 Hey everyone today. I just wanted to talk to you. It's a quick hack a quick Well hack it hack is overplayed these days. Let's say a quick tip a quick tip for Getting ahead of the pack for standing out and for getting ahead of any other freelancers that you are competing with If you're a freelance if you're a freelance translator or any type of freelancer out there Any type of entrepreneur really and you're trying to contact perspective clients What I've seen very often is that many times you will say prepare an initial bid or something along those lines And then they'll shoot back at you with a question or maybe they'll just have you know they'll be just be offering a job out there and You want to prepare a bid and send it in and what you'll do is you'll prepare it and you'll wonder if it's okay Or not or something like that You'll be like well I'll look over it again later before I send it just to make sure because you want to make sure that what you send out is You know really good and perfect So you delay sending it out and you don't send it out right now But you send it out later on today or tonight or tomorrow or the day after or something along those lines And the fact is this is costing you business. This is costing new clients All this delaying and all this trying to make sure that it's perfect and let's fit Let's call it what it is. You're scared to send it in all this being scared to send it in and not only But after you send it in and the client you know contacts you back and says I have a question about this or that Or could you do this or that and the other and then you delay replying to them and all of this Delaying is it's bad for you. It's bad for business. And so I just wanted to Tell you something very simple you can do to make sure you get ahead of the pack and that is to reply to emails right away and So this means anytime if you see a bid for a certain job and it looks like something you might be interested in Don't like bookmark it so you can get to it later on and say okay Oh, this looks like something interesting when I have time tonight tomorrow this weekend, you know, I'll apply for it No apply for it then, you know, that's why if you're looking up jobs to apply for then now It's the best time to be applying for them. Otherwise why you're looking them up right now, you know, and so just Well, first of all you should anytime you see a job that looks interesting apply for it right away if you've been following the advice that you see in these videos if That you've seen in my course or you know that I've been talking about basically anywhere then you have everything prepared you have your resume you have your list of services you have everything you might need and you have your pitch letter your letter that your introduction letter basically and So you have everything ready, right? So and if you're if you don't have everything ready, you should be preparing that rather than looking at prospective jobs and So once you have everything ready look up a job And so you can apply right away to every single job because that's what you should do and then if the client Reaches out to you for more information I mean then you've already completed quite a bit because you've already stood out enough and the client takes you seriously enough to get in Touch with you to ask for more information there You should be replying right away because if a client sends out look the client's gonna write out to say five people ten people max But not even it'll be five people that they write back to say hey I wasn't sure you know What was your price be for this and this and that or would you be available to work on this day or whatever it might be and That's when you need to reply right away because right then and there the client is deciding who to who to hire and is down to these maximum five candidates Which means you're in the final round basically and so why not reply right away? Because trust me other people are gonna be delaying basically what you were thinking earlier that they're thinking Oh, well, oh, that looks like a good opportunity. I should reply to them I'll do that tonight when I have some time or tomorrow or whatever might be But if you reply right away, then it really looks good and and the client really likes it. Look the client it's Clients cannot deal with uncertainty if they're hiring someone if they're hiring a freelancer someone they they've never met in person That they will never meet in person that they don't know through anything else except the internet then they're really taking a risk and Before they step off that ledge and take that risk they really want in every way possible to know that they're dealing with someone trustworthy and you're replying right away Just goes that much further to show that you are trustworthy and so just reply right away There's no reason to delay The only reason is that you're uncertain of yourself you're unsure of yourself and you're scared and so don't be scared just reply right away and really this will put you ahead of so many other people and Just being able to reply right away to any email or to anything that comes out and just to show that you're reliable I know a couple of you out there sometimes I mean because you see this all over the place and in fact I follow a version of it You know people say only check your email three times a day two times a day or whatever it might be I feel first of all if you're first growing out your business You never know when people are going to email you so it's a bit risky to do that anyway But even if you do that I mean that's fine, but then don't delay replying back You know the whole point of this is that if you check your email three times a day You reply to every and you deal with every email as soon as you get it This that's all this inbox zero, you know mentality that you find so if you do receive an email say and you check your email at noon And you receive an email then From a client to prospective client or someone like that. Don't tell yourself. Oh, this looks interesting I'll reply to them later and I'll think up a good response I'll talk about it with someone else before reply. No reply right then and there Because then it doesn't matter if the next time you check email is say 3 4 p.m And they sent you something at 2 30. Well 3 4 p.m. Is when you should reply right away Don't delay it any longer. So even if you follow one of those things That's fine, but just reply to the email right away Don't leave it sitting there because there's no reason to do that and you're just gonna lose business that way And you're gonna lose prospective clients and this is a really kind of simple thing to do And to keep in mind to always just deal with things right away and not let them accumulate not let them Collect dust and leave them on the back burner for later. So once again, that's just an easy tip an easy hack if you will to To just stand out and try to get a bit ahead of everyone else when dealing with prospective clients especially when you're first starting out and just to show these clients that you are a serious worker and And that you're not that they can rely on you basically So I hope you found this useful if you do Please don't forget to click thumbs up because then I can tell which videos are useful and which aren't and don't forget to subscribe if you want more videos for freelancing more tips and tricks for freelancers out there and Yeah, that's pretty much it. I'll see you in the next video. Thanks. Bye Sabedum