oDesk Preparation

Monday, July 1, 2013

How to utilize your good time in oDesk.com

You may found yourself as, you are getting good projects  in oDesk.com. Getting success for 30% to upward of your submitted application. So you are really lucky enough and running very good time. Who knows how long your good time will remain!! However, as though you are passing very good time, you have to utilize your good time properly.

May be you own multiple projects and thinking how would you work with them? An easier way is time sharing and multitasking. We can follow our computer/notebook processor working procedure for best utilization of our time.
Before everything, we have to think and write down our plan. Figure out your available and assigned time for oDesk projects.
Make a priority list of project features(not project). A project may contain 100 features.
Now start working with all projects in parallel. Do some task in one project and then another. In this way, you will be able to move forward all your projects.
For critical task(like API integration or a module newly developed by you or a long listing booking)you must finish that in one shot. No matter if it takes more then your estimated time. Because for such situation if you switch into other project feature development and come back here later then couple of minutes(or even hours)will become wastage due to recall your logic and getting same speed as earlier.
Always keep in mind, you have to show projects to your clients. oDesk buyer never mind if you engage in 100 projects(not important to buyer) only if you are able to show progress of his/her projects (which is important for him) in within clients expected time.
Another important point is that, its always better to show progress to client/buyer and post a list of completed task in odesk.com which keep you and buyer in a safer position. In addition, buyer can put his/her feedback which will reduce chance of re-engineering(which will cause you time without any earning).
So you are passing good time and keep your speed up gradually and build very good relationship with your buyers. A happy buyer means you have a very good chance of good rating which will brought you more buyers. Keep in mind, a bad rating may sharply decline your scope of project winning. Be aware of buyers satisfaction and always keep in touch with buyer.
Almost all buyers love to take developers suggestions. If you have any better idea explain it to buyer. idea should be innovative, more useful for current application, reduce end user effort, application/website become more eye-catchy, more functional, more user friendly.

Keep in mind you may not get success for 30% to upward of your application always. It can decline at any time. So always try to build a good and dependable relationship of you and buyer. So that you can make your buyer a recurring buyer. A recurring buyer is your Asset in odesk.com.

Wish you run your good time for unlimited period of time.

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