Sometimes, once a while I do receive e-mails or questions from friends as to “How to become a freelancer in Pakistan”. For the last 3-4 years i have been a freelancer, and my freelance carrier have been quite exciting and successful, I got the chance to work on some of very big projects, designed products for clients and made extremely good connections with some of very successful people from the silicon valley.

During this journey i focused my work to work only for international clients & companies. Usually my target market was USA / UK & very few projects from Canada as well. If I take sneak peek back in time I did even build a website for a renowned celebrity from Hollywood.

Freelancing is just like another carrier, you work hard, you grow with time learn allot and of course you do make good money sometimes. But one thing that you need to remember is it’s not a piece of cake, the only benefit of freelancing is that you are your own boss.

Starting freelance can be quite easy or very difficult to do, it’s a sort of setting up your own business and you have to be a designer, a developers, a business developers, a marketer and a manager of your own self. You have to manage your time, learn, market and sell project to clients. If you have made up your mind to do so then yes you can read below as to how to proceed further.

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I was just roaming around on the net and was going through Genex Blog and stumbled upon the story on AboutUs.org, which happen to have an office in Lahore. AboutUs.org is a sort of wikipedia, but instead of wiki about dead people i mean historic stuff and encyclopedia it a wiki on people, business & web according to them

AboutUs is a wiki whose goal is to create a free and valuable Internet resource containing information both about websites and other community created topics. The site was pre-populated with information about many different websites and thousands of updates are now being made by people each day.

So to test the site i entered my name and search, when result came i was bit shocked as some one had been kind enough to add all my information there, even my picture ! My website was already listed with all its details. Its a good feeling to see that happen and gives a feeling as if you were some kind of a famous Designer on whom people would write about any how apart from that day dreaming part it is a bit scary as well in terms of Privacy, as what all we publish on our web properties gets reproduced some other place without our knowledge.