What camera? What software? Those are the issues 1 and 1a. Users of specific software (and cameras) can provide more directly actionable advice specific to your equipment. You can / should google youtube for RAW editing demonstrations using your software, a great way to get usage ideas.

Relative to getting started, the camera's typically free software will apply the camera defaults to the RAW image as if it was a JPEG from the camera. This can make it hard to recognize the opportunities to 'push' the image. If there's an <auto tone> option in your software, try that function and see what the software does to the image. Take it from there with the various sliders in your tool.

When you become a RAW photographer, you become the decision maker for the following considerations in post processing, where many had been decided by the camera for the JPEG:

1. Sharpening
2. Noise Reduction
3. Color Saturation
4. Exposure adjustments, general
5. Contrast, general
6. Highlights and shadows
7. White Balance
8. Lens corrections
9. Color space
10. Pixel resolution for target image share platforms
11. Disk storage (for the larger files)
12. Image file back-up strategy (for those larger files)

You don't have to understand all these issues, but when you do, you'll be much more successful as a RAW photographer.