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Oh dear...
I myself have a freelancer account on freelance.com, and its a whacko place.
After I first set up my account, I took a cursory look at the competition of content writers and copywriters.
One copywriter's profile read like this:
'I have X degree and I love X hobby. I would love to work with you.'
Anyone who know Sales 101 knows that no client in his right mind would care about the 'I' and 'Me'!
Yet somehow the profile is 5 stars, and the guy even has a few jobs up his sleeve. I'm wondering if that freelancer took some gullible clients prisoner, instead of the other way round...
This would be another reason why I am spending way lots of time doing video recordings of myself talking about my portfolio, and even process breakdowns of my projects (e.g. research methods that I use for writings, basic conflicts solving). I could do some of them in the interviews themselves, but for some clients, they might want a lot more upfront validation.
Somehow though, I haven't heard of these kinds of issues from Upwork, even when they have gone public.
I myself have a freelancer account on freelance.com, and its a whacko place.
After I first set up my account, I took a cursory look at the competition of content writers and copywriters.
One copywriter's profile read like this:
'I have X degree and I love X hobby. I would love to work with you.'
Anyone who know Sales 101 knows that no client in his right mind would care about the 'I' and 'Me'!
Yet somehow the profile is 5 stars, and the guy even has a few jobs up his sleeve. I'm wondering if that freelancer took some gullible clients prisoner, instead of the other way round...
This would be another reason why I am spending way lots of time doing video recordings of myself talking about my portfolio, and even process breakdowns of my projects (e.g. research methods that I use for writings, basic conflicts solving). I could do some of them in the interviews themselves, but for some clients, they might want a lot more upfront validation.
Somehow though, I haven't heard of these kinds of issues from Upwork, even when they have gone public.