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freelancer success from zero-Pricing(7)

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:28:00 +0000

View: money is not earned for the first time

How, when you bid at auction, what bidding strategy is to today’s issues to be discussed. Each person’s situation and the situation is different, some do not come into contact with the novice; some auction has already begun a number of projects but has not yet succeeded; some of them are taken over a few live,

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beginning to see some of the sweetness; while others are already very familiar with the , You find someone; some have been living far away from the access site and rely on repeat customers will be able to mix well in; some of them have set up their own team or business, standing on a higher point of view all this, we must consider more people’s interests. Above, this road is basically an access road to the evolution of living persons, at different times to have a different pricing strategy.
Money principle

But no matter in what period, are used to wearing a principle: money is not earned for the first time. It is very difficult for us to explain from a new customer’s first project where projects earn higher than the actual value of money. To give a simple example, a new client release, a project estimated at $ 100 is reasonable price, because it is the first time with him, and we offer best $ 80-90, or to grab the customers out of lower. For one not familiar with your customers want to bring in more of his project even if it is a penny above also difficult. If you bid 110 $ or 120 $ will allow customers to first consider other people, because the customer can not tell you more value to the money where it is. However, if you have worked with this client once or several times, then the same item that you bid 150 $ or 200 $ is there to talk about, and why? Because you have the capital, the customer service you trust and have a history of cooperation between you, is your greatest asset.
The right idea

Therefore, the same project, in the face of new customers and old customers bidding strategies are different. Faced with the new client, it is difficult to be reflected their true value, it is difficult to go to the ideal price. So we would like to make money should be put the long-term target of some, do not want to get rich on the new customer projects. The correct idea should be: with a no-money or offer more money and then accompany new customer projects, to seize the customers, new customers into existing customers, and then offer a reasonable or too high then customers projects. This is known as earning money is not the first time. Will generate high profits in the second co-operation or later, but by no means the first cooperation. High profits from on trust, not your technology. This idea has two key points: one is to old and new customers into clients, two is what you want to provide high-quality service. With regard to these details, we will revisit later in the series article. Most of his friends every day complaining about the “live hard pick pick pick difficult to live not live to make money,” might actually not tried this line of thinking considering the bar.
GAF novice’s strategy

Therefore, GAF live next novice friends, quotes (quotation techniques) will not be too high, preferably lower than the average price or less. Do not count on from a new customer’s first project where earn any money, can actually rest is pretty good. Should be done as soon as possible in the price range of tolerable successfully take a project, as soon as possible to experience the whole process, rather than the first one regardless of whether the project can make money, the project if the price is reasonable, they are not around when you can. So you are familiar with the whole process later, the opportunity to make money either, if you make too much fuss about the first time the project if the price is fair, then it may have squandered more opportunities.
With regard to ultra-low-cost

When the surplus offer low-cost, is called malicious competition, such as the average price is 100 $, then in order to fight to this project, we offer 20 $, then it is called malicious competition. In the major criticisms of this novice freelancer forum posts malicious competition is posted menstrual always often see. I have written in different regions leading to the project mentioned in detail in different quotes. In fact, this phenomenon in any market, there is no need care. How to do each person has their own purpose, in order to seize the surplus and low-cost customer’s nothing wrong, other people feel bad mood because of infringement of their interests, but this is the fact that, like in this circle would have to accept such things mixed. One day you do well, find another novice ultra-low prices you have to understand that this is the market. The market does not like do not hate anyone, even the market did not know you exist, it has its own laws, as long as we acknowledge and abide by the laws it wants, and the market differ from the idea will only make us angry, and a waste of time, there is no something else. I need to remind is that if you are surplus and low prices, they must be submitted to perfect the things you can really do a good job to tell clients the project and can not make their customers feel you are not serious, tell the customer why you out of this offer, This is the key.
Leave you to do

