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Mastering the Art of Selling Your ‘Skills as a Service’ Online

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Having any skill of your own is a great resource to benefit from and work in one of the various online marketplaces looking for people having your skills. However, this is not so easy all the time because of hard competition you can face online like offline as well. That’s why, selling your skills as a service online might take long time to do well until people are more aware of your brand. Using some micro channels available online like social media, online free advice, and places like flipajob can make it easier for you to sell your services online when you implement needed strategies and having a open business mindset.
In this article, we will discuss some tips to help you succeed
Create Product Visualisation

Most of the times you will be selling virtual service online “unless of course if you are selling artwork or photographs”. This means that you cannot evaluate your product until someone else does. You should always ask for help, ask someone with critical eyes and business experience to help you see the beauty of your work and spot red flags that can affect your services negatively. Ask someone who will tell you what you need to hear to identify all points of weakness within your work. Ask him or her to identify solid points that can make the work better and more professional to achieve commercial success and customer satisfaction.
Define Your Niche Speciality

Specify what your services are exactly. Don’t just market yourself as a graphic designer. Mention what you are really good at instead like Joomla, CSS, or Photoshop for example. This way clients looking for this kind of service will know that you are a good match. However, when you posses multiple skills, you should definitely take advantage of that while mentioning details as well.
Set Up Shop

Well, you say in your portfolio that you are a Photoshop expert… What is your evidence? After all, clients want to hire someone who they know what his or her skill level is for real and not verbally. It is such essential tool for all freelancers to have their own website, blog, or shop to promote their work and give their clients an idea of what they are capable of. Even if you are a freelance editor or writer, set up your own website or blog and publish articles or product reviews of your own to demonstrate your skill level to interested clients.
Plug For References

Feedback is considered to be a measure of quality by many clients. Building positive feedback and taking all possible chances to show it is a great way to promote your freelancing service whether you are still starting as a freelancer or a professional full time freelancer. When you are still starting, ask anyone you have dealt before and given free work or even your mentors to write an honest feedback about your work. Use their feedback and publish references as whole if you can as using excerpts may make some people think you are hiding something.
Expand Your Sales Avenues

Working as a freelancer via freelancing website is a great way to start you career and make business relationships. It is also good option for those who are running low on costs and don’t want to spend a fortune on office costs and other commissions. However, it is also good to free some of your time to promote your work and find new opportunities offline.
Target Local SME’s

When you start your own freelance business, you are usually very excited and eager to get your brand recognized all over the world. However, if you start looking at prospective local customers, it may become very beneficial to your business in the long run. Yes, it can consume sometime of you to expand your business contacts and grow your business locally.
Start your email marketing by sending “friendship requests” or following targeted clients and having your online network of relationships. Never send spam email subject, only keep them direct and to the point to convince the recipient that you are serious regarding your business.
At the end, in order to win your fight against competitors, you have to stand out of the crowd and show what is unique about your business. Always, look and search for your customers needs and wants to make it true. Finally, be prepared with your attractive profile and loyal referral who are your true representation.
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Getting the Most out of Being a Microworker On TenBux.com

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With the help of your computer and internet connection, you can easily assign your business tasks to lots of people all over the world to perform these tasks for you. Small businesses usually seek the help of professionals to perform non-core related jobs like photograph and video editing, article writing, and writing reviews for their business.

TenBux is a new form to help both business looking for qualified professionals and individuals who want to start their freelancing career. Dividing your businesses large projects into small tasks will enable you get the work done with a very low cost and short time compared to when you assign just one person to work on the whole large project.
When it comes to individuals, you can easily start working with TenBux full time or even part time to get yourself some extra cash and decide whether it is a good idea to become a full time freelancer.

