by Senadheera Jayakody

Created on: February 20, 2010

Winning your first bid as a freelance writer is the most critical part of your freelance career. If you can win your fist bid as soon as possible, it will be a great motivation you to start your freelance career with confidence. But many freelance writers fail to make their first writing project. If you pay your attention to several key points it is not a tough job to win your first bid.

Create a Great profile

Preparation and documentation is the key to win your first bid as a freelance writer. It must look professional and includes detailed descriptions about your experience and previous work. If you have worked with other online websites, you can add the link to your profile or your best articles. This will help to demonstrate your capabilities to potential buyers and build trust about you. If you haven't such online work examples, you still able to create an attractive profile by adding sample works. You can add some of your best articles or any other writing samples to your freelance profile. They will definitely help you to win your first bid soon.

Decrease your rate per hour

Setting a low rate per hour is very important if you are new to the freelance writing website. Because many project owners don't like to handover their projects to new freelancers, even they are quite experienced in the field. If your hourly rate is very high, you are not likely to win a bid. Fist start with low rate. Once built the trust among employers of the freelance website, you can increase your rate per hour.

Write an attractive and an accurate bid

Writing an attractive bid is crucial to win your first bid as a freelance writer. First read the project description well and make sure you have understood it correctly. Then include all the details and related documents asked by the project owner. If your bid is incomplete, you probably giving it away. Write several sentences about your expertise related to project and explain why you think that you can complete it very well than others. Don’t make very lengthy bid descriptions.

Place your bids as low as you can

Lower bids are always attractive whether it comes from an experienced freelance writer or a newcomer. Don’t forget that winning your fist bid is very crucial. If you can make it, winning your second bid is lot easier than your first one. So you have to make every possible effort to win your first bid. After that you can increase your bid amount if you think that you can provide a great service in exchange of the money.

Try trial projects first

If you are a new freelance writer, try to bid on trial projects first. Experience bidders are not allowed to bid on trial projects. Therefore you have a great chance to win your first bid.

Having a positive feedback is very important to continue as a freelancer. So you have to complete your project according to the requirements of your project owners. Otherwise they may provide you a negative feedback. If you succeeded in winning your first bid as a freelance writer, provide great a service for your project owner. Then you can easily expand your online reputation as a freelance writer. 

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