How To Get Your First Job On Upwork

[@bromas2752]

Appreciate the genuine advice, no secret agenda or trying to sell me anything. Stay real!

[@WanderfulRiah]

You always give such great advice Steph and you helped me greatly in getting started on the platform. Just 7 months later, I'm already Top Rated! Another cool thing about bringing a client onto Upwork, is that neither of you have to pay any fees if they come into the platform specifically to work with you. Can't wait to see more of your videos!

[@theincapable]

"always such great advice", she only has 2 videos?

[@stephaniedanforth2833]

Yeahhh trying to put more out soon! I've known Riah for years and worked with her on getting started. :)

[@mustajabakram1644]

Can you please guide me i have skills but struggling to get work oj upwork. Please! If you can help.

[@earthangel6858]

Just curious...do you recommend putting the part about being "new" and offering a deal for the proposal only, or also the profile?

[@veepandeepdeep213]

thank you

[@kidultcollectibles]

Great advice, I just signed up for upwork

[@Sofie_kit_hewwo]

Thanks for advice hope that i get my first job soon and I wish you every good !

[@theincapable]

WHAT? She is saying dont sell your self too chep and advising 20 or even 10$ an our??? Maybe if you live in Thailand. The minimum for independent working person is more like 40$/hour. I live in Germany and 70€/hour is common. 20$ an hour is not that much even for a company job. But as a freelancer you have to care for so much more things yourself like taxes, health care, customer care, accounting, ...

[@stephaniedanforth2833]

Yep! I totally advise starting at $10-20 hour. I completely understand that this isn't necessarily a living wage in some countries - but the idea is that it's a starting point. If you have years of experience under your belt and a great portfolio or work history to back that up, then you may have more luck starting with a higher rate. The idea with starting at $10-20 is that it's easier to land jobs at that rate and then fairly easy to quickly raise your rate after that. It probably took me about 6 months from when I started to when I was charging $50+.

[@stanislavdimitrov1643]

Hello, Stephanie, nice tattoo:) Yes, I agree with you. There are so many videos out there which advise people to bid low rates etc. I think that this is the wrong strategy, and that you, as you say, shouldn't sell yourself cheap. Yet, you should know that there will always be someone else who would be ready to do the same job for a lower rate-people from the developing countries etc. I simply don't care about this because I don't depend on Upwork for a living. I just do my best to do a great work whenever I have the chance to. And I set my hourly rate as I please.

[@gamingwithgraciemae]

Setting a low bid rate is good. People will realize that you offer services cheap and use it

[@nameless643]

Great advice! I will definitely try it out.

[@Wardi484]

Very interesting video. Keep it up!

[@vishalzalte5899]

Hi Steph, I need your help to get my upwork account reactivate because its got suspended due to high numbers of perposual sent. I was wrote them and request for the same but they not do. Could please assist me on this

[@earthangel6858]

So, as a beginner...$50/hr. is too high?

[@CuriousCat777]

earthangel depends how good u are. If you’re a pro then charge that’s fair...

[@stephaniedanforth2833]

Depends on your skillset and your experience. If you have years of experience and are very skilled in what you do, then $50/hour may be a fine rate to charge for you starting out. But because you don't have any experience on the platform itself, you will need some good portfolio work to back up that rate.

[@Chi_Chi_KIDS]

That's Great advice so far!

[@IsrarAhmedsiddiqui]

Practical tips! 🙏🙌

[@sherinshaju7172]

i didnt get any work.what i do

[@ravisingh-mk5uw]

nt getting any job on upwork ,wht to do plz help

[@earthangel6858]

Great advice

[@yogesh1495]

Please tell me which are the facebook groups??

[@omarsyard3416]

Hi Thanks for the information Now I learn graphic design in order to start working on upwork. My question is Do I need to by I printer to get started -I'm from morocco - I want to start with digital work in the bigginer Can I make it ????

[@MuhibAfridiWeapons]

go ahead you will make it

[@stephaniedanforth2833]

Hey! That's awesome! You definitely don't need to buy much to get started. I got started doing design work with just my laptop.

[@danielrus7117]

Wow!! Your really pretty ;) Thanks for the info, I only need to increase my hourly charge then!

[@r2rovids569]

stephanie can i get a personal contact with you i need to ask toy a phew questions

[@stephaniedanforth2833]

Feel free to message me on social media, happy to help!

[@jonah3334]

great video. I just started using upwork work today and I'm going to use your advices. could you please hire me? ha ha ha

[@masoudical9087]

I am following you, even though I do not understand what you are saying 😅😅

[@anthonysoto6255]

Thank you for the great info. Great video keep it up

[@ednalonakatada5532]

I'm determined to start freelancing, But I dont know how to start. May I get any help ?

[@stephaniedanforth2833]

Absolutely! Feel free to message me on social media, happy to answer any questions you have.

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[@nirtheart]

Great video!!

[@Ddstairclimber]

what freelancing work do you do?

[@stephaniedanforth2833]

Logo design, web design, and branding. :)

[@3V1LKNIGHT]

This stupid youtube autoplay thing took me to the next video while i was watching this wtf

[@shanettelaw9115]

I hate that too. Ugh....lol The video wasnt even DONE yet...Crazy!