Any freelancer marketplace has a rating system for buyers and providers, as well. This is the most common and efficient way to tell who are you dealing with before you get in touch with them. GetAFreelancer has its own system of rating and reviewing and, in this post, I will explain you how it works.

Rating is important for buyers and service providers alike. But, when you are a service provider, your rating and the reviews you get will let everybody else know if you are a professional and what kind of work you excel in. What does this mean? Simple: more projects and more money for you, if your ratings are good.

On GetAFreelancer, you can always see who is who. If you bid on a project, your rating will accompany your user name and the buyer will be able to learn more about you and what other buyers say about you, by just clicking on your user name. If you also have ratings and reviews, these are open to the public and they can be read by those interested.

Let’s talk more about how the rating system works. It is quite straightforward and you will be satisfied with how things work in this area. If you win a project and everything goes well, you will get paid in the end and you will receive a rating from your service buyer. This is the feedback system, but it will not be activated until the project is completed and the payment has been released.

Grades go from 1 to 10 stars, with 10 being the best. This is your aim for every project. If the buyer was especially satisfied by some things that you have done very well, they will also leave you a review, in which they will say why they consider your work to be so great. It is always pleasant to know that your work is appreciated.

There are many ways to bring upon yourself such consideration from the other part, but some of them are a given. If you complete your work in a timely fashion, if there are only a few revisions that need to be made to your work and if you are courteous and polite all the time during the project, there are high chances that your buyer will rate you accordingly and you will get a great review from them.

Now, let’s see how this will help you get more money. If you choose any project that has a lot of bids when you browse for projects, usually you will be able to see all the bids and the user names for those bidding. The order in which they are listed is simple: the highest ranked with the most ratings are the first and the others follow after them. If you have no ratings at all, you will be at the bottom of the list and chances to be chosen are little. But if you succeed in building up a reputation with great ratings and great reviews from your buyers, you will be able to climb this ladder step by step. Say, I have 187 ratings and my bid usually appears at 1st line.

Of course, there are other aspects that are taken into consideration, when a buyer chooses the person they think is the right service provider for their job. One of them is the value of the bid, so you may want to bid a less amount of money of your first projects, so you can secure a few jobs with good ratings from the start.

Feedback goes back and forth, which means that you can also rate your buyer for the way the project went. Remember to always be courteous and keep a good business relationship with them, and you will not have to worry about getting them to say nice things about you. Everybody likes a person that is professional, polite and completes work on time, without hassle.

Start building up your name on GetAFreelancer rating by rating. You will see how much you have to win on account of good ratings and reviews.

 

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