LimeExchange understands the nuances of a highly competitive Freelance & Online Services Outsourcing market and calls out the following 10 steps from its experience and feedback, to help you differentiate yourself, gain better visibility/responses and better your chances of sharing & earning via LimeExchange:
1. Create your Detailed Profile - “Your Profile represents your online Identity“. Try and provide as much detail as possible about yourself, your experience, skills, certifications and education to help users gauge your competencies realistically.
2. Profile Portfolio - Emphasis should be given in attaching a detailed portfolio of your past work, certain references, which would help increase your credibility. Invite Friends, Colleagues to create your Business Network to provide credible references.
3. Profile Image - It always helps for a online user to relate with a Photograph/Picture and put a face to a name. A Picture speaks a thousand words, so rather than using Icon’s use your profile photo and help establish a credibility to your online user name.
4. Profile Video - Very relevant to SMB’s (Small Medium Business) to showcase their office, Infrastructure and Team. Showcase any Corporate Flash Video (If published on YouTube) helps you provide any user with attractive medium information about your organization
5. Rating & Feedback - Use Profile: ‘English Fluency’ self rating to provide a clear picture, to users who want to exchange information/services in English, and enable them to understand your communication abilities better and early and create a valued relationship. Provide references & candid feedback to ensure you serve the community and the community is enabled to serve you.
6. Relate to Categories - If you require or provide services in more than one category, then update your profile and add all relevant categories to your profile. This helps you participate in your relevant service categories.
7. Detail your Requirement/Bid - When posting a project or bidding on a project, provide as much references, relevant information to enable either party to understand each others requirement better. Try and answer the questions on What? Why? When? How? How Much? within the content of your post. Just having this information reduces the overhead communication, builds a level of confidence in one’s abilities to collaborate and enhances everyone’s experience.
8. Define Business Agreement (Terms of Engagement) - At any time during Bidding stage, try and provide as much detail on Scope of Work, Cost and Timelines. Create a Draft in LimeExchange and tailor it for every Bid to relate to the project requirement. Any Buyer of services wants to ensure first hand information about Cost & Schedule and this goes a long way in establishing trust with the Buyer.
9. Define Milestones - Within Business Agreement or Terms of Engagement, ensure along with Bid, Milestones are clearly defined with corresponding schedule and payment terms. Again as much information to a Buyer on Cost and Schedule implications involved helps build a mutually beneficial relationship.
10. Rely on PMB - Using ‘Private Message Board‘ ensures that users engaged in a discussion are alerted early via email, alerts about messages, responses. Your messages are kept confidential within parties involved and ensure provide the right level of trust to the Buyer & Service Provider about you.
Once engaged in an execution providing candid feedback about either party only enables the community know about the users via Live Experience and Feedback, which is much valued by one and all.
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