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Do you really want to take freelancing/outsourcing to the limit? Then you will want to hire a mentor on our site.

A mentor on our site can help you from getting freelance jobs to helping you work successfully with your clients ensuring their total satisfaction so you get paid for doing them and increasing your chances by 95% that they will want to do repeated business with you!

"Many freelancers
are earning so high per year
that even if they don't have a
college education or a master's degree,
they are earning like if
they had a higher education!"

Benefits

Mentors are really successful freelancers
Your mentor will share his/her secrets of success with you
Get effective bid text written by your mentor to win more freelance jobs on freelance sites
Receive advice for your concerns or situations
Learn non-obvious tips and tricks from your mentor
New to freelancing? Start with right foot guided by your mentor
Being for a while doing freelance work? Improve your existing freelance business with the suggestions of your mentor.
Let a mentor help you scan for projects that match your specific criteria and/or that match your technical skills.
You may want to hire a mentor on our site to assign him/her the task of writing follow up messages for your projects on freelance websites since our mentors are very good writers.
A mentor on our site is the ideal candidate if you wish him/her to manage your team's/company's marketing efforts related to freelancing and outsourcing.

FREE Tips for Success!

Tips for freelancers

If you are like us, you want to earn money with your existing technical skills. You have all the skills you need to work on projects but something is missing, you are not making money or at least not the amount of money you would like to make.

Based on our own experience, we have seen what things work and what things don't work in the struggle of getting more clients and how to keep them coming to us. We hope you find the following tips interesting and helpful::

Buyers find out who is really interested in their project by the types of questions that freelancers ask to them. Don't forget, the trick is not only in asking questions but in asking the right questions!

Buyers like working with sincere people so try your best to be sincere always both before a project starts and throughout a project's development. You will find out that sincerity always pays off better than lying to a buyer about something.

Different technologies, different preferences, but in the end, what buyers care the most is that their end product works like they want. You may not realize this but sometimes buyers incline themselves to a specific technology just because they heard good things about it.

It is not a bad idea if you propose them an alternative technology specially when you don't master the technology they are requesting. You will be happy to know that you will no longer be leaving money on the table!

Be professional in your way of thinking and in your communications with buyers, it will not only give them a good impression of you but they will also be willing to pay you more than to any other freelancer for their projects.

Success is not only about applying for freelance jobs, its about the way you apply to them!

Buyers or potential clients are not interested in your vast experience in technology, they are mostly interested in how you will help them solve their problems with your skills.

That's the great thing about freelancing, it's very promising. There are always plenty of freelance jobs to apply for but if you lack theskills to get those jobs, you are going to end up leaving money on the table.

It's about trust, win their trust and you win their projects!

Build client trust by exposing yourself as you are, whether that is your company or you as an individual. Don't pretend to be someone who you don't really are.

Set your rates fixed based on how much money you want to earn per hour and stick to that but sometimes be flexible and offer a little discount to clients. In the end, the people that really want to work with you will end up hiring your professional services.

What makes you stand apart from your freelance competition. Think about it...

Apply to many freelance jobs to ensure getting just a few.

Ask direct questions about project's requirements and buyers will love you!

These are just basic tips. You need to find out about the advanced topics. Hiring a mentor on our site can definitely help with this.

Choose your
mentor today!

Tips for buyers that outsource projects

You are looking forward to hire freelancers that will meet all of your needs. It's not easy to be a buyer specially when you are not involved that much in technology.

The following is a list of tips that you can apply in the process of selecting the right candidate for all your projects and while working with them throughout a project's development.

Some buyers often like to post small "test" projects for freelancers to work on so that they actually find out how it is to work with that freelancer. Have you ever done that? Wouldn't be bad to give it a try.

A good freelancer can be identified by their passion for what they do.

Coder's love to work with you when you let them know what you want in good level of detail.

Consider higher bids as well specially if you are looking to get quality work done. Cheaper price don't always means quality work!

