How to be successful a programmer in Scriptlance.com

I’ve been using scriptlance since itz inception and I’ve evolved as scriptlance evolved. I’ve known Rene of scriptlance & I’ve good association with him. I was his official installer for his site Smarterscripts.com which was selling Perl/CGI scripts. Coming back to topic I’ll be sharing some of my experience which made me a success in scriptlance… Here are some tips…

Under Bid during early days: If you are new to scriptlance underbid and try to win more project until you reach some 100 reviews. Reaching 100 reviews effectively means you have 50-60 unique clients & also credibility to win bigger projects. Remember clients who offer bigger projects expect credibility for which you need more review… Also you need someone to create a relationship. If you have 50 clients you effectively have 50 new relationships to develop. This will help you in cross selling & pitching more projects from these clients…

Bid mostly on small projects: During early days bid on small projects because you can show volumes and get more clients sooner. So, under bid on small projects and overbid on bigger project so that you can stay active…

Stay Active: Be active even after winning sufficient projects. Just try to overbid during these times. It would be a bonus when you get over paid for a project. Always webmasters will be happy to choose programmers who are active. This would be helpful when you come back to take projects seriously.

Constantly follow-up: Never wait after placing the bid. Use Personal Message Board and follow up with the client regularly. This will creates an image that you are committed with your work.

Don’t Cross sell: Never cross sell all your service in one shot. This will confuse the customer & you might loose because of this. Cross selling should be done only after successfully completing a project. So when you post message be specific to the project.

Update Scriptlance Profile: Regularly update your scriptlance profile and portfolio. Some customers will be checking our progress regularly & when they have similar requirement similar to what we did, they automatically invite you.

Work with Webmasters with high review: Try to win projects of webmasters who have more reviews. They have proved their credentials by working with more programmers and will be trust worthy to work. Also they are capable of giving more projects. So, you can make compromise to win the trust of these webmasters.

Break high value projects: Remember you also need high value projects in your reviews. But this article is for starters in scriptlance. So, if you are lucky winning a project worth $1200, convince the client to break the project into 6-7 and post it for you. This will help to get more reviews… Don’t do this with new clients. Try this with clients with whom you have previously worked.

Get Exclusive Projects: Convince clients with whom you have already worked to post project “For Your-Scriptlance-Username”. This impress other webmasters…

Insist only Escow payments: During days never insist for direct payments or upfront advance. Till you gain some credibility be contented with Escow.

Accept only Positive reviews: Scriptlance has come with a new feature where you get reviews only when you give back review. If you are not clear if a customer is happy with your work, never accept the review. Don’t worry about loosing the project or money. Because credibility will only help you in long term…

Never miss reviews: Many webmaster’s forget to post reviews. Constantly follow-up with customers to get those reviews.

Read project descriptions fully: Many webmasters are smart. In order to check the commitment of the programmer they would have place a line which says “Pls post the word “READ” in your bid/PMB in order to know you have read fully”. So never bid by reading first two lines for projects which has big description. Also personally it is not safe for you to place bids on projects which you have not read fully…