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How to become a top rated upwork freelancer and generate your first 50K

I started 67 minutes later today (getting out of bed at 5.37am) so that accounts for the time now. Iu2019ll be going out tonight as well but as punishment, Iu2019m going to aim to get up no matter what happens.<br>

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How to become a top rated upwork freelancer and generate your first 50K

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  1. Morning guys, Day 20, a nice number to have kept consistent with for almost three weeks now. The time isssss:

  2. I started 67 minutes later today (getting out of bed at 5.37am) so that accounts for the time now. I’ll be going out tonight as well but as punishment, I’m going to aim to get up no matter what happens. If you’re joining this blog for the first time – I blog daily.. You can read day 1 here This morning I’ve actually discovered a quick cool hack. I go to the local Hotel Ibis and every morning at around 6-6.10am as people start coming down for their breakfast they turn the volume up on the television and it always disturbs me.

  3. They aren’t 100% bulletproof, however. By 6.30am it’d get too annoying for me, so I’d leave the hotel. But NOW I’ve also remembered this: White noise is king for focus – it blocks out all other noises and the consistency of the noise means it doesn’t disturb you:

  4. So now I’ve currently got this playing – any other noise is effectively gone woop woop. Minus that interlude, I now come to today’s work: How Upwork has changed my business (and continues to): I promised the guys I would write this content – so I’ll go through a couple of strategies that have worked very effectively for me (and briefly explain what Upwork is). Upwork is a freelancing/agency platform you can use to grow your business. I’ve used it to generate 50k on the platform as well as generate 100k off the platform and I’ll walk you through how.

  5. Let’s talk about my profile initially:

  6. I’ll run through some obvious things – I’m smiling, I have a title that demonstrates what I do and the result you will get. I then have long(ish) form a narrative that builds a personal dialogue with the reader. Furthermore, I use emojis to make the content stand out. As we continue I subtly include my expertise (7+ years), my education ($12,848 spent on SEO training). I’ve got a video there also so people can watch it:

  7. This is the popout – pretty powerful (and on-brand with Pearl Lemon again)

  8. Here’s me in the video with a professional background and introducing myself w/some light background music and the Upwork logo top right (I can’t remember if that’s something they put up or we do) Become a top rated upwork freelancer I think I did it actually as it’s on the Pearl Lemon channel – but it feels like an Upwork endorsed video. Furthermore, if you know me, you’ll know I work out of a café mostly or hotels, so I got myself into an office for this video.

  9. COPY AND PASTE IN PROPOSALS But before we get to that let me add some other elements: ● As an Indian SEO, you get negatively stereotyped because of the abundance of spammers As an Indian SEO, you get negatively stereotyped because people assume you can’t write English natively My actual SEO delivery team is in India, so I need to manage various objections; you charge too much, English will be poor, you’re outsourcing etc. ● ● So it’s important you –

  10. 1. 2. 3. Learn/know how to sell (take sales training?) Prepare for all objections Have good, legitimate responses (e.g my content team is in the US)

  11. If you have any questions please leave a comment below in the comments sections. If you’d like me to put together an Upwork specific programme let me know as well. Upwork has definitely been a ‘go-to’ ‘fall-back’ for me at different times of my business growth. I’m using it now less than I’ve ever used it because I have 4-people in my sales team aiming to bring in sales. I guess I’d like to offer some final thoughts on Upwork and generating business overall:

  12. My Upwork profile does appear for branded search:

  13. But I also DO have a good brand overall online – I took a real effort to ‘practice what I preach’ and build out the ‘Deepak Shukla’ and ‘Pearl Lemon’ brand online – I knew that as an Indian SEO I’d get discriminated somewhat trying to sell in Europe, the UK and North America by some people. So I made sure to make my brand SO MUCH obviously better.

  14. So with this in mind – here are my final thoughts: ● ● ● Be SO MUCH obviously better than your competition Anticipate objections – practice answers to them Take sales training – it’s made a 6-figure difference in my business Finally, comment below – I’d LOVE to hear your thoughts ? Thank you!

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