Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie, where I teach you different
ways that you can make money online working from home. If you are one of my subscribers,
you know that I do freelance jobs on Upwork, and I'm currently top rated on the Upwork platform.
So within the last year Upwork introduced something called a project catalog. In the past,
you could only use Upwork to search and apply for jobs manually. However, now you can publish
your own projects that clients can then find and purchase from you. It's similar in a way to how
Fiverr has gigs that people can find and buy. So in today's video, I'm going to teach you step by
step how to research other projects in your niche, so you can get an idea of how to create your own
project, then I'll teach you how to build your own project and publish it. So before we get started,
make sure to subscribe to my channel, Jennifer Marie for more videos on how to make money online
as a work from home freelancer. Okay, so here we are on Upwork. And this is my Upwork profile.
And if I scroll down, you can see there is my portfolio. And under skills, it says your project
catalog projects are a new way to earn on Upwork that helps you do more of the work you love to do.
Create Project offerings that highlight your strengths and attract more clients. So let's
click on manage projects. And here you can learn a little bit more about projects.
We scroll down it shows us the three steps. Number one, we create a unique project that
showcases your expertise to up work will review our project. And let us know if we need to make
any changes before it's visible to clients. And three sell people can search for your project,
and you can share it with your social network. So before we click Create a project, what we
can do is do a bit of research. So you can go to upwork.com/services. And here we have the project
catalog. So think of something you would like to sell on Upwork. Or if you are already using Upwork
type in the service that you sell. So for example, I do voiceovers on Upwork and video
editing. So I'm going to type in voiceover and then click the search icon. And here you can see
all the different projects that are available. You can see here that they have a nice little image,
you can see the price. You can even narrow this down a little bit if you want. So let's say I
want to look at females apply. So essentially, these would be people I would be competing with.
So let's click on this one. For example. She has a nice image of herself American Female voiceover
let's click on that. So here you can get an idea of a title for your project, you can get an idea
of what sorts of project details that you would like to include in your project, and also an idea
for prices as well. So I recommend you do a bit of research in your niche on the type of project that
you want to do before you create your own project. So let's go back to our project catalog. And let's
click Create a project. So here we have six different steps. The first one is the overview,
we have to give a title tell the client what you will deliver and how it benefits them. They have
some good example titles, you will get an amazing logo design for your business, you will get three
hours of social media marketing consultation. So let's put you will get an up beat. Engaging
American female voice over. You can see you have 75 characters as your maximum. Okay,
then we have category so select a category so it's easy for your clients to find your project.
They have suggested some based on our project title. So mine would be video and audio voiceover
you can change this category or if you don't like one of the ones they suggested,
you can click on browse all categories. Now we have project attributes. I'm female,
so I will click that is the type of voiceover I am doing. purpose you can choose up to three.
So for this particular project, I will put eLearning video narration and TV language,
English accent you can choose up to one American English accent and tone you can choose up to five
and then you can also put in search tags which will help clients to find your project so
I'll put in okay and when you are finished all of that we can click Save and Continue.
This will get us to our pricing. So we can go back to our example. We scroll down we can see
she has started Standard and advanced, which are the titles that we have. If you don't want to have
three tiers, you could just check that off and just have one. Or you can fill in three tiers,
you can put in a custom title, or just leave it as starter standard and advanced.
You can also put in a custom description or you can just remove this.
So here you can put in your delivery days. So you can set the amount of days it will take you to
deliver the work, you can put in the number of revisions that are included. So here we have
different add ons, which are optional, so you can give an extra price for fast delivery. And you can
individually choose the price for your starter standard and advanced package. You can also
click Create custom add on if there's something else that you will do for an additional fee.
And then you can put in how many days it will take you to do that. So let's click save and
continue. Okay, so now it's time to create your project gallery. So you can include project images
up to 20 images. And you can also include a project, video, and any sample documents that you
need. So if you are offering a gig as a YouTube thumbnail designer, you would include images of
your portfolio, if you don't have any images, or your service doesn't exactly have images
or video, you can go to a website like Unsplash or Pixabay and find an image to use. So for example,
I'm going to type in microphone, and I could choose an image like this and download it for
free. And you can even put here your name, you know Jennifer Marie, and I will show you in one
of my next tutorials how to do that on Canva. So we'll click Browse, we'll locate our image.
