An "Expert Portfolio" is a prominent feature on the nicheBrains platform designed to help our experts showcase their expertise to MSMEs. It goes beyond traditional business cards and CVs, offering a digital asset in the form of a Portfolio Card. This card highlights an expert's value proposition, skillset, and industry experience. Experts can utilize the Portfolio Card not only on nicheBrains but also on other platforms like social media.

Creating a portfolio is essential for experts to demonstrate their value and establish themselves as reputable brands within their respective domains. We believe that an expert's capabilities extend far beyond their CV, as their experiences speak volumes about their expertise. By showcasing your capabilities through a portfolio, you can fulfill multiple roles and effectively highlight your skills.

The Expert Portfolio feature enables you to create different avatars, each highlighting specific skillsets. Customers can review your portfolio to gain insights into your track record, achievements, and the impact you have had on businesses. By showcasing your value creation and skillset, you increase your chances of securing projects that allow you to reach your full potential.

Depending on your expertise and industry experience, you can create multiple portfolios on the platform to showcase your diverse skillsets and capabilities. However, the platform allows you to add two portfolios for free. Add more portfolios by referring nicheBrains to more experts!

Including videos in your portfolio enhances your profile and provides potential clients with a comprehensive understanding of your expertise. Videos increase your credibility and allow customers to get to know you better, increasing the likelihood of project opportunities.

We encourage experts to use profile videos to highlight their unique value proposition, industry experience, skillset, and results achieved. To ensure clarity and conciseness, it's recommended to keep the video under 60 seconds.

Pro Tip: Record a video delivering your elevator pitch based on nicheBrains madlib, covering crucial aspects of your unique value proposition.

A portfolio on the nicheBrains platform includes the following,

1. Portfolio Card: Provides a sneak peek into your elevator pitch, industry experience, skillsets, photo, and portfolio title.

2. Elevator Pitch: Concisely communicates your unique value proposition, skills, and previous project results.

3. Projects and Offerings: Highlights your previous projects and value offerings for customers.

4. Credentials: Elaborates on your work experience, education, and certifications.

5. Thought Leadership: Establishes your thought leadership in specific skillsets through blogs, case studies, and use cases.

An elevator pitch is a concise statement highlighting your unique value proposition, skillsets, and tangible results for previous clients. It appears on your Portfolio Card and inside your portfolio, serving as a powerful tool to grab customers' attention and showcase the value you can create for them. An ideal elevator pitch should not exceed 150 characters. You can use existing templates on the platform or create an effective elevator pitch of your own.

Pro Tip: Use the following template to get started: "As a [domain name] expert, I help [adjective] companies achieve [defined and tangible goals] using [your top skill1, skill2]".

"Projects" showcase your previous projects for other customers, while "Offerings" represent your service catalog or the value offerings you provide to customers. These tabs on your portfolio page differentiate between previous projects and the services you offer.

Yes, you can delete portfolios you have created by clicking the "Delete" button located in the top right corner of your Portfolio Card. However, it is mandatory for every expert to have at least one portfolio on the platform.

To show or hide a portfolio from customers, use the visibility button located in the bottom right corner of the Portfolio Card within a specific portfolio.

To download your Portfolio Card as an image, use the "Download" button located at the bottom of the card within your portfolio. It allows you to save the card to your device storage.

A pitch is a powerful way for you to introduce the customer as response to a project requirement. 

You can give a summary of the top 3 key experiences, including accomplishments with a list of relevant skills and a cover letter as to why you are a good fit for the project. 

When you click on ‘Interested’ button on any project, you will get to add your pitch, relevant skills, and your education details. After finishing adding all the information, click on submit.

Congratulations! You have successfully submitted your pitch to the customer. Please allow the customer to ask for a proposal or to propose a call.

Once the customer reviews and approves your pitch, they will schedule a call with you. You will receive a notification via email.

Yes, you can accept, reject or re-schedule a call set up by the customer. By simply clicking on the “re-schedule call” button, you can choose the time and date that you are comfortable with and schedule a call.

Proposal is a detailed description of how you approach a project. Proposal is the second step after submitting the pitch. A typical proposal consists of a clear objective, deliverables, engagement model, fees, terms, and conditions.

Proposal is a detailed description of how you approach a project. Proposal is the second step after submitting the pitch. A typical proposal consists of a clear objective, deliverables, engagement model, fees, terms, and conditions.

When the customer requests for proposal, you will have access to create a proposal for the project using the proposal wizard. Add all the relevant details and submit.

You can withdraw your proposal at any time before it is accepted by the customer.

Engagementmodel refers to the time units and expert fee proposed to the customer. An expert can choose to work on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or project basis. The engagement fee is calculated based on the engagement model that you choose.

Based on your engagement model, you get to quote a fee for the project. The amount you quote is added to the nicheBrains facilitation fee. The final total is known as engagement fee.

In projects that need on-sight or hybrid engagements, you need to submit the estimated expenses of the travel, stay and all the other expenses that may occur in the time of the engagement. You need to give an estimated expense along with supporting document with proper breakdown in the proposal.

Engagement fee is the total fee you charge for the whole project. On the other hand, the total estimated expense is only submitted when the project is an on-sight or hybrid one. In the estimated fee, you need to give the breakdown of the expenses that may occur throughout your engagement.

Once yousubmit the proposal, customer must initialize contract for you to access contract document.

If you wish to withdraw a contract submitted to the customer, you must contact nicheBrains helpdesk.

No, you can only make further changes to the document once it is in the project workspace.

Standard deliverable from the proposal will be defaulted to the deliverables screen. If you wish to add a manual deliverable, you can simply click on the “add icon present on the top right side of the deliverables screen.

On the workspace chat window, you can find “calls icon” present below the chat feature. Click on it to access the call details window.

Once you navigate to deliverables screen from the workspace chat window, you can view status of the deliverables on the cards.