How I made $100K as a Freelancer on Upwork |10 easy steps

for those of you that are new to upw

work it's essentially a marketplace

where businesses and individuals can

find and hire Freelancers for a wide

range of projects I have officially made

$100,000 on upw work as a social media

marketer I'm also a toprated Plus

freelancer on the platform with a 100%

job success score and today I'm going to

share with you my top 10 crucial tips

that have led me this far from writing

your portfolio applying to jobs and

crafting killer cover letters I'll also

be sharing some hacks that I've learned

along the way that will have a huge

impact on your result and right at the

end of this video I'm going to actually

reveal my first cover letter that I sent

on upwork that secured me my first job

and how much that first job made me I

opened my upwork account in September of

2021 I have just gotten married and

moved to Jordan to be with my husband

before that my only experience as a

social media marketer was working with

about three very small and local

businesses in my area I was still just

getting my feet wear in the world of

social media and had very little

experience now being in Jordan I had to

think of new ways to get clients I

needed a process that would allow me to

do everything online because beforehand

I would obviously go in store and meet

these brands in person which of course

for me was no longer possible one of the

benefits of covid if you could even call

it a benefit was that working online and

meeting people through zoom and Google

meets had become more socially

acceptable after some YouTube videos and

Google searches I discovered upw work it

was truly a platform I didn't expect to

have much success on because of all the

contradictory reviews that I found on

some people were saying it's a great

platform to work on and then there were

others that were saying it's so

difficult to get clients on upw work and

was a complete waste of time but being

newly married unemployed and without

client I didn't really have a choice

that was my superpower I guess I was

desperate I created an account and got

to applying for jobs straight away my

first tip that I would give you if

you're beginning your journey on upw

work I would highly recommend you take a

look at other successful Freelancers in

your Niche on the platform and take some

inspiration from their account what kind

of things are they seeing and how are

they presenting themselves and their

work on the platform of course it's

important that you're not copying them

but take note of their layout and their

tone this really helped me at the start

because upwork was a platform I was

completely new to and had no idea how to

use I was able to balance off the

success of other Freelancers and have a

more informed strategy when creating an

attractive and interesting profile tip

number two an approach I took early on

as well was to be more friendly and

chill rather than formal and

professional it's always been my motto

if you could call it that that

friendliness and being approachable is

10 times more effective than trying to

come across as professional at the end

of the day they are just normal people

on the other side of that screen no

matter how well established and esteemed

their business is they're still just

another person that you're connecting to

coming across as more friendly could

mean using emojis in your cover letters

or even your profile adding light jokes

or being super positive and encouraging

or talking with more passion saying hey

instead of of hello those are just some

examples the next few tips were what

really generated a lot of success for me

personally in my beginning stages on the

platform the first being I offered a

much wider range of services within my

profession of course so as a social

media marketer we offered copywriting

video editing graphic design social

media strategy plans hashtag research

and a few others looking for me my

husband and I both worked on the

platform together from the same account

so we had a wider range of skills

between us the way I thought about it

was the more things I could offer at

that stage meant the more jobs I could

apply for so if you're a copywriter for

example try to be more Broad in your

services you can offer copy for blog

writing a copy for websites copy for

social media content and so on tip

number four which is another thing that

I did which was apply for a ton of jobs

in the beginning I bought a bunch of

connects for around £50 connects are

basically like points you need to apply

for jobs and then I applied for loads

and loads of jobs I'm talking about

hours and hours applying for different

roles you really have to grind in those

beginning stages to get noticed on upw

workk you need to put yourself in front

of more people's eyes I think in my

first week alone I applied for like 50

different jobs another really important

tip for you for when you're applying to

these jobs is if you're a beginner in

your profession please only apply for

jobs that are for beginners if you're a

beginner copyrighter and you're applying

for copyrighting jobs that are for

experts you are going to be no match for

the competition and more than likely

your proposal is not even going to be

considered as the experts that are also

applying for those jobs are going to

outdo You by far so please don't waste

your connects on jobs that are way out

of your leak tip number six and probably

one of the most important ones that

you're not going to want to hear but you

need to is to grow on the platform

pretty fast in those beginning stages

you need to be cheap not too cheap but

cheap enough most of the time when

businesses are looking for Freelancers

they're looking for Freelancers with

experience they're looking at your

reviews your success score and your

credibility because a lot of the time

it's pretty easy to get scammed on upw

work so businesses are quite wary when

looking for these types of Freelancers

and obviously when you're starting out

you're not going to have that so if you

do want a chance to win over these

clients you have to offer affordability

instead because there are businesses out

there willing to risk a lack of all the

other things for an affordable service

it may not feel nice in the beginning it

didn't for me but it's worth it in the

long run I started out by charging

around $15 an hour for the first couple

of months and now I'm charging $40 per

hour which is probably due for an

increase if I'm being completely honest

and now I'm going to share my top tips

for when you're actually applying to

these jobs and writing your cover

letters one thing that I found really

affable and is a little bit of a secret

but I'm going to tell you anyway is that

I would start off all of my cover

letters with the client's name when

applying for a job you're often going to

be able to to see reviews given by other

Freelancers that have worked with this

client and a lot of the time these

Freelancers will mention their client's

name in the review for example a

freelancer might say John was a great

client to work with he was super

straightforward easy and fair if you see

that same name pop up in a few of the

reviews it's a pretty solid sign that

that account owner's name is John so

what I would do to start off my cover

letter would be something like a hey

John using someone's name adds a

personal touch to your communication it

shows that you've taken the time to

address them specifically rather than

just using a generic approach which a

lot of people on op work do they just

copy and paste cover letters onto

different jobs for my next tip it should

be pretty obvious but I've seen this