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Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 5:30am On Dec 14, 2018 |
I have made a lot of money so far on upwork and I want to help you do so too even if you've never used the platform. The plan is to get you from zero to making $5k per month on upwork in 2019. Listen, you might not make $5k per month. I can't guarantee that. But I use that as a round, simple and very achievable goal if you put in the hustle. I deleted my account that I have had since since 2015 so I could start from scratch and show this is possible. I was routinely making far more than that a month and have made more than $5k on some single project alone. I will get the account back to making over $5k per month, and document the whole thing. Pretty ambitious goal. I might fail. But I have done it before and I'm sort of confident I can do it again. But this isn't about me. It's about you. I'm doing this to: - Show people it's possible and have a step-by-step guide. Follow along in real time and copy my methods that have used successfully before - Cut through all the bullshit within the upwork guru space. A lot of bullshit and nonsensical advice floats too much here. So, I want to change that. I'm not selling anything here. I'm putting my skin in the game. I have my reputation to lose if I fail. I'm not hiding anything and will show you everything in real time step by step. Just follow along. I will share with you as much as possible client details, projects, successes and failures etc. So here we go. If you want to make $5k per month in 2019 on upwork, then follow this thread and be ready to work. There's no shortcut here. It's simple but not easy so I'm just putting that out there so you don't think this is some magic pill. If you are ready to apply yourself, ready to hustle and learn then it doesn't matter if you are a newbie. I deleted my past account so I could be on a level playing ground with a newbie on the platform and show this is replicable as a total beginner. Ready? 17 Likes |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 5:40am On Dec 14, 2018 |
Entry 1: Getting Approved On Upwork In 5 minutes! As I was writing the intro to the challenge, I had another tab opened where I was creating my new upwork account. I got approved even before finishing the intro post. If you've been getting rejected, your rejection days are over. This is the first real value bomb I will be giving you. I see a lot of people complain and tear out their hair here about getting rejected. I know how it feels. But there's a very simple formula to getting approved instantly. So simple my mom went through my steps and got approved. She is a total noob at this. She doesn't even know how to open a tab on google chrome. Okay, that sentence up there isn't true. But you get the gist. Basically a very dumb monkey can do this. So you can do this! I will complete this entry later today. I've got to sleep now. Anyway, welcome to the upwork challenge. We are all going to have a great 2019. 12 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by henrykene(m): 6:07am On Dec 14, 2018 |
Nichesiteseo: OP: I have an issue here. I have an account already but it's blocked due to proposals that never got me any job since i opened it last year. I opened it when i don't even know what it's all about and even how they work. Now i know and i will be grateful if you can help me to reinstate my account back. |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 6:16am On Dec 14, 2018 |
henrykene: I'm going to write up a whole detailed post about how to get approved/how I got approved in less than 5. I don't know how upwork treats re submission of suspended accounts due to lack of jobs. My advice will be to stay up for my post and start all over from scratch. 3 Likes |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Meklex(m): 11:09am On Dec 14, 2018 |
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Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 11:15am On Dec 14, 2018 |
Entry 2: Getting Approved on Upwork in 5 minutes So this is how I got approved on Upwork this morning. Let’s start from the top and work down the profile creation. Sorry for lack of screenshots. You still get this done without them. Step-by-Step Guide On Getting Approved on Upwork in 5 minutes 1) Create an Account: Sign up and create an Account. Don’t feck around here. Put in Your real name and email address. Put in your real country. Don’t lie. Say you are Nigerian. It’s fine. Upwork will verify at some point. Next step, select that you want to work as a FREELANCER. Click the button that says you accept their terms. First part done. 2.) What are the main services you offer to client? You will be asked what services you offer to client on the next page. Let’s just go with an example here: Sales and Marketing. Now, here’s where you need to start listening carefully. The skill you pick doesn’t matter as long as you can prove your value with said skill throughout the rest of your profile. After you pick a general skill, you will be asked about the type of work you do within that skill. In this section you