The difficulty
Why it is hard here specifically
Freelancers ask late, apologetically, and in a message so long the client puts it off. Then the project recedes and the sentence never comes.
What Hazelsong does about it
One link, sent the day you deliver
Not a document, not a form with twelve fields. A link that takes a minute.
One reminder, three days later, and then stop
Built in, and it is exactly one. A client who did not answer twice is not persuaded by a third message and will remember that you sent it.
Their words on your own site, not on a marketplace
Feedback on a platform works for the platform. Bring it across, with the link back, so it works on the page where you set your own rates.
To ask
The questions worth asking
Copy these into your form and change them to sound like you. Each is written to produce a sentence you could actually publish — the difference between a testimonial and a compliment.
- What did you need done, and what was the state of it when we started?
- What was it like to work together?
- What did I do that somebody else might not have?
- Was there anything you were unsure about beforehand?
- Would you recommend me, and what for?
Where to put them
The layouts that suit this trade
All 23 are on every plan, on as many pages as you like.
What you already have
You are probably not starting empty
These are the places this trade usually finds its first ones.
Limits, stated
The limit, said plainly
Hazelsong will not write the request for you in a voice that is not yours. The words it hands you to send are plain; change them to sound like you.
Other trades
Your customers already wrote the words
Send one link and their words arrive here instead — with the date, with the permission, and read for risk before you publish.