Explore the Red Hot Freelancing Tips to get the jobs in 2020 !
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Note: This the 3rd gear of my freelancing course drive for New Freelancers so its for level III freelancers. If you are new to freelancing and just starting freelance career, you are adviced to read the following guide E-Books below and than read this guide.
- Start freelancing from Zero ! Basic Freelancing Guide for Level 1 Freelancers
- Step ahead in Freelancing ! Beginners Guide for Level 2 Freelancers
After reading this professional freelancers guide you will be able to:
- Understand the best freelance jobs marketplace
- Create a shining profile with 100% complete details
- Search the easy to do freelance jobs that matches your skills
- Create a professional Proposal addressing the client’s requirements
- Communicate to the client like a professional freelancer
- Win freelance jobs with 70% possible success rate
How to win the freelance jobs on Jobs Marketplaces?
First thing first, I am sure you have now already joined a top jobs marketplaces after reading previous parts of this course where I suggested the top freelance jobs marketplaces which are listed here again for your consideration.
Before I list the top “jobs marketplaces” here I want to share an interesting story.
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Ok, so now let’s come to the topic once again. This is the 3rd part of my 5 levels series for the freelancers.
I assumed all of you are now well knowledgeable about the freelance services and jobs searches.
Also you know which job marketplace should you join and you may have already joined 1 or more jobs marketplace to start successful freelancing career as a freelancer in 2020.
This guide covers the most important freelance questions and suggestions that are give below: |
- How to win the “freelance jobs” on jobs marketplace?
- Special Tip for new freelancers that 70% worked for me to get hired
- How much price should a freelancer select for the job that has $500 budget?
- Freelance Job hiring formula that 70% worked for me to win.
- How much chances are to be hired when the clients reply on your submitted proposal?
- What should I do when a client replies for my submitted proposal ?
- What should a freelancer do if the client didn’t hire after interview
- What is the best time to apply for upwork job? A very Special Tip for freelancers.
If you are thinking that this is going to be a very difficult and its frustrating in the presence of the crowd of freelancers already in the competition, then you are at the wrong side of the success path.
Literally, it seems difficult but success always comes after the difficulties but you can make it possible with some essentials that I already have discussed in my previous freelancing guides so let’s go ahead to take the challanges and see how well your are armed with the weapons to win the freealnce battle.
There is no rocket science beside that you read the mind of your freelance client when you actually go through the freelance job posting on upwork guru.com freelancer.com etc.
Most impotant questions for freelancers |
You Intend to get some earning from the Internet but tired to go through plethora of documents, E-Books, blogs, forums etc?
Lost your money by purchasing stuff kind of “tips to becoming millionaire over night or some thing like that?
No way, don’t find the way out. You’re still in the game as you are now on a right place to know what actually freelance is.
Now take a sigh of relief, sit back and answer my question honestly.
- How much information and knowledge do you have to becoming a freelancer?
- What category do you want to select for your earning potential?
- Are you interested in using your skill & experience with the relevant field?
- Do you believe on an automated earning source from where you may have a regular income with less efforts?
Well, let me start with the first question.
It’s hard to believe that no body could make money from any Internet source unless they know some basic for freelancing.
There is nothing like that if somebody told you that he or she had been earning from internet since very first day.
Absolutely wrong. Because unless you know the basics of internet, knowledge about searching the required material, skills to have success on the digital market and access to get earning from a certain source, you can claim to be even a freelancer.
On a regular basis I come across the advertisments on the internet specially on social media about fake claims of eaning just to cheat the innocent freelancers who want to make real money but after getting cheated, the simply abuse to the internet and consider everything a fraud.
Be aware of such advertisement saying, learn so and so program and earn $1000 in a week or month or something like that.
They are just for wasting your time and money.
Do you believe and accept such a source where you do nothing and somebody pays you for no reason?
It might be staggering if you accept such a venture without going into the depth that what actually is going on behind the scene.
You might have slipped already on such advertisement and spent money to get nothing except loosing your confidence and determination to becoming a freelancer.
