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But I have observed some things in the blog which probably any Indian would. IIMB is the best institution in India. Its probably like how Harvard is to the Americans. Every Indian knows this. Now, considering that the clients were also from India, I am amazed that the lady with a degree from IIMB was not awarded the gig.

Great advice Bren, and it totally confirms my own experience. I was amazed at how quickly it can grow if you do it properly, now I can hardly keep up. Many freelancers decry too much competition. How can one get through this? Hey mate was very insightful to read your blog! Im in the process of elancing and bloggin in an attempt to leave my current job as well and your thoughts have been very inspirational!

No pain no gain right? I wish I had read your article when it first came out because it would have saved me a lot of time and made me a lot of money. My latest gig is writing 3 ghost stories. A nice change from the standard travel, food, real estate, fitness and health niches. Also thanks for the airline tips. We just nailed some super cheap tickets on JetStar through Kayak down to Christchurch. Plus a great deal on a Buzza and whoa, thank you NZD exchange rate!

Buy the points on sale from AA. For the purposes of this award Hawaii is considered part of North America! The best deal is to stretch it all the way to Greece.

We like to avoid British Airways because they add fees to your reward ticket. The rules change from time to time but as of our most recent trip using this trick 2 months ago you also get a free stop on your first North American stop on the return leg.

Hey Gary thanks for the informative comment. Sounds like a sweet find! Thank you so much for this advice. Hello, Bran. Great artical. I am a Chartered Accountant From Pakistan. As you discuss above that it is tough for non English Speaker to work as freelance writer.

I just want an advice from you that how can i utilize my Accounting skills to be Successful freelancer. Amazing advice Bren. As a blogger, I just happened to stumble upon freelancing opportunities that aligned well with my blogging experience.

I can relate to much of what you stated, especially not fully knowing what to do in the beginning as a freelance writer but always providing my best work. This is great advice that I will return to often. You are such an inspiration. Thanks for your post! Good article. So so hard to get that first job. This is an excellent article and so helpful. My brain was spinning round and round, trying to decide which site to sign up to, and how to get going, considering there are thousands of freelancers and thousands of jobs that pay a decent rate to a pittance.

Thanks very much. But, can not get any project till. Your proposal is good looking. Next time someone says that it is impossible to make money on Upwork, I will just send them the link to your article. I have started in a very similar way to you, by putting a lot of effort into my proposals, and currently I am winning about every fourth of my bids and getting very good feedback most of the time my rating is 4. It is strange but a lot of jobs will remain listed even after someone is hired on them.

Create a good search filter and bid on new jobs as quickly as possible but take your time on writing a good proposal. If the client is still online when you place your bid then you have a great chance to get a message right after bidding. A very practical and maybe boring question: How do you do your taxes from UpWork work?

You can claim expenses. Just came across your article today. It was truly informative and I did get plenty of tips.

I hope implementing them can overcome the prejudices of job posters. As an Indian writer, fluent in English, I find it frustrating to be filtered out only on the basis of my location.

In your experience do prospective clients look at skill tests on UpWork? I am looking at ways to overcome this issue. Hi Bren, Thank you so much for your article, I just bumped into it. Thank you. I saw somebody say you are advertising. BIG NO! This article gives only room for hard work.

I second you on the fact that some of us are good at jobs, others are yet to get there. Learning and improving on ones skills is very important. You say the truth and yet take no credit for it. Do you know someone would be selling your advise, yet you give it us for free, and I love i, we love it. The fact that you stress the need for effort and commitment is very encouraging to me.

Thanks a Lot Brendan,i was really disappointed from Upwork I did not get the single job from there i lost the my confidence but reading your article, i am so exited to apply the jobs with more efforts.

Hi Bren been wanting to sign up on upwork as a freelance writer,thing is reading your story has taken my ambition to do so overboard, thanks alot for the info. I have heard so many bad things about Upwork. I wonder if it has changed much, since Elance. I was also wondering, what are your thoughts on Danny Margulies course for Upwork? I am reading this nearly 3 years after you wrote it, but the ideas you present here still stand on their own. I guess I have been living under a rock as I am just now setting up an Upwork account now.

My plan is to jump in with both feet just like you did and go above-and-beyond to get those first few clients to take a chance on me. Thanks for all of the solid advice here. This article changed my perception, i read each advice again and again and started rolling, its been a good start, the thing i have trouble the most is having clients rating me badly.

Hey Bren! Loved this article. You share facts without trying to sell a dream. You stayed determined and motivated and this is what it is all about. I would like to keep in touch to share my experience! You sound awfully racist by assuming that people from India or the Philippines are not proficient in English. It might interest you to know that there have been many non-native speakers who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature while writing in English.

This is Awesomely good… I enjoyed and followed every bit of the words in the post… thanks for sharing this! In fact at one point, even I had tried my hand at freelance writing. To be honest, I loved your application of the age-old strategy of Skim Pricing penetrating the market by providing a premium product at a significantly higher price. I envy the fact that you applied one of the most trivial and usually by-hearted concepts of Business Studies, in such a beautiful manner, and actually made something out of it.

