all three statements are technically wrong, but I appreciate the feedback because it means i need to update it to make it clearer. thank you for your feedback 🙂

Maybe its my device

Awesome, thank you!

@@zainmanna9016 hiding your earnings is good if you charge low amounts of money. When clients notice that you charge low amounts of money it decreases your perceived value and a lot of them will try to negociate your prices down in the future if you try to charge high because they can see that you often have accepted low rates in the past. However, if you charge high rates, you should keep your earnings public because it is a great honest indicator of your high value, thus increasing how much future clients will be willing to pay for your services

it's worth trying

@@mohammedsaqlainshaikh7029 sorry, I'm not looking for a video editor right now. Im glad you enjoyed the video 🙂

@@AlecG it's ok I understand but honestly your content is really good

@@Fikarblackproject connects are returned if you get a job interview otherwise they are lost forever

great content btw! Im currently searching for junior dev role and its been tough. So I'm looking into doing some freelance work. I feel like I should be able to take on some of the tasks, with over 6+ years of programming/web dev especially in React + Node.

your clients don't care about that, learn what allows you to fill the needs of most companies as easily as possible. Most companies either need wordpress website updates, a new site or a new online store. Most websites that need updates that are not made on wordpress run on PHP. I suggest you learn the technologies that were used the most in the last 15 years so you can perform the website update contracts (almost half of the jobs you could get)

​@@AlecG Thanks! Great content btw Future video request: I think it would be really cool if you did like a mock upwork web dev job. This would be helpful for newbies to see the workflow because i think lot of us are just nervous lol. I think I can create something that works...but then keep second guessing with questions like is it following best practices, unit tests, maintnable, scaleable etc esp. coming from a SWE internship experience.

@@Newven01 services are free right now and you dont need connects and they dont charge you every month, instead, they take a small percentage of the money that your clients pay. as for your 20 connects, well upwork does not give free connects to new accounts anymore. You need to pay if you want to get connects

@@markdanielp.notado8392 I dont know any free freelancing platform that i would recommend for free users. You should try email outreach. I have email templates on my website you can use if you want to make your process easier, after that all you need to do is find businesses on google maps, look at their website and social media presence and message them if you feel they would benefit from your services. It is about as easy as upwork but you dont need to pay for connects

at the start you're not going to get views. If you're beginning on upwork apply for smaller quick jobs for cheap, aim to over deliver so you get a few good positive reviews on your profile. Apply for things which you already have a sample to show for and watch a video to make sure your proposals are well written

@@arpitshrmah you should get about 1 positive reply per 10 proposal if you do a good job. You can get a basic level understanding from youtube tutorials or tip videos for proposals (i made a few of those and you might want to check them out), but for the long term game, to get the best results possible, you need to develop a deeper understanding of copywriting and outreach marketing (and also sales for winning the interviews you get). I must have read over 30 books on marketing and watched dozens of online courses. I distilled the most important stuff specifically about upwork proposals in my course "proposal secrets" so my suggestion if you want to get really good over the next few years would be to start with proposal secrets and try to read at least 2 books on sales or copywriting or outreach marketing per year after that. audiobooks work too

Where to see proposal percentage

@@Newven01 it is a good question! i used to keep track of my prospects and conversion rates on an excel spreadsheet, but I wouldnt be surprised if upwork gave us that data on our account statistics. I would need to check to confirm though

@@Newven01 You can't. I calculated it based on the views I got divided by total proposals sent

I appreciate you, that comment made me feel good. I wish I could guide you, but unfortunately I don't know enough about the different branches within data analysis to guide you on this. I can say though that Udemy might be a good place to learn if you are on a tight budget. One of my friends started learning on that platform and he seemed to be satisfied with the courses there. I know its not the kind of advice you were hoping for, but I hope it helps

@@Opulinero you're welcome!

i appreciate your feedback

@@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

@@AlecG Thank you so much sir.

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