can choose up to 4 types of work. Please just choose one. So for Sales and Marketing we have the following types of work to choose from: - Display Advertising - Email and Marketing Automation - Lead Generation - Market & Customer research - Public Realtions - Search engine Marketing - Search Engine Optimization - Social Media Marketing - Telemarketing & Telesales You have to chose something related to the skill you have chosen. Im using Sales & Marketing as an example so a related work type is.... Social Media Marketing. This is important. You must pick a work type that has the service in the name. We picked Sales & Marketing and Social Media Marketing has Marketing in it. So main service: Sales & Marketing Work Type: Social Media Marketing Continuing down, you’ll choose your skill. You pick one skill. And make sure it relates to your main service and work type. See a pattern? Don’t blow this part or you’ll get rejected. Gara! Everything should be related. You should be backing up your main service with every entry. So a skill I might pick will with our example will be: Facebook Marketing. You see how it all ties together. Marketing is used in all piece of information I’m providing. This is the one thing you have to do to get approved. 3) Choose Experience Level Choose Intermediate. It’s what I chose and got accepted. 4) Tell Us more about you On the next page upload a photo. Use a real picture of you. A headshot. Take the picture preferably outside under sunlight. Remember to smile. A headshot, remember. Clear and not blurry. Clear. 5)Add a professional Title It should be obvious now. You pick something related to your service, work type and skill. A good title here will be: Facebook Marketing Expert. Here are some other things to keep in mind: - Keep your Title short. 3 words or less. - Make it something people will search for. Anything else and you’ll get rejected hard. Keep it simple, direct and tie it in to everything. 6) Your Bio - Describe your strength and skills. - Highlights projects, accomplishments and education. - Make sure it’s error free. Simple, right? But here’s where most people Eff it up. Here’s a sample of how you should go about this: Hi my name is Fred and I’m a professional Facebook Marketer with 4 years of Agency work. I have a bachelor’s degree in Marketing. Over the last 4 years, I have worked with large and small marketing agencies. During that time, I have honed my skills in managing profitable Facebook ad campaigns for clients. I’ve worked on projects that have generated over $100,000 in sales for my clients. Managing successful Facebook Ad Campaign is tricky and can be overwhelming. Most people don’t see a return on their ad spend. There’s a lot of moving parts and optimization parts that most people can’t keep up with. This is where I come in. I will help you manage and optimize your Facebook ad campaigns that will turn a profit for you and keep them that way. It doesn’t matter what niche you are in. I have a solid background in a vast array of niches like Webinars, ecommerce, info products, local services, agencies, Saas, digital products and many more. My problem solving abilities help me adapt and learn the fundamentals of your business and then I come up with unique angles and ad campaign strategies tailored uniquely to your business and customers. If any of that sounds good then you are in the right place. Please, contact me and let’s chat. Sincerely, Fred. 7) Education and Work History Below your Bio you will have the chance to add your education and work history. Fill this out. Don’t ever leave it blank. If you only have a high school, use it. If you took a Facebook course In Ikeja this one time, add it. Try and make your degree tie in with all your areas, skills, work types, service etc. ![]() Set your proficiency level as the ‘Native or Biliangual’ option. 9) Set your hourly rate Set your hourly rate at $40 dollars. This is a sweet spot I have seen gets you approved. Too low and you might get denied. Too high and you also might get denied. Just go with $40. 10) Add your availability and location Choose ‘More than 30hrs/week’. Doesn’t matter if you don’t have that much time. Upwork wants available Freelancers. 11) What type of projects are you interested in Choose ‘Both Longer and Short term projects’ Upwork wants flexible freelancers. Show them that’s you. Next put in a real address. Don’t game things here. Plus you can’t get paid without correct info. Then enter your phone number next. You will get sent a verification code. Whew. Made it to the end! All you gonna do now is click ‘submit application’ and see what happens. Good luck. 32 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 11:19am On Dec 14, 2018 |
Bump |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nobody: 1:33pm On Dec 14, 2018 |
Hmmm |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Feyi555: 2:44pm On Dec 14, 2018 |
Nichesiteseo: Thanks for this shot....Godwin is In bro |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 5:27pm On Dec 14, 2018 |
Bump! |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Ghanaian(m): 10:15pm On Dec 14, 2018 |
