How to act after signup?

Honestly, it’s really difficult to get your first job. Let’s talk about the first site GetAFreelancer.com. You will see many projects, listed every where. Do not worry; just register at this site. REMEMBER to professional looking information in all fields of your profile; people will see your profile before they give you any work. Winning your first project is the most difficult part : )

After you create your profile, open the main page of the site. Now scroll down, until you see a heading called “Top 50 Newest projects”.

Here you will see a list of newest opened projects that you can win. I highly recommend that if you are not a programmer or any other field expert, then you do data entry and copy writing jobs. Look for jobs under the “Top 50 Newest projects” section. If you find one, click on it.

Then click on “Place a Bid” and then enter the lowest price available for that project. WHAT, the lowest price? Why? Well, what do you expect : ) you are new here. So you have to do work for the lowest price.

How can you get a project for high rates when there are many other people applying for the same project and they have great ratings too, where you don’t even have one rating. So, go for the lowest price. After you place a bid, go back to the project description page and look for a small icon called PM (Private Message). PM is the key factor for wining a project.

Now click on it, and send a message to the creator of the project and tell him that you are new but you can do an excellent job and that you will do it for the lowest price that he wants to pay for that project. After you send the PM, wait for the reply, if you get a reply then there is a good chance of wining that project. Your Online Jobs career will start when you win your first project.

Open the PM box to see what the buyer replied and act accordingly. Few things to Remember: First of all, you can place bids on 15 projects at the first website mentioned above, in contrast to the second website where you can place bids on as many projects as you want to. In first website, if you become a gold member, you can then place bids on 160+ projects. I prefer you upgrade to gold member as soon as you earn $12.

Here are few advantages of gold membership. There will be no extra fees. For example if you win a project worth $100 and you are a gold member, then you will get $100 after you complete the project. But if you are not a gold member, then you have to pay a fee (5% of total project budget). It costs $12 per month to become a Gold member. I suggest you first find work on this site, then when you earn a little money, pay $12 and become a Gold member.

ALWAYS, remember to send a PM to the creator of the project after you place a bid there. Sending PM is very important.

NEVER send your contact information, that is, email, phone number etc, via PM. In case you send any contact information, your online career will be over for sure. GAF will terminate your account if they find any contact info in PM. At GAF (GetAFreelancer), don’t click on “Message Board”, you have to find “PM” icon, look for it below buyer’s username.

Don’t open any other page (Use only the main page) to see the latest Data entry, copy writing etc projects, because it’s very hard to get the old projects, keep the main page opened and scroll down to the “Top 50 Newest Projects” page and keep refreshing at this position to become the first one to catch the newest projects.