Digital Freelancing Services That You Can Offer

There are a lot of different services that you can provide as a freelancer to your clients but I will list the top ones here.

Every business across the world needs marketing, promotion, advertising, and sales services.

As a general rule, everything in a business is an expense. Infrastructure, human resources, R&D, manufacturing, service delivery, and so on.

Marketing, however, is seen as a direct investment in the business with possible returns in the short term.

A business is like building a car. Until the car is built fully, you have to keep spending on it. Once the car is built, you have to add the fuel to get it started and moving.

Marketing is the fuel for a business. Without investment in marketing, all the investments done in a business will go to waste.

Marketing is also seen as a subject that cannot be understood by small business owners. So they hire marketing consultants, freelancers, and agencies like us to help them with their marketing.

If you are not sure what kind of freelance services you are going to provide to clients, I recommend choosing marketing. Because every business in the world needs marketing.

But instead of just branding and positioning yourself as a "marketing consultant", make sure that you become specific.

There are two areas to choose from. One is the kind of marketing service you provide (for example, WhatsApp Marketing Automation services or Facebook Ads setup service). The second is the industry that you are targeting. It could be health, travel, business, apparel, e-commerce, and so on.

Within marketing services, we can divide the service areas into three different components.

1. Generating traffic and leads
2. Nurturing the leads and building communities
3. Converting the leads into sales
4. Basically, top of the funnel, middle, and bottom.

Post sales, you also need to onboard them, serve them, transform them and build a reputation by giving a good product experience. But that part has to be done by the business itself and it is difficult for an external agency to do it for them.

Let's look at the list of services that you can provide within each of the broad areas we have mentioned above.

1. Generating Traffic and Leads

Every business needs traffic and leads. Without traffic, no leads can be generated. Without leads, there is no community, no brand, and no sales.

To help businesses generate leads, you can:

1. Help them build landing pages and websites that capture leads
2. Creating content/copy for the landing pages
3. Competition research to find out where they are getting the traffic from
4. Do keyword research for them to identify search keywords that might bring in leads
5. Content marketing with targeted keywords to bring in SEO traffic
6. Content for video marketing
7. Do market research to find the right target audience to target on platforms like Facebook Ads
8. Setup search ads or display ads on Google/Facebook ads platform (with good copy)
9. Create good graphics for marketing collaterals such as display ads, brochures, emails, and landing pages
10. Decide on a daily budget for the campaigns and ignite the campaigns
11. Connect the landing pages to the CRM using integrations to collect the leads in a single place
12. Create an affiliate/referral system and contests to generate more leads
13. Identify new sources of traffic through partnerships with other players in the industry

All the above services are just included in one segment of marketing, the top of the funnel: generating traffic.

2. Converting Cold Leads into Warm Leads

The second segment is nurturing the leads so that the cold leads convert into warm leads. Without warming up the leads, the leads are not going to convert into sales.

You can provide services such as:

1. Building a community and activating the community with conversations
2. Building an email sequence with quality content so that the leads are nurtured on automation
3. Calling the leads with the phone number they have shared to talk to them (first touch point). Studies show that if a lead is contacted within 10 minutes, the chances that they will convert into a paying customer are very high.
4. Retargeted marketing campaigns to bring back suspects into the prospects lists
5. Passive profiling of the leads for enriching lead data
6. Lead scoring to find out the leads that are highly likely to convert into sales
7. Getting the leads to come to the sales page, sales webinar, or a sales meeting (online/offline)

All the above services are part of the middle of the funnel in a marketing setup. Without capturing, communicating, and building trust with the leads, the leads will not convert into sales.

And if there are no sales happening, there is no marketing budget to reinvest back in the top of the funnel.