If you want to succeed as a freelancer then you need to be prepared to blow your own trumpet. There will be people on the job sites singing their own praises and it is no time for you to be coy about how good you are at what you do.

Don't be overtly salesy or over hype yourself. Be factual and tell people you are good.

Avoid the temptation to only compete on price. The best freelancers are fully prepared to walk away if the price goes too low because they know what they are worth.

If you know how much you need to earn and you know how much your skills are worth then you will know how much you can afford to take a job for. There are always going to be people who will pay for good quality work. It just means that sometimes you have to walk away from potential work.

This can be very hard to do, particularly if you need the money, but if you start to compromise on price then you can find yourself stuck doing work for less than you are worth.

Always make sure you deliver top notch quality. A freelancer gets more work based on their reputation and if you have an excellent reputation you will find people seeking you out to work for them rather than you having to look for them.

This is a very beneficial position for you to be in because they will know your worth and be happy to pay it.

Make sure that every single piece of work you do is the best you can produce. This will justify your worth and keep people coming back to you. The hardest job is to find freelancers that produce high quality work, and this is why you will do very well if you keep your quality high.

Ensure that you understand what you have been asked to do as well as your deadlines. Make sure you stick to the deadlines and meet them. If you continuously miss them then you are going to find that you stop getting work and get a bad reputation.

If you are in any way unclear about what you have been asked to do then you need to clarify it. Use Skype to keep in contact with your customers as well as email. Skype is very useful to quickly ask a question to clarify a point.

You may need to send an outline back to your client first to ensure that they are happy with it before you progress into the main work. The last thing you need is to spend weeks working on a project to find that you hadn't understood what you were asked to do!

Whenever you work for anyone, ask them for feedback and testimonial that you can use in your marketing of yourself. Ideally get a picture and a web address to use in order to make it more authoritative. If you can, get them to record an audio or video too.

This social proof adds value to you and your services and will help to remove doubt from people who are thinking about employing you.

You need to keep a record of all of your clients as well so that you can email them when you are in need of extra work. If you are looking for work you can send an email to your client list reminding them off your services or offering a special deal.

This is a really good way to quickly get some work when you need it.