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Beyond Upwork: How to Find Freelance Clients Outside Upwork

Discover how to find freelance clients outside of Upwork and actually get them to respond!
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (80 ratings)
466 students
Created by Lex DeVille
Last updated 8/2019
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Learn to find clients beyond greedy Upwork so you're not subject to their evil whims.
  • Discover the best places to pick up clients so you earn higher pay faster than ever.
  • Reveal useful tactics and techniques for getting clients to respond even if they don't know you.
  • Never worry about greedy Upwork charging you ridiculous fees again because you don't need them!
  • Finally take back control over your earning power and freelance career!

Requirements

  • You should understand English.

Description

Upwork is in a bad state. They don't care about freelancers. They don't care about clients. They care about one thing only...money. To that end, they steal your income off the top by taking 20% of your earnings. That's cash straight out of your pocket. Food out of your family's mouth. And it gets worse...

When greedy Upwork went public they suddenly had shareholders to please. So they had to find new ways to suck more cash out of freelancers. By now you've probably noticed that Upwork charges you $0.15 per Connect, which wouldn't be that big of a deal, except most gigs cost 4-6 Connects. And the real problem is that the gigs haven't changed.

So even though you might have to pay nearly $1.00 just to apply, you're applying to the same old gigs. The same old clients (Clients who don't respond. Clients who aren't serious about hiring. Clients who waste your time.). I don't know about you, but I'm not spending all of my money just trying to get an interview through Upwork. Especially when there are better, faster, easier ways to find high-paying clients outside of Upwork.

And that's what this course is about.

When you enroll in this course I will show you:

  • How I find freelance clients beyond Upwork that pay way more than Upwork clients and are easier to work with

  • Freelance platforms that don't charge you an arm and a leg for a chance to have your time wasted

  • Which social platforms I use to find clients outside of Upwork and how I get those clients to come to me

  • Cold emailing methods that actually get high-paying freelance clients to respond fast and easy

  • Unconventional approaches to earn clients that probably no one else is doing anywhere

  • Secrets to help you escape Upwork for good so you can actually make money and never look back!

Bottom line?

If you're sick and tired of greedy Upwork's dirty business practices, suspending your account for no reason, charging you out the wazoo because they have a poor money model, and generally treating you like dirt (when they wouldn't exist without you)... Then stick it to them when you enroll in this course and take back control!

Because once you have other ways to find clients, and once you've found the one that works for you...you will NEVER need Upwork again.

If that makes sense for you, scroll up and enroll in Escape Upwork now!

Your Escape Instructor,
Lex DeVille

P.S. I know greedy Upwork is the holy grail of freelance websites, and I know finding clients outside of Upwork seems scary, but as long as you give up control by using their platform, you will never have true freedom even if you work from home. Just like they've done to me numerous times, they can and will suspend or ban your freelance account at a moment's notice if they think you've broken a rule (even when you haven't). 

If you are trying to build a career as a freelancer, then you need to take this seriously. Control is EVERYTHING and without it you put your entire freelance business and your income at stake (and that's on top of all the money you pay them). Think about that, and then make the choice that is best for you.

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Who this course is for:

  • You should understand that this is a BEGINNER LEVEL course.
  • You should NOT expect to pay $10 and get elite information sent from the gods.
  • You should be someone who can watch a talking head video, take the information, and apply it to get results.
  • If you have a poor mindset then this course will be useless for you and you should not enroll.
  • Only enroll in this course if you are ready to put in the effort to get results.

Course content

7 sections • 45 lectures • 2h 21m total length

  • Preview02:01
  • Preview06:47
  • Control is EVERYTHING: No Control No Career
    03:29
  • A New Approach: What You Will Have to Change to Take Back Your Power!
    02:23

  • My Top Picks for Alternate Freelance Platforms
    04:44
  • Platform 1
    04:21
  • Platform 1 Supplemental Materials
    01:22
  • Platform 2
    02:30
  • Platform 2 Supplemental Materials
    01:13
  • Platform 3
    04:29
  • Platform 3 Supplemental Materials
    00:53
  • BIG List of 100+ Freelance Platforms and Websites
    01:01
  • Helpful Practice Activity 1
    00:45

  • Introduction to Sourcing Clients Through Social Platforms
    01:57
  • Social Platform 1
    07:55
  • Social Platform 1 Supplemental Materials
    03:29
  • Social Platform 2
    07:14
  • Social Platform 2 Supplemental Materials
    01:21
  • Social Platform 3
    06:10
  • Social Platform 3 Supplemental Materials
    01:11
  • Helpful Practice Activity 2
    00:39

  • Word of Mouth Client Sourcing
    