Negative impression is not excluded at all.
Remember! Freelancing is nothing except choosing a right direction with knowledge, interest, determination & honesty.
The Freelancers must know these Golden Rules ! |
There are simple rules to follow for getting started earning from freelancing.
- Get started from scratch. Search for freelance basics to know freelance fields and categories.
- Select your area of interest and find the relevant information on blogs, forums & search engines. Find Articles, subscribe the blogs or website that distribute free e-books. If you wish to earn money from Google, then go directly to Google’s advertisement program like Google Adsense rather than getting information from any third party sources.
- Selecting a category for freelancing is a bit confusing specially for those who don’t have Computer skills and experience but don’t worry there are thousands of videos available on Youtube or similar video sites to stimulate you for your interest. It’s not speculation. It’s confirmed. Just check it out.
- See Videos and read Articles with focus on any particular category. That’s very important to concentrate on a specific Niche which you think is suitable for you to earn money online. For example if you want to be a web designer, the easiest way to learn Web designing in very short time is, WordPress. You may get more information about Learning WordPress by top Pakistani professional freelancer in my previously written Freelance Articles on this web site.
- Another most important thing that surpass all over is, You sell your skills and experience to those who need these. There are millions of people around the World who looking for the skilled and experienced professional to get their job done virtually. For instance if you are interested in getting online jobs for Graphic designing, You must find a platform where the people are waiting for the same job to provide someone. These platforms are Freelance Web Sites that act as middle man. These Websites connect you to the buyer or Job provider against a minor percentage from the total cost of the job. Some of these popular sites are already discussed above.
Nothing to loose in this type of freelancing. Just kill your fear, scrub your skills, rekindle the wish to go beyond the circle of becoming millionaire over night, tweak your profile, uphold the idea and jump to any freelance job providing website as there are a crowd waiting for your services for their projects that match your skill set and experience.
Submit a proposal to bid on freelance jobs ! Best successful Tips |
You have been learning about
- how to become a freelancer.
- how to find the best platform for freelance jobs.
- how to create a killer profile?
- what are the essential tools and rules a new freelancer must needs to know about?
- how to find your Niche and What to do for developing your skills and experience for a relevant job.
Now this is time to take first step towards getting the freelance jobs from a potential client on freelance jobs provider website like Upwork.com and some other I have already discussed on.
Now as you have created a profile after choosing a best suited category that matches your skill set and experience, it’s time to find the job from any potential client so you need to browse the jobs by your particular category.
For instance if you have selected Web designing category, you must find the jobs through this category rather looking for in Sales & Marketing category.
Browse the category and try to find the close one that matches at least about 70% of your skill set so that you could comprehensively analyze the exact job description and design an appropriate proposal that addresses all the requirements desired by the client.
Your proposal should be based on job analysis and perspective solution that fulfills the exact requirement of the said job.
You need to concentrate in finding the best job from the category. Don’t rush for every job rather just finding a close one.
If you have some expertise in designing the websites in traditional style by using the editors like Dreamweaver, Flash & any other tool, you need to know every aspect and every technical method that you could use to provide the best required solution.
For example, you need to know how to create an HTML page, CSS style sheet, Java Script, Multimedia options and so on.
Similarly if you have skills in CMS (content Management System) type web designing then you must know about WordPress, Joomla and other relevant CMS platforms.
The tools and essentials like Plugins specially for WordPress so that you could answer every question that is asked in job description by the potential client.
I recommend you to go through the job description at least thrice so that you could consider every point that is asked to be addressed in the job description.
Don’t ignore any single question or query as it’ll leave a neglecting feel to the client.
So in case you don’t have enough knowledge about a particular query, Just jump to Google search or Youtube and try to get enough information about the said.
Try to elaborate your suggestions to every point that is written by the client.
You can format the proposal with Headings, sub headings, Bullets and numbering and don’t forget to use punctuation where ever required for giving a professional look to your proposal.
