Morgan Overholt | $600k Upworker
@MorganOMedia
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Featured in Business Insider 💚 Over $2M Earned in Freelance/Blogging 💚 Self Employment Evangelist 💚
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People always ask me for advice on how to get started/make money on Upwork.
This is why I created a series of guides to do just that (it’s also easier than answering the same questions over and over again).
Here’s whatcha need.
💚
1) Sign up for my FREE newsletter to
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@SecretaryPete
@JudiciaryGOP
So weird that the
@JudiciaryGOP
didn’t reply. Where’s
@JudiciaryGOP
? 😂
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@Chasten
As a freelancer, I could smell BS on this one when I first heard about it last year.
The entire point of being a freelancer is picking what sort of projects you want to work on and who you want to work for.
If im approached with a project I don’t like, I simply turn it down
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@BacheloretteABC
It is my hope that we all tune in to help the ratings explode. Send a strong message to ABC that the show can thrive without Harrison. Looking forward to a season headed by strong females leads and hosts.
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@MeghanMcCain
Honestly, I don't believe they were sheltering in place properly. I know lots of people who CLAIM they are isolating, except when they get take out, go to a friends house, go boating, meet up with friends, go to work, go to the store, etc. But yeah, they are totally "isolating."
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I DID IT! $600k Earned on
@Upwork
! 🥳🥳🥳
(Tips in 🧵👇)
#Upwork
#Freelance
#UpworkSuccess
#GraphicDesign
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Dear Upwork Freelancer,
Quit worrying about boosting your proposals and start writing cover letters that make it sound like you took at least 2 seconds out of your day to read my job post.
Love, an Upwork client
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Beware of people who claim Upwork earnings without screenshots or profile links.
Lots of imposters on this platform. 💚
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@GCapital_LLC
@EdKrassen
My husband and I are originally from small town TN. The heart of Trump country.
This isn’t about winning to them. This is about revenge. They love that they are disrupting the system. They hate traditional Republican candidates almost as much as they hate democrats.
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Over the past 4 yrs on
@upwork
I've earned $500k, sent 819 proposals, won 223 jobs. Breakdown below:
2017: 413 proposals sent
2018: 247 proposals sent
2019: 84 proposals sent
2020: 122 proposals sent (pandemic uptick)
2021: 8 proposals sent (so far)
It gets easier with time. 💚
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"Upwork is just a race to the bottom"
$158k later ... 👀
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@themoneycoach
Remember … women weren’t even allowed to open their own checking accounts til the 1960s, and banks still had the right to refuse til 1974.
We’ve barely had an entire generation of women allowed to handle their own $. We are a long way off from getting respect in a boardroom.
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Upwork Tip 💚
When writing proposals, consider the following phrases officially banned: “I think”, “I feel”, “I believe”, and “I should be able to”. 🚫
These phrases indicate a lack of confidence.
Instead, use phrases like “I will” and “I am”. ✅
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An open apology to my Upwork friends. 💚
I know I’ve been off topic on Twitter these past few months.
I feel I need to offer you those of you not in the know an explanation.
Last Sept Google deranked thousands of what they would consider “niche blogs” or “made for ads” sites
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Upwork Hack!!! 💚
As a freelancer who has earned over $600,000 on Upwork, I’ve always said that the key to finding success on the platform, is putting yourself in your clients’ shoes. (🧵 1/3)👇
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“Upwork is just a race to the bottom”
😂💚😂
Regularly receiving $200/hr offers now with no boosting whatsoever and no applying for jobs. This is the end game when you sign up for the platform.
And to think only 6 years ago I was stressing out about applications and $20 gigs.
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My freelance career was not an overnight success.
I’ve been at this for a long time.
It required a lot of hard work. And I’ve made plenty of mistakes along the way.
Give yourself permission to fail. 💚
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Guys, I’ve figured out how to make my content helpful.
Just take the unhelpful content I already wrote and put it on a site Google likes then BOOM - helpful again.
SEO is now like real estate. Location, location, location. 😅
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I’m in the 14th position in Google for this query.
Used to be top 3.
I now rank behind Reddit, quora, Glassdoor and 11 different URLs on Upwork.
And 4 sponsored links if you count those I’m position 18.
That means almost 900 people a month are scrolling to the 14th
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Ahhhhh. I know I should be asleep but lookie!! Just happened! $500k earned baby!!
