Showing posts with label Freelancer Guide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freelancer Guide. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Freelance Fest - Forum For Freelancers
Few days ago we have setup a new forum for all kind of online freelancers - Freelance Fest. Join the forum now and build up your community with world wide freelancers.
Site address: http://www.freelancefest.com
Before start, let's have a look into freelancer, freelancing & freelance marketplace. According to wikipedia,
A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer.
Fields where freelancing is especially common include journalism and other forms of writing, copywriting, computer programming and graphic design, consulting, and many other professional and creative services.
Freelance marketplaces (or outsourcing marketplaces) are websites that match buyers and sellers of internet-provided services. Buyers and sellers of these services each setup profiles on the marketplace website. Seller profiles provide a description of the range of services offered, sample materials, rates, and details about the provider. Buyer profiles include descriptions and specifications of the work sought. Buyers and sellers are able to rate each other and provide positive and negative references/feedback.
At first browse different freelance marketplaces and try to understand their system, rules and project types. Then choose 2 or 3 sites and place your bids. Once you win a project, continue with that freelancing site and focus on improving your ranking and rating on that site.
Freelance marketplaces or sites are almost similar to each other. But everyone has their own features. In my experience, once you will feel comfort in a freelancing site and will get good amount of projects then you will not able to get projects from different freelancing site. So at the very beginning of your freelancing career browse as many sites as you can and then focus on one site.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
RentACoder - Work From Your Home
Rent A Coder or RAC is a great way to complete projects & earn money from your home. More than 200,000 coders have been registered here. Everyday more than 2,500 projects are available to get done. The slogan of the site "How Software Gets Done". They also call it, "Home of the worlds' largest number of completed software projects". You will find varieties of projects - web development, design, data entry, game development, content writing or even providing suggestions ranges from $5 to $50,000 or more. I have been working here since 2005 & have completed 63 jobs. My current rating is 9.97 out of 10 and ranking is below 600 out of 200,000 coders. From this site I have got few permanent buyers who are providing me projects one after another.
Let's see what are the basic steps to complete a project in RAC:
- Registration: If you have not registered yet click here. On the sign up process give your personal informations, your preferred payment method, areas of expertise & your resume. Take your time to design your resume so that you can impress a buyer. You can put html codes here. Be careful, do not put your email address or any other contact information in Resume.
Browse Projects: After successful registration login the site & browse projects one after another until you get a suitable one. You can filter projects to reduce the list. You will find this filter option while registering or from the left side column after login. I have selected only PHP, MySQL & Web related projects. Also choose these project types - Personal Projects, Very Small (under $100) & Small (above $100).
Place a Bid: Now visit a project details page and check it carefully. There are few things you will notice. For now look around these - Project Type, Maximum Accepted Bid, Deadline, Project Description, Platform, Deliverables, Number of posted bids. Read the description in details & keep in mind the deadline. If you think you are confident then reply the buyer by message. If you are not clear then ask them questions. Do not provide your contact information or email address. In the message portion you will find a text box to place your bid. Try to put lower amount at the beginning. In my case I placed several bids over $50 or $100. But no one responded. Then one day I reduced it to $20 and got my first project, though it was a $100 job.- Complete the Project: Once you will have won a project ask buyer to give you all necessary files & informations. Then start your work as soon as possible. After starting the project if you find that you did wrong and will not able to do this project then you can cancel it within first 24 hours. It will not affect your rating. My suggestion is clear everything before placing your bid to avoid unnecessary problems. Once you will complete your job, click "Report Work Complete" button & upload your work into a zip file. Always be careful about the deadline time & complete project before it expires by clicking that button.
Buyer Approves Project: Now wait until buyer approve your project. If the buyer like your work then they will approve it, rate you between 1 to 10 and leave a comment. Before the buyer approve my work I ask them whether they are fully satisfied or not. I request them to let me know if they are not willing to rate my work as 10. If not then I ask them & fix anything I miss from the requirements. You will not view the rating until you also rate them. Buyer rating and comment is very much important to get more projects from RAC.- Receive Payment: Once they will approve your work all money will be added into your RAC account from the escrow fund. You can withdraw all money when your RAC account will be $100 or more. There are several payment methods. Choose which one is suitable for you. Available methods are: Paypal, Payonner Debit Card, Western Union, Bank to Bank Wire Transfer, International Priority Mail, Snail Mail Check.
I hope this guide will help you to start work in RAC. In future I will post few tips & tricks about how to win a project. For more information visit How Does It Work for Coders? page.
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