And then here you can adjust it and then upload, you can add up to 20 images. And then you can
click Set as Project cover for whichever image you want to use as your project cover.
Okay, so you can see that here I decided to create my own custom image. I just think this
stands out more and looks more professional. If you want to know the dimensions to work with, you
can use images with a four to three aspect ratio, or 1000 by 750 pixels. Okay, so I decided to set
this as my project cover, I'm going to go ahead and delete this image here and click Remove it.
And I also have an opportunity to upload a video. Now in my case, because I am
demonstrating my voice I want to give a sample of my voice. So I prepared a video and I'm going to
drag the video here or click Browse to upload it. So the video has to be mp4 format and less
than 90 seconds, although they recommend a video of less than 60 seconds. If you look
at the site here they have gallery guidelines. So it says avoid any blurry or distorted work.
Avoid any poorly cropped images and images with too much text. Do not use the Upwork logo or badge
or your project will not get approved. And don't include any work that is not related
to this project. You can also set the video as your project cover as well if you prefer. So here
you can upload any sample documents. Let's say you're doing some translation jobs or something
like that, and you want to give a sample. And then when you're ready, you can click continue.
So now we're on to requirements, you have to define what you need from your client upfront.
So after a client purchases your project, they will be required to answer questions
you define before the contract officially starts. So let's click Add a requirement. So for example,
do you prefer mp3 or WAV format? And then you can provide the answer. So the answer can be
either free text, which allows them to type what they want, or multiple choice can also
make this mandatory for them to fill out. So I'm going to put mp3 and then add another choice,
WAV and then add to add the question so we can add another requirement. And if you want to do some
research on the requirements for other projects, just go to another project. And then at the bottom
where it says steps for completing projects, you can click View requirements. And this will give
you an idea of requirements that other people have requested for the same project as yours.
Okay, and when you're ready, click Save and Continue. So now we're on project description.
So briefly explain what sets you and your project apart from the others. So they have an example of
your project summary. I have already prepared my project summary so I'm just going to paste
it here. Okay, so now we have project steps. You have to list the steps involved in delivering your
project. So we have step one, which is client purchase. Is the project and says requirements.
Now we have to submit step two. So add in a step. So step one and
you can also add in a second step. And step ones and two are automatically filled in
for you. So you just have to fill in any other steps you have for the second part.
Okay, and when you're ready, you can click Save and Continue. So now we're on the last part,
which is reviewing our project, you can click Preview project first before we submit it.
So let's click Preview project. So it says this is how your project will look like for the client.
You can see I've got starter standard and advanced. They can also click Compare tiers.
We have our project details. Now make sure that you proofread this,
you can use something like Grammarly make sure there are no typos or spelling errors. And you
can click Edit Project if you want to make any edits to your projects before you publish it.
So I can go back here to pricing for example, and make any edits that I want. And here you
can put in how many projects you can handle at one time and still deliver great results.
We've got a copyright notice that you need to fill out and the privacy notice. And
here you can either save the project for later or click submit for review.
So here it says before you send your project for review. Please ensure your project doesn't contain
any watermark images, personally identifiable information and your description or images
or references to projects on other websites or platforms. So I'm going to click Send to review.
Okay, and it says congrats you've successfully submitted your project will let you know when
your project has been approved. So right now under projects, this is under review,
and it is pending approval. If you want to make any edits, you can just click here and click
on Preview or edit or delete and you can create multiple projects to have in your project catalog.
So right now I'm going to have to wait for that to get approved. But once it is approved,
you can scroll down and here's an example of another freelancers profile. And they have their
project catalog and they have multiple different projects on the go that people can order.
So thank you guys for watching this video. I hope this helped you understand how the project catalog
works and I will be doing an update video to let you know in the near future how I have done with
the project catalog and I'll let you know if I have received more job offers as a result. So once
again, make sure to like this video. You can check out my list of other Upwork videos by clicking
in the description below. Thank you guys for watching and I will see you in my next tutorial.