How Easy Is Pitching For Freelancers!

Pitching a client is a herculean task. Ask a business development officer how much sweat and tears he has to shed for winning a client. Being a freelancer does not let you escape the fact that pitching can bring you a client. You have to bring forth your marketing qualities for valuing your skills, talent and experience. And nothing but this art can highlight whatever traits you have in your professional personality.

Pitch Hard

Penning down great proposal will win half of the battle for you. But the idea, that a proposal will be meaningless for the clients, can trap you in the web of difficulties. So, hurry up! You have to work on enhancing such quality in you to bring yourself in commanding position. How can you expect from customers to come to you if you don’t have guts to showcase your talent and the benefits that you will cater to them? Start preparing proposal letter and also, the cover letter for business finance or financial system support projects to let the world know how talented you are. 

Must To Have in ‘Pitching’

Let we tell how simple it is. The very first step of the freelancing ladder is presenting who you are and what services you can cater. Write these all in your business proposal for freelancing business planning and operations or any other projects. And don’t make it messy and boring. Keep it to the point or use pointer style for pinpointing your caliber.  In this, an effective portfolio can be your unprecedented weapon. Think with cool head and line-up all of your traits defining these in your bio:

·         Who you are

·         What and why you freelance

·         Your experience and skills

·         The project in which your interest lies

·         Your clientele

·         Your achievements

·         Your potential

Don’t show your fool aspect while scrambling your bio with inconsistencies, irrelevant details, outdated information and mentioning in third person. It will cast bad impression of yours or you may be trapped in your own words.

If you have executed in dexterously, then be ready for getting an incessant rain of clients call. All website wherein your bio and proposal for freelancing is sent, they will give you priority in assigning projects. What Elance, Freelancer and other such portals look into is your cover letter, proposal and portfolio. If you have all in queue then, you are short listed. It’s guarantee! What these portals actually want are:

ü  The snap shot of your bio

ü  An effective business proposal

ü  An impactful cover letter

They waste not a minute in scanning how much talented freelancer you are through these three.

What does a cover letter contain?

v  Starting with friendly GREETINGS

v  First name of the receiver

v  Brief description of your services

v  Qualification/Experience in bulleted style

v  Highlight the clientele and their queries

v  Be apparent

v  Use phrases like ‘I am confident to complete your project in time’ and ‘cost-effectively’

v  Be straight forward

These simple yet very interesting facts can help you to trace your customers for sure and let you help in building the hierarchy of them for long time and earn supernormal gain.