idealmike
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Hello all! Freelancers, WAHM's or WAHD's. Anyone that works online in any way. Anyone that knows about freelancing, whether they are a freelancer or not.
I'm doing a bit of research for a post I'm working on. Basically it will be an interview of sorts with a series of questions you can answer. Sort of similar to that The Say What You Are Game Thread which went down like a ton of bricks! lol No, it's just that it's got buried under new posts and isn't on the homepage anymore. That could be an awesome thread if more people posted in it. I'd love to see at least 100 freelancers on here posting in that thread. Perhaps Bev could pin it for a while or something but yeah.
Anyway, to help with a post that I'm working on, I'd like to reach out to the community here and ask you a question, which will help in the building an interview process.
So then, basically, if you had to interview a freelancer, what questions would you ask them and why? I'm not talking about if you was a buyer from a buyers perspective so much as just say, you had to share a room with a Freelancer for an hour, or you was sat on the train with one during your commute to work or something.
Say you bumped into someone or met someone through a friend who was a very successful freelancer on SEOClerks or something. And you only had one opportunity for say, the next 10-20 minutes to ask them as many questions as you wanted.
So if possible, just take a moment to think about this and picture the scenario.
As a freelancer yourself, or even as someone who's heard and knows that freelancing is good for those that do it, what sort of questions would you ask them and why?
What questions would you ask first and why?
What sort of things would you like to know?
Andre thanks man that's great! That's exactly what I was looking for and has helped me come up with a few new questions that I didn't think of before. I'm about the same as you and would want to know the nitty gritty side of it as well as that's always good to hear and makes for much better hearing than the normal stuff! We're all suckers for bad news, shocking stuff that makes you go ohhh that's bad, but yet it's so good! We lap it up! Anyway thanks man that's really helpful cheers! :)
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Hi Lynne, thanks a lot! Yeah it would be good if more people commented in that thread! Anyway, still, those are some good points and make for some good questions to ask also and I'd like to hear the answer them as well! That's really helpful to me though as those are the kinds of questions I would as as well. I love how you'd ask what their strengths and weaknesses are. That would be interesting to hear. And the mistakes definitely! Other peoples mistakes can be like little pearls of wisdom to you so you don't do the same thing and know what to do should that happen. That's really helpful though and helps me come up with a few new questions too. Exactly what the doctor was looking for! Thanks! :)
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Awesome questions Cristian thanks! If it's okay with you, I may just have to use some of these questions in the Freelancer Interview I'm creating. Also, I may just have to ask you those questions directly as well as I'd be interested to hear what your answers for them are! Cheers that's great mate thanks! :)
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If I never met the freelancer and never heard about him before, more than that "he's an awesome freelancer", then the first things I'd ask would be about their business. What kind of services they provide and how much they charge for them. Secondly, I'd probably ask for how long they've been freelancing and I would also like to know how they finally came up with the idea of doing what they do. I would like to hear their road to success but without the glory and the fame so to speak. I would like to know the real, dark and terrifying truth. I would love to hear about their mistakes they did along the way.
After that I'd probably also want to know if they operate alone of if the freelancer have a team of people they're working with. A team they've either hired or if they outsource work and how they came to that conclusion.
That's basically it. At least for now. I see myself as rather experienced and I do believe that I have more or less the "answers" for things I need to know to run my business as it is, but I'd definitely take the chance to find out more about such a freelancer as I would love to expand my business or to implement things into my business to run it even more smoothly or to reach higher grounds.
I'm looking forward to other replies. Thank you Mike! Hey Mike, I hope that this will be a huge thread with tons of contributions. It's a great initiative! If I never met the freelancer and never heard about him before, more than that "[i]he's an awesome freelancer[/i]", then the first things I'd ask would be about their business. What kind of services they provide and how much they charge for them. Secondly, I'd probably ask for how long they've been freelancing and I would also like to know how they finally came up with the idea of doing what they do. I would like to hear their road to success but without the glory and the fame so to speak. I would like to know the real, dark and terrifying truth. I would love to hear about their mistakes they did along the way. After that I'd probably also want to know if they operate alone of if the freelancer have a team of people they're working with. A team they've either hired or if they outsource work and how they came to that conclusion. That's basically it. At least for now. I see myself as rather experienced and I do believe that I have more or less the "answers" for things I need to know to run my business as it is, but I'd definitely take the chance to find out more about such a freelancer as I would love to expand my business or to implement things into my business to run it even more smoothly or to reach higher grounds. I'm looking forward to other replies. Thank you Mike!
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