Success in Freelancing Program

If you are a freelancer and make your career in freelancing world this tips can help you something-

1. Read through the full terms and condition where you want to work for.
2. Complete the sign up and give information about you.
3. If you are interested mainly in Odesk, make your profile 100% first.
4. To make your profile 100% fill up the necessary information in contractor profile section, take the Odesk Readiness Test and take some other easier exams like MS Word Test, Windows XP Test, English Spelling Test etc.
5. Think before bidding for a project that whether this work will be possible for you or not.
6. You can make a list for the work you can do, so that it can be easy for you to bid in freelancing sites.
7. Bid at least 2-3 bids everyday until you get a work from these freelancing program.
8. Check your inbox regularly in both freelancer and odesk.
9. Be sure about your work before starting it in the freelancing sites.
10. Ask the buyer about the work, where to work, payment system and payment method.
11. Ask the buyer about how the work should be start.
12. Bid hourly project more than fixed projects in Odesk.
13. Download the Odesk software when working in Odesk.
14. Bid at least 60-70 bids per month from these two sites.
15. Stop bidding when you get work in freelancing sites.
16. Do not depend on data entry work only.
17. Try to learn more types of work everyday and be professional to success in freelancing sites.
18. Be industries, be careful about the work and be communicative with the buyer.
19. Tell buyer if you are facing problems in doing the project work in the freelancing sites.
20. If it is so late to get your debit card, inform it the customer care of the particular master card company.
21. Do not depend on master card only. Because there are some other method through which you can withdraw money.
22. Learn the computer programs so that you can get high priced job from these freelancing sites.
23. Search in Google about the success in freelancing sites.

Working in Odesk

There are two types of user accounts for Odesk providers. One is for freelancing providers and another is for provider companies. If you want to work there distinctively select the freelance provider option. Complete registration providing your personal information. After completing registration create your profile taking some time. There are some divisions of a provider’s profile like the followings-

My account Summary :
In this part you have to fill up with some information like your personal information, asking rate per hour, maximum working time per week etc. Before working in Odesk you have to give a test called “Odesk Readiness Test”. Readiness test is such type of exam where you are interviewed that whether you have understood the policy of working in Odesk or not. For taking the exam in Odesk click the link named “Take the Odesk Readiness Test”. The exam is for one hour. There are 11 questions and you have to answer all the questions perfectly to work on Odesk. The exam is an open book exam. You can get help from the manual of Odesk providing by Odesk during exam. So before taking exam read the whole manual thoroughly.

To make your Odesk profile 100% complete you have to do some necessary steps like followings. Log in Odesk first. Roll over the mouse on your username on the top right corner of the Odesk window. Go to the account and profile settings and click there. Click on the “My provider profile” then. Follow the instruction given below and also click in the my test option and take some other test. Now your profile is 100% clear.


Portfolio Projects :
You can add details of your previous work description, picture and attachment in this part.

Employment History :
If you have experience of working in some other companies you can add in this section.

Education :
Note down your educational qualification in this part.

Certifications :
In this part note down the passed test results.

Skills :
Note down your skills in different types of works and systems.

Categories & Job Alerts :
Note down the types of work you want to do in Odesk as a provider.

Other Experiences :
You have some more skill and experience in more sections and works you can add here in this section.

Characteristics of Odesk

Online Test :

To prove the skills of freelancer providers there are more than 150 scopes of taking test on different subjects. These exams are mainly of objective types. You can take an exam in any time. Taking the exams is fully free. New providers can make there profile much higher taking more and more exam. To take an exam you have to log in first and go to Qualification Test from the Find Providers tab. You have to face 40 questions and you will get 40 minutes to solve or answer the 40 questions. You can retake an exam again after 30 days.

Team Management :

Through this site a buyer can select several providers in a single project for a particular time. For managing team there is a team room where buyer gives valuable information, history of the work and to observe the latest situation of the work. There is also Time Analyzer which shows the working time, working duration of a freelancer provider. There are some options for buyers to observe the screenshot of the working position of the provider or worker, desktop screen sharing and server for hosting subversion.