Don't always go for a technology that a freelancer is suggesting you for your project without finding out more about it. Your friend Google is there to help.

Look for freelancers that know how to communicate well, specially through written communication. They tend to make your life easier when a project is being developed.

Working long-term with a freelancer is not a bad idea but always be open to change of freelancer when you find it convenient. Sometimes leaving the bronze can help you find the gold.

These are just basic tips. You need to find out about the advanced topics. Hiring a mentor on our site can definitely help with this.

Choose your
mentor today!

RACsuccess.com Service Details...

Find success in freelancing/outsourcing quick and easy with the support of your mentor!

Working succesfully through freelancing/outsourcing is not an easy thing to do especially when you strive to catapult yourself to the ranks of the high earners.

How many times have you seen freelancers working on 5 projects (freelance jobs) or even 10 projects or more at the same time while still having time to do what they love to do: eg. spend time with friends and family, go on vacation, listen to their favorite songs, etc...

You have always wondered how you can also win the quality and quantity of computer-related freelance jobs that they get. The good news is that high earner freelancers are now at your total disposition to help you/your team become successful just like they are or even more successful than they are!

That's right, our online mentors are successful freelancers at your total disposition so that you can obtain all the support you need to beat your freelance competition.

The old days are gone!

Tired of losing so many bids on freelance websites because your competition ends up getting them? You can use the experience of your chosen mentor to your advantage and win more freelance jobs than you could have ever imagined!

Tired of not getting enough freelance jobs when you work directly with clients outside freelance websites? Let one of our mentors show you how you can improve your existing freelance business and how you can get a lot of clients without spending more than what you are already spending on marketing/advertising and he/she can even help you reduce your current costs!

Our full membership plan that we offer you comes with the following:

1. Submission types:

Requests

Your mentor can write bid text for you (we also called them proposals on our site). Your mentor can write project descriptions for you (also called bid request descriptions).

Questions

Your mentor can answer you any question you may have

Advice

Your mentor can give you proven-to-work advice

2. Discount

You get a discount of our videos (when trying our service) or you get them free (when subscribing to full membership).

3. Extras

Road Map for success

Added benefits

Submission Definition:

A submission is a request for help that you make to a mentor through our web-based system inside the member's area. The submissions are created using the links shown on above image.

"Member Options" screenshot shown above displays some of the links available to you inside the member's area from which you request each specific type of submission.

Your mentor can write bid text for you (we also called them proposals on our site)
Inside member's area, you can do this type of submission to your mentor by clicking on "Requests" link and then selecting "Initial Comment" from the type drop down box.

Winning projects on freelance websites is not easy. If you have any experience or no experience making bids on freelance sites, let us tell you, is not easy to win bids! Some projects get 15 bids from freelancers and others get up to 75 bids, how can you make sure you are the one selected over your freelance competition?

It all has to do with your approaching skills, specifically with the way you write your bid text or the first comment you write to a buyer requesting a project.

Writing bid text is easy but writing effective bid text is not!

Writing this bid text might seem like an easy task to do. Freelance sites offer you a comment box where you can simply type text to the buyer in order to convince him/her from the beginning that you are the right candidate for their project.

However, what a comment box doesn't tell you is how you should write that bid text in order to increase your chances of getting the bid. Here is were the aid of your mentor comes to help.

Your mentor will not only write the actual bid text for the projects you want to get but they will even write a personal overview for you explaining you the reasons they had to write the bid text specifically in the way they did for the project.

In this way, you can simply copy and paste the bid text on the freelance site of your choice on the actual project you want to get in order to increase your chances of getting your bid accepted.

Sample initial comment/proposal posted in freelance website: vWorker.com (Blured for privacy reasons) for a specific project posted by a buyer (business owner). You can always copy and paste the proposals or bid text writen by your mentor on your favorite freelance website, not only in vWorker.com

Find out more in our "How it Works" section by clicking here.