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Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by djbasket(m): 10:21pm On Dec 14, 2018 |
Bro, I'm following you bumper to fender, I've been eyeing this Freelancing since last year. Please don't go solo like you did on the other thread please 1 Like |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by henrykene(m): 10:36pm On Dec 14, 2018 |
Ghanaian: Oga expertise, are you the one going to approve the profile you created? Why are you lieing just to get people to pay you? 5 Likes |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Ghanaian(m): 9:54am On Dec 15, 2018 |
henrykene: Sorry sir, I only said what I can do. If you have any of those challenges get in touch with me through the number... Remember I said maximum time is 30mins... meanwhile I don't need your money before creating or approving the upwork account for you. Thank you 1 Like |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by henrykene(m): 11:50am On Dec 15, 2018 |
Ghanaian: Ok then, let's try with mine, so i will testify that your tricks works. I have registered an account but they said that my skills are not currently available there, so how do i fix it? |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Ghanaian(m): 4:54pm On Dec 15, 2018 |
henrykene: Whatsapp me your upwork details +234 807 123 1188 1 Like |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 7:19am On Dec 20, 2018 |
djbasket: Sorry about the last thread. I did say If there was no interest I wasn’t going to continue. I like putting out content people want. I can see this is already getting a lot of interest so strap in! |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 7:21am On Dec 20, 2018 |
henrykene: Have you tried the method I outlined above? It’s not foolproof but it greatly increases your odds of getting approved. Let me know how it goes. |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 7:31am On Dec 20, 2018 |
If you are having issues getting approved on Upwork it’s not the end of the world. Here are other top tier freelancing platform you can easily get approved on: Peopleperhour.com Freelancer.com Fiverr.com I have also heard good things about guru.com I will keep adding to this list as we move up the challenge. These platforms will also work for this challenge so don’t worry if you can’t get approved on Upwork. You should be approved very easily on these platforms. Make sure you still follow my guide I outlined in the first post. You can make money on these platforms too just as much as you can on Upwork. Though Upwork is the biggest freelance platform with the highest quality of clients but these platforms hold their own too. So let me know how you guys are getting on so we can move to the good part. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by henrykene(m): 10:04am On Dec 20, 2018 |
How do you get your first client on Peopleperhour to avoid getting blocked out, as due to the fact you need to confirm yourself as a trusted freelancer with initial first two jobs. Nichesiteseo: |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 12:36pm On Dec 20, 2018 |
henrykene: Hello Henry, Sorry, can you reword your question? Help me understand what you are asking? 4 Likes |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by henrykene(m): 12:50pm On Dec 20, 2018 |
What i mean is that, i have a peopleperhour account, but i need like two clients to prove that am a trusted freelancer. This is one of their criterias for keeping accounts active on upwork. So how do i get these two clients as fast as possible before the month runs out? If i dont do two jobs before the month runs out they will charge me. Nichesiteseo: |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 1:39pm On Dec 20, 2018 |
henrykene: I just joined peopleperhour myself. Freelancer.com has something similar. How much do they charge you? And how frequent? Is it a monthly charge if you fail to get two clients or it’s a one-off? The best way to quickly get two clients is to go for very low pound value work. Say 6-10 pounds job. Most of these jobs won’t require you to have a portfolio and don’t mind if you are new to freelancing or new on the platform. So max out your application on these type of jobs and see what happens. I have some upcoming posts on how to write client attracting bios/profile and also writing proposals that make you stand above the crowd and win you jobs. But this thing takes a bit of time and one month is honestly a tight deadline. So I will just say, take the charge (I’m sure it should be very affordable to take) and play out your odds. You will win back all those charges when you start banging in jobs with your killer proposals and client attracting bios. Hope this helps 5 Likes |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Dealsaround: 4:13am On Dec 21, 2018 |
henrykene: There's also Lexdot.com. I believe it's a new one for law related services 2 Likes |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by klexycole(m): 10:39pm On Dec 21, 2018 |
Ghanaian: Sir, why not create a separate thread for this in order not to divide this class into pieces? It's a request. Many thanks. ![]() 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by klexycole(m): 10:43pm On Dec 21, 2018 |