Facilities for providers :

Providers can prove their skills and belief of work. To do that you have to install software named Odesk Team. This software sends the latest situation of the providers through screenshot, work memo, activity log and webcam if one has. A provider can also contact with the other members of the team through the webcam. To download the software, go to the resources link from the community tab. There are some versions of this software for the users of Windows, Mac and Linux.

Money Withdraw System :

Like some other freelancing site, Odesk gives you several types of options for withdrawing money. From these you can withdraw money through Payoneer Debit Master Card, Moneybookers and wire transfer. From debit master card noted here, you can withdraw money from any corner of the world.

What is Odesk?

Odesk is an freelancing marketplace where around 100 thousand contractors are working right now. Right as this moment, when you are reading this article there are more than 4 thousand projects running in Odesk.

There are two types of jobs in Odesk. They are fixed price job and hourly job. But Odesk is popular for its hourly job. And working with hourly job you can earn more in comparison with the other freelancing sites of the world. You can compare Odesk a virtual office where you can work staying in a particular time as your wish. In this time what you are doing will be recorded by a software and will be sent to the buyer after a particular time through screenshot. You are paid just on what you have done. You are paid extra if you do some extra works too. And this site takes 10% charge as commission.

Right now Odesk is becoming more and more popular among the providers of the developing countries. There are more than five thousand providers who have already completed their registration in Odesk and among them lots of providers have already worked more than 500 hours in Odesk.

There are data entry operator, software development consultant, website developer, writer and also some professional Bangladeshi providers working in Odesk at this moment. It is expectable that the youth of developing countries can make Odesk as a virtual office and solve the unemployment problem of the particular countries.

Description of a project in Odesk

After logging in Odesk go to the Find Jobs tab and select the category you like to work. There is huge information about the project in the project description page. If you want to work on a particular project you have to apply for the project. But remember that before doing so, you must have to pass the “Odesk Readiness Test”. There are so many projects in Odesk where you have to show the certificate of different project you have attended. So taking so many test can increase the possibly of getting the job more quickly. If you are selected for a project by the buyer you have to install a software named “Odesk Team” and start working staying logged in.

Earn with Odesk

"Odesk" is the name of a worlds one of the greatest freelancing company. It is a private company which is established in 2003 in California in America. The founder of this company is Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis. Now its headquarter is in Menlo Park in California.

Odesk.com creates a huge job marketplace in the online world. A freelancer provider can get a job and complete it staying in the remote corner of the world. Odesk.com generally provides hourly jobs although there are a lots of projects there which are not hourly and these are called fixed priced job.

Odesk.com provides you the assurance of payment mostly in compared to the other freelanceing companies. They are making money by charging membership fees and by taking a part of the payment. The part might be range from 4% to 15% generally. As a employer a buyer can post his job in odesk.com for free of charge. Also a provider can bid for a work for fully free of charge.

How much bid a freelancer provider can do might be a question for someone. Bids are varying with completing profile percentage. Such as if your profile seems to be 20% complete you can bid in 1 project per week. Again if your profile is 80% or more you can bid in 7 projects per week. When you can upgrade your profile in 100% you can bid in 15 projects per week.

Profile completing depends on filling the "My Public Profile", "Portfolio Projects", "Employment History", "Education", "Certifications, "Skills", "Categories", "Other Experiences" forms. Taking various test is another way to make the profile higher in odesk.com. Profile upgrade is necessary in odesk because a buyer check the profile before awarding a provider for a job.

Odesk generally recommends hourly jobs for most ongoing work efforts, although fixed-price jobs can be appropriate for a smaller and well-defined project. Fixed-price jobs is generally for shorter projects. These fixed-price projects can also be used as a test tasks to give contractors as a trial run before hiring them for longer hourly work. And that's why fixed-price job is also important for providers and buyers. On the other hand, hourly jobs are much more flexible. One can have full access to Odesk’s time tracking and Work Diary functions. And the "hour paid is an hour that was worked" guarantee behind it. In ODesk the hourly jobs are long-lasting and building a very successful relationships.