Congrats to you on that! Nevertheless, I enjoyed your writing style and the way you have expressed your experience and how you went about the career change from Grant Thornton to Freelance Writer. It was a truly enriching read and I was able to relate to you and your experience very much. That may be because of the fact that I am also a part-qualified accountant by profession. The fact that I work in the Indian counterpart of the firm where you worked, may also be a contributing factor.

It is a shame that I am reading this article nearly 4 years after you wrote it. Wish I had done so earlier. Though I am an Indian, the one language that comes to me naturally is English. What do you think? What would you suggest? I am told that I have an innate ability to write articles, but personally I prefer to write poetry. If you have, could you suggest something of the sort? Either way, thank you in advance, for the advice. Poetry, like most art forms, is particularly difficult to get paid to do.

Most people on Upwork will have no need to poetry. To monetise that sort of endeavour, you are best to start a blog of some sort, and see if it is appreciated. As for your nationality, honestly yes it will probably hinder you a bit, although if you write excellent proposals you will probably land some work. Have you read my article about building your own niche sites?

Good luck. Hi Bren, what an amazing article. Just today I had logged in to upwork and was trying to get a hang of it. How to proceed further! Thanks Rubina. You used to get a small amount of connects for free. It seems that you can also use building niche websites as a way to build your freelance portfolio. Both great articles BTW! Wooow my man u d best I wish I had come across this years back Am a bigginer at upworks A Nigerian freelancer But have not gotten any job yet My advert was for costumer service representative thanks.

Kudos Bren! Your article is a great guide and motivation for beginners in the world of online freelance. This was a great article and it has given me motivation!

Do you have a post or tips about building a top notch profile on Upwork? This may be ages ago, but i still find it helpful now as i start freelancing thru upwork. Your are truly a jem.. You are amazingly talented in writing.. I couldn't stop reading until I got to the end of script.. Thumps up. Very informative and and encouraging..

Feeling like am a half way to great earning and great days ahead. Share Tweet Pin 6K. Loved this? Spread the word. Share 0. Tweet 0. Pin 0. You might also like:. Redesigning Bren On The Road a rebuild from scratch. Laps and Miles in Chiang Mai. Love Cape Town. Share your thoughts! Cancel reply. Post Comment.

You rock Chad from the Philippines. Thanks Brendan, Ieasha. Hi Ieasha, That first one is always the hardest. Hi Angela, Great! I just read your article, did exactly what you said, and got my first job.

Thanks Bren! Hi Bren, It is the most helpful article I have ever read. Hey there, It was based on this article alone that I jumped on to Elance three weeks back, so kudos to you for compelling writing.

Hopefully once I build additional profile I can start getting more of those invites. Wow bro, this is another great post about your freelancing experience! Thanks heaps for the tips! Any suggestion? Good post. Best, Sam. Hi Bren, Good to see that you take a such a good start. Please guide me: Recently, my company which is located in India made an account in elance and looking to explore this platform so request to you please share your thoughts about what steps needs to be take care to break the zero.

Did you read the article? It is basically one very long, detailed answer to your question. Could you please check out my link and give me some feedback on what I might be doing wrong? Thanks Tamara. Hi Tamara, Elance only earns a fee off the the person who actually wins the job. Please provide me full detail as i am beginner and really want to do work on elance. Thank you sir. Hi Bren I love your article. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Hi Shaun, Writing is just a practice and usage skill so to improve I would just recommend writing as much as possible.

Thanks man. Offer to do one or two hours for free as a trial. Then do a really, really good job. Hey Bren I am Kulojeet from Bangladesh. What a great post,thanks for writing it. Great article, thanks for sharing! Hi Bren, I saw your article and became inspired.

Someone gimme money! I want a Booker! Hi Bren, Excellent article, as noted by all of the previous commentators. Many thanks! No not particularly although I did enjoy writing at school. Hi Bren, Would you recommend using a logo as a profile picture or would you use a picture that is similar to yours that you have in your blog?

Nice job. Most people give up before placing 50 bids. Anyway, Thank you Bren. Hi Bren, Just came across your article today. High Bren, I saw somebody say you are advertising. My fellow upworkers, hard work pays. Kind regards, Bren. Thank you sooooooo Much. Bren, I am reading this nearly 3 years after you wrote it, but the ideas you present here still stand on their own.

Hello Bren, This article changed my perception, i read each advice again and again and started rolling, its been a good start, the thing i have trouble the most is having clients rating me badly. The hope is to get Elance. As a freelancer, it is not that good to know that a website will only last a couple of years. That means that it is not worth investing my time in it. Has anyone else noticed this, that people are getting more work on Elance than Upwork?

This whole thing reeks, honestly. The people who missed the boat on Elance and got forced to go to Upwork, when clients are sticking with Elance, are really getting the shaft.

Very interesting. It will be interesting to see how Upwork will continue to differentiate itself from what it used to be. These new changes seem promising. They seem abysmal. As an active worker on Elance I see no benefits at all in moving to Upwork.

