What to interest the customer?

Question

Freelance

A little backstory. Six months ago, I began to actively study web development, and in particular html, css, various plugins, frameworks for them, etc. Having made about 15 layouts (about 5 were adaptive) and thinking that it was doing well, I decided that it was time to go to the freelance exchange. The choice fell on fl.ru, since in my opinion this is currently the only suitable Russian-language freelance exchange (there are problems with English, so English-language exchanges disappear). In general, having registered on the coveted fl.ru, I have been sitting for about 2 weeks without reviews, portfolios and orders. It seems to me that the problem is the lack of reviews, since it is unlikely that anyone will want to entrust their project to an unknown person. I tried to attract them with a generous discount, referring to the fact that reviews are needed, but all in vain. Can someone share their personal experience? Who started with what? What attracted customers in the early days of working on freelance exchanges?

Answer 1

Spit on Russian exchanges and download English. Or enter into a criminal conspiracy with someone who knows English and still go to elance.com, etc. An example, on my topic: the same task, small databases have fallen for people, it is necessary to restore. fl.ru - 400 rubles per project, elance.com - 150-200 dollars. Does it make sense to sit on the Russian stock exchange, do you think?

Answer 2

your 15 layouts are your portfolio, a big discount will rather scare away an adequate person.
Choose the best of your work and here's your resume

Answer 3

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Answer 4

1. I support comrades who advise you to go to western freelance and learn English or find a person for the role of a translator. Without English today, nowhere, and working for the Russian market = forever sitting on bread and water.
2. Reviews and portfolios are not difficult to collect. 15 works \u003d portfolio, collect reviews for those people who once did something, if there are very few of them, just ask your friends to write. If only they were.
3. Write blank proposal letters that you will send in response to orders. This greatly saves time when answering and allows you to prepare a high-quality answer in advance, and not write some crap in a hurry.
4. For Western exchanges, there is a good life hack on how to analyze customers and make an attractive answer:
How I made almost $24,000 in 4 weeks of freelancing on Elance
wob.su/blog/kak-ya-zarabotal-pochti-24-000-za-4-ne...

Answer 5

1. long option: First, work on reviews, but always set comfortable prices, then it will be fine.
2. smart option: find partners, some kind of advertising studio, for example, those who are engaged in promotion or direct but are not involved in layout and front-end, they will easily give you clients for % for improvements, layout, etc., because they themselves are not interested in layout , but at the same time, their own customers constantly have a need for any modifications or finishing touches.

Answer 6

Method 1!
Make responses to projects and offer a discount there. Be sure to explain the reason for such a discount.
Not just "I give you a discount", but "I give you a discount for the reason that I need to develop on this exchange and I need reviews. I understand that it is difficult for you to choose me as a performer due to the lack of reviews, but rest assured I will handle the task or refund your money."
The reason in the text always works. Customers are not wolves. They understand and go to the meeting. Make a discount - at the beginning of a career, you need to sacrifice in order to break into people.
Method 2! (Black way)
Ask your friends to register on the exchange as customers. Let them create several projects and choose you as a performer. Then they will leave you feedback. I've never used it, but I know guys who did. I don't really recommend it. The administration may suspect and ban.