Following with keen interest. @OP, please kindly avoid any distraction and answer questions after the tutorials. Thank you. 1 Like |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Ghanaian(m): 9:40pm On Dec 22, 2018 |
Hi Friends, I'm here to help you on Approval of upwork Account Tips to setup upwork profile and get approved immediately Creating of upwork US, Uk and Canada account Maximum time 30mins. Let's talk on whatsapp +234 807 123 1188 Thanks. |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by djbasket(m): 10:17pm On Dec 22, 2018 |
Hello group |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 11:39am On Dec 23, 2018 |
Hello Guys, Please apply to those freelance platforms and let’s get that out of the way. I won’t be posting much during the festive period because I know a lot of you will be busy with your jollof rice and chicken. This night however, expect a post on mentality and how to craft a client magnet profile. You need a certain mentality to succeed in business and in freelancing. This is the very first bridge to cross. The mentality post is in my own opinion the most important I will be penning thus far. If you’ve been stuck and struggling with this make money online thing I’m ready to bet it’s your mentality holding you back. That’s the single biggest reason I see people struggle. So I want you all to have a mind set shift. Without that mind set shift you will struggle. On the surface it seems simple and easy but I have come to realize that many just don’t get it. Or should I say unwilling to change their mindset. It’s almost criminal. I just don’t get it sometimes. It’s very difficult for most people I have had this discussion with to have that change of mindset. Probably they think it can’t be that simple and want to complicate it. But you can’t complicate this. Have that mindset shift and make things easy or keep struggling. I also think it’s the society many of us have come to know that creates this dissonance. Nigeria is a country where people don’t really understand how value and transfer of money works. We have a lot of bad examples and misnomer that we see and we somehow think this is the way things work. We emulate this bad examples and of course don’t get the results we want. So I will be delving into the mindset stuff this night. Until then. 10 Likes |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 6:34pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
If you only care about yourself playing this game of freelance you won’t go very far! You must think about the problems you can solve for clients. Everything must be about what you can offer. Not what you want. Forget about yourself. Nobody cares about you. Nobody! I see terrible post like, ‘Hello Fred, is web design a profitable niche? Bla bla bla....’ Shut your mouth you selfish fecker. People are so stuck up their own bum holes it’s unbelievable. Look I know it’s tough out here on the streets. But you must understand that you have to treat people like a cat before they hand over you money. What? Cat? What does that have to do with anything? Have you owned a cat before? Those felines are absolute badassasses! They don’t give two hoots about you. If you try to chase them or want to cuddle up to them they run away from you. Needy hooman leave me alone. If you want a cat to lap up to you just take a bowl of milk and place it on your lap. They will run at you ASAP! That’s how you have to play this game. You must be relentlessly focused on providing value for people without needing anything in return. Hey but if I don’t need anything in return how do they pay me? I have got bills to pay man! I hit this cow on my way home in 2017 with my bashed up Camry and that’s what I have been eating all through 2018! The meat is almost running out fella! Now here’s the magic and the secret most big ballers don’t want you to know: Ready: Wait for it: It turns out that there’s this magic that happens when you just provide value to people 100% without an inkling of selfishness. They will throw cash at you! That’s it. It’s a law of nature or something. Look it up. You don’t believe me: I’m not one to screenshot emails I receive to show proof. I like respecting people’s privacy. Though one on one I have shown some of you here. So let me just say this whether you believe it or not, people throw cash at me everyday. Every godamn day. You won’t believe how much I reject every single day. I rejected a 300k job today. Like, the job will cost me just 2 hours but maaaaan I’m on vacation and tied up to my neck in work. So I was like nah brav. But I did give them a lot of freebies though (are you seeing a pattern) and guess what? They will be back. I know it. Guys, trust me this works. Just help people selflessly and solve problems. Like solve real problems. Let me give you more deets. I see people on here promotIng website services every single day. Promote promote promote. Look, I don’t like knocking people’s hustle but I think I need to grab people by the neck here so they can get the message. Remember, my