Hey, what's going on everyone Paul here with Profitable Freelancer and in this video, we are
going over a topic that a lot of new freelancers always start their journey with and that's how can
I land clients on Upwork? How can I get started without any freelance experience at all? and in
this video, I'm going to be getting exactly into multiple actionable steps you can take
to land your first client on Upwork so you can really start your freelancing career off on the
right foot. So let's get right into it so I have a little presentation put together for this because
I really felt that when you can visualize a couple of these key factors that will really help
you stand out from the competition. That's when you're really going to set yourself up for the
most success because you can think about this question as about you as about you don't have
any experience but what you're really asking is how can I get a job as a freelancer on Upwork
when there's all these other freelancers out there that already have jobs under their belt
they already have good reviews etc? and what we're going to get into is that everyone has
to start somewhere. Everyone literally needs to start with that first job with that first step
and that is what everything builds from. So when you get into thinking about what you want to do
on Upwork what kind of services you want to provide my suggestion is to
just do some market research and look at what are the in-demand skills right now. What is actually
being hired for on Upwork and once you start to understand what businesses are actually hiring
freelancers for it will really help you out. So if we jump over to Upwork right now
you can just go to their home page just go to Upwork.com and right on their home page,
you can see that they're going to give you a lot of different skills that you can research and this
is even without having an account yet. Anyone can just go to Upwork.com start to look at some
of the skills that are kind of on the rise right now will be on their homepage kind of a little bit
more up top but as you scroll down it's pretty cool because they have some of their top skills
listed right here. So as you can see some of them data entry specialists, video editors,
data analysts, Shopify developers, etc. So Upwork is telling you what skills to focus on and if you
click see more you can see a lot of skills that are just in demand the skills that are
on the rise right now. This is Upwork they have all of that data on the back end they know
what freelancers are making money, what businesses are hiring freelancers for.
So I really suggest you do some research before you even start to offer any services first you
want to really nail down what skill you want to provide and you can even click browse more.
You can see some of the trending skills here. You can see blockchain is trending,
videographers things like that as well as geographic performance such as the top skills
in the US and also the Project Catalog which we'll get into more but that is kind of more of
a Fiverr style format. Where it's a pre-defined package you sell that and there's less kind of
negotiation that goes on but what I'm saying is just start out by thinking about. What service
you can provide the marketplace that is in demand and Upwork is already telling you that. So that's
kind of the first step even before you're going to go out there and land a client it's to really just
start without building block of what skills are in demand, what are people actually going to pay for
and once you've done that your next step is to really start to think because you may not think
that you have enough experience at this point. Once you even find the skill that might be in
demand to really start earning money freelancing but the thing is and the beauty of freelancing
is that anyone can have success. Anyone can find something they are good at because that is really
what you are able to do when you have the freedom to choose what you want to do. So let's say you're
in a job and you're just doing something you don't like right now and you just kind of feel a little
bit pessimistic about the future. You don't like the job you don't know what you're going to do but
then you start thinking about freelancing but then that same kind of mentality is going to creep in
because you know the mind the brain is something that really is very repetitive. So it's going to
think about those same things and think that well how am I going to even get good at freelancing?
I don't know anything about it? but I really encourage you to break that chain of thought.
Really separate yourself from those dead-end jobs or from those jobs that kind of suck the
life out of you and start to really just be more optimistic about the fact that
you can find something you're good at and that is why freelancing is such a good choice for so many
people and once you started to do that once you went in you've picked the skill that is in demand
you've kind of decided that you're going to give this a shot you're not just going to give up
then I suggest you align yourself with a platform and as you can see right now I
have some on the screen right here but really what this does is it allows you to really just
build credibility and also for you to get more into a niche. So as you saw some of those skills
for example just video editing that's kind of that broad-level skill that's that top-level skill.
