The importance of Delivering Good Requirements to Freelancers
My Freelancing Proposal Mistake
I recently submitted a freelancer proposal on surefirehire.com for the creation of a simple application. I assigned a freelancer to a project based on their bid.
However, I made a small mistake. The mistake was that when I created the requirements, I left out an important detail. The particulars of the detail are unimportant in this illustration. What is important, and a lesson learned, is to be very detailed when defining requirements for freelancers.
- Don’t leave proposal requirements open for interpretation.
- List roles and freelancer responsibilities and employer’s responsibilities clearly.
- Document exactly what you wish for the freelancer to provide
- Even go so far as to document what you don’t want the freelancer to do.
Avoiding This Freelance Requirement Pitfall
A strategy to avoid this allow another person to read your requirements as if they are the freelancer. A lot of time, they will have the same questions that a freelancer may have. Plus, the questions asked will ignite your thought process around the freelancer’s application requirements.
Tips on how to become a top earning freelancer
If you are a starting freelancer, most of the time you may not earn as much as you want, especially if you have not already built a reputation on internet and unless you network with other freelancers to work with them. But if you are an experienced freelancer, the following tips might be very useful to you:
Tips on how to become a top earning freelancer
First : Set a good market strategy
- By owning a web site or portfolio that presents all your best achievements in reverse chorological order
- By introducing yourself as a company rather than an individual
- By posting helping information into forums, and inserting links to your web site company
- By linking to blogs, so that others who link to your blog.
Second: Subscribe to paying freelance job sites
- By subscribing to paying freelance sites, you may avoid too much competition and ask as much as possible to your clients to complete the job.
Third : Do excellent freelance work
- By doing excellent work you can be sure that your customers will come back again. Some will even hire you for long projects, because they will trust you, and promote your services to their friends.