$150,000 by Dec 2020. Crushing it on Upwork

Good luck with your journey, I sent you a PM.
 
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IYASS said:
Good luck with your journey, I sent you a PM.
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Things take time. In one message you want to do a JV with me. And in 15 minutes you do not want to because I have not replied. How can I consider a JV when you could change your mind in such a short time :)
 
Best of luck for your journey, Wish you make more money then you planned initially.

I have an Upwork profile with very good ratings, But I am not making much money because the projects on which I bid are of a saturated market like web development, etc.

I thought of collaborating with mobile apps developer, But I don't know a thing about Mobile Apps, so I kinda feel it's risky to put a profile on risk as if the developer fails to do the job then it can harm the profile.

I know there are very good clients on Upwork but somehow I cannot reach them and having a hard time to figure what service to offer.

I like learning new things in Web Development but I don't like to offer it as a service because the pay rate is very less as yesterday a client approached me to rebuild his WordPress website with 200+ pages, Re-design it and he wants 80+ score in Google and all that for $80.

I am looking for a new service to offer which I can learn myself and can also outsource, as I believe if you know what you are outsourcing and your collaborator fails to the job then at least I can jump in and then finish it without jeopardizing my profile.


Would be very nice of you and if you can suggest something, Or if you are open for collaboration then we can have a call or discuss it here on BHW, Btw I am from India too!
 
rideronjourney said:
Best of luck for your journey, Wish you make more money then you planned initially.

I have an Upwork profile with very good ratings, But I am not making much money because the projects on which I bid are of a saturated market like web development, etc.

I thought of collaborating with mobile apps developer, But I don't know a thing about Mobile Apps, so I kinda feel it's risky to put a profile on risk as if the developer fails to do the job then it can harm the profile.

I know there are very good clients on Upwork but somehow I cannot reach them and having a hard time to figure what service to offer.

I like learning new things in Web Development but I don't like to offer it as a service because the pay rate is very less as yesterday a client approached me to rebuild his WordPress website with 200+ pages, Re-design it and he wants 80+ score in Google and all that for $80.

I am looking for a new service to offer which I can learn myself and can also outsource, as I believe if you know what you are outsourcing and your collaborator fails to the job then at least I can jump in and then finish it without jeopardizing my profile.


Would be very nice of you and if you can suggest something, Or if you are open for collaboration then we can have a call or discuss it here on BHW, Btw I am from India too!
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Thanks budd. I've accomplished my target already - just last month. And my job success score right now is 60%, still getting projects. It's nice to have a 90+ success score, but a lower success score doesn't mean you won't get jobs. It's all about how well written your profile is, and the way you bid.
 
stepdub said:
Thanks budd. I've accomplished my target already - just last month. And my job success score right now is 60%, still getting projects. It's nice to have a 90+ success score, but a lower success score doesn't mean you won't get jobs. It's all about how well written your profile is, and the way you bid.
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ahh that's very good :) still, half-year is there and you can do much much more. :) I have a 100% success rate and still not getting good projects :(
 
rideronjourney said:
ahh that's very good :) still, half-year is there and you can do much much more. :) I have a 100% success rate and still not getting good projects :(
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Did you get discouraged and stop bidding on projects? Don't do that. I was bidding on projects every single day - of course I wouldn't get all of them. Some weeks I got 3 - 7 projects, and then nothing for next few weeks. The lesson I've learned here is there is one thing that every professional does daily regardless of the outcome. A boxer trains in the gym daily (regardless of whether he wins or loses the match, a soccer player practices daily, a retailer opens his shop daily, a doctor sits in his clinic daily, dancers practice dancing daily. The same way, as a freelancer, I must bid daily - wait for results, if I don't get desired results change my template a little bit, mix and match, test different templates, see what get's the client's attention, try bidding at different times of the day etc etc. When I'm doing so much activity, it is impossible that I won't get a single project in a month. Usually 1 to 3 projects is all it took for me to cover my living expenses. Anything extra I made, I treated it as bonus.

Sometimes, a client would reply to my proposal after 2 weeks, even a month at times. This motivated me to never stop bidding.
 
rideronjourney said:
:) still, half-year is there and you can do much much more.
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Nah. I've got some more lucrative deals from recent clients and outside of Upwork. I'm done being a freelancer and would like to move to the next level - Business Owner. I always considering freelancing as a bridge between being an employee and becoming a business owner.