#followme
#upwork
#upworksuccess
#itspossible
#500k
#halfmil
#4years
💚💚💚💚
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The real key to unlocking success on
@Upwork
is never needing to use a single Connect. 💚
#Upwork
#Freelance
#Connects
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Freelancers,
Educate yourself on the Upwork platform, by becoming a client.
Even if you hire for a small job, you’ll be shocked at what you learn through the process.
👆👆👆
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My new Upwork hiring/job post strategy:
“Don’t bother boosting your proposal, it doesn’t make a difference to me.”
You’re welcome Upwork Nation. 😅
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Ah! BIG DAY guys! I love hitting these milestones. $400k earned since May 2017. (In a little over 3 years on the platform!)💚💚💚
@Upwork
#upwork
#upworktips
#upworksuccess
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“What do BuzzFeed, Rolling Stone, Forbes, Popular Science, and Better Homes & Gardens have in common?
They all know which are the best air purifiers for pet hair:”
(This article is makes me sad)
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Daily reminder freelancers! 💡
Ask your clients for referrals at the end of every contract. Word of mouth is the greatest growth hack.
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🚨
@Upwork
will be removing the 20% fee and switching to flat rate. Details in 🧵👇
#Upwork
#Freelance
#YourMoveFiverr
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You Guys!!! Talk about an Upwork milestone (see what I did there...?) My profile hit $200k today after only 2.5 years on the platform! (And that's just the Upwork portion) 💚💚💚
#upworksuccess
#freelancer
#200kfreelancer
#graphicdesign
#followme
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That Upwork proposal ain’t about you. It’s about your customer 💚😘
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No, my rates aren’t flexible.
Neither are my accountant’s rates
Or my dentist’s rates
Or my doctor’s rates
And I bet they are never asked either.
We need to quit making rate “negotiations” the norm in the freelance world. 🙏
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The day I quit my last full time salaried job my boss told me she wanted me to quit freelance (cause it was distracting) and spend more time in the office.
I was making $4k/mo working full time.
And another $4k/mo freelancing as a side hustle.
So I said … Lolz 👋
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💚 Upwork Experiment Update
Last week I turned off my boosted availability badge and profile and instead, focused solely on Boosted Proposals.
Interestingly, Boosted Proposals were, by far, the most effective tool for getting people to actually view my proposals.
HOWEVER,
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Google, who? 🤷🏼♀️
Finally, like the old days again.
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Stop. Seriously, stop.
If you've not gotten a response after the third try, there's a reason. In what world is this effective?
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They said "Upwork is just a race to the bottom" in 2017 when I joined the platform.
And $600,000 later, they're still saying it. Don't listen to those who have failed. Listen to those who have succeeded.
💚
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Upwork tip💚
The more five-star reviews you are able to obtain early on in your freelancing journey on Upwork, the easier it becomes to close clients, land quality projects and climb the ladder of the Upwork rating system.
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@AdamMGrant
I feel horrible for them! It’s a nightmarish situation.
But I must admit I’d like to see a fraction of this attention placed on school children who are being gunned down in mass numbers on the daily who didn’t sign up for a potentially life threatening situation.
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Important Upwork reminder 💚😱
Newbies get banned from the platform everyday because they aren’t aware of these strict pre-offer contact rules:
1. Never share your email address. Even if it’s for file or permissions purposes.
2. Never initiate a call or zoom call on your own.
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Just turned my Upwork profile back on after months of being off.
Let’s see how long it takes to get my first invite at $150/hr. 💚👀
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Upworkers!!! 💚
I started applying for jobs on Upwork again today for the first time in years.
Why?
It’s not because I need the work. Just the opposite in fact.
I just want to run some experiments and test some of these special Upwork feature to see if they will actually
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Ah! Now in proofing. My first ever mini Upwork course!
Coming soon to udemy!
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In my latest Upwork job post, I specifically asked freelancers NOT to boost their proposals to see if they were paying attention.
Out of 50 applicants ...
🚩28 sent copy-and-paste generic proposals
🚩🚩🚩2 boosted their proposals😳
Competition isn't as stiff as you think...
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@clientsfh
I had a former client recently contact me after 2 years asking me to take on a new project and work for free because “he never asked for edits on the last project therefore I owed him a credit of hundreds of dollars”
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HARD TRUTH:
As an Upwork freelancer AND client I see alllllll the mistakes that 90% of users are making on this platform.
I know this is hard to hear...
But if you're not seeing success after a few weeks - it may be time to look inward instead of blaming others. 💚
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@ChefMBaldwin
@CHueyBurns
@MollyJongFast
A close friend of mine just found out she was pregnant. They told her they date pregnancies from about a 11-20 days from the first day of the last period.