Your mentor can write project descriptions for you (also called bid request descriptions)
Inside member's area, you can do this type of submission to your mentor by clicking on "Requests" link and then selecting "Bid request description" from the type drop down box.

When you are a buyer or a business owner that requests projects from freelance workers, conveying the information about your project in a professional way is very important for the successful completion of your projects by freelancers.

Given this, your mentor can write project descriptions for you that you can use to post these descriptions on freelance websites or to provide them to your freelancers directly when you work outside freelance sites.

bid

Sample project description posted on freelance website: vWorker.com (Blured for privacy reasons.) but you can always post your project description in the same way in your favorite freelance website, not only in vWorker.com.

Find out more in our "How it Works" section by clicking here.

Your mentor can answer you any question you may have
Inside member's area, you can do this type of submission to your mentor by clicking on "Questions" link.

It can be easy to think when you hear the word "Question" that you can ask a question to your mentor about anything including tip related questions and advice related questions but the truth of the matter is that these types of questions are not done thrugh the "Questions" link but through the "Advice" link." Questions" section is just for two things:

Ask questions to your mentor about your favorite freelance website
When you want your mentor to write you a follow up message for any of your projects posted on freelance sites (one submission per follow up message should be made)

Find out more in our "How it Works" section by clicking here.

Your mentor can give you proven-to-work advice
Inside member's area, you can do this type of submission to your mentor by clicking on "Advice" link.

Some people feel ashamed and even skeptical of asking for advice because they are afraid of what people will think of them but the truth of the matter is that those who ask advice are more intelligent than those who don't. Don't you agree?

Isn't that the case of people that stick to their own ideas without being open to suggestions of other people and many times end up losing time and money or maybe they don't earn the money they could earn if they simply followed the advice of other people?

Well, on our site, asking for advice is a fun activity. That's the reason you choose a mentor and then you ask him/her for advice. Your mentor will not think bad of you when you ask for advice. That's the reason they are here for!

Advice link can be used for three things:

Ask advice about a specific concern or situation that you may be experiencing
Ask advice for tip related questions or tricks that you would like your mentor to teach you
Ask a mentor to scan for you for projects that match your criteria and/or existing technical skills

Course: (14-part e-course)
FREE 14-Part E-course called RACsuccess Freelance Success - designed to get you started on what it takes to become a successful freelancer and a satisfied buyer.

What if you feel you don't know where to start?

The answer to this question is simply get started! Even if right now you don't think you have any concern or question or need any help from a mentor, you will find that with our service things are very flexible and we want our members to have the freedom of expressing themselves to our mentor community.

The first thing that happens after you subscribe to a membership plan is that you must specify the expectations that you have of a mentor. There is a place to express yourself freely and all mentors in our system will read your text.

Just try to be open...

Don't be afraid to be open here, if you are really new to freelancing or don't know anything about this area, simply say it. Our mentors are actually looking forward to reading everything that you will write to them.

If you don't know where to start, don't worry, just get started, sign up to one of our membership plans (we recommend our full membership plan) and then let a mentor adjust to your current level of experience in freelancing/outsourcing.

After choosing a mentor, if you are unsure on where to start, check the Road Map for success located in the "Help" link on the left menu or download it from the following download link:

Road Map for Success

RACsuccess road map for success is a Microsoft Word document filled with suggestions of what advice or questions you can ask after choosing a mentor on our site.

Download Road Map for Success (112 KB )

You can also ask your mentor to search or scan projects for you that match your skills in case you still don't know were or which projects will be good for you.

Have any questions? Please don't hesitate to contact us by filling out our contact us form, we will be happy to answer your questions promptly.

Mentors are not employees or representatives of RACsuccess. Use of this site is subject to the terms and conditions for Mentor and to the Member terms and conditions. "RACsuccess" (tm) is a trademark of RACsuccess.com.