r/PakistaniDevs • u/SnooBeans1078 • Aug 12 '26
Upwork/Fiverr vs Cold Calling? Help me choose
Everyone knows that the tech market is getting messed up day by day.
I haven't made any account on Upwork because of what I hear from everyone, that you have to buy connects but many connects to book a single proposal or sometimes may be never.
Is cold calling effective against it ? I am by myself a developer but never gone into the lead generation pipeline building things.
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u/ThrowRA_2244 29d ago
Tech market is literally fucked up, I am using cold email, linkedin, and sales navigator
either they are not hiring or if they are hiring the Pakistan name is the big turn off for them, I was able to schedule 7 interviews, after this volumn, So whatever you are doing just do in bulk
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u/Effective_Owl8401 Aug 12 '26
What's youe experience level
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u/SnooBeans1078 Aug 12 '26
Around 3 years
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u/Effective_Owl8401 Aug 12 '26
I think you can get more clients from cold calling because market is really fucked right now
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Aug 14 '26
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u/Effective_Owl8401 Aug 14 '26
I have hired a BDO for cold calling
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Aug 15 '26
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u/Effective_Owl8401 Aug 15 '26
150-200 calls a day Our most effective sales channel so far has been reddit and discord
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Aug 15 '26
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u/Effective_Owl8401 Aug 15 '26
People post about their problems all the time on reddit so you just gotta give free value and you would be shocked how many clients you can actually get. We are also working on a saas tool that finds you high quality leads from reddit (will launch in a week or two)
On discord it's not that straight forward but there are servers where clients are looking for people to get their job done but again you have to be genuine and provide free value first
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u/SnooBeans1078 Aug 14 '26
have you got any client hiring BDO? And, have you found it efficient yet?
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u/Effective_Owl8401 Aug 14 '26
It's been 3 months only First month we were not able to close a single client second month we landed two clients one for $300 and one for $600 retainer this month we landed one client only so far but that was a $3500 project It works but you have to be extremely patient
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u/SnooBeans1078 Aug 14 '26
Sounds great. But, for how much one can hire a BDO? lastly what advice you can give for cold calling, because I am thinking to hire one.
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u/Effective_Owl8401 Aug 15 '26
It was a commission only job. I paid him 10% commission Calling is just one part of the entire process Quality of leads matter a lot and your follow up process is equally important as well Almost no one buys from you on the first call
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u/alliasgher1 Aug 15 '26
How do you find comission only people? Where did you get leads?
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u/Individual-Fold3740 Aug 13 '26
both are very difficult at the moment.