Why No One Is Accepting Your Proposals on Upwork

[@14mastool]

Welcome back John! Happy to see you doing videos again

[@john.morris]

Thanks Omar! Thanks for sticking around! 🙂

[@SirJoelsuf1]

I'm glad you're still doing content on here, John. A good amount of freelancer KZbinrs haven't made ANY content for nearly a year. I took some time off freelancing for most of this year but I'm ready to go back into it. But I'm still as confused (even more so, actually) than I have ever been when it comes to this stuff. I'm at the point where I just look for some kind of samples to attach to my proposal, make my proposal as "you" focused as possible, and hope for the best.

[@rolandpierrelouis4013]

it's been a long time John ! Happy to see you back

[@john.morris]

Thanks Roland! It has been awhile. Thanks for sticking around. Hopefully, I can bring you some value going forward. 🙂

[@AndreiBrindas]

Welcome back John! Missed you a lot. Good to have you back

[@john.morris]

Thanks Andrei! Appreciate you sticking around!

[@Hsa008]

Happy to see you back.

[@john.morris]

Thanks Hamid!

[@antonijoseph]

Hey John, it's great to see you back! We've missed your content. Welcome back to the channel!"

[@john.morris]

Thanks Antoni! Appreciate you sticking around. Anything you're struggling with or would like to learn that I could do a video on?

[@antonijoseph]

@@john.morris I always have trouble keeping up with your speaking pace. Could you please try to slow down a bit?

[@john.morris]

Oh interesting. I usually get the opposite criticism (that I talk to slow). 🤣 I'll try to keep that in mind going forward. Thanks!

[@ProfAbike]

Hello Mr. Morris. Your videos have been really helpful to me in really understanding the Upwork process in recent times. You are a really great teacher. Thank you very much. How do I get to see the client's name and send them follow-up messages? I used to think these were hidden until the client messages me first.

[@john.morris]

Appreciate that. Glad the info has been helpful. As for the client's name, check the reviews other freelancers have left about them. They'll often include their first name.

[@ProfAbike]

@@john.morris Thank you very much. I'll do that.

[@I_Lemaire]

Hello John. Any thoughts on the future of web development after the effects of AI like ChatGPT?

[@john.morris]

Kinda crazy right? I do have some thoughts. Prob a bit long for here. That something you'd want a video on?

[@user-mg1utr1p]

@@john.morris What I want to ask you, is there some effect on the rate of successful proposals, if you write it with ChatGPT

[@user-mg1utr1p]

About web development with ChatGPT everything is clear, if you are not a developer, chatgpt wont help you to write any meaningful app

[@john.morris]

That's gonna be a bit hard to know since Upwork doesn't talk much about its algorithm and if they would detect for that. I think it'd be silly if they did but they've done sillier things. That said, from what I understand, most of the AI-detection tools analyze the perplexity and burstiness of the text to see if it's AI- generated. So, if you tell ChatGPT to keep the projector perplexity low and burstiness high, it will. The output not only can beat the AI detectors (for now) but it actually does sound more human.

[@sahidulislamjony5769]

Your are a great teacher

[@john.morris]

Appreciate that. Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@sahidulislamjony5769]

@@john.morris Is the skillshare course (Freelancing on Upwork) still valuable nowdays??

[@john.morris]

It is. It's on my Skillshare profile here: www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/johnmorris and Udemy here: myjohn.us/upwork. I want to put it up here on KZbin but Upwork is pretty militant about showing its interface on videos. I got several copyright strikes from them a few years back. So, I gotta figure that out and prob re-record and all that. Anyway, it's available in those places right now.

[@ZiroTheGameplayCoder]

You again!? Ha, kidding. Glad you're continuing making content! And I see your alter-ego has now "upgraded" from a shadow to grayscale. I dunno man. I think he's gaining on you. 👀 We gotta nail this guy before it's too late!

[@john.morris]

Funny you mention that. I do that cause I have such oily skin and color videos look like I'm sweating my ass off... And I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. 😀 So, f***it. Go black and white. 🤷🤣