So basically, you’re six weeks pregnant by the time you notice your period is 5-6 days late.
This is why a 6 week
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Freelancers:
The wait staff at the steakhouse doesn’t breakdown the cost of the steak.
Your dentist doesn’t explain their “process”.
Quit justifying yourself and your rates to your clients. Start seeing yourself as a industry professional with a quality product to sell. 💚
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We literally produce original stories on Google that rank 1 for a day til another site writes about us writing our story and outranks us.
Google is so broken is laughable.
It’s not a fair fight if Google sees you as a “niche site”
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Unhelpful Captains Log,
Star date March 5, 2024
After months of mourning our loss, deleting over half our main site, consulting experts, getting site audits, updating thousands of articles and removing nearly all our ads while seeing no results we realized our cheese wasn’t
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Freelancers: Remember, honesty is the best policy.
As we head into our busiest season I am proactively letting some of my clients know that turnaround times may be slower than usual to help them plan ahead. 🎄
Always over communicate when it comes to expectations.
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Spoiler alert – yes, you can make great money on Upwork. Don’t let the haters tell you otherwise. 💚
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Views provided by
@Upwork
In 2017, my then-employer told me if I wanted a raise to wait 5-6 years for *maybe* a $5k bump on my $75k salary.
Instead I quit, became my own boss, joined Upwork and more than doubled my income.
Today, I’m on the verge of soft retirement.🧵(1/2)
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Don’t compete against 100% of Upwork users. You won’t stand out in a crowded field if you’re doing the bare minimum (like so many do)!
Instead, compete with the top 10% of users – the Top Rated, and Expert Vetted freelancers – who have learned how to optimize their profiles and
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Creators, we know what to do at this point.
The writing is on the wall.
I get that it’s hard to know who you can trust, but I know.
You can trust yourself. And your instincts.
Something tells me that’s what built your business in the first place.
My instincts say that it
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When I was new to Upwork 5 years ago, it took nearly 2 weeks to win my first gig. It’s normal. Persistence is a king-maker 💚
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@Donttellm5
@waltermasterson
Abortion is also the medical term to describe a miscarriage. Quit calling it murder.
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You don’t have to convince Upwork clients that they need a freelancer.
They already know.
You just have to convince them that YOU are the freelancer for the job.
Hardest step already taken care of. 💚
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New high score I like this game!
@Upwork
#upwork
#upworksuccess
#freelance
#freelancer
#graphicdesign
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Wanted to provide a little roundup of my fav
@Upwork
Twitter follows:
💚Courtney ... $2M |
@iceebeenie
💚Evan ... $1.8M |
@freelancemvp
💚Adam ... $1.2M |
@UpworkSaves
💚Josh ... $820K |
@JoshBurnsTech
💚Morgan ... $600k |
@MorganOMedia
Who else should we add?
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Is YOUR Upwork profile missing any of the following:
💚 2 Specialized Profiles
💚 A robust portfolio (at LEAST 6 per profile)
💚 2-3 Project catalog listings
💚 Loads of relevant keywords
💚 A unique selling point in the title
... If so, it may be time for a little housekeeping
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THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER! My first "official" blog article on "How I make $200k/year freelancing, my 10 tips for Upwork success." No login required on this one guys - I hope you enjoy!
#upwork
#upworksuccess
#freelance
#graphicdesign
#entreprenuer
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So can we just start calling it what it actually is now?
“Niche sites” = “Unhelpful content”
😨
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Few people realize- I’m not just an Upwork freelancer, I’m also an Upwork client ($10k+ spend)
And I can honestly say, taking a walk in my clients shoes, has really given me major perspective over the years.
(🧵 1/2)
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Spotted today at a local market.
Freelancers, take note. 😅💡
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Performed my own helpful content update.
Problem solved.
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0% Upwork Fee Hack💚
Top Rated freelancers can invite their “real world” clients to sign up for Upwork via the Bring Your Own Client to Upwork program, pay a 0% fee, and still enjoy Upwork’s many features including payment processing and invoicing.
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As a freelancer, every time my rate increased so did the quality of my clientele.
It’s true what they say – cheap clients tend to be more difficult than well-funded, more experienced clients. 💚
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Just wanted to clear a few things up.