What you want to do is once you start to kind of find what you like the best what aligns with
your personality type the best right that's when you want to start to find a platform that aligns
with that and that is how you're going to get not only an in-demand skill to the marketplace
but you're going to be able to differentiate yourself as a specialist. Now so you're not just
a generalist now a video editor no you are a rock star youtube video editing master something like
that you want to get more specific because that's what clients are going on to Upwork and looking
for. They're not just looking for a very general job filled. Sometimes they are you know sometimes
there's bigger corporations looking to just fill like managerial roles things like that but for the
most part a lot of these profitable freelancer opportunities are in the form of specialist
roles looking for a youtube marketer. Looking for someone to develop a Shopify, a WordPress website,
etc. So when you align yourself with the platform that also gives you the ability to leverage all
their free resources all their free content all their free education resources so you can start
to absorb how to actually be the best at that platform. So go from just being a generalist
now to a specialist. in an in-demand sector. So as you can see none of this has anything
to do with any experience yet this is all about setting yourself up and then what you want to do
is you want to get certified and this might sound scary to some people or to other people
who like taking tests this might sound exciting to other people they might be like whoa how much
does that cost do I need to get a degree. I'm not saying go out to a four-year school for this. I'm
saying that pretty much any single skill right now online you can go. Whether it's to an online
course marketplace. Something that's affordable or even a lot of free resources like Google provides
a lot of free training resources. For example, I'm certified in Google Ads on a different
number of platforms as well as a Google Partner Agency. So you want to get certified and you want
to have some sort of credibility to your name because like we just went over in the
beginning this is for people who don't have any experience yet or who only have a little bit of
experience and are really kind of getting eaten up by people who already have a track record,
have some reviews on Upwork, have earnings because that's really who you're competing with right. So
as you start to develop and narrow down into your lane you really need to stay in your lane.
Choose the platform that makes the most sense for you. Know that you're not stuck to it right. You
can always change, you can always evolve but that will help you get certified. That will let you
start to really benefit from aligning yourself with the platform that's already established
right and this also once again helps you build that trust and that credibility with clients and
that's what's going to help you separate yourself from the competition. Especially when you're going
against other people who might not have that much experience a couple certifications can really
change the game and as we went over it's all about identifying first what freelance in-demand skill
aligns best with your personality type. Finding the platform to actually go out there and provide
services for and then taking action to start earning more money by providing them. So when
I started freelancing we'll jump over to my Upwork profile here. When I started freelancing on Upwork
as you can see some of my recent jobs. Now you know I'm getting paid a good amount of
money anywhere from $400 to multiple thousands of dollars to work with different clients and as you
can see I've worked a lot on just building an amazing portfolio with all these good reviews
but the longer we kind of scroll into my history what you'll eventually see is that there are some
smaller projects that I started with. So when you're starting out don't be scared to start
with some smaller projects. As you can see I started with two thirty-dollar projects right
and you look at where I'm at right now and I have multiple multi-thousand dollar contracts
going on with clients all from Upwork. So I'm just showing you this to show you what's
possible. A lot of times people kind of don't give this their fair shot they don't look at
kind of what is possible on this platform. When you do everything I'm telling you to do
when you're able to actually build yourself up to a point where you have experience now
you have a top-rated badge you're able to show that you have 100 job success and a full track
record but like I just showed you it doesn't start like that. So don't get discouraged actually
build your profile get those accreditations get those resources and case studies built based on
anything you can. Use third party data, build your portfolio and your profile up as much as you can
on the front end and then don't be scared to take a couple smaller projects to start to get
that experience to get yourself in the algorithm and just work your way up and the last thing I'll
say is I have another video. Check it out on how to make money from Upwork projects but a couple
of my recent clients actually came through from what's called the 'Project Feature.' So if you are
on your Upwork profile once you build it and you go to what's called 'My Project Dashboard' there
I have a video. Once like I just said going over how to build this from step by step but this has
actually helped me get new clients in the door. So even though they didn't come through and actually
purchase one of these packages they saw that I had a Google Ads audit and optimization job out there
and what they realized was okay I want to work with this person. It came up in search on Google
and now they reached out to me. So there's so much potential with this there's so much opportunity
to make money as a freelancer. Even when you don't have experience but like we said
it's all about actually taking action. So you need to do everything I just outlined. You need
to actually set yourself up for success by not just getting discouraged because you sent out
10 proposals and no one got back to you but doing everything I said getting certified right. Getting
all of that under your belt so you know that you're not just going to waste your time here.
You're actually building a business and if you want to learn more about this right if you want
to learn more about how to actually land clients on Upwork a full A to Z guide on how to make money
on Upwork and turn it into a business, I do have a course on Udemy and it's an extremely affordable
course. So if you're in the US you can get it for up to 90% off. It's over 10 hours of content
and as you can see here it'll show you everything from setting your profile up to have success,
how to pinpoint where the best clients are, how to find those high ticket clients and then how
to actually create those winning proposals. Which is what you send out to the client to
get noticed and to ultimately get hired because learning an in-demand skill getting certified in
certain things starting to get some experience that's just the first step but to really build
a business you need to have a system in place to continue to land clients and then eventually
land monthly recurring clients. So I'm gonna put that link in the description go ahead check that
out. You can get up to ninety percent off of that course if you're interested. If not just subscribe
because I have more free content just like this to come to help you become a more profitable
freelancer. Once again my name is Paul and until the next one, I look forward to your success.