How to become a Professional Freelancer Your First Work part#4 2017

First Work Will Test Our Patience

First work is quite hard for some to get. Frustration builds up. The reason you are not getting your first work is because other guys have more experience and reviews than you. Clients would prefer to go for an experienced person than a fresher unless ofcourse the price parameter crops up. Experienced person always bid at the higher range where beginners provide them at cheap rate to get reviews. So keep your bids low and convince people with your bidding description and dont give up.

Second thing is you have to be online nearly all the time. You can do your work in the foreground and keep the tab open in the background, because you clients may contact you anytime and they wont wait long for your response because someone else has already started convincing them who is at par with your quality. So be sure to respond in time.

Now the point to be noted is that client before awarding a project to the best person, communicates with many people to judge the best person for the job. So once client pings you after checking out your bid and your profile, greet him and explains how you are going to implement the project(an action plan) and the time span required and what additional things you will provide. Always add payment only after satisfaction. This may be risky but believe me it will work and dont worry about payment rather go and check the clients profile and his reviews so that you dont end up with a fraud client for your first work.

Dont be impatient while talking with a client, always be polite even if he asks a question several time. Also a few questions to clarify from your side would add to clients confidence on you and will show your deep interest in the project. State you have done similar project or at least a module of the project in another project you have done previously under someone else. The point is make him/her comfortable with you, be polite and interactive and stats shows that the longer the conversation goes, the greater are your chances of getting the project. Dont be rude or reply in bad mood when the client is taking his/her time to reply back, understand this is a professional life, what you give is what you get. I have also seen cases where client does not award the project but due to ones polite behavior, client promise to ping one for the next project.