You know, the cheapskate clients I moved to Elance to get away from. I have to agree with you. With a few exceptions, the clients on oDesk do seem to want to get something for nothing, and unfortunately they get away with it due to the Freelancers in the East. But you deal with the limitations, because the alternatives trying to recruit people onesy-twosy on your own are far far more challenging than any quirks of either platform. I am not a cheapskate client, but I expect quality.

Example: I am hiring for writers, and people submit a sample article with 10 or 12 typos in a word article — most of which could have been caught simply by using a spellchecker. My point is this. No tool is perfect, but the platforms make a challenging task much much easier for both clients and freelancer workers to find each other.

I hate the fact that it takes 6 days for Upwork to release funds compared to Elance. While it is true that there are US clients at Upwork, some of those are really Indians who are pretending to be from the US. I totally agree. I write business plans. All I see are: 1 Low ball prices; 2 Lookie Lous. Just like you I moved to Elance to get away from that. I wonder if the corporate strategy is to have us Elancers do the heavy lifting to upgrade the level of services and pricing for them that UpWork inherited from Odesk.

Seems that way to me. And most of us are already looking for exits and alternatives. Odesk is replaced with upwork but the job success ratting error of odesk is still not fixed.

This merge has already been abysmal. I used to work on both platforms and since the merge, the new features have created a headache for me and when I contact customer service, I get a cookie cutter reply for a completely unrelated problem. My main issue is the job success rating error. I agree. I have complained about the job rating system — you just need to look at your stats and compare them to your success rating to see that there is something terribly wrong in the code!

Elance was full of fake jobs and cons. Odesk at least worked. Now I see odesk full of fake jobs and cons. The Aussy criminals running Elance belong in jail. Now odesk is dead and a joke too. When it became Uptime suddenly there were a lot of real good looking jobs…all fake…just like Escam. Vworker was great until odesk killed it. Elance has always been a huge scam. It is a scam and a ripoff! I also have used both and never had a single problem on Elance. On oDesk someone has attempted to hack my account twice.

Since changing from oDesk to UpWork I have noted a decline in the quality of jobs on offer. In fact I would go as far as saying I am considering only looking for future work on Elance because of this apparent decline. When using the Internet and social media platforms, it pays to do some research before jumping in the deep end. Also you will find many clients who have posted jobs frequently, and interviewed stacks of Freelancers but have never hired any. These are the clients who just use the platform to recruit staff and employ outside of the platform.

This is often at a lower rate, and you leave yourself open to not being paid if you agree to work outside of the platform. They are the worst I have ever dealt with. Do yourself a favor, Odesk, fire ALL of them. I find elance way better than odesk ever was. I guess it all depends on your experience. They are about to stop accepting jobs postings from buyers, etc. Anyone that thinks ODesk is better than Elance in any way is either not used to better paying job or is looking for cheap labor.

I get that there are fundamentally different things the two sides want; freelancers need to eat and business owners want to save money, but I do not believe this is the way to go for the future.

I hate that Elance is closing out! Upwork is not laid out anywhere as nice. Really a shame. How can some decide to close a platform like Elance? Why not let them run without pampering? Why it needs to kill Elance to make Upwork rechristening of oDesk grow?

Will it ever grow after the blunder? Is it only to show that the top management of the merged company is working? It do not make much difference to new freelancers, but what about the established providers who had put in their hard work for years to build their reputation, portfolio, milestones, client relationship. Can Upwork acknowledge them and migrate those invaluable of providers?

Will clients feel same familiarity in Upwork like Elance, no way. Upwork is more oDesk and way different from Elance. This is the biggest blunder in happening, if they are closing out Elance. There is no brain behind this thought. Somehow, these morons are working full-time to kill Elance and also unconsciously nailing their own coffin.

I feel the merger of oDesk and Elance should never had happened. So there you go. Kiss Elance bye-bye. Elance is much more better that upwork. I have been a modestly successful elance provider for several years. I find the closing of elance fairly inexplicable. From a provider point of few, I found it to be the best freelance site available by a good margin. I investigated odesk and never got any jobs there and their platform was inferior to elance in any way that mattered to me.

Upwork is really just a renaming, and it will never get my business. A big void will open up once elance closes, the better clients and the better providers will be in search of one another, but not on upwork. So sometime soon be on the lookout for the successor platform, hopefully it will incorporate many of the ideas that made elance work, particularly simplicity, while leaving out all the poor decision making seen over the last few years.

IMHO, elance used to be better than it is now. I am also against merging. They are online marketplaces that provide cost-effective ways of hiring capable freelancers or contractors locally or globally for a range of different duties. Elance is one of them and presents a very effective social media tool for business. Elance is a freelance site that is based in California and that has existed since It allows outsourcing companies and a talent pool of more than , freelancers to come together.

Clients or potential employers are allowed to post projects or job openings, invite freelancers to make a bid, and select the freelancer with the best expertise and proposal. Elance provides a workroom for each project to facilitate collaboration and enable effective communication between employer and freelancer. The client only pays for the work that the contractor performs; at a rate that is agreed upon before work begins.



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