Start earning money by selling your skills and offer your services to business owners looking for skilled microworkers. It just needs your patience, high quality, self motivation to boost your career as a microworker. In the following parts we will discuss some real time tips to succeed in micro working.
While literally anyone that has a marketable skill they can turn in to a service can start selling on TenBux, being a successful microworker requires self-motivation, diligence and a high standard of
Always complete your profile
Despite being somehow boring task, your profile represents who you are and it is very important to fill it with lots of information regarding yourself. This information should be real as it kind of builds a personal connection with you and your potential buyer.

Choose a friendly username
It shows more professionalism when you use your real name or company as a username. Most buyers will be more comfortable and confident that you are “real”.

Always read the ‘How it Works’ or ‘FAQ’ pages
Reading frequently asked questions and how it works is essential part before start working with any website. First of all, it will ease the process of dealing with the website and secondly, it will help you follow the right procedures if any conflicts happened with your employer.

Post multiple Jobs – but make them relevant
View TenBux to identify how people post their job offers and in what way you can offer the same job in a better way. Post more jobs instead of only one to increase your sales opportunities. Just try to make your post unique to stand out the crowd and fight high competition. Offer better service, shorter time, or lower price to attract business owners and convince them that you are what they need for the job. So, it is not only posting more jobs what will get you sales, it is what you offer more than everyone else.

Use compelling sales copy
Since lots of buyers might not know you especially if you were new to the website, you need to make your job description very clear. Imagine what the buyer will want to know and act that way, include details like what makes you the best option to buy, what is your professional background and experience, and don’t forget to write proper English. Also, always remember to spell check the post as it is can influence over 70% of buyers not to buy your services if the post had spelling mistakes as declared by BBC studies.

Be realistic with your time scales
Lying to your potential buyers about time needed to accomplish certain job might get you lots of sales at the beginning but it will end up with you having very bad reviews and feedback from angry customers. This will of course prevent others from dealing with you and your freelancer career will end so soon. It is very important to give realistic and true information about time needed for tasks and it is also important to stick to it and deliver work within that time frame.

A picture tells a 1,000 words
Whenever relevant, support your job offers with high quality images as they can speak of you better than any words you might say. Choose only high resolution pictures that show your best work in order to give good impression about your work abilities.

Always respond to buyer questions
Responding quickly and professionally to your customer requests and questions will help you build a credible profile as a freelancer. Buyers might even choose lower quality contractors because their professionalism and ability to answer all questions clearly and concisely. Again, don’t forget to write proper English, correct grammar, and spell check your reply before sending it to the buyer.

Keep up communications
Updating your buyers with your job’s progress is important to assure them that you are doing the work correctly and that they did make the right decision hiring you. By this we don’t mean sending lots of emails, just whenever you complete job’s milestones.
Even when you have unpleasant news like inability to complete your job in the time assigned, tell them that information. Report that piece of information and state exactly what us the reason behind that delay and how will you do your best to overcome difficulties. Also, mention when you will be able to finish. This way, buyers will probably still happy with your work and give you good feedback.

Always ask a buyer to leave feedback
Getting lots of positive feedbacks is ultimately the best way to promote you as a freelancer. Essentially, it will convince people that you are real person who has some real service to offer and that service is so good that it left some other buyer very happy with it and willing to recommend you to other buyers. Insuring high quality of work and dealing professionally with your customers will be your ticket to high and positive feedbacks.

Share on social networks
Sharing your professional activity on social media will increase your online visibility to other buyers. You can share TenBux activities via social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Give instructions to buyers
When a buyer decides to choose you for a job, they will probably give you information needed to start working. It is also your responsibility to give your buyer clear instruction about the next steps and what is expected from the. Being clear with your instructions is as important as your job description included in the job post we discussed earlier.

Lots of businesses now like to assign tasks to microworkers especially small businesses to get their work done with low cost and no long term commitments.

Microworking is a great way that enables people to start working from the convenience of their homes and with their own terms. You can turn almost any skill to service and offer it on TenBux to start earning money online. Following these tips will help you get the most of it whenever you start.

Does anyone else have any ideas to share or have any questions?