last post when I said I have hammered this down over and over...and I don’t get why people don’t get this? Hey tongue twister right there. Say that fast thrice. A regular web design promotion on here goes: Hey guys it’s Sweet Chidi here...I design websites, awesome websites (meh - nobody cares). Contact me and let’s give your business that real shine (lmao). Real shine? Like, how do you feel when you read those promotions? Do you ever feel like contacting someone like that? Humans like to buy but nobody likes beeen sold to. Capish! Those Oshodi boys that will just be holding your hand upandan harassing you once you make the slightest of glance into their store. Do you like been manhandled by those guys? That’s what you do when you just care about yourself and it’s all about me me me me me me. People can smell neediness from a mile away. Ask babes. They get this. Now how do you follow the value first and only strategy: I will give you a rundown of how I handle my web design business. I will build a site for you. You don’t pay. Value first. I will spend days researching your market and craft copy that will jive with them for free. Value again. I will then host the site for you. Geez. Value value value. I will then build an AdWords campaign with my own money and start driving traffic to your site (sometimes I host the site on my own domain and have the contact form lead to my own end). Nothing from my clients. All for free. Now when I start getting leads and people filling out the contact form asking about the businesses service or product, I start sending them to the client to close. Or if it’s the client getting the leads on their own end I check up on them and ask how we are doing with leads. Once they start getting leads and turning them into sales I ask them to open their wallet and pay me. Now you see the difference. No one needs a freaking website. In fact I turn away more than 50% of the people that ask me to build them a site. Why?: Because I can’t help them. If I can’t help them why should I build them a site and charge them for no result. From the get go, I know a website isn’t what they need and a website won’t do much for them. It’s usually the guy that wakes up from a blissful dream one day and gets an inspiration to start selling perfumes all across Nigeria. No sales strategy in place. Logistics non existent. Never done business before. Perfumes are blehhhhh mehhhh. I just tell them, go sell to your friends and neighbors first. Come back two weeks from now and we would talk. They never come back. So back to my point: Nobody needs a website. They need sales. That’s what websites are for. To sell. A website is a digital salesman. That’s the problem business want solved when they come to you with a website. So the value first approach is to solve this for them. You are the designer. The expert. Your job is to educate them, help them make money. That’s what they need. But many people don’t see it this way. They see it as what’s my business. Let me just create the site and charge them. But guess what you haven’t solved any problem. People have started catching up and getting educated. Hey bro, your site did nada for me. The value first approach is doing things the hard way first so that thing can be easy later on. Solve a sales problem for a business and get them closIng a sale every month and watch how they will refer the bejesus out of you. They will tell their dog even. See, this guy built me this site and business has been crazy man. I just called him to shut down the site because I can’t handle it. What do you think her hairdresser she’s talkIng to will do? Abeg give me hin number, omalicha. My business have been slow. Let me know if it’s this village people or not. And then your phone is ringing relentlessly at 4 am. Omalicha gave me your number.... And then you are making moolah.... Same goes for freelancing. On this platform, the clients are even smarter. You must go in there with the mentality to solve their problem and provide immense value. ProvidIng value is hard. Very hard. So you will just outcompete everyone if you do it. Everybody else will be looking for a shortcut while you are providing money back guarantee...result based pricing...free delivery...sending a bottle of champagne after finishing a website...sending them leads...modifying a freelance work until the client is happy...delivering your work like yesterday etc. Value first. Value first. Value first. Forget about yourself. Yes, I know it’s hard. I know that cow meat it’s almost gone and your bashed on Camry makes people laugh at you. But trusts me, you will have the last laugh if you put others before you every single timmmmmme! Hmmm....this is the same message a certain Jesus Christ also preached. Merry Christmas to everyone. 35 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by djbasket(m): 6:48am On Dec 25, 2018 |
Merry Christmas to you boss, thanks for the update. |
Re: Make $5k Per Month In 2019 On Upwork From Scratch Challenge by Nichesiteseo(m): 7:46am On Dec 25, 2018 |
djbasket: You welcome DJ. Send my Christmas chicken o |
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