Fruits will obviously be sweeter if you care for them. Same is work for Freelance Jobs. Whether it’s a real support providing company working on major platforms or a professional expert doing a full-time Freelance job, everyone needs business and that directly points to Employers or clients. So, handling your clients in an ideal manner means you are not only retaining the existing group but also boosting chances of getting a new one. I have drafted this 6 points, by keeping myself in the shoes of the client, the one who buys your service. Treating and caring their business is obviously our business and that holds the base for these techniques.
- Your first shot is probably your last:
Never think like, a client will send you a “need you to complete my ASP project” himself, unless you have thousands of working hours reflecting on your name along with “No Red” in the ledger. So, the first thing is bidding proactively. Your bid is your first impression that matters the most to the client.
At the instant, you find a project suitable to your match skills, try to grab the opportunity by going beyond the mainframe title. Read the description and decrypt every info and need you can extract. Spend a little time to make a proposal that involves real-time changes and suggestions, a client expects to listen from his employee. Once, you portray yourself better, your chances to grab the project increases.
- Have certifications: Every major freelancing platform optimizes profiles, which have gone through the scrutiny of basic and advanced level certifications. Just like a star on the shoulder of an officer demands respect, same is the case with certifications. Giving exams and online tests over time, gives you the leverage of making things easier and faster.
You will leave the anonymous community of starters and low performers and thus get quality work bringing wealthy earning hours into the act.
- Invest in Decorum and Management: You must have seen those Google images showing people doing freelancing at beaches and green outdoors. Well, they are too good to be true. An open space offers zillion things to distract. Try to build up a smart desk with all the office tools like a clock, paperweight, A listing diary and a laptop with all the necessary tools.
Treat your small place like an ideal office and also don’t enter with shorts or snickers. Maintaining a Decorum can help you work accordingly to the tasks and projects assigned. For your help, this home-office productivity guide from Life Hacker can help you collect real tools to make a good day at office
- The “Mayday” Backup: If you ever got stressed out with the work, or the situation is too lurking to create productive content, watch for the backup. By backup, I don’t refer you to a neighbor or livelihood friend. You are stressed out because you have lot of opportunities and beginners strive for that.
Appoint projects to them as they can give you a better support by working at a less rate than your client would have agreed. Establishing a good contact base, both upward and downward, brings harmony of working as a Freelancing pro. You will get beginners in tons once you start searching. You also have a chance to grow your image as an Employer.
- The Time Consumers: If you think, checking emails and proposals and setting up the mood will only cost you 5 to 10 minutes, then you have to open your eyes on these time Keep things automated, visit your emails twice or at most thrice a day. Don’t let you sink in the blue social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter). Use RSS for notification of important or long-term clients. Keep a distance from instant chat machines, even your phone. Some tasks look like they are important, but consume a lot of time to keep your regime productive. Keeping automating tools and services can become handy in this condition.
- There is no sixth point actually and I want you to make the most out of the first five. I am emphasizing this, as more than 80% of the freelancers are losing their shape, just because of these points.
Keeping a balance between my personal life and freelancing is what I have always insisted. Share what productivity lesson, you have found during your career and add one more freelancing opportunity platform by signing up with Frisklancer.com.
