my time being my own. But I wonder if after a while, doesn't it just feel like your clients are your boss? Is the hope to not have many repeat clients, and just be project-based? Do you feel like you have to reply to emails right away and always check? I'd love to go on a hike on a pretty day, then catch up on things at night.

@akilmehalli9746 8 ай бұрын

If you wait for the answer

@delayedsantana 7 ай бұрын

This was exactly it. I started selling solar which I can correlate -owning your own business- with selling solar on a 1099. You rely on someone else, the target… is a human. Like she said, it’s unstable and that’s… just not worth it in -MY- reality. Obviously she’s making money. But she’s not you or I. Being a business owner is very up to what your situation -already- is. Which is why you already want 6 months of emergency fund, running fat on cash when opening up a business, have a house and/or car paid for, debts paid off, etc. it’s why you don’t quit your day job to pursue an entirely new job that hasn’t even started walking yet. It’s better to enter into entrepreneurship when you are -ready-. Meaning if your business doesn’t succeed you have a back up plan, or else all else will fall and you may become homeless. Owning a business is a win all or lose, you give your entire self to it. For me this was a major decision. I decided and acknowledged how much I really enjoy my schedule and how much more i get done in my life… whether I desired it or needed it. I like “the typical 9-5 job” bc once I clock out , it’s all about me . The rest of my time, for the rest of my days that I work with that company, is completely mine. When I was selling Solar, such fucking good money. But I was falling asleep still thinking about a clients project. Waking up hoping a certain permit was approved or waking up to chargebacks, or learning that a certain bill was changed, anything. I was -always- working, in that sense yk? It was like work was ALL DAY. Sourcing for events, networking and being social to ppl when I just really needed a sale, like sure that’s the name of the game is HARD WORK to equal success but all this shit, hoping for somebody to buy my product or service bro, is just stress I don’t need to handle. For whatever 9-5 job whether it’s welding metal, answering a phone, killing cows, running all day, driving a truck, what the fuck ever it is ima just robot that shit. My preference is actually 12-14 hr shifts 4 days on 4 days off but. Just turn off your conscience and then when you’re home turn it back on! I like martial arts, music theory, science, psychology, walking at night, smoking weed in the mornings and nights and most days, welding. So much shit that I honestly don’t think I’d be able to enjoy if I had to manage my own business. And with this much competition with EVERYBODY wanting to own their own business? I think it is ok.

@delayedsantana 7 ай бұрын

I’d just rather have a whole bunch of hobbies that I turned into side jobs! And make a full time living off that. I’d literally never feel like I’m working I’d just being doing shit that I like and get paid to do it. But I never quit the 9-5 cs if shit gets wonky … well I guess if kept an emergency fund I’d be fine for a bit then huh 😂

@beetleblooming 6 ай бұрын

I work from home as a freelance court stenographer. It is nice to work from home, but sometimes you feel like you never leave work. The work can be so busy you have to work 7 days a week to get it all done. Also, in America, freelancers pay way more income tax because they don’t have the employer match. And let’s not forget there’s no paid time off for sick days or vacation. But it is nice to not have to stay in an office when you’re done for the day.

@Ali-Schreck. 8 ай бұрын

Hey Erin! Do you make your own contracts or do the companies who hire you usually going to provide a contract for review?

@delayedsantana 7 ай бұрын

Very good question

@kristinae.7084 7 ай бұрын

It probably depends how large and established your client companies are. Bigger companies probably have contracts ready to go (or someone who does that sort of thing), but for smaller companies you might need to write your own. I work for small nonprofits and always have to provide a contract.

@komalupadhyaya30 8 ай бұрын

I am tired with long commute, restrictions and monotonous work. I am a content writer as a professional and currently expecting a baby. I would love to do freelancing, thinking of applying on freelancing websites. Do you have any suggestions?

