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Get Approved on UpWork - Creating A Perfect Profile

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So this week your boy has started checking out a few UpWork community pages and I've noticed that a lot of people are struggling to get their profiles approved on the site. It's not as hard as you think to get approved on UpWork! One of the ways UpWork distinguishes itself from other freelancing sites like Freelancer and Fiverr  is by enforcing a relatively effective vetting process to stop the website being saturated with freelancers who offer the same skills. This basically means that if there are too many freelancers who offer the same skills as you already, it's unlikely that you'll be able to create an account. So how can you get around this? UpWork has a two stage process for assessing applications. The first stage is automatic, relying on algorithms which probe your application. The first loophole to jump through is your email address - you're less likely to get accepted with a generic gmail or outlook account than you are with a company one! Stag...
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Funding your Travels by Freelancing Abroad - My Experience

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There are loads of blogs out there about working as a freelancer whilst you travel the world, but I haven't seen one yet which goes too deeply into the actual logistics of it - how much you need to earn, how many hours you need to work, etc. So I'm writing my own! Whilst I know this blog is focused on UpWork, I still think this will be useful - and as basically all of my income at the moment is from UpWork hopefully it is still relevant as well! Freelancing is an up-and-down way to make money. Some weeks are more lucrative than others - at the moment my schedule is packed for the next week, but it'll fund my travels, probably for the next month or so. It's not all glamorous - I'll be eating cheaply and working a lot. I dipped into freelance for a while about a year before I set off, so I had a decent portfolio of blogs which I could use as an example of my writing style. I'd recommend that anyone who wants to freelance from abroad do the same. ...
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Landing Clients from Start to Finish - Part One

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Recently I've been scouring around for blogs and there are a whole load  out there about how to become successful on UpWork. A lot of them are properly inspirational and tell you all about how the author earns 40k a year freelancing now, yadda yadda yadda. As inspiring as those blogs are, I realised that they're kind of all tell and no show, right? So I thought it would be handy to write a real life example of the step-by-step process I've used to land a client. Hopefully showing you how I do it is a better idea than just preaching general rules. Honestly I'm a few Heineken's in so you'll have to decide for yourself. Let's analyse my application step-by-step: Part One - Applying for the Job So obviously the whole point of this post is showing how to land clients on UpWork. But I'm going to add a second half which will focus on interacting with clients and how I actually produce them copy as well. The Job Description I've included a sc...
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