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In this entry, I will talk about how bidding on projects at GetAFreelancer goes.

Keep an eye on projects that fall under your areas of expertise.

I took a screen shot of the page where you can see the project categories and most recent posted projects. This is actually on the home page of the website.

Through this page, you can browse through the projects that are open for bidding. If you remember, during the sign up process, you can specify to receive notices when a project, falling under your areas of expertise, is posted. With this, you can simply monitor your inbox.

Click on a project to open up the Project Detail page as shown in the following screen shot.

BID ON THIS PROJECT button appears on projects that are under you areas of expertise.

Shown on this page are budget range, project owner, job type(s), and most important one: project details -- what is needed to be delivered for this project.
To place your bid, click on BID ON THIS PROJECT button.


Here's the bid page

This page takes 3 inputs from you.

Your bid for the total project:
Write here how much does it costs you to do this project. I recommend that before getting here, you should have a solid understanding of what it takes to have it delivered. If something is not clear yet, ask the project provider.

In how many days can you deliver a completed project?
Again, make sure you know what it takes to have this project delivered so you can put here realistic time frame.

Provide the details of your bid (max 5000 characters): *
Here, write something that will catch the attention of the project provider. A project can get 50 or a hundred or more bids so make yours stand out. I also would recommend a sentence or two. Long texts are often ignored. Also, don't pre-compose this part. It gives an impression that you did not get through the project details and just pasted your pre-composed bid message.

All these are required information.

After placing your bid, send that project provider a private message. Here you can write some sort of persuation -- some sort of message telling the provider that you are the freelancer for the project. To improve your chances of getting the project, send some related work samples. This is my technique in winning projects.

Lastly, monitor your email as you will get notified when (1) the project provider sent you a private message (2) you WON or lost that project.

For your questions and comments, please use the comment form.

Happy bidding!