The capable-in-principle clueless complacent IT freelancer
This irrational unstable dreamer responds deplorably to freelance job postings (website design, SEO, social media marketing, etc.), throws away opportunities, and is a comprehensive disaster from beginning to end.
His English is deplorable.
A big talker. A fast talker.
His thought processes, intelligence and comprehension are dramatically below Western normal. Basically he's an idiot.
He misrepresents his capabilities, protracts, pads, and over-prices.
He plays the prospective buyer for a shmuck.
He has an offensive personal, professional and commercial attitude. When rejected, he likes to have the last word.
AsianCredible.com can certainly try to improve the situation. It can't get any worse.
The established IT business now going nowhere
This mid-rank business pays minimally, earns minimally, performs minimally…
Its head is just above water.
The boss is deeply interested in his car and driver; but in his other employees…?
The business works on some peculiar level but is undistinguished and indistinguishable.
It habitually comes up short and disappoints.
Probably much room for improvement: AsianCredible.com can provide fresh vigorous Western-quality thinking. (Not so sure about the car.)
The substantial IT enterprise failing to capitalise on 'success'
Call centers, publisher outsourcing, high-volume website design, lots of personnel, annoying 'teams', steady cashflow…
but you're underperforming, revenue is down, profits are moribund, and your growth targets are delusional.
You're not competitive, and you don't know how to improve on your mediocrity.
Now you're floundering.
Comprehensively on your side, AsiaCredible.com will get you going in the right direction.
English
Abysmal, both spoken and written. Illiterate, fundamentally flawed. Appalling vocabulary, grammar, etc. Moronic use of the word 'actually'. Where on earth did you pick up this rubbish? Who writes your plausible website English?
Articulation and pronunciation
Abysmal. Inarticulate, incoherent, incomprehensible. Embarrassingly bad. Some conversations impossible. Spoken English is one of your biggest liabilities. Lose the thick accent or perish.
Websites and CVs
Trite, boring, devious, derivative, misleading. Too fancy. False claims. Fake referees. Probably written by someone else.
Written and oral communications
Procedurally and substantively idiotic. No evidence of intelligence or ability to think, absorb, process. Disturbing inconsistency, suggesting dishonesty, between your written and your spoken English.
Proposals, presentations
Illiterate, tone-deaf, not responsive, vacuous, meaningless, padded, churned, overdone, bloated, prolix, verbose, hopelessly overdone. Suspiciously alike from apparently disparate respondents. Often patently dishonest.
Prices and delivery schedules
Unrealistic, uncommercial, preposterous. We've seen some stunning over-pricing and unacceptable delivery schedules. Backing down from your first ridiculous quote, and proposing a protracted schedule, suggest dishonesty.
Work process
Unstable, unreliable, irritating. The Western buyer wants to scrutinise your work processes, including to check your efficiency and the accuracy of your rendition. Let's make it all correct and presentable in real time. No 'problems', no excuses.
Work product
Deficient, defective, sub-standard, embarrassing, unusable. A total waste of time and money. What you hope to get away with, not what you've tried to get right. Now you're in trouble.
Attitude
Disrespectful, unprofessional, tiresome ("What's wrong with it?", "Give me five minutes", "hop", 'jump", "quick call", etc.) Some of it can be fixed in some cases. (If you're unpleasant to deal with, rude, disrespectful, defensive, 'overwhelmed', devious, uncivilised, if you have entitlement syndrome, etc., AsianCredible.com is not for you.)
'Team'
You think that lying about a 'team' is impressive. You think that a real team is appropriate. A 'team' is fifth-rate dishonest Stone Age baloney. The well-adjusted Western buyer detests a 'team' and its imposition. He requires individually selected, genuinely necessary, personally responsible, directly accountable named individuals. No teams.
Punctuality
You think that deliberately being a minute late for a video call is… what exactly? (Likewise, you shouldn't tolerate the unpunctual Western buyer: any unpunctuality on either side is always unacceptable.)
Personal appearance
That all-important video call might be your one and only chance. Too close to the camera; too far away; a vacuous grin; fluorescent lighting, blurred background, green screen, etc.: it's not professional.
Comprehension, compliance
What's so difficult about the job spec? Why are you getting busy and creative? Stick to the script. Stay in your box.
Terms of business
Do you even have any? What terms do you really need? How to evaluate the buyer's terms of business.
Trial work
Must always be free. We've seen some monstrously bad examples. Good that they were free.
Rapacity
An Asian unknown pressing for money before delivery is suspicious and annoying.
Here's a cautionary tale we think you'll find familiar. In bad faith, you have induced an over-indulgent Western buyer to give you the time of day in a no-second-chance make-or-break video sales call. Now press the self-destruct button. In our experience, at least some of this outrageous behavior is characteristic, sooner or later, of ALL Indian IT freelancers:-
slow Internet connection
defective camera (blurred, unstable)
inappropriate camera angle (we don't want to see up your nose, and why should we?)
defective microphone (muffled, faint)
screen too small; not enough screens
fluorescent lighting
pretentious desperate persona
flippant supercilious attitude ("quick call")
transparently false sales patter
you showed up two minutes late
you weren't ready ("Can you give me five minutes?", "last-minute technical issue")
you weren't prepared ("You emailed me what?")
you hadn't bothered to study the opportunity ("What do I think of it?")
you asked idiotic questions only another idiot would tolerate ("What's your budget?")
your spoken English was a disaster
you couldn't conduct a spontaneous Western-quality conversation
you questioned the job description
you failed the most cursory cross-examination
you were an insult to the buyer's intelligence
The buyer terminated the call in anger. You never stood a chance, and now you're on a blacklist.