Consider the good of your situation, customize your strategy, following the implementation of your plan. Novice with the receipt of project objectives, not to big money at the beginning of the hope placed in one or two items, you need to access is more successful experience of living, rather than a fortune, take your time.

freelancer success from zero-Good habits auction(6)

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:27:25 +0000

If you are going to the project approach is to shoot a project, post a message and do nothing, continue photographed an item, a message and then photographed such a cycle, just like waiting for the arrival of good news, it is equivalent to completely successful attributed to luck, you are not trying to be sure to spend time doing things, but only in expanding your contact surface, waiting for just luck. This has been successful time (Frankly speaking, I have gone through this section of track earlier), but totally not called then the ability of living. Such an approach makes sense is very uncomfortable, because you can not determine where the next stop. So, from experience, I do not advocate this practice, do not want to novice from a humanely, we came to this road. If you do not know how to do, you learn how to do it should not be such a waste of time, but also develop bad habits.
Concentrate

When I decided to go live when the GAF then, usually in 10 minutes or so go through the project list, and then select some items may be photographed, and then further narrow the scope of scanning to read the project’s needs, put a little inappropriate in the past, the last The remaining 23 will always feel more suitable for a project, and then focus on these projects. Usually spent on these 23 projects the time to be a half an hour, mostly thinking how get Demo. If one day you will discover there is no suitable film projects, then to do something else, then forget the living matter. Since it is not the time of the shot, why should shot it. Operation can not be mad, we can not say if one day without making a number of projects on the Hunshen feel uncomfortable. We should catch up one or two items to focus on, but not the same as the auction see the items on the last machine.
A simple matter of repetition to do

Success has always been a very simple matter, if they feel successful is difficult, is because most people have lost its lonely, every day looking for a shortcut to the success of every day looking for a quick and successful path, most people spend time trying to find a novel, no one knows the secret of success, while in fact, they have accomplished nothing so far continues to found, an excuse. They believe have not yet succeeded because they have not yet found a good way, they believe that normal mode does not work, they think that the general approach will only make them more common, but in fact they are still common with. . .

Repeat simple things to do, which is actually already is a path to success of the. The same is true of living to make money then we do not need a sudden one day the time of smallpox photographed a lot of projects. We need only shoot one or two items a day and focus on two projects in the above. Only one child each day about the time filming his new project, which is enough. It is important to afflicted by terrible day, insisted on doing this from a non-stop. You will find that the project is being done today, shot a few days ago, and also went to shoot a few projects today to prepare for a few days. Only the formation of such a cycle, and then inject a little energy to keep living every day this cycle is enough to give you endless alive. Is very simple is not it? Success is such a simple thing to do to repeat, with emphasis on adherence to afflicted by terrible day.

To learn English is also the same reason, to learn English is not good, nobody will ever blame the methods and materials, the question is whether it will be maintained from Yu. English Meixue Hao also fills in the next live this will be the relationship between how much money we can do, we should also do the same mistake?
Leave you to do

Customize your own plan, how to form your own inertia cycle? Shoot several projects every day? What time do (preferably in the first days of a fixed time)? The “simple things to do to repeat,” written in a reminder to your place, a day before then look at the living. Do not focus on greed and more slowly, adhere to down, there must be harvested. Remember that access can not live by whom racing game, you just follow some simple rules and form your own circle of inertia only. Next we began to talk about pricing strategy. Hope you are interested read on.

freelancer success from zero-The secret of a successful auction(5)

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:26:53 +0000

In fact, really want to win one of the project is not so difficult to imagine, but the so-called secrets are just some simple principles that, as long as these principles by pressing to do to get the project only a matter of time. Here are some of my personal experience:
For the first time what to say

If you shoot a project, then I said in the message of these points:

1, My skill, a brief introduction: I am who I am familiar with what technology, mainly to mention with the customer project-related technologies. About two sentences.

