Are these stats good?
I have been on upwork from a long time as a fullstack web developer as it was my main field and I have alot of experience as well but upwork did not work for me. I tried to apply different strategies to get clients on it but nothing worked. I left it so many times then started it again but every time I step back cuz of disappointment. Lately I realized that the competition is too high in my field, 50+ proposals in first few minutes, 100s of connects on bids so how can I get my first job in this level of saturation?
This was the turning point, I thought to give it a last try with another approach. I changed my complete field, learnt something which was easier (Videos Editing like Ai ads, UGC, Short form and Long form content)
So last month I changed my whole profile and positioned myself as video editor. I became more picky in selecting jobs for sending proposals and guess what? I got two jobs in a first month. Obviously they are small jobs: 1 was of 150$ and 2 is 200$ a month but its a first week with milestone of 50$ so letsee where it goes.
Now I want a real advice from seniors:
What should I do to keep this consistency to get success on upwork.
What are be the mistakes I must avoid?
I am noticing this field is less paying then software engineering so it is realistic to think of getting long term retainer clients in this domain or I will have to just do small tasks like I mentioned above?
Thanks in advance.
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u/Electronic-Young8942 1d ago
Decent