How to Start Freelancing Online
If you search for this question on Google, you will be given 18 million PLUS of results. If you are taken here through the search results, then thanks Google for indexing this page! Let's face it, not all search results give you the answer that you need but here, I'll try to give one and straight answer.
Answer: Join GetAFreelancer now
It is free to sign up for an account. Make sure that you give your profile adequate information about you most specially, your skills.
Next, explore the rest of the website. Look at the job categories where you can take work from. If you are good at a certain job category, keep an eye on it and look for tasks posted. On GetAFreelancer, there are new projects almost every minute posted under these categories:
.NET | Accounting | AJAX | Android | Architecture | ASP | Audio Services | Banner Design | Blog | C/C++ | CAD/CAM | Cold Fusion | Computer Security | Copywriting | CSS | Customer Support | Data Entry | Data Processing | Delphi | Electronics | Engineering | Excel | Facebook | Finance Research | Flash | Flex | Game Design | Graphic Design | Handheld / PDA | Illustrator | Industrial Design | iPhone | J2EE | Java | Javascript | Joomla | JSP | Legal Advice | Link Building | Linux | Logo Design | Manufacturing | Marketing | Matlab/Mathematica | Perl | Photography | Photoshop | PHP | Powerpoint | Product Sourcing | Project Management | Proofreading | Python | Research | Ruby/Ruby on Rails | Sales | Scientific Research | Script Installation | SEM / Adwords | SEO | Shopping Carts | Social Networking | SQL | System Admin. | Telemarketing | Testing / QA | Training | Translation | Twitter | Verilog / VHDL | Video Services | Visual Basic | Web Promotion | Website Design | Website Security | Windows | Wireless | Wordpress | XML
Why GetAFreelancer?Refer to the graph (left). I took this using Alexa.com
From this graph, it is clear what freelancing site is leading. That means, with more users both employers and job seekers or freelancers. One downside here is that the competition is high BUT, that competition is not a SHOWSTOPPER but a challenge for you to step up, improve your skills and be more competitive and of course, if an employer finds you professional that'll break the GAP between beginners and those who already have built a good freelancing profile.
Beginner on freelancing? Don't worry, soon on this blog, you will find useful tips and guides on how to start and be successful in online freelancing. In the meantime, go and register for an account at GetAFreelancer. It's the start of your freelancing career online.
GetAFreelancer - New User Signup Process - Part1
PART I – Username and E-mail addressUsername - make it something relevant to the type of job(s) you are good at
E-mail Address
I am (Looking for work, Looking to hire, Looking to both work and hire) - In my case, I am both looking to work and looking to hire. I have hired 5 people to do work for me online. 4 from GetAFreelancer (2 Filipinos, 1 Indian and 1 American) . Have hired someone out of GetAFreelancer. In your case, if you are only looking for work, then you can just select Looking for work. You can change this later if needed.
E-mail Format (HTML or plain text)
Terms and Conditions (Agree)
Optionally – become a gold member
PART II – E-mail Address Confirmation
Enter Confirmation Code
This code is sent to the E-mail address you specified in PART I.
Check your email address. You should get a message with a link to complete your registration or, alternatively, copy the code and paste it into the form pointed to by the second link.
Next >> GetAFreelancer - New User Signup Process - Part 2
Full Name
Name/Company – if you have a company or just your first name or nickname here
Password
Logo (optional)
Address – enter a real address (home address)
City
State
Country
Postal code
Phone
Fax (optional)
Notifications (I recommend checking both)
* Notify me by e-mail when a project gets posted that is relevant to me or when bid on my project posted.
* I want to receive announcements and news from GetAFreelancer by email.
Area of Expertise: (If you are a freelancer, then you need to specify which areas can you do work. You can specify up to 10, e.g. Photography, Web Promotion, Copywriting, Data Processing, Link Building, Telemarketing, Website Design, etc.
Skills
This is optional but I recommend filling up these. Aside from the specified areas of expertise, here you can write more about your skills. Online employers need not interrogate what a freelancer can do. They are busy people, your profile should help them decide to hire you or look for another freelancer.
The following are all optional but again, if you have something good to put into these boxes, fill these out:
Vision
Keywords
Your average hourly rate ($ US)
Your Profile – some sort of resume here
Note:
Be careful not to violate GetAFreelancer rule – don’t give any contact information and this applies to: Your profile, bid messages including private messages sent during bidding.
Now, your profile is complete and you are ready to place bid on projects that fall under you areas of expertise. You cannot bid on projects that are not within your expertise.
Check out my next entry >> GetAFreelancer – The Bidding Process
in this entry, I will talk about how bidding on projects at GetAFreelancer goes.
Keep an eye on projects that fall under your areas of expertise.
I took a screen shot of the page where you can see the project categories and most recent posted projects. This is actually on the home page of the website.Through this page, you can browse through the projects that are open for bidding. If you remember, during the sign up process, you can specify to receive notices when a project, falling under your areas of expertise, is posted. With this, you can simply monitor your inbox.
Click on a project to open up the Project Detail page as shown in the following screen shot.
BID ON THIS PROJECT button appears on projects that are under you areas of expertise.Shown on this page are budget range, project owner, job type(s), and most important one: project details -- what is needed to be delivered for this project.
To place your bid, click on BID ON THIS PROJECT button.
Here's the bid page
This page takes 3 inputs from you.Your bid for the total project:Write here how much does it costs you to do this project. I recommend that before getting here, you should have a solid understanding of what it takes to have it delivered. If something is not clear yet, ask the project provider.
In how many days can you deliver a completed project?
Again, make sure you know what it takes to have this project delivered so you can put here realistic time frame.
Provide the details of your bid (max 5000 characters): *
Here, write something that will catch the attention of the project provider. A project can get 50 or a hundred or more bids so make yours stand out. I also would recommend a sentence or two. Long texts are often ignored. Also, don't pre-compose this part. It gives an impression that you did not get through the project details and just pasted your pre-composed bid message.
All these are required information.
After placing your bid, send that project provider a private message. Here you can write some sort of persuation -- some sort of message telling the provider that you are the freelancer for the project. To improve your chances of getting the project, send some related work samples. This is my technique in winning projects.
Lastly, monitor your email as you will get notified when (1) the project provider sent you a private message (2) you WON or lost that project.
For your questions and comments, please use the comment form.
FREELANCE WORKS FROM HOME!
Freelancer is a term used to explain a person who is self employed and is willing to offer his services for a price. Most of the companies are employing Freelance employees to do their specialized jobs without fixed salary and Perks. They are also called as Independent contractors. Previously Organizations were using this opportunity in specialized fields only.
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