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@@mdq8198 yes, charge over 30$ per hour and compete for the clients who are looking to spend more for high perceived value and learn to increase how valuable you look. Avoid the cheap clients, you cannot compete on price (and you should not) compete on other axies of differentiation

@@markdanielp.notado8392 if you dont, you can always find out ways to improve and try again. Instead, you should hope that you have enough courage to keep trying if things seem difficult

@@arpitshrmah when faced with uncertainty, you can either try or find excuses. what kind of person do you want to be?

@@AlecG Try obviously. Keep uploading content btw, & in this raw form. Really like that

No problem 😊

I understand being scared of getting scammed, but connects are cheap, and you can always buy more so you can spend them without worry, just dont fall into scams

i appreciate the offer but im not looking to hire right now sorry

@@ScarSixMusicyeah, thats riddiculous and almost laughable. The video is just a demonstration, I noticed it while filming but I did not want to waste time looking for other jobs because I know you guys are capable of doing that. It is a very bad job, lets be real about it 🤣

​@@AlecG hehehe that is a very bad job, they really tried to squeeze the juice out of it lol

@@xamanmonk they sure did!

@@ibrahim.tariq525 sounds like an interesting story. also, why do you want a hater?

@@ibrahim.tariq525 sorry, I have other plans for the upcoming weeks

Thank you, I will

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

I have filmed another video on free connects on where promo codes can be found. It could be more helpful, however, I think people need to change their expectations about free connects on Upwork. It is hard to get free connects on Upwork and the only easy ways give you like 5 dollars worth of connects. The truth is that upwork wants us to pay and for the most part, although we can save 5-10 dollars here and there, we need to pay. I wish I could help you get 100 free connects easily, but it is impossible. I do my best sharing the few methods that are actually real and usable, even though they are a bit underwhelming, its still the best I can do

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.

@@AlecG Thanks for the response.

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.

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.

Good morning! Yes, you can optimize the rest of your profile and it is a good idea to do it because even if you don't have experience it will help you get your first jobs

I think that everyone needs to choose for themselves which client acquisition method suits their personality and their field of work best. For some people, they will prefer cold calling, gos others it will be to create projects on Upwork. I guess it depends on your personality and if you feel Upwork projects are a good medium to sell your skills

@@AlecG Thank you

No this has changed this summer. to get the initial 50 free connects they added the requirement that you either subscribe for the freelancer plus premium membership once or that you buy about 20 dollars worth of connects once

Hi Murad, how are you doing? 🙂

Glad it was helpful!

@@Akro22 Are you looking for a freelance job just for the duration of your studies or do you want me to recommend something that you can spend your whole career freelancing in?

freelance job just for the duration of my studies and if i like it and i get a good source fo incom i will steck wiht it a career

@@Akro22 ideally you want a freelance job that will give you skills or work experience that will help in your career after your studies. Web development would be good for all 3 fields of study and it is easy to find freelance work in web development. Otherwise Sales is just a good skill to learn for everyone and data entry would be the easiest to learn and it would look good on your resume if you choose data analysis or if you learn google ads or bing ads, you could try to find at least 1 long term client and you could write something like this in your work experience on your resume: "data analyst and ads manager for (company name) for X years" because technically a large amount of what you do as a google or bing ads manager is to analyze data

@@AlecG i am steal wanting for your advice alec

@@Akro22 You probably missed my reply to your previous message in this discussion, I just sent you a message with 4 recommendations I think. It starts with ''ideally you want a freelance job that will give you''

You dont need to be top rated, this account I used for the demonstration is a brand new account with zero reviews

@@Newven01 conects are a premium digital currency on upwork that you need to use if you want to use some of the methods for finding jobs on Upwork. You can find jobs by using project catalog for free or you can get invited to jobs or you can apply to job posts if you have connects. if you dont have connects, you can pay to get some connrcts.

@@Bhavishya_est great suggestion, thank you

it depends on how long it is. This trick is more useful when the post is long

thanks!

im glad you found the video entertaining 🙂

No

well, sorry but I dont use linkedin

@@AlecG how do we connect

you can ask me questions and communicate with me directly here if you want

Well, it will be easy because I already did the research for you 🙂 Here's a whole playlist of videos I made to help freelancers choose which services to provide. I suggest you start with the most recent videos and only watch the older videos if you feel like you need more guidance. Here is a link to the playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLv-6Zov-V4xNf01Gx3VJpt6vlJhCML1K5&si=QV8hYt6VMz1GbdFA

I dont agree but I find your analysis interesting. Who is the person who wins in your opinion?

Hey, great question, I made a full demonstration on how to do that. The video will come out september 30

@@AlecG Thanks so much

glad you enjoyed it Murad, you look like a nice person. I wish you a lot of success!

Yeah, it changed name in the dropdown menu last month if I remember correctly. I dont remember the new navbar menu item name in the dropdown menu off the top of my head. But its one of the ones close to the bottom, if you try them all out you will easily find it i'm sure

Hi! It is called "Your Services" now 🤝

@@KiseiAI Thank you!

@@AlecG My pleasure!

I do have some advice. Ask clients to leave reviews, otherwise they will forget to do it. And your profile is still too new to get many clicks and job invitations. You managed to get 4 jobs and you built a good JSS and got your first 5 star reviews, you did a good job. Keep doing what you are doing, you are on the right track.

not at the moment, but thank you

@@bikonkumardas this is a very good question, I'm afraid I dont know the answer for Upwork but I would assume that there is a risk that it will hurt your results because other search engine content gets penalized when they become private, such as youtube videos, so there is a possibility that upwork penalises you as well. I have not tested it however. I think the only people who would know that would be upwork themselves or people who could somehow test this on multiple accounts. It could be reasonable to not take that risk and keep your account public

I'm glad you found the video valuable. I'd love to help but I'm already way behind on all the promises I've made to people about giving advice for their profiles. I'll have to decline your request. You can ask me specific questions here if you want though, I should have time to respond

With pleasure, I will make videos on that exact topic soon