1 Week, 2 High-Ticket Clients

And why I might've been wrong about a popular freelance platform

Busy palette.

Are you coming to the Q&A today? I'm doing profile teardowns… LinkedIn focused.

There’s been some talk about Upwork too. And the differences between and Upwork and LinkedIn for getting clients.

So we’ll talk about which is best for getting clients in today’s Q&A @ 1pm ET

Speaking of Upwork

After all this talk about telling you how to get off the platform, I decided to use some of my 1200 connects and send out a few proposals.

I wanted to see what I could report back to you.

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You have to understand… I haven’t sent an Upwork proposal in I don’t know how long. Years maybe?

That’s because I relied on invitations for 4 years.

10 in one day, once.

About 2 years ago, that steady pipeline of new projects dried up.

Not sure what changed specifically. The platform changed, the markets changed, the world changed.

And AI changed everything

So who knows?

Thankfully I’d built an off-platform system for getting and keeping clients that no longer relied on Upwork’s invitations.

So I haven’t been slogging through billions of connects to find that ‘diamond in the rough’ client.

Well this week I decided to try it out after so long.

I wanted to get a new client on Upwork.

I just wanted to land one high-ticket client. (to see if they were still out there on the platform)

But I landed two.

Used a few connects, sent out 7 or 8 proposals. Lo and behold, I landed 2 high-ticket clients on Upwork this week.

The $200/hour type.

In today's live Q&A, I’m talking about all this.

Register here, it’ free.

Plus, it's LinkedIn profile vs. Upwork profile.

• Do you need both or only one as a solopreneur?

• One person committed to bringing their Upwork and LinkedIn profile for 'a roasting.'

• (I may have time for 1-2 additional teardowns before opening up the Q&A.)
  

No notes, just winging it.

I would love to see you there.

Patrick O.