@labumtum 8 ай бұрын

Hello Erin/ youtube audience. I have a question. I plan to be a stay at home mom until my children are in school. What do you recommend I do in that period to still be hireable when I go back to work 5 years down the line. That or what are some part time work from home jobs you think I could do. Or maybe some type of credential I can work on getting during that time that would allow me to be b home? I already have a bachelor's and a masters.

@Catlady19 8 ай бұрын

I am in a very similar boat. I have a Bachelors degree and I’m almost done with my Masters degree. I’m also new-ish to motherhood and freelancing appeals to me as a potential option to keep my career progressing while devoting more time to my kids. Erin, do you have any insight for freelancing as a working parent?

@kristinae.7084 7 ай бұрын

If you are a good writer and are pretty organized, you might consider writing grants for nonprofits. There is a huge need for grant writing, and you could hone that skill from home, leaving you with a super marketable skill in 5 years. You can take online courses in grant writing and do it on a volunteer basis to get started if you need. I've built a great at-home career out of it!

@katherineh.9379 4 ай бұрын

Here in the Netherlands it's the total opposite of the US when it comes to "freelancers are cheaper and therefore more wanted than their own workers". Freelancers here ask a way higher salary than "normal" workers

@pinelopestef7351 8 ай бұрын

This is really nice but my only concern is that it's always about the US and it feels like it doesn't apply to the rest of the world

@AdviceWithErin 8 ай бұрын

As an American, my advice will always be most appropriate for Americans, however, freelancing is a global industry and available to anyone no matter where they live!

@kendrickjibson222 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video, I found out that investing is not for everybody, you just need a strong stomach too see your portfolio go down. It might be wiser for a novice to start with copy trading investing, but it is not easy. To invest in growth stocks it is another level, definitely you need to know what are you doing.

@kendrickjibson222 8 ай бұрын

From my own point of view, you need to invest smartly if you need the good things of life. so far i've made over $255k in raw profits from just 6 months into the market from my diversified portfolio strategy and i believe anyone can do it you have the right strategy, mutual funds takes long time but investing smartly is the key for short term. Most of us tend to pay more attention to the shiniest position in the market to the cost of proper diversification.

@Louisharvey56 8 ай бұрын

This is a phenomenal advice for a new stock traders and investors who want that quick short term game, but don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

@mariaaguilar7076 8 ай бұрын

I've been solely investing in real estate. But with the recent hyper home pricing i've liquidated a few things and have $45k in cash laying around idle. Would love to get your recommendations, I'm in search of something lucrative in the current crazy markets, i will be glad.

@kendrickjibson222 8 ай бұрын

My portfolio is very much diversified so it's not like i have a particular fund i invest in, plus i dont do that by myself. i follow the trades of Mrs Karen Gaye Gray.

@kendrickjibson222 8 ай бұрын

She is a popular broker you might have heard of. I can correctly say she's worth her salt as a financial advisor as her diversification skills are top notch, because i see that in her results as my portfolio grows by averages of 10 to 15% on a monthly basis, unlike i can say for my IRA which has just been trudging along, my portfolio just mirrors what she trades and not just on some particular industries of my choosing.

@xcristinat 8 ай бұрын

It's hard to think of any hard, sellable skills that I have that would even be in demand though...I've worked in office settings and I've excelled in every one even if I had to learn a lot at first but I can't imagine doing anything similiar for freelancing and being not just super dedicated but also enjoying it 🙃 I mean, can someone just pay me instead to play with dogs or cook/bake vegan recipes or have snarky commentary on things? I'm good at all of that 😂

@jakovmarsic2619 8 ай бұрын

I wish u had your own paid community

@waterdragon55 8 ай бұрын

I was thinking aboutt a job due to being so stressed out on not getting any jobs and saw the email I have heard soo many times about freelancing when I was in highschool but never looked at it before might look into it as I want to do digital arts as a college student going to finish my minor in digital art and loveee doing it would do it all day if I had the time after getting out of college also going to try cadit so maybe might do cadit and do freelancing at the same time not sure if I will get in or anything and also wanted to do youtube so this might do it for me.