make sure the profile headline matches our niche, but first figure out where to niche to.
to create a good profile description that converts, we should checkout talents in our industry, search them, those that are working great, then see and understand their profile description. the structure, story telling, how they are making the first few characters count, and based on that create our own description that is authentic, no emoji, no ai indicator.
Portfolios: they should have a clear and neatly structured description, our role and a high resolution cover image and video to support what is written in the description.
make sure to add many relevant skills on both the general and specialized accounts to make our profile searchable. but first identify the niche.
Searching
we can test many keywords on the main search input, we can also use advanced search methods, then we save those searches so we can get them on the my feed page. test many keywords and find out what is working and save those searches to my feed
The right Jobs and Clients
when checking out jobs if we get a good match that we want to apply to, we should copy the skills listed on the job to our special account, so in the future when the same kind of job comes up we will be indexed first for the clients. by the system.
payment verified just means that the client connected their payment method to their client account.
thing to check when applying for a job that we feel its a good match. client payment verification, feedback out of 5, hire rate has to be above 50%, is the client active on up-work or not by checking his spending against when he joined…
before applying for a job that we like, to know if the client is active on up-work or not, is crucial considering we don not want to waste our connect, so we can figure out that by checking when they started to be member in up-work and their spending, so if it has been long time but they have spent less, they are not active on the platform so we should bounce because high risk.
interviewing number on a job post just means that the client started conversation with a freelancer, may be a message or another way. also when invite sent to someone and they answer the invite it also gets into interviewing.
if there is an invite on the job post, best bet is not to apply on that job, because there is a high chance that the client already knows who they want or they might even got a deal outside of up-work they just came here to finalize it. so red flag.
we must check the feedback section of a job, for few reasons. one is to see what freelancers say about him/her, two what kind of feedback he gives to those who works with him, and lastly to get his/her name, because we need it on the proposal.
another thing we should check is the preferred qualifications, like language, locations…. if we don’t fulfill, it tells us with red icons, we can stull apply but the system tells the clients that we don’t fulfill, so we should back off.
if a job is featured that tells us that the client is serious.
when on a job post, payment is unverified, it does not mean that he/she is a scammer, so we have to find out why it is unverified. we do that checking when they joined up-work. if its just been few days since they joined. that is actually a good thing for us because most people take this job as a red flag due to the payment issue, which is likely not an issue. and we won’t have a strong competition. we can go ahead and apply.
Proposal
The Goal of a proposal should be to get a View, and the goal of that should be to get a reply, get them back to us. so: