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Your profile is a thing that must be taken very seriously. A good filled profile gives the client not only information about your working skills, it can also show that you are responsible, accurate and that you are basically the man for the job! So in this article we will present eleven tips about how to fill a good profile.

1. Examine the rules of the website concerning the profile and the profiles of the top freelancers in your field. This will help you with some basics of how a good profile must look on this website.
2. If you already have a resume use it as a basis, if not take some time and make a document with your complete work experience and skills. It is important to remember all your previous work experience before filling out your profile.
3. Try to choose a general strategy of yourself as a freelancer. For example if you are good in SEO focus the first lines and words of your resume on SEO skills and experience. Try not to present yourself as a do-all guy.
4. Try to highlight your main skills in the description and make sure that the client will immediately see these skills when he goes to your profile. There is no need to mention all the programming languages you know if you use only PHP or JAVA. You can make a list of these languages in some secondary information fields.
5. Avoid bright colored elements and any additional creative stuff, focus on the main thing – presenting information to the client.
6. Post samples of your projects if you have done some outside the website that you are working on. It is also good to post the offline working experience, especially if you worked for some serious companies.
7. Check the project sample links from time to time, especially if you are in search of new projects. It might happen that the website with your work is down or the URLs were changed. Also be honest about your work, if the work was done some time ago and it was done not very well, better drop the link from your resume.
8. Be sure to have everything clear with the copyrights of the work that you’ve done. If you are not listed as a developer it is better not to present the project in your portfolio. It can lead to some misunderstanding with your previous clients.
9. The best thing in a profile is a list of projects already done on the website. So if you are a newcomer try to get three-five properly done projects, it will show that you are a trustworthy person.
10. If you are a writer – get a blog. If you are a web-developer or a SEO guy – get a website. And give your best effort to keep this website good looking and properly coded. Be sure that it presents you as a professional.
11. Make a small downloadable and printable version of you portfolio.

That’s all for today, folks :)

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