Create A Distinctive Freelancer Profile With These Tips

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A distinctive freelancer profile is essential to your effectiveness as a service provider and client reach. This composition is your introduction to prospective customers. It markets your services to potential clients in ways that you cannot accomplish through direct conversations. Hence, you must ensure that the profile presents your professional qualifications and accentuates that extra edge that you bring to the game.

Most clients will rely on the presentation on these profiles to select their prospective service providers. Besides, a clear articulation will also be essential to the administrators at Freelance Soko when they have to find prospective services for our employers.

Therefore, we will delve into the tips for creating a distinctive profile. In this effort, the focus is on multiple areas including:

  • Showcasing your skills and expertise
  • Profile pictures and background photos
  • Highlighting your best work
  • The value of including your certifications
  • Employment history and experience
  • Other tips for this profile creation

Showcasing Your Skills and Expertise 

Freelance Soko offers you a broad list of skills from which you can select while developing your profile. Make sure you only choose the areas you can substantiate in consequent sections, such as in your certifications, employment history, or testimonials. Nevertheless, select as many skills as you feel you can comfortably provide. Clients will find you more efficiently with such listings, effectively improving your chances of accessing work. 

Example: Skills for a freelancer in writing & translation (Purity writes)

When detailing your expertise, pay attention to the items that clients emphasize. Do they usually focus on the service they require over the software you utilize? Are they more interested in quality work over budgetary limits? These aspects should guide your listing or wording of expertise range. Once you have identified these aspects, use them to detail your expertise.

The title and tag you use is a marketing tool, determining your client’s engagement with your profile. The point is to make sure you get the client’s attention and keep it. Be bold. Do not hesitate to describe the things you can do, and at what you feel you excel above everyone else. 

Profile Pictures and Background Photos

Freelance Soko gives you the option of using a profile picture and background image or logo. What can you do to ensure your effectiveness? The first thing is to ensure you utilize a professional image.

One thing to note is that professionalism is not consistent across all marketing fields. The appearance of a professional photographer is not the same as that of a professional programmer. Refer to professionals in your field. Ensure that what makes your clients feel comfortable is present in your display.

Besides, your logo should adequately communicate what you do. Avoid random, meaningless images in your design. Again, the focus is on immediately marketing you to your client, and straightforward approaches are the best.

Highlighting Your Best Work

Freelance Soko has the option of detailing your work and providing a history of projects. Highlight the projects with the most positive feedback on your profile as you continue with your work on this platform.

In your profile description, refer people to look at this clients’ feedback. This deliberate self-promotion is the basis for the persistent survival and transcendence of your work. 

The Value of Including Your Certifications 

List your previous certifications, detailing those that you especially excelled in. Notably, you may be targeting a different group of clients, especially if your freelancer profile offers multiple capabilities. Ensure all the possible certifications are present. If possible, divide them or list them in the order of importance.

Do not overlook this component. A higher qualification list will establish more client inclinations towards your work and their convictions of your professionalism. 

Employment History and Experience

Freelance Soko gives you a chance to provide your experience. Note, the focus here is on demonstrating that you have the capability to meet diverse client needs. Therefore, list the previous work exposure to related fields.

Example: Experience of freelancer in Digital marketing (Jeremiah Mwangangi)

What if you have not had the chance to engage in the traditional work experience? Provide your freelancer experience, in brief, highlighting the achievements you feel are the most relevant. It may be even more progressive and attractive to your clients than the traditional experience would have. 

Other Tips for Creating Your Profile

While your initial design may comply with these features, modification in the future could be crucial. Monitor your clients’ feedback and note what they like. In which aspects of your profile do clients take the most interest? When you identify them, exploit the feedback to emphasize these details.

Besides, you may have acquired new skills since you established the new profile. Make sure to update them and all the relevant sections that relate to this new expertise. Most importantly, monitor market trends. If clients have gained an interest in social media links, if sharing makes you more popular, or if your expertise in a specific software improves your rating, then exploit the information. 

These tips are only a foundational background. Always strive to make your profile comprehensive and more attractive. Visit more of our resource pages for additional information on this design. 

  • Highlighting your best workThe value of including your certificationsEmployment history and experienceOther tips for this profile creation
  • 4 Comments

    Jeremy Godson on August 25, 2021

    This is a great piece, very informative.

      Support on August 25, 2021

      Thank you for the great feedback.

    Njeri on August 25, 2021

    thank you for this insightful piece it is very helpful

      Support on August 25, 2021

      Thank you for the feedback. We hope it will be of benefit to all Kenyan freelancers.

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