how to write a high converting upward proposal that's what i want to show to you today
there are three elements writing a great proposal and if you don't write a good proposal on upwork
you might not have a chance of landing a job let me show you these elements number one is
brief introduction this is where you would have to introduce yourself to your potential clients
and number two is the most important one this is where you have to show to the clients that you are
most capable for this particular job that you are putting in for and then number three is your call
to action and i must say that this is what brings home the job and exactly what sets you apart i can
tell you that this is what closed the deal for you to even get interviewed in the first place now let
me show to you some important things before i go into full details about these three elements
and how you are going to make them and the samples i'm going to give to you everything is embedded in
this tutorial five things i want you to take note of these are important even when you have a good
proposal these are the things that you must look out for before you even start submitting choose
the job that match your interest a lot of people just want to do any job that is available on the
marketplace that is not how to get approvals to your proposals every time you want to submit
a proposal ensure this proposal matches your interest in person if an article writer ensure
that you do not submit for anything that is not in your own interest if you are used to writing
1 500 words don't because of money or availability choose a job that is saying right 5 000 words also
you need to choose jobs that are for your best interest it is really really important and how
does this work so let's go over to my system and let me show to you how you can determine these now
from upwork you can see i'm going to use travel itinerary short and catchy description this is
the one i just want to use for now the estimated budget here is 30 dollars it's posted one hour ago
but for you to determine if this is a good fit for you you need to know how many people are putting
their proposals you don't want to be number 20 on this proposal page so what do i do i click
on it first to start with to establish the fact that i'm actually going to submit my proposal for
this particular page so from here it's open you can open it on a new window if you want that but
then you have to scroll down to here look at this the activity on the job you can see the number of
proposals that has been written this is 10 to 15 so you already know in the past one hour there
are 15 people who are submitted on these and then the last viewed by these clients 20 minutes ago
he viewed something that's an indication that he keeps viewing maybe if another people come saying
i'm going to submit for this proposal he has interviewed two people you know if you submit your
proposal if it's good you're gonna be interviewed before you get the job but then there is no
invite sent to anyone there are no unanswered invites this is good you can also check out which
is very important by the way i will leave that in the link in the description below how to find
these type of jobs there are some metrics you have to put in play on homework to make you see these
new people who are really good and one of it is look at this i already know his name
simeon was a very straightforward client and made the tax very easy this person mentioned
his name so now when i'm writing my proposal i'm going to go personal by indicating this name this
is how you check through to see all of these i've tweeted out to get these jobs in another career
like i said i'll leave it in the description below and now when you know that the cost is clear you
can still submit your own proposal that's when you submit the proposal now that's not all you also do
not have to send formal most people are going to take this as if it's going to be a regular
job but no it's not you need to sound calm you need to sound interesting you need to sound
energetic and enthusiastic you need to be unique you don't have to stand from a hey mr something
no you need to throw in a bit of calmness so that you will be interesting to deal with
don't worry i'm telling you this it's on but most of these i'm going to show to you and now to the
nitty-gritty you don't have to write in lengthy proposals i've seen people give samples of their
proposals and it's like a page people are looking for a job unless you can see you have 15-20 people
trying to submit a proposal i can't read through three pages or two pages of anything a lot of
people just throw in an already automated proposal for everyone that's not what you can do you need
to tell each of your proposals individually to a particular person how you do this i'm going to
show to you now i can tell you the most important tip i can give to you right now is that you should
not make your proposal about you most people say i can do this i'm data and this the client has no
interest in what you can do the only thing is how you can translate what you can do to help them so
in your proposals you don't speak about what you can do you only speak about what you can do in
terms of helping them and giving them exactly what they need i hope this is clear okay now listen i
want to tell you a secret before we go on i have my secret of getting high conversions on my upward
proposals i'm going to tell it to you in this tutorial before we end this tutorial so stick
with me and watch this video so you will not miss these now number one is the brief introduction for
you to have a brief introduction three things are involved number one is when your proposal
pops up to an intended client you need to be able to grab the attention immediately as soon as it
appears how do you do this you can use compliments maybe you send their picture you find something
attractive about them put it softly it makes it informal right maybe you've seen something common
in what they have written as what they need you can throw that in immediately that's the catchy
thing remember when they have quoted something in the description if you can code that back to them
and say what you saw in that description they know you've read that description and that's
exactly what they would always love that will catch the attention now at the end of this
tutorial i'll leave my sample proposal so that you can use that to peruse what i'm teaching here the
whole essence is for you to build instantly a rapport with the person who is reading from you
just look at it from the perspective of you creating a conversation starter that's what
you're going to throw up to these clients and it will show that you actually read their job posting
