Lex DeVille
Sweeping Shadows From Dreams
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But you are the one who is recommending Upwork for ages.
I recommend entrepreneurs find ways to help people and get started fast. Upwork is good for getting your feet wet with business. There's already a pool of clients ready to buy and you don't need a degree or experience to earn your first employer-free dollar.
It becomes a problem when entrepreneurs use Upwork as their sole source of leads and income. You might make $10k one month and feel good about your biz. Then you get suspended. Upwork holds your money. Your source of leads disappears and you don't know how to get clients anywhere else.
So you scramble to new platforms because that's all you know. But other platforms don't have as much money flowing through them. It's harder to get work. You pick up some clients, but it's less consistent, and that starts to be a serious issue when you've got bills to pay.
When that doesn't work you turn to other options. More platforms. Cold emailing. Facebook. Fiverr...whatever. You jump from one to the next hoping for cash, but you don't know which ones work and even if you did, you don't know how to make them work for you because you've never used them.
Ultimately you grow short on time and short on cash and you have to turn back to a 9-5 to make ends meet. Next you'll say "freelancing is a waste of time" and "Upwork sucks" and other common phrases people say when they fail.
In reality it was you who failed to take a smart approach to business. You never learned methods of lead generation which you would control because that seemed scary and uncomfortable and Upwork was easy breezy.
Upwork is a great source of clients. You can make a lot of money there. But if that's your only business, you're not in business at all.
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