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Top 5 Tips for Freelancing Excellence

Freelancing is a revolutionary career that offers extraordinary potential to those who master it and learn how to tap into its hidden treasures. To become a successful freelancer, you need three magical words: passion, determination, and persistence. Throughout this article, LancersCafe, a leading freelancing company, reveals the top 5 tips for freelancing excellence. Enjoy!

Tip 1: Know yourself: Acknowledge and celebrate your Strengths

Take sometime to reflect on your true strengths. If uncertain, it’s a clever idea to thoroughly examine the available  job categories to figure out which of them is inline with your skills and expertise. Don’t fall into the trap of choosing the most high paid category if you know deep down in your heart that it’s not what you’re meant to do. If you focus on what you like, no matter how cheap or expensive it’s, you’ll eventually excel in it and make good money along the way.

Tip 2: It doesn’t matter how good you’re. What matters is how good you’re in showing it!

You need to master the art of self-marketing and learn how to write compelling profiles and persuasive bids. An excellent tip here is to read your profile/bid out loud or to a friend to get a clear indication of how effective it is.

 Moreover, we strongly recommend that you do some readings about communication and negotiation skills in order to impress potential buyers and maximize your chances of winning projects.

Tip 3: Too much too soon versus slowly but surely

The number of freelancing websites is increasing substantially and you might be tempted to join many of them simultaneously, thinking that doing so would maximize your job-hunting success. Guess what, the opposite is true! Successful freelancers focus on one or two sites at maximum and take their time to explore them and read their user terms carefully.

The same applies to the number of projects you bid on. It’s better to focus on few projects that you read carefully and bid effectively on instead of carelessly skimming through zillion projects and bidding haphazardly!

Tip 4: Work smart not hard

You need to be very clever when choosing your buyer. Beware of buyers who include very vague project descriptions and new buyers without enough feedback. Also, if the buyer requests too much free work or violates the site’s rule by giving you his email before accepting you for the project, it’s  a big NO!

Ask yourself: what can I do to be chosen for that project? Offering relevant work samples and asking intelligent questions about the project sends the buyer a clear message that you’re professional and expert in your field

Tip 5: So far so good: Now show me the Money! 

Checklist summing up what you should do to guarantee freelancing success:

• Join one or two freelancing sites at maximum and read their terms carefully
• Choose projects you’re really passionate about
• Write compelling profiles/bids
• Read project descriptions carefully and ask intelligent questions to impress the buyers
• Start with a law rate until you build a reputation on the site. Then, raise your rate gradually

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For the first time in the Middle East a portal has been launched to manage the relation between companies and individuals who need to hire a freelancer to get a job done and the freelancers themselves.  The idea has been done globally several times.  Sites like www.rentacoder.com and www.elance.com are good examples of executing this idea.

The idea is, a company needs to get a certain job done but they don’t need to hire an employee and put him on the payroll just for this job.  Especially if they don’t have a job description for him and they will not really need him after the job at hand is done.  So, they consider hiring a freelancer.  Lots of risks involved of course, like he will not be up to the job, he will not get it done right, he will miss the deadline and keep stalling, he will take the down payment and disappear.  Lots of problems.

On the other hand the freelancers don’t know how to get known so that when someone needs them he can contact them.  Also freelancers are afraid of finishing and delivering the work and then never receive their payment and companies are very good at coming up with reasons why they will not pay.  Another concern is that the company will ask for one thing at the beginning and then the actual project turns out to be much bigger than their original statement.  So the freelancer gets under paid. Portals that govern the relation resolve all these issues.

Lancerscafe.com is the first in Egypt and the Middle East to offer such a service. I think it is a good opportunity for many people who wish to increase their freelance business and earn more money.

It seems like a good chance for many people.  If you are a woman who wishes to work at home and earn some money, a student who needs to work while studying, an employee who needs to increase his income or an elderly who still wants to do something useful and add some income on his pension….Then Lancerscafe is what you are looking for.

LancersCafe.com offers 175 specialty, starting from Data Entry and passing by programming, web design, article writing, graphic design, fashion design and up to Marketing, accountancy, engineering and landscaping and a lot of other professions you can find them yourself at www.lancerscafe.com