Most important Tips while submitting job proposal |
You should address the client by his name if the job has the client name instead of ID number. Try to be personalized with the client rather using a traditional method of presenting a proposal this is because you are not a traditional service provider so try to personalize so that Client could feel free to consider your proposal and you for his project insider.
I recommend you not using any industry jargon or technical language that could be beyond the clients vocabulary or knowledge.
Because he might get confused and jumped to another proposal which is more closer to his knowledge and written in simple words and pretty much easy in understanding rather going to search the technical words.
You should provide all the references if required for any particular aspect as well as the time allocation and available time so that client comfortably contact you to discuss over the project.
Wrapping up the section, I want to suggest you keep your proposal lowest in cost.
Because if you are new to freelance service providing, You need to build your profile first with some good feedback from the client.
You need to have samples to show the other customers so don’t try to bid with high costing rather just give the room to the client for selecting your proposal instead of declining just because of high costing without any prior job or experience to show in your profile.
So these are the simple rules and suggestions for a new freelancer while going to bid with newly create profile for submitting a proposal to a freelance online job.
My Secret Tips of 8 years in Freelance jobs that 70% worked |
This the most profitable part of this Guide for freelancers who want to get hired on upwork or any other freelance marketplaces.
All you need to do is just selection of the best suitable job. No doubt upwork is a monster job marketplace where the jobs are coming almost every second, So there is no need to be in a hurry. Just do the following professionally.
- Go to the job search page.
- Filter the coming jobs according to your preferences like budget limit, hourly of fixed priced, beginner level, intermediate or expert level etc.
- type the keyword in the search box to find the best job. For instance, type “WordPress” so that you can see only WordPress web design & development jobs.
Special Tip for new freelancers that 70% worked for me to get hired |
I’m going to reveal my secret of getting hired most of the times for the jobs I submitted the proposal for.
You got 60 connects at upwork but since at least 2 connects required for each job, it is supposed to be 30 connects that means you can submit the proposals on 30 jobs.
Consider every connect is worth $5 to $5000 because it depends on the job you are submitting the proposal on. If you submit on the low budget job, the connect worth is low otherwise these connects make you huge money. But don’t just apply on big budget jobs because all the giant freelance agencies and highly expert professional freelancers also looking for it and ready to catch the big piece of pie so your chances to win the job are minimum.
How much price should a freelancer select for the job that has $500 budget?
Try to find the job that has the budget between $100 to $500 initially but don’t submit the proposal for the full price. 95% chances are to be rejected because there will be lots of people from around the world specially from Bangladesh and India who submit the lowest price just to get the job so you should calculate the job budget using the following.
Freelance Job hiring formula that 70% worked to win. |
For Example there is a job with the maximum budget of $500.
- Budget : $500
- upwork commission: $100 ( 20% )
- Upwork Withdrawal fee: $2
- Payoneer immediate card load fee: $5 (calculate paypal or bank transfer fee accordingly)
- ATM cash withdrawal fee: $3
- Total: $110 – $500 = $390
- So you will get $390 if you apply for full price of $500 but now reduce that to 70% and apply with the price of $275. So simply don’t care what amount is upwork cutting and what are the charges of withdrawal.
- The client will be billed: $343.75
- Upwork commission will be: 68.75
- You will be paid: $275 – $10 = $265 net cash (Around 27,000 PKR)
This is the best and fair price a client can consider and seems an standard rate so I got the reply rate of 60% from the clients. (Reply means not hiring but the client comes to you and you have chance to get hired)
How much chances are to be hired when the clients reply on your submitted proposal? |
Luckily, According to my experience of last couple of years at upwork, the chances to get the job are 90% that you would get hired but if there is a question from client that you are not able to addressed or you are not available at the time of hiring. Also if you failed to satisfy the clients to meet the given deadline otherwise you would get hired I’m sure.
What should I do when a client replies for my submitted proposal ?
Well, You are lucky if a client replies in response to your submitted proposals that means He has made his mind 80% to hire you out of more than 20 to 50 or even 100 freelancers on upwork. So now its time to finalize the hiring process but make sure you are not going to make any mistake because the “client is on your table” and yet you don’t get the job, it would be your failure.
