The problem is that competition is very much in these niches also comes the price of hiring, People in Asian countries have less pricing as compared to pricing for freelancers from US or Europe....
@AlecG
16 күн бұрын
you make the mistake of thinking that the majority of clients seek cheap freelancers. They don't. Upwork revealed that most freelancers offer their services too cheap and that clients end up spending more with other freelancers. clients want quality and they associate low prices with low quality.
@unsa101
15 күн бұрын
Hi, bro. Thank you so much for your video explaining how to set up an Upwork profile for web developers. I’m the one who requested that video and I’ve been following all of your content closely. I created everything you suggested and set up my services as well. However, I've used up about 70 connections sending proposals, but I haven't received any responses yet. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here’s my process: I read the job description carefully and then click 'Apply.' I write a basic cover letter and send the proposal. But when I revisit the job page, the "Activity on this Job" section often shows: Interviewing: 0 Invites sent: 0 Unanswered invites: 0 1. Shouldn't it at least show "Invites sent: 1" since I've submitted a proposal? Am I right in thinking this? 2. Most of the clients haven't responded to me, and they also haven’t hired anyone. Why do you think that’s happening? 3. I’m new to Upwork, so I’m wondering if clients usually take a long time to choose a freelancer, or if no response means they’re not interested in me. The funny thing is, I’m confident I can easily handle the jobs they post. If you’d like to check out my profile, I’d be happy to share it with you so you can see how closely I’ve followed your advice
@AlecG
15 күн бұрын
Hey, I'm happy to see that you liked my videos and that you worked hard and followed my advice. I'll start with question #1, invites sent are not related to proposals sent by freelancers, it is actually how many freelancers the client has invited. It is normal that most clients ignore your proposals. Even if you send good proposals, you should expect that the majority of clients will ignore you. The reason we work hard on proposals is to turn our conversion rate from 1% to something closer to 10% so that we need to send less proposals to get jobs. Because we are dealing with low percentages, you need to send a lot more proposals before we have enough data to make an accurate evaluation of your results. You work hard and you follow my advice, which means that you should already be doing better than most other new freelancers. Keep doing what you are doing. After you have sent 30 proposals, you can start evaluating your results and start looking for the potential issues. Right now it is too early to tell. It is possible that you are doing everything right currently, but because we are dealing with conversion rates that are under 20% it is very possible that you were just unlucky. But luck averages out over a high amount of iterations in a system regardless of how high the % chance of outcomes is. Thats why you need to test over the long run. Many clients take a long time to respond or never respond because they are busy. Sometimes the best proposals you can make won't be seen, but that does not mean that you did anything wrong. Sure, there is always stuff to improve, but maybe you are doing a good job overall. I wish I could keep offering profile analysis for free but at this point I receive so many requests there is no way I can help everyone with that. For the moment I stopped doing profile reviews completely, but maybe I will do them again in the future, maybe it could be a good bonus for a high patreon tier or something like that, I'll have to think about it.
@unsa101
15 күн бұрын
@@AlecG Thanks for the response.
@punstress
13 күн бұрын
I once hired a mover on a site like upwork for movers. He had no reviews but he was insured and the price was very low, so I took the chance. He told me he'd signed up months ago and was told by the site that once he gets one solid review, the work will start to flow. He did a great job and I wrote a review with specific details, not just "great job" but the fact that he knew the fastest way to handle each type of item moved, he helped me shrink wrap a chair, he dealt with the small elevator by walking my larger items up 2 floors without complaint, and that I was exhausted by the end of the move, but he wasn't even tired. I ended up not staying in that apartment so I hired him again 3 months later and he said it was just like the site told him. My detailed review brought him almost more work than he could handle, and he raised his rates. I've had similar experiences getting started on new tutoring sites; nobody wants to hire someone with no reviews. So you must focus on getting at least one really good, solid review. You could ask a friend or former client to hire you and let them know how important a detailed review is. People want to help others, just like I did, but too many people would just say, "Would hire again" and leave it at that. You have to make sure the review is detailed. ASK FOR IT.
@punstress
14 күн бұрын
Wastes 45 seconds to explain working at night. It's the title, so clickers pretty much know their reasons.
@AlecG
14 күн бұрын
thanks for the feedback, you are entirely right, I can see how the intro is completely unnecessary. I don't know why I felt the need to make an intro, I decided to trust my intuition in the moment and sometimes its the wrong move. I hope you still enjoyed the rest of the video
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