When you are browsing many portals such as 99 designs, dribble, Freelancer.com and many you noticed that they are continuously running contest for logo design to website development to marketing. You think that why freelancers, digital agency should participate where chances of winning looks like winning a lottery and you find that participating in the contest waste of the time.
Here most of new even experienced freelance, digital agency go wrong, check my thoughts on benefits of participating the contest.
- Know your competitors: When you participant of any contest you will make a strategy so you will try to know your competitors closely by knowing their strength, weakness. You will try to do your best which makes good appeal to the public and decision makers. When you actually trying to win you will maximize your strength, vision. Ultimately it will leads to enhance your knowledge that what kind of competition in the market, with whom you need to compete and what you need to do get edge over the competitors. In the first step you achieve two things strategy for enhance your skills, knowledge of your competitors which help you beat them in the market.
- Know the current market trends: When you check various contest you will find many similar requirements, things to do in the competition so you will know the market trends, current demands of the market so you can make good offer in your niche.
- Know your customer: There many time of people you try to get in touch get the new work. During lead generation and lead qualification you face lot of problems in conversion or right pricing. By giving attention who post the contest, what are their preferences, what is their behavior finalizing the winner will help you to understand the psychology of your customer, their decision making process which helps you find right people, businesses while you are doing lead generation for new work or business.
- You will have a right path: You are participating in many contest, you are trying to win the contest during these you come to know what kind of competitors are there, what is the current market trends, good ways to do lead generation and approach to give a best solution. Once you have all these details it will help you to build a very good bid on job posts, how handle objection and approach to find a right pricing of your skills, work in your niche.
- You will have winning strategy: By your continuous efforts, right approach you know about everything, you have right information and knowledge so you make a perfect strategy get a lot of projects, business and new work as you know where is your customer, who is your customer and you have blog to reviews as references providing value which leads to successful journey.
So, people have any reason not to get in contest, competition but I have very strong reason why to participate in contest, competition so let me know your thoughts and feedback.
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