Welcome to the DigiSkills Freelancing Course. This 12-week course will guide you through the essentials of freelancing, from setting up your profile to securing your first clients and managing projects effectively.
Introduction to Freelancing (1 to 18)
Week 2 Building Trust and Professionalism (19 to 34)
Week 3 Mastering Freelance Job Hunting and Marketplaces (35 to 50)
Week 4 Creating and Optimizing Your Freelance Profile and Payment Setup (51 to 66)
Week 5 Promoting Your Gigs and Navigating Various Freelance Platforms (67 to 82)
Week 6 Mastering Upwork: Profiles, Bids, and Client Management (83 to 98)
Week 7 Advanced Upwork Strategies and Real-Time Project Hunting (99 to 114)
Week 8 Effective Bidding, Communication, and Project Award Strategies (115 to 130)
Week 9 Overcoming Challenges, Finding Inspiration, and Building Your Brand (131 to 146)
Week 10 Building Your Brand, Social Media Strategies, and Project Management Tools (147 to 162)
Week 11 Freelancer vs. Home-Based Service Business: Understanding Roles and Prospects (163 to 178)
Week 12 Exploring Diverse Freelance Opportunities and Conclusion (179 to 192)
About Trainers
Hisham Sarwar
Hisham, a seasoned freelancer has always been known to be an independent thinker and a risk-taker, proving his vision time and again.
Infomist, his brainchild, was established at the time when not many had foreseen the demand for website development. Since then, it has grown leaps and bounds under his visionary leadership, perseverance and hard work. Starting with a single computer to now a medium sized team to provide the best possible services as an outsource company, Infomist is a success story. With branches in different cities and head office based in Dublin, Ireland, Infomist primarily caters to the international market.
Hisham's determination, relentless energy, motivation and adaptability have proved him as a true leader. His contribution towards humanitarian causes and respect towards individuals has been exemplary.
Hisham is a tech social entrepreneur by heart who wants to give back to the community.
Irfan Malik
Muhammad Irfan is TOP RATED PLUS at Upwork. He has earned more than 1 million dollars by providing tech services. He represents the top 3 percent of performers on Upwork that are highly rated for work on large contracts.
He does not come from a privileged background. He was born and raised in a small village without basic necessities. He worked hard from an office tea boy to a computer typist. He has done many jobs to support his education.
Through all these challenges he kept going because he wanted to give a good life to his parents who worked hard as laborers throughout the life. He believes that the only thing that can rescue you is SKILL SET.
He switched many technologies to make himself tech independent to start his career in a tech startup but eventually, he stopped running from job to job, ran into entrepreneurship 6 years ago and never looked back. He is the founder and CEO of Xeven Solutions, a tech company that has expanded from 4 to 150 team members and 2 global offices in just short span of 5 years.