By now, we all know how important it is to follow the potential client’s instructions in their freelance job post when applying to a project. Today, I will show you how the client sees our freelance application on oDesk and how easy it is to filter the candidates because they failed to follow instructions or don’t meet the requirements. It is also as easy to report freelancers as spam due to obvious mismatch or for sending a recycled cover letter.
How to Know Your Potential Freelance Client from Their Job Post
Provided you already know a bit about spotting bad clients, we will make a step further today and see how to learn more about our potential freelance clients by looking at their job posts. For the purposes of this blog post, I will look through random job posts on oDesk and post screenshots from there or illustrative purposes.
English Language Barrier for Freelancers
That’s right – there is such thing as English language barrier for freelancers. But I think it’s pretty much misunderstood… Let me elaborate. I often get in my mailbox the question if a freelancer needs excellent English in order to succeed. Truth is, like many other things in life, there isn’t a right and wrong answer to this question. For example:
Freelance Pricing Guide for Fixed Price Jobs
Last couple of weeks I blogged about freelancing pricing guide for our profile rate and for hourly paid work. It’s time to also discuss the fixed price jobs angel – when and how to calculate our flat rates per project.
Freelance Pricing Guide for Hourly Paid Work
Last week we discussed the questions to ask when deciding our profile rates. And while in most cases we use that very same profile rate as basis when applying to hourly paid projects, we still need some kind of freelance pricing guide when applying for hourly paid work, right? Here are some questions from my freelance pricing guide when working by the hour.
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