2, My background, relevant experience, background, be sure to mention you are with this project-related experience, such as what has been done what the module with this requirement is the same as, or leave a Web site to the customer let him see you do the related things. The focus here is the relevant experience, about two sentences. If there is no relevant experience, then consider carefully whether we should shoot this project, we should remember that clients will not let you take his project “the first attempt to do,” so you’d better have relevant experience.

3, My schedule, plan, plan how to do him this project, which simply refer to something you already have, and what need to study, or what the focus module implementation. 23 words

4, My demo. Tell customers that you are half an hour or 1 hour will be submitted to a Simple Demo (a simple Demo). Word.

This is considered a dead template, but I’ll give customers the basic message is that by pressing the routine to go. My suggestion is that a message not too much, not to mention the useless nonsense, do not blow its own technology, not Meihuazhaohua. Do not write like I can do this job or Pls let me do it, or I am ready to start sort of useless words. To spend the time to consider the project’s critical issues. Comments submitted to a question before you think: If I own a client, I have read this message from what it feels like? Why should it be submitted Demo? Because:
Demo worth a thousand words

Demo worth a thousand words, this is a secret, the problem is not that you know do not know this secret, but rather how much you believe this secret? If you decide to win a project, then I will basically told clients in a message I will submit the relevant DEMO. Because the Demo is the best proof of this. First to prove that you really care this project is indeed serious. Second, to prove that you were doing things style, say to do so. Third, the proof of project-related capabilities. 1 Demo worth a thousand words, you do not need to bother thinking about how to pay attention to your customers, how customers think you like, and concentrate on your Demo above, with the first time, Demo help you to convey these ideas.

Then, when everyone will live a message, how to say it does not allow customers to trust you to live for you, so that customers feel are interested and serious about what you are is what you submitted Demo. Therefore, the ability of living then in fact the equivalent of: You can quickly was wonderful to be able to explain the problem to submit a Demo.

As for what kind of Demo, depending on the project. There are basically like the following principles: quick submission, a simple prototype, the core principles of technology and easy to demonstrate.

* Fast submitted, is to first submit, of course, the sooner the better, so as to avoid Big Sleep. Demo seriously the idea of doing the former is good, this step can be more time for special consideration in the Demo to show what is inside.
* Because of the time, Demo can be used to do a simple on-line, remember: Any modification of the excess will only make Demo look more like Demo.Demo is best to take what you’ve done to change, do not get to start from scratch, so that they fast and good.
* Demo to do around the core functionality.
* Finally, the display mode, we must take into account the client’s environment, a good thing to run on your machine Ye Hao, browse both mean normal, and then you happy to submit to the customer. A result, consumers can not run an operation that, then what’s big, first contact is very important. So my experience is that if you are unsure of the client machine, then recorded with a video how to use the software, or use shots, these packaged together with the Demo, another must write a simple Readme.txt. These small details are the real give you high marks place. (For example, you are using. Net write a small Demo, do not think that there must be a customer’s machine framework, to submit a video was perfectly safe).

Leave you to do

Said so much, went to Take in action of your time. Leave you to do is go to GAF taken seriously 12 items (do not do too much, one or two would suffice), it is best newly released items. And then try to use that template to the client message, so that you do not feel nothing to say it, go find yourself, after leaving Demo finished his speech presented to the client, to see what reaction. One thing you can believe that I have been doing, and it performed reasonably well. Even if the customers ignore you, but also not panic, this is not snake oil, but we strive to take the living ways. Then spend time living at the time of something like that is the most effective place. I introduced the experience of whether it works, and only you will know himself to practice. Well, act now!

freelancer success from zero-Auction Item(4)

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:26:23 +0000

Read the previous tutorial, there must have been the project of understanding, and know how to browse projects, the film kind of project, the following let us know the details of bidding a project. This article is mainly screenshots, please click the picture to see the original size, the above detailed description made with red. Please take a random draw an item page, we take this as an example shows, click here to open an example page
Project Information

As shown below, shows a project all the information. Generally we should be the fastest sweep speeds slower to catch the project requirements, general idea of what customers want, if you have skills with completely unrelated, then turn off the project directly, you stop wasting time. If the requirements of this project is still within the capacity of its own, then look at Bid count and Average bid, Bid count shows several people have been bidding the project, and of course, the fewer the number of the more bidders there are the more favorable, preferably as soon as possible of the Auction items will be more beneficial to some. Average bid to state that all bidders of this project, the average offer, the basic description of a rough market, its reference value of each person’s understanding may be different. I usually offer strategies are a little higher than average.

