This is one of the worst season in your freelance career or freelance life which is surviving no jobs isn't okay there are times in your freelance carrier there where you will get no job at all even for months now I am going to tell you a lot of ways in how you are going to survive these no job seasons and how you are going to get more jobs in such kind of season and even if you don't get any jobs what you are going to do in these no jobs isn't that no jobs isn't can be experienced by very experienced and expert freelancers to okay even I have seen few freelancers that are working for like 10 years, and they have faced these for no job seasons for more than three months. Okay. So this jobless season can last up to three months. So don't worry about it.

I'm going to show you guys how to survive it. Now. The first step is when you are thinking about monthly income. Okay, so if you are thinking that my aim for this year month is thousand dollars or maybe $5,000 always aim higher okay try to price each project thinking in mind that you need to make this income equal to the three months expense of the next three months okay. So your each month income should be equal to the expenses total expenses of next three months so charge higher try to get jobs that are in high monetary terms okay high value in dollars and match this statement okay. So this is the formula each month income should be equal to three months expenses.

Okay, so plan ahead of time. These are the key takeaways plan ahead of time if you have a family to support because most of the freelancers they have family to support. So spending three months or maybe one or two months it will be really hard for them to survive this time period. Second thing is that always aim to achieve three times Have your monthly expenses. This is the key formula and this is the way you are going to survive your jobs isn't now when you are going through the no job season, how you are going to survive is first step is start marketing yourself, team up with few other team members, maybe developers to get continuous flow of projects. Okay.

You can also team up with similar freelancers, like if you are a designer and you met two or three designers might they might have a load of work and they give you one or two tasks that Okay, I have a lot of work. Can you handle these two projects? Okay, so this is one way. second way is try to introduce yourself to new clients and markets, maybe visiting local areas shops where you can leave your card or something like that, that I do web designing or I can produce your social media marketing or something like that. Okay, third step is that he in touch with your old clients, okay. Try to send a Hello email to all your clients and ask them if they have any project.

Okay? So this is not a bad thing you can always send emails even it happened with me I sent an email. And one of the clients replied that they have some work coming up in the future maybe next month. So this is a good sign. Okay. Now the key takeaways is team up with someone else.

Like if you are a designer, you can team up with a coder or developer because developer might need a designer for some of their jobs. Okay. And also, if you are a designer, you might need a coder to get a job or maybe produce the whole website. Now, the second main takeaway from this section is that your old clients might refer you to some other person, okay? So keep in contact with them. Try to email them.

Okay, say hello or Hi. I was wondering that if you have any Long time no, see, okay. So I am I was wondering that if you have any work For me so these are the tips you can try to market yourself and to contact your grow your team or you can contact your old clients now what if the disappointment and knows no job season keeps on going? Okay, so what if you can't find any work for more than three months now don't get disappointed if you have time invest your time in learning and improving your skills or try to learn something from others or maybe attend some workshop or maybe some seminar or something like that. So grow your network. Okay, so invest your time in learning it is really it can really improve your skills.

Now the second tip is that if no job season lasts more than three months, okay, so then you should be worried and you should start finding a permanent job. One of my friend He's very experienced freelancer, but he faced no job season for more than three months. So then he switched from to a permanent job, okay. So he found a permanent job which was very good in another country and you He moved there. And then after stabilizing for like one year or two year he came back to his previous life and opened up a new agency with some of his friends. So these are the ways you can improve your network.

So these are the way to invest your free time and also you can get a permanent job if your job no job season lasts more than three months. So if you have any questions asked me let's move on to the next lesson.