🤨🤨🤨
1) No, even though I’ve joked that AI is taking over, I’m not being outranked by AI in fact, in the past 72 hours I’ve seen a variety of things outrank us including non topical articles with a higher DA, old articles that predate
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Upwork, you know I adore you. But it would be smart to implement minimum client budgets on these higher-cost-to-apply jobs.
$5-$10 jobs at 8-16 connects isn’t making me any money. And it isn’t making you any money.
@hydnbrwn
@Upwork
@UpworkHelp
Raise the client bar! Let’s
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When do you raise your rates? When you have so much work you can barely handle it.
#fallcleaning
#upworktips
#upworksuccess
@Upwork
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Doing some housekeeping on
@Upwork
by closing out old contracts (and raising my rates). This is my biggest one to date.
#UpworkTips
#UpworkSuccess
👀👀👀
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I don’t mean to brag but I’ve gained like, 4 followers on Insta this week.
Course coming soon 😂😅
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BIG NEWS! 🎉🎉🎉
The company I use for my taxes and bookkeeping is now available in ALL 50 STATES as of TODAY.
It specifically caters to freelancers and entrepreneurs.
CURIOUS?
Use promo code MORGAN to get your first month free and try them out!
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Am slowly transitioning back into my longer haired brunette self. Maybe I’ll go full circle and actually start to look like my Upwork profile pic again 🤪
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Quit paying to boost your Upwork proposals.
Start taking the time to read job posts thoroughly and write unique, professional cover letters.
💚
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It's my
@Upwork
Anniversary today! 3 years, 133 clients, 194 projects and $329,217 earned.
#Upwork
#UpworkSuccess
#Anniversary
😍💚💚💚
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BOOM! 🥳🥳🥳
I’m late to the game on
@upwork
Project Catalog but after only a week or so I just nabbed my first sale!
I’m now a believer! 💚
#upwork
#upworkprojectcatalog
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Freelance made me a millionaire 💰
It also funded my blogs 🖥️
And blogging will allow me to soft retire 🏝️
#softretirement
#fi
#financialindependence
#blogger
#freelance
#millionaire
#passiveincome
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Upwork food for thought: 🧠 🥪
Even as a competent freelancer with plenty of experience prior to joining Upwork, it still took me almost 2 weeks to land my first contract on the platform.
Don’t get frustrated. It’s going to take time. 💚
#upwork
#freelance
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I really do not mean to be petty.
But there’s a certain justification/relief I feel when I see sites that I know are quality … sites that have been featured as being HCU immune … now also losing to Reddit and spam.
Trust me. I feel your pain. I’ve been feeling it for months
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@ijustine
When will tech people realize the people don’t want to sit around with a giant headset attached to their face?
This has already flopped so many times, with so many companies.
Don’t get me wrong VR is fun some stuff like gaming. But I’d rather curl up on the couch and watch a
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Upwork Tip: 💚
When applying for freelance jobs, Include as many relevant portfolio samples as possible. I keep folders of portfolio examples on my computer labeled by category for a quick and easy reference.
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💡Freelance tip 💡
A good proposal focuses more on the client than it does the freelancer.
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How long before we hear about a Google/Forbes deal? 👀
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Hey
@UpworkHelp
is 8 the new minimum bid to apply?
I’m seeing examples like this all over the site … $10 budget for a 1 day project seeking an entry level freelancer now costing $1.20 to bid?
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Can we rename the Helpful Content Classifier the Niche Site Classifier?
👀
I mean we’ve not seen a non niche site example of a site hit with hcu.
Its purpose, to me, seems to clearly be identifying and punishing niche sites.
If we could just start calling it what it is I
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The "free" in "freelancer" refers to FREEDOM, not FREE WORK. 💚
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Guys! The results of my mini month long Upwork experiment are in! 👀
💚💚💚
I applied for a variety of jobs every week for a month. Each week, I tested out a different set of paid Upwork features to see if any would actually improve my chances of getting hired on the platform
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This is my public plea to
@Upwork
to leave our current 5% contracts grandfathered in … in perpetuity. 🙏
We otherwise love the move to flat fees. And think it’s a wise move going forward.
I just need a reason to keep my contracts > 2 years on platform. 💚
Letting us keep
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@realBrookNash
Hi! Next time, as the man, please jump in and say to the other man:
Excuse me, I was hoping I could hear the rest of what _______ was saying.
We have to look out for each other.
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Freelance Tip: Don’t compete on price. Someone will always be cheaper. 💚
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Upwork Truth-bomb:
Any experienced freelancer on Upwork will tell you that your first review will be the most important review you’ll ever obtain. 💚
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