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Someone else’s auction of

After reading the basic situation of the project, and then down to see is the auction of the project. Here are two cases, one is the release of client projects chosen to hide all the auction details, In other cases, the customer does not choose to hide, then you can see the details of someone else’s auction.

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Freedom of the sky, concerned about the freelance then living, make money, work, life, Qushi
Shot auction

Next we come to auction an item, click on Bid on this project will jump to auction page, as follows:

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Illustrates

The contents of this chapter is to let everyone have a bidding project perceptual knowledge, for starters, let all familiar with, and not in the beginning of a project when this film that dare not dare. Most of the details of the presentations was in the picture years, please click to enlarge view. These are just a part of basic knowledge of the introduction to the introduction of knowledge belonging to the hardware, the light of the introduction of hardware just to let everyone know these things, but the specific time of bidding should be with the customers say? How to say? These are part of empirical knowledge, and the next one we have to introduce the secret of a successful auction items that we should not miss.
Leave you to do

After reading this, presumably has the form of GAF on the project are fully familiar with, including the auction form. Now you should go to auction several items, look for feel. Take in action, go to practice, and you will have more perceptual knowledge (light can not see any film can not do). Let us not seek to bid successfully, but only to be familiar with. In fact, the success of GAF would like to live then, will be able to beat up a successful, do not count on one will succeed. Customers not going to put an item to a project had never photographed a new number, you will need to have some history of bidding for future preparation. For the novice, eager to see the success here is not the time, although to the casual film several projects, not seeking the results, so the only action. Later we will introduce the secret of success, a step by step practical way is to come up. Well, on to you.

Freelancer success from zero-Proficient in the project(3)

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:25:49 +0000

We introduced a pre-registration and before the start of some of the environmental preparation, presumably you have had GAF account, and if it is not registered friends, but also to register first. Now we come to understand the various forms of projects on GAF. Are called to know ourselves and be Baizhanbudai want to successfully received in the GAF project, will need to form a variety of projects on the GAF very well. Only in-depth understanding of the rules in order to make better use of the rules for their own services.
Project-introduction

Previous projects with the browser, I is direct access to this page http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/all.php, this is the most recent full-page all the items, open the page, the most left one is the project name list, and we have to focus on that is here. Carefully observe the project name, the name behind some of the project will be the root with some special logo, a total of five kinds, which are:

Nonpublic Featured Urgent

This identifies the representative to protect novice. If the project later this identification, then this project can only be received by the novice. What does that mean? This is the case, in GAF, if an account to take over a successful live, and there is an evaluation of the form like this (), then the account will not be able to participate in this project to protect novice, that such projects can only be I just registered have not received any novice to participate in live bidding. GAF to establish such a mechanism is to protect the novice, but according to my personal observation, this project is a series of random distribution of GAF, do not think that such a project the price is low, in fact, such a project with the full project cost is not any difference.

Featured, is a project that identifies the owners of the dissemination of the project time to spend 25 $ (equivalent to more than 150 yuan) yuan deliberately added (in general release project is 5 $), is a freelancer in order to attract attention, usually there are the main strength of the project or the amount of relatively large projects, high level of preference for such projects freelancer is generally the number of bidders will be a lot.

