Sometimes people send us lengthy emails with key information spread all over the email body. This is the biggest mistake that you can make. We have to screen hundreds of bids within a short time frame, there’s no time to read every single bid from beginning till the end if they are long. Only after the initial screening is made, the handpicked profiles will be studied thoroughly.
So if your bid is a mini-novel about your professional life, it will be extremely difficult for to find required information in it, and often your email will be closed right after the sees the length of it.
So what to do? To get your bid pass initial screening process, the best practice is to bring the most important data to the top, in form of highlights.
Example how you can start your email:
I translate from XXX to YYY, native in X or Y, able to handle….. words/meet deadline, charge ZZZ and my payment terms are … and I have ……degree and … years of experience. My Proz/LinkedIn profile …..
And only after that you can include a detailed description of your experience, tools you use, references and etc.