How to Find a Great Freelancer – Selecting the Best Bid
This article aims to save you time and improve your project success by discussing how to systematically select the best freelancer bids. It is part of a series of articles “How to Find a Great Freelancer Online”.
On any given project, you’re likely to receive somewhere between 10 and 50 bids if you post it to one of the larger recommended sites. As a general rule, the larger the project the more interest you’ll get. Bigger projects are far more lucrative, and occur less often in the marketplace, so freelancers tend to queue far and wide to try and win it.
Don’t bother talking to everyone…
If you don’t have a system for managing this deluge, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of bids you receive. Reading them is hard enough… responding to them all… no way! Read the rest of this entry