Urgent, this identifies the main representative of the project is very urgent need to find people, and when the release of the project options expiration time of 1 day, on behalf of this project is very urgent. Such projects are generally the same day will be traded, but relatively straight to your level of compliance, contact the project owners in the first time, makes it easier to win such a project

This item can only be identified by a gold membership on behalf of auction, gold membership is $ 12 a month. Is also the main item to see the situation when the release of the project choice.

Nonpublic, this nothing to say, just need to sign in to see details of the project information only.

Of course, a project may also have several identification, such as a project is Featured, is Urgent, and so on.
Our strategy

Because this series of articles was then living abroad for most of the novice, so our strategy is focused on the protection novice projects. Concrete should be something like this: open the project page, quickly scan the left one, a look at a logo to see a project like this you can do, are appropriate. If no result, then obtain other Urgent items, emergency items generally easier to win some. Followed by another is to look at common items, that is, nothing marked items. As a new account, Featured project can skip, do not waste time in it, because too much competition for such projects, but project co-owners do not look for novice. Of course, run into the project identified as a direct skip (estimated to be few novice up on the upgrade to Gold members). Strategy is like that.
Leave you to do the

The task is quite simple, that is, open http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/all.php project page, glance at the left of the list, familiarize yourself with the various projects identify and distinguish each of the items belong to which. After a good few are familiar with this identity, in accordance with our strategy practice here the order of the project, namely, what kind of items is not the first scan scan which project aims in the shortest possible time, all projects have a concept, a clear focus should be on which projects, so that practice several times, be aware of.

Grasp the meaning of the various projects will allow us to focus to concentrate on the most promising projects, but not all projects are treated equally, so that distraction and not worth the candle. With regard to the project part we shall stop here, you do not hurry to bid on the project, the next one we will talk about the principles of auction.

Freelancer success -Registration and preparation(2)

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:25:16 +0000

Finally started, no matter what, one thing is always exciting starting from the preparatory work, and play a good start is half the battle. The real thing done is to start from simple things, and a step by step persevered. Here is something to write two registered account the experience and the installation of e-mail client program.

With regard to the GAF is the point of registration account Sign Up, and then go down a step by step, these details are not necessary for me, presumably for the registration of very familiar, there is nothing to say. It can be said is that this points:
From a decent account

Register a decent account is that you take time to consider things from a random docking live account negative. For example asdf, kvm111, xxxx, etc., are bad account name. And as freelancersky (my new use), designfrog, php1983, w3bmaster These are very good account, people looked comfortable and feel that your professionalism and attitude, or to use some of the real English name such as bon1985, andy, etc., yes. My reminder is: The account is not from here, with the patience thing, you may have got used to a certain ID, such as xxxx, but living here, then you need to build a more professional ID, see the ID, such as reflected in its people, the official professional to be good. Because then living, the film project when the customer first witness is your ID, rather than the other, an impressive and professional ID more with less. Therefore, my suggestion is good to build your ID, the registration process itself, but a few minutes, the sky ID itself is spend more time to consider it carefully.
E-mail with Gmail

GAF-mail registration is required to invite a living, but then live everywhere in the GAF, the basic need to receive Email, as well as communication with customers are basically relying on Email’s. So then when you connect to the outside world live a tool is your e-mail. For a stable and capable of receiving e-mail addresses of all foreign countries is necessary, and try not to registration of the domestic e-mail, sometimes the customer may not receive the e-mail, affect your business. This is not the time to support domestic products, or sentence, not with the temper of the time, even if you have used an internal email, I also recommend registration of Gmail, get this E-mail designed to take live, There is also keep our customers look more Some professional, and accurate receiving GAF sent a variety of e-mail, voice of experience.
What are the main fill in the information

Frankly speaking, the registration page is almost no information is worthy of serious consideration to fill in, and as far as possible true, in passing can address using phonetic symbols, we can understand the contents of each one. I want to say is Your average hourly rate of this, many novice uncertain how to fill. So my suggestion is to write 20 $ / hour. About 140 yuan per hour, you feel the most? If this is really earned 100 yuan per hour more than that, of course, but to do a project, a project is by no means $ 60 to spend three hours to finish, and is basically more than twice the time. So, to fill 20 $ novice here is appropriate. Area of Expertise you here to vote for those, other on the nothing that is worth a say.
Mail client

