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Quote to Win : How to win projects on the freelance marketplace

Formats: Videos
Topics: Translator business development
Agency business development
Professional skills

Course summary
Availability:This training is available on-demand

Duration: 54 minutes

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Language:English
Summary:Do you want to earn as much as you bid for a project? Do you want to make sure you obtain the most convenient and profitable projects? Learn how to bid for new projects and consistently win the projects of your interest.

Description
Topics to be covererd:

1. Introducing the concept of 'Reverse Auction'
2. Reading between the lines in a Job Post
3. Doing background research
4. Judgement: to quote or not to quote
5. How to build pillars of future victory from a failure (not being awarded)
6. Interpreting the inner cause from cues and symptoms (not being awarded)
7. Using the experiential knowledge in next quote

Target audience
Freelancers and small and medium agency owners, especially start-ups.

Learning objectives
The course discusses and prepares you for the following

1. How to bid to win a project
2. Assessing your chance of winning the project.
3. How to convince the outsourcer that you are the right match for his project.
4. How to 'engage' and 'lead' the coutsourcer
5. How to handle a rejection gracefully to win next time.


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Price: 15.00 USD
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Trainers
Pritam Bhattacharyya
Bio: Pritam Bhattacharyya is essentially a Bengali/Sylheti/Assamese linguist with 11 years of experience. He is the Founder and Chief Wordsmith of an agency called Wordsmith Communication. which apart from language services in pan-Indic languages provides Creative Content and Print on Demand Services. He is editor of www.pentasect.com - a bilingual (English / Bengali) cultural monthly ezine on Greater Bengal. He had worked as a Telecom Engineer and later as a IP Network Manager in various cross-cultural Telecom teams worldwide. He holds his Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Masters in Communication Management from Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. Pritam lives and works in Calcutta, India his city by adoption. His b-log on translation and online business can be seen here at http://wordsmithofbengal.wordpress.com

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