As an employee, I had limited earnings, was tied to one location, and had to take crap from my bosses. Freelancing allowed me to work on my terms, work location free, negotiate better payments, and of course I was making much more money than a regular job. However, freelancing has it's limits - clients could be more demanding than your full time employer. Sometimes I felt I'm doing multiple jobs as an employee hired by all these clients. Also, to a certain extent, freelancers are paid by the hour (even considering fixed price projects). We cannot make millions this way (except by working for many years). My goal is always to make maximum money possible with the least input of time and efforts. Freelancing doesn't allow that much, but owning a business does. And I have moderate experience as a business owner (you can see my previous journeys).

I believe one should never settle at where they are - job, freelancing, business. We should always keep our eyes on the next big thing (I mean the next level in our own journey to make wealth). I always think "how is this client who hired me going to take advantage of the service I'm offering / how is he going to use me to make much more money than what he is paying me".

It was always my plan to make the maximum money I can from freelancing, and then switch to starting my own thing. And I'm grateful that it's happening sooner than what I thought was a possible deadline.

Maybe someday I'll write a book or guide on how I made money on Upwork. And I now want to use Upwork to hire freelancers for my own business (this will be a new journey thread, unrelated to Upwork, or any previous journeys I've completed).
 
stepdub said:
Did you get discouraged and stop bidding on projects? Don't do that. I was bidding on projects every single day - of course I wouldn't get all of them. Some weeks I got 3 - 7 projects, and then nothing for next few weeks. The lesson I've learned here is there is one thing that every professional does daily regardless of the outcome. A boxer trains in the gym daily (regardless of whether he wins or loses the match, a soccer player practices daily, a retailer opens his shop daily, a doctor sits in his clinic daily, dancers practice dancing daily. The same way, as a freelancer, I must bid daily - wait for results, if I don't get desired results change my template a little bit, mix and match, test different templates, see what get's the client's attention, try bidding at different times of the day etc etc. When I'm doing so much activity, it is impossible that I won't get a single project in a month. Usually 1 to 3 projects is all it took for me to cover my living expenses. Anything extra I made, I treated it as bonus.

Sometimes, a client would reply to my proposal after 2 weeks, even a month at times. This motivated me to never stop bidding.
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That's very inspirational thanks. :) I am getting projects, but those are not very high paid projects mainly because my niche is web development and there are tons of people who bid for the same job. In my case the client always has leverage and after they hire, they demand more things because they know there are so many people available for the same job.

I know there are tons of clients on Upwork but I am not getting an idea of what service to provide besides web development. Give me some gyan :D or we can collaborate and hire a remote team can provide a service... I am open to anything. what do you say?
 
stepdub said:
Nah. I've got some more lucrative deals from recent clients and outside of Upwork. I'm done being a freelancer and would like to move to the next level - Business Owner. I always considering freelancing as a bridge between being an employee and becoming a business owner.

As an employee, I had limited earnings, was tied to one location, and had to take crap from my bosses. Freelancing allowed me to work on my terms, work location free, negotiate better payments, and of course I was making much more money than a regular job. However, freelancing has it's limits - clients could be more demanding than your full time employer. Sometimes I felt I'm doing multiple jobs as an employee hired by all these clients. Also, to a certain extent, freelancers are paid by the hour (even considering fixed price projects). We cannot make millions this way (except by working for many years). My goal is always to make maximum money possible with the least input of time and efforts. Freelancing doesn't allow that much, but owning a business does. And I have moderate experience as a business owner (you can see my previous journeys).

I believe one should never settle at where they are - job, freelancing, business. We should always keep our eyes on the next big thing (I mean the next level in our own journey to make wealth). I always think "how is this client who hired me going to take advantage of the service I'm offering / how is he going to use me to make much more money than what he is paying me".

It was always my plan to make the maximum money I can from freelancing, and then switch to starting my own thing. And I'm grateful that it's happening sooner than what I thought was a possible deadline.

Maybe someday I'll write a book or guide on how I made money on Upwork. And I now want to use Upwork to hire freelancers for my own business (this will be a new journey thread, unrelated to Upwork, or any previous journeys I've completed).
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Yeah, That's the goal and the journey ultimately. Reading your post makes me feel very relieved, happy, and encouraging because I have thought the same thing always and placed all my bets on Freelancing in the hope to make it big.
 
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