Because in the GAF is basically take the form of living to receive e-mail, write e-mail, so get an e-mail client program is necessary. Is best not to go to the browser to browse the total of your e-mail, such a waste of time and efficiency is not high. The best is to use Outlook or Thunderbird, I used the Thunderbird, because it often need to work under Linux, so use it. This is a proposal here, I hope you can get used to using e-mail client work in this way, automatically receive e-mail, maintain customer lists, to do so on your Schedule.
Leave your job

Well, everything is hard in the beginning, we have a simple way to open a good bar.
Leave you to do is:

* To create a good ID
* Registration Gmail
* Installation Outlook or Thunderbird mail client
* To be added to your Gmail address
* Register to GAF

Freelancer success from zero (1)

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:23:19 +0000

Prior written a series of articles: freelancer to success, I personally feel that these articles are valuable, and worth reading. However, these articles are biased towards the theory summary, we will find you can write after reading the truth, but in practice still can not find the feeling. So then the next live abroad ? from scratch in this series of articles is fully biased practical, concrete introduction to how to do. Our goal website is www.getafreelancer.com, later referred to as GAF. To the GAF as an example how to live abroad and then, especially for a living has never been abroad, then newcomers, specifically how to operate every step, every step should pay attention to what the first time what to say, how each step of operation better, Know-most likely to succeed in order to receive the project.
Who is suitable for reading

The most suitable for those who want to live abroad, then, but do not know where to start, do not know what a friend, in this series of articles where you will find a clue, but it would be more sure. Is also suitable for those who live abroad, then less successful experiences of friends, then come here to look at living together in what are good practices every detail. Similarly, for those living in the country next friend, if your poor performance or a feeling is not ideal, but also suggest that you to a broader space to develop their own, maybe you better find another piece in the sense of the environment. Frankly speaking, the domestic take of living has been very successful friend, and I think there is no need to read this series of articles, will you have a well-developed, where making money are the same, a good bar the development of your career.
Is not a crash

First of all say that this series of articles is by no means an intensive tutorial teaches you more than a quick tutorial to make money. Want to live this way then make money is by no means easy to do, not to speed up the road. Ability to make money is to live next to a process, worked very hard the more the better results. If you do not earn a living person take a lot of money, do not envy, this is the result of the efforts of his own, he must have spent a lot of time and energy on here (to explain that this blog is his take on individual freelancer living , if a company has been receiving government relations projects, such things are not discussed here, a matter of concern). Then live on this road, Inf, and strive to pay and reward are positively correlated.
Writing Program

Then live abroad ? from scratch in this series of articles is by no means some GAF’s website listed, posted a registration page, and then fill in each step of what to tell you, and then click Submit tell you point would be finished. If you write such a tutorial, for you are all a waste of time for me. This series of articles from registration, visit the track project, bid (bid), bid, for the first time shooting a project note and say something, how to successfully win, how to accumulate credit, and when upgraded to a paying member, How to make money, and how to spend (which some might bugger, ha ha). . . Are introduced, and the value of which is that every step of the process of how to think about what to do.

Again, not a crash tutorial in this series of articles, you have to do is not to hurry, patience reading through the policy, and the articles written at what stage do you go GAF accordingly, and we are a step by step (I will stay operations). Release time or Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays 18:00, I have to think responsibly written from scratch for each theme, will continue to write about a month, so subscribe to my blog to wait and see, watching the side of the practice. This series of articles that are not seeking the classic, but to be useful. Want to interact with you, in every part there is anything I do not understand please write in the discussion suggested that we ask everyone to do a good job, have your order for more people to benefit from the amendment.