Read his question carefully and try responding as soon as possible because according to my experience, the clients from USA, Canada, Australia and UK extremely like quick response and that supposed to be your a professional freelancer who can be relied upon.
Suggest the best options to your prospect Customer
Don’t hesitate if you have any better suggestion regarding the job description so the client could consider you a “Go to” man with less instructions required from him. For example you can ask the client if he already has a “Hosting” and “Domain” registered if he is going to hire you for “Web Designing or Development”, if He doesn’t have any, offer him a hosting package from an affiliate link that you can get easily anytime. (read my article how to become a hosting reseller)
If the client ask you to have a quick chat instead of typing messages, You should be prepared with a Microphone and/or video attached “Skype interview. “Again according to my experience if the client comes on skype then You are almost hired. Say 99% clients come to skype interview with the short listed or finalized freelancers.
What should a freelancer do if the client didn’t hire after interview
If your client talked to you on upwork and/or skype, but still did not hire, You can send him/her a friendly reminder with the following:
Hi, I hope you doing well, Just to let you know that I’m now all set to go for this job with all my skills and experience so please finalize the hiring process at upwork so that I can start immediately to meet the deadline you set as I don’t like to cross the deadlines you can see my job history :). Please feel free to ask any question you may have regarding the job or hiring process. I’ll be more than happy to help you. Thanks
What is the best time to apply for upwork job? A very Special Tip for freelancers. |
Upwork is a large scale freelance jobs marketplace with millions of individual clients and corporate firms that post freelance jobs almost every second under 100s of freelance categories but there are millions of freelancers and agencies are also active every time including beginner freelancers, intermediate level freelancers and expert level freelancers so there are normally 20 to 50 proposals submitted on a single job but it can be more than 100 if the job has high budget. So in this situation what you should do?
Try submitting the proposal on Sunday that is recommended day to submit freelance proposals on upwork.
Why Sunday is the best day for submitting the job proposals?
Suppose there are 50 Freelance Agencies and 50 individual freelancers on upwork including
- 20 new freelancers
- 20 intermediate level freelancers and
- 10 expert freelancers.
Sunday is the best day because the freelancers agencies do not work on Sunday and their offices remain closed so that means 50% crowd is less than the normal working days.
Now from the remaining 50% of individual freelancers, Mostly expert freelancers 10 also do not work on Sunday because they have number of jobs in hands with a team of sub contractors most of the time so they usually don’t care about Sunday.
20 “New freelancers” and 20 intermediate freelancers have chance to submit and win the jobs on Sunday but there comes the different factors and since intermediate level freelancers also have jobs in hands or a bit high rate based on their skills and experience, they don’t submit the proposals for low price jobs or the ratio of those freelancers is very low so now new freelancers have very good chance to submit their proposals on the best suitable jobs on upwork.
The response rate from the clients was around 60%. Because those are who don’t have the time to post the job in normal working days and You are the service providers who available to get started on Sunday.
These simple tips are the big secrets of my 5 years freelancing career with Upwork so try using these tips and tricks to get hired. Remember these are the best tested tips but not 100% guaranteed because it still depends on your skills, experience, communication and availability so be a professional and prepared with all the tools you need to be a successful freelancer on the top jobs marketplaces.
Conclusion:
This Ebook is level 3 for professional freelancers who already have and account on the top jobs marketplaces but looking for the jobs.
So they can use the tips explained in this freelancing guide with confidence to get the best results.
I hope if you learn the things from this EBook, it will be a boost in your freelancing career. So try the tips and tricks I revealed to your for getting more freelance jobs and make moeny online.
Please do write a comment below for the things you learnt and how it helps you to become a successful freelance in Pakistan.
Shahzad is founder and C.E.O of freelancefront.com He Ranked in Top Pakistani Blogs and Bloggers List. Expert Freelancer + Enterpreneur, Domain investor & Digital Marketer since 2011. Read his complete bio from the link below.