number two important thing that has to appear in your proposal is the proof that you are capable
of doing this job now remember i told you it's not about you when you're writing a proposal
it's always about the client and what you can do to help the client but you have to softly show
to them what you can do and how do you do this you have to itemize your skill itemize the skill
but most importantly tell them how this skill can bring value to them let me give you an example if
i am going to go in as a social media manager then i'm going to tell my intended clients i have this
degree in these or i have this expertise in these which will in turn send to you 100 000 followers
at the end of two months you have to be specific even if you're not going to get the exact results
you need to be specific giving a figure throwing out a figure makes a lot of difference that means
you're responsible and you're also putting your own brand on the line so that's why i said if you
know that the job does not satisfy your interest don't bother to go for it but as soon as you know
you can deliver this job go for it and apply if you go to it and to drive this on bet you need
to identify what the biggest concern is in your industry for example maybe it's delivery on time
maybe it is ability to replicate maybe his ability to rank if you are a writer all of that you showed
to him i know you would state it there i know that most people that does the job do not know how to
rank but i do it very well using then you put in like two metrics because i have this skill then i
can apply these and this is how you're gonna run it will automatically set out the whole thing for
the client and it will be an easy peak for him or r to pick you also you don't only say it with your
words but you show it with the proof it's like a crystal ball show it up and they will follow
how do you show this up by giving samples as soon as you claim i'm going to deliver this for you in
two months i'm going to do these for you and this is the result you would get result oriented then
you said these are my samples of my customers or for my clients i've worked for this is there
before this is there after as soon as you do that you would get the job and now i can hear some of
us saying but i'm new i don't even have samples what do i show to them then you have to create the
samples most people say i've not worked for upwork before don't worry about that choose to work for
yourself just get something to write about if a writer if a graphic designer creates one graphics
or two or three just create something that you say you're going to offer create it for yourself
as your sample is better that way is actually even better than the one you deliver to clients because
that will show in truth if you are ready for the job or not most importantly you can cross-breed
if you go to fiverr for example and offer a good juicy job of life hundred dollars for ten dollars
you would get orders and then you can do that for them while getting ten dollars and then you use it
on your upwork as your sample i hope this is clear now i know most people are not writers who say but
what do i send as somebody let me tell you some of these things you can send your social media
handler you can send this screen proof screenshot proof of what you've done before and after if
you're a web designer you can actually send the website you have designed before the url to them
to see if you're a video editor all you have to do is upload these videos on the instagram page or
tick tock page and send them the links so that they can see that this is how your editing looks
like or you can also attach the video once and for all for them to see your standard of editing
if you're a proofreader you can do the before and after you see what you're doing before and how you
prove read the file and it became new and how you corrected the grammar and all of that you
can send them the before and after that will show your class i can go on and on and do these
excel spreadsheets can also be done if you're an excel specialist so these are many more you
can do every need has its own sample so there is no way you would not have samples number three
is the call to action i told you this is the most important because at the end of the day
all you need is not just to write a proposal without getting interviewed or getting the job
you want something good to come out of these but then you have to put a call to action
for your clients because most people might not even know oh okay these guys
what do we do next you need to tell them what to do next and the best way to make this done is for
you to ask a question of clarity maybe the person has said i want 1500 words you cannot put it in
there that you did a software research and see that 2000 is best to rank that you are going to do
2000 instead of a one five with nothing just what he has to do is to interview you now or you say
just interview me now i'll give you two thousand instead of one five for the same price so that
you can rank because i've seen that in metrics that ranks on this is not going to work well with
one five and i want you to work that shows the emotional part of it it's already asking question
and then boom is going to talk to you immediately if you don't have that kind of giveaway to do
in your call to action you can as well ask another question something like oh do you have this thing
said to me let me see so that we can kick up the conversation as soon as he sends you anything or
starts talking to you that is it you are in my friend and always remember one of your call to
action as well is your prizes you need to state what your pricing is what it is and i mean your
lowest price don't say i can hand between this and this there is no in between just tell them this is
how much i'm going to earn for these and this is what i'm going to give as giveaway on it as backup
now if you want a sample of my proposal all you have to do is go to the comment section
and say african giant give me the upwork proposal sample and i will get that to you
now i promised you that i'm going to tell you at the end of this tutorial what my secret sauce for
my upper proposal that gets approved up to 60 more than even these that i've just told
you i told you i'm going to tell you what is the secret the secret is using video instead of what
remember instead of you just typing out these things you can record it on a video by doing a
screenshot recording you know what i treated that all here and i'm going to leave it all
here for you it's just a few 12 minutes tutorial you can see that now and get this exact strategy
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