This is going to be the last advice for freelance carrier which is to become a specialist. Now why do we need to become a specialist? The main reason is that if you are a specialist You are like a rare diamond and your rate will be higher than any other normal Freelancer or full stack designer of course tag developer, okay. So what kind of clients are going to look for you clients like project managers, design directors, they always look for special skills, okay? Because they already have hired a lot of people they know what they are looking for. Okay.
The second benefit of being a specialist is that you can really charge higher hourly rates. If you are a normal web designer you might charge maybe 30 or $40 per hour or $20 per hour. But if you are a specialist, you can easily charge $80 per hour or maybe 150 dollars per hour. I have seen people charging $80 even in it India or Pakistan, okay. So, in countries like us $80 is too much even I think the managerial level jobs they cannot earn that much, okay. Also specialists can become a consultant later in their career because they are, they know a lot about their subject or they know a lot about their skill okay.
So people will come around and say okay, I need a website or I need an e commerce website, what is your suggestion Should I purchase this plugin or this plugin or how what is the route I should to take? Okay, so you can easily become a consultant and you can give them advice. In this way, if you have like 100 products, you should you can easily open up ecommerce website on the WordPress back end. And if you need a very big ecommerce website where you have more than thousand products, then I don't recommend WordPress it is going to be slow. Okay, so this is really going to give you an edge, okay, so you can easily become a consultant. Now the key takeaways are that specialists are going to earn a lot more than jack of all trades, okay?
So keep that on average every time in your mind. Now the second thing is that specialists have a great demand in software agencies or software, app development companies, okay? So keep that in mind. So if you are a specialist like if you are to to my specialist on Unix or Linux servers or something like that, then there will always be a need for you. Okay. Now, the final word of advice from me is that at the end experts are really going to when they can really charge a higher than average Freelancer and don't try to be jack of all trades.
Okay? Don't try to list hundreds of skills on your portfolio, or freelance profile, but only few you are best at. Okay, so keep all these things in your mind. If you have any questions ask me so let's move Want to the next lesson?