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Any advice to upwork profile?
I want to open my upwork profile for freelance clients. Any advice? Good practices? :)
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Spend no more than 5 minutes on it! 🤭
Hahahahah
But I'm serious! I just started to today and got 4 jobs already and my profile is some chatgpt generated crap.
OMG! Really? I believed was ironic 😅
It is impossible to get accepted to serious jobs if you don't have any history and reviews. So you have to start somewhere. And this is possible by getting crappy quick jobs for small money. People who place those listings don't look at profiles... They just want to get job done.
So basically preparing full fledge profile now is like preparing for something that will not come and in this case it is guaranteed.
chatgpt generated crap that was funny 😄
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I'm in a similar situation where since I hadn't been active for several years, ALL my reviews and ratings have dropped off so it looks like I'm brand new. (Yes, it sucks lol.)
Anyway, I just watched the Small Bets training on this, and what @screenfluent said is spot on! Apparently, it's best to position yourself as a generalist and go after zero-skill jobs (like app testing) just to get reviews/ratings. You'll need around 7 to get the "top rated" badge so you're pushed to the top of the queue when you submit proposals for high-level jobs.
I started on Upwork in like 2014 (after the e-lance merger), so I had just dove in, but it's such a different (and more saturated) world now.
Good luck!!
Funny thing, Cat, is that today I realized I was on the platform before, back when it was called oDesk, hiring people to work for me. I could never have imagined that 10 years later, I’d be the freelancer doing tasks for $5! 😅
Yep! I was on oDesk too!
Oh this is most definitely a humbling moment for us. I submitted a proposal for less than 80% of my typical rate. All to build this back up.
How many proposals did you submit to get your 4 jobs btw?
I don’t remember exactly, and now some of them are gone since the job listings disappeared, but it was something like 10.