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How can I write a good proposal on Upwork.com?
On a platform such as UpWork, a client who posts a project will get anywhere from 50 to 100 proposals and invite 5 people to interview. Turning the numbers around yields that it takes 20 proposals to ...
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How do I make clients understand that I am the right freelancer for my assignment?
Even if you are 100% honest and upfront, this person, for whatever reason, has a mindset about you that you will not overcome, especially online.
Regardless of whether or not you want to work on the ...
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How to learn about MSA, SOW, RFP? (consulting)
Proposal writing in response to RFPs can be quite a difficult endeavor.
The best way to learn is having a good mentor, who’s an experienced proposal writer. If you know someone has this experience, ...
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How should a backend developer showcase his/her projects?
For a back-end developer, I believe your portfolio would be the enterprises and the scale of the projects you worked on. Even though I am a front-end developer, I'm not really focused on integrating ...
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How should a backend developer showcase his/her projects?
Could you showcase how you've been efficient?
A customer had a query that ran for over 3 minutes to retrieve the data. After detailing the requirements, I was able to run a query to produce the ...
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Unallocated projects
Being a client on those services give you a chance to open the project even if you are not sure that you need someone to work on it. So those are the ones that are left hanging because clients are not ...
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Seeking freelance (academic) publication platforms
There are several academic publication platforms and freelancing opportunities that you can explore to publish your academic papers. Here are some suggestions:
Academia.edu - A platform where ...
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Best Way to Approach Billing with New Clients
Since you clearly don't want an hourly contract, you shouldn't offer that as an option.
Your pricing should be clear to your client, something like:
"I'll set up, monitor and optimize your google ...
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Has this proposal any flaws?
I found nothing bad in this bid. Maybe some stylistic things in English language which made me not understand what you said immediately, but other than that the bid is OK.
Now, what you will realize ...
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Evaluation Task to find good development company
Asking someone to complete unpaid work as a freelancer in the hopes of landing a job isn't going to go down very well.
If it's for web design, it would be better to ask for samples of previous work (...
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Should I build an Alpha before presenting my concept
Dangerous territory here... But I'll bite.
If you can guarantee (likely with a lawyer's advice/help) that you developed it on your own time on your own equipment in your own home, you may have a case ...
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Should I take on this proposal writing job and what should I charge?
If you have no experience, make sure you are paid by the hour and for your time - not for the result.
You should charge an hourly rate that covers all your costs and a profit that allows you to earn ...
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How do I make clients understand that I am the right freelancer for my assignment?
I assume the NDAs you have signed are terribly restrictive - so your prior clients owe you nothing.
Having said that, perhaps it could be worth a shot asking the clients if there are any details you ...
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How to learn about MSA, SOW, RFP? (consulting)
This isn't a complete answer, but a properly written RFP will describe exactly how they want the proposal done (sometimes specifying the font type and size, and page count limits). I suggest getting a ...
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Freelancer taking away a client from a full-blown media agency: How to price the work?
IMO, bill them hourly. Make sure that the scope, deliverables, and milestones are well defined and in the contract.
If you bill them at $100.00 per hour you'll be making twice as much as you normally ...
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How to Start Freelance Career at Upwork
Here are some of the key points that may benefit you on Upwork:
Don't ever use the same proposals every time (some people just copy and paste their proposals everywhere). Read the job details ...
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How to Start Freelance Career at Upwork
I'm a top-rated freelancer on Upwork and now only take on very lucrative projects. It took about 3-5 months of hard work for relatively little money to build up my portfolio and grow my client base.
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How should a backend developer showcase his/her projects?
If you want to show this to a non technical person build ERM's and UML's that should be enough to show them your knowledge with databases
Say some stuff like: "x table works for y module in the app so ...
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Making promises in a proposal for something that might not be possible
No, don't make that kind of promise. You can promise to take specific actions which might be likely to lengthen the duration of user sessions, such as what is described here, but you can't put a ...
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Unallocated projects
Would it be safe to assume that any project after a month after it's initial announcement is unlikely to do anything than just sit and stagnate, in a state of limbo (incorrectly flagged as "hiring ...
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