How to Make Money Online by Working on Freelancer.com

One of the most efficient ways of earning legitimate income on the Internet is to work as a freelancer. You can make additional  income by working online, while still continuing with your day job or you can even quit your real job and work as a full-time freelancer. With my years of experience in hiring freelancers, I can reveal how you can make smart money by working as a freelancer.
Among several platforms and marketplaces,  Freelancer.com is hands down the most proven and efficient online marketplace for freelancers and customers looking for reliable and affordable services within their budget.

Freelancer.com is the world’s largest marketplace for online jobs. Freelancers and employers all over the globe use it as an efficient market platform to trade skills and projects. Individuals and companies require skilled assistance for both short term as well as long term projects.
Employers like myself post projects and service providers (Freelancers) bid on these projects in a competitive environment hoping to increase their connections and get more leads, which in turn will fetch them more  projects and revenue. At the time of this writing, there are 6 614 996 live projects in Freelancer, such as these:

As you can see from the above screenshot, projects can be anything from a very simple and fast chore to highly complicated and challenging tasks. Usually projects range from designing a website or doing some programming work, to answering emails, making phone calls, translating or writing, voice acting, taking photographs or doing research or academic work online. There are myriads of different types of works available, updated every single minute.
How does Freelancer.com work?
The employer writes down a detailed description of what needs to be done and usually gives an outline of the budget and the deadline. All this information is posted as part of the new project. The project remains open until a candidate to do the project is found. If not awarded after more than one month, it is automatically considered expired.
The workers can search for or browse all the currently open projects. After finding something that suits your skills, you should bid. Making a bid simply means that you are letting the employer know that you can do this job, while adding a short description of your services, and eventually some past references but also how much money you would need to complete the task and how much time you would need.

This is a screenshot of my profile. I have been doing this for many years, exclusively as an employer.  I have completed over 670 projects at Freelancer.com.
How to win projects on Freelancer.com
Now I will reveal what my criteria’s are as an employer that I follow before deciding whom to award my projects.
Here are some tips and tricks on how to prove to your potential employer that you are the most eligible candidate to work with him/her.
First of all, you’ll need to create a profile to Freelancer.com, if you don’t have one already. Your profile is very important. Before I hire anyone to do anything for me, I always take a look at their profile, quickly checking their achievements, description of services offered and also the professional and academic background.
What matters for your Freelancer.com profile
These are the main things I look after when checking a Freelancer.com profile:

1. Your profile photo. If you have a good looking profile photo, it’s a plus. No photo or a smiley face as a profile photo is a big disadvantage. Using a stock photo of some random person is probably the worst mistake you can make as it shows lack of reliability and can automatically put you in the category of scammers and time wasters.
2. Your profile summary text. There is basically only one thing I want to read from your profile summary: if this is your personal profile or are you representing a company with many workers. Any typos or poor English in your introduction text raise a major red flag as it either indicates lack of interest for details or problems with communicating in English.
3. Number of projects you have done. If you only completed a fewer jobs under your belt, that is not a red flag, but it means I’m expecting you to offer your services on a lower price than the other bidders. This is because I would take an extra risk by hiring you since you don’t have a solid track record of positive feedback yet.

Whether your profile is a personal profile or a corporate profile is very critical information for employers. For example, if you are working individually, there is a limit of how many projects you can do at the same time. If I see that you are currently working on many projects, you won’t probably get a new project from me, especially if I’m on a tight deadline because most probably you will not be able to do justice to my selection!
That being said, the problem with corporate profiles is that you’ll never know what you are going to get. One time you can get great results, another time you may end up working with someone else inside the company that will perform poorly. That’s why I usually prefer personal accounts, because their personal reputation is always on the line. Also, I want to know more about the people who work for me. Who you are, where you are from, about your family and what you like to do in your free time.

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