How to win your freelance projects
How to win your freelance projects
1. You should present your abilities very well, expose your supremacy in other aspects of cooperation with potential client. Not all the clients are making their selection looking on the price factor only. There are many who are willing to pay more, if they get the professional results in return.
2. What can you use to win? These are the key factors:
-quality of the work
-doing the work on time
-communication
Freelancers from developing countries make the common mistake of relaying on the financial aspect of their offer exclusively. This is a very common mistake. Sometimes the quality offered is on the low level, also the timing fails – and for many webmasters working on the “web market” it is time that matters most.
But the real problem can be the communication – poor knowledge of English language, ignoring the grammar or even too informal attitude can make potential client decide to discard your offer. Sometimes the misunderstanding can go further and the project description may be understood improperly, which results (if a client is a very strict one) in a negative rating given to a provider.
All these mistakes made by other freelancers you have to use for your advantage – then, even despite the significant difference in price, you have a good chance of winning the auction, leaving the competitors behind.
The strongest weapon in a fight for a client can be the DEMO.
posted by John Baush @ 4:32 PM
3 Comments:
It's easy to win a project, but it's very hard to get your money from project sites like http://www.getafreelancer.com
Instead of bidding blindly on projects against cheap overseas labor, you should spend more time advertising in your local community, find clients that want the services you provide, build long-term relationships with them, turn those clients into references, and then get paid better than any blindly bid project is going to pay you.
The question is this: are you a body for hire or a consultant? Consultants CONSULT. Client projects are collaborative, especially since many clients have no idea what they want or what they can have.
Instead of playing the project board game on eLance or Guru or wherever, techies in the USA should check out FreelanceLocalTech, which lets freelance consultants post info about their services for local clients to find them.
If you want to make really money see http://freelancers.co.nr like a freelancer.
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