How to earn your first $1000 on Upwork?
Agenda:
- Intro
- Useful part
Okay, guys. After more than 250 posts, becoming the biggest Upwork knowledge library in the internet, 11 years on Upwork, I finally made a Youtube channel.
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Useful part of this article:
So if you are new on Upwork, it's very hard to work on all 9 Upwork subchannels/
There are two ways to win the first projects: fully legitimate or slighly grey-ish.
Fully legitimate way for the newbies:
- Choose your niche, your market, but don't make it too wide.
For example, you can't win jobs as a full stack developer with 0 work history How to Analyze the Market and Set Your Hourly Rate on Upwork - I suggest to concentrate on the two subchannels: bidding and talent search for your new niche.
- Optimize your profile for both of these channels
- Take a working assessment while you are still without earnings Working Assesment. Extra 2 skills to your General profile. New Beta feature on Upwork.
- Put 10 most close categories in Your settings Upwork new categories structure 2025. Full structure + Add that you are ready to take both long and short projects.
- Make sure all your profile filters are right: more than 30 hours per week, open to contracts to hire, english level.
- Title should include existing requests from clients. Search for them from the client's side. Don't use your own imagination. Don't use punctuation to touch words.
- Your profile description should include:
a. Your main requests from the title (point 7)
b. Suggestions (these are additional words from the autocomplete to your main requests)
c. Related queries to your main requests
d. green skills (yes, in text)
e. everything should be written in a normal text for UMA.
- You can't create consultations for now. Forget. It will be available when you'll get any badge. When you do, create 3 right away.
- Portfolio cases. You need 4 cases for the start. Cases should contain your main title reuqests in the titles and inside in description. Your role is not counted.
- Project catalog. Create 20. All should be different. Algorithms are here
- Create 10 certificates with main requests
- Create 3 Employment history. These 3 should contain your main title requests in title and description
- Create 3 Other Experience. These 3 should contain your main title requests in title and description
- Create 2 educations. No keywords needed.
- Start applying at least 10 times per day AFTER optimisation
- Update your profile every day (one skill, add portfolio item, change last word in a title)
grey zone:
Wanna wide big traffic? Then we need to talk about your friend, who really needs to hire you through Upwork but very-very-very carefilly and realistically or you will be banned. Without work history you can't win popular lists.
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