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Anna

• March 09, 2018 12:01

Having been on PPH for a month now I am finding putting in proposals for jobs quite difficult as you have to quote on very little information at all.

For example - there are lots of people after Business Plans but it is difficult to ascertain whether they have any information already or whether they are expecting you to do all the research. The detail of this would greatly affect a set price quote.

Having a free entry text box is great if all Buyers were used to project work or quoting but they aren't. As there is no step by step guide for how proposals work in PPH , reading the community posts it feels like you quote then the buyer changes stuff so you need to change the quote or pull out which goes against you, the seller.

It would be helpful for both the Buyer and the Freelancer if there was a template that the Buyer needed to fill in to be able to post a job

Minimum suggested fields with helpful tips for the Buyer as they fill it out

- Overview

- Information you will provide (including screenshots or helpful docs)

- Detail of what the job needs to produce

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  Permanently deleted user

  • March 12, 2018 11:00

  Many thanks for your suggestion. I will pass it on to our product team.

  Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.

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  Marten

  • March 27, 2018 21:32

  I totally agree with Anna on this – too many job posts are littered with spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, inconsistencies, not enough information and one I remember recently which was as short as "Brochure design need with pictures. ASAP." (or similar) – So, yes great, no problem... how many pages? how many images? how much text? hi-res images supplied? do I have to source images? am I writing this? You want this by tomorrow morning, sure thing and you want me to do it for £10 you say, all that given it's urgency? Jumping right on it...

  A template where questions must be filled in before they can submit a proposal would cut out all the nonsense posted and put us good people in a better position to do what we do best for a decent price.

  I somehow think this rant will start and end here however.

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