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by leap_ahead 4052 days ago
I see you're accepting PayPal. Keep in mind they're known to arbitrarily freeze accounts so this is a risk for you. Also businesses in Europe prefer wire transfer rather than anything which is rather a customer payment solution. I assume you're in Europe or targeting European clients since you're billing in Euros. You may want to register a company and open a bank account instead.

The largest problem however is that you're anonymous. While this may work in countries like Russia and Ukraine which are used to everyone hiding from everyone, this is unlikely to take off with German customers for example. They want to know your name, your official address, your phone number, the official registry number for your company, the bank account number and the location to settle legal disputes clearly stated. Your photo and the listing of your diplomas and certificates would be needed as well. The .tk domain name doesn't really help either. You GMail free email address makes no sense given that you already own a custom domain.

As it is, you appear to be just another guy from a freelancing site who's trying to stand out against the crowd. But since you're anonymous, I can't see why anyone would fall for you.

No offense intended, just a honest opinion of your offering.

P.S. Your copyright notice also makes little sense. It basically says that the domain name owns the copyright which is not possible. A natural person or a legal entity can hold the rights, a domain name is an object and cannot own anything. You may want to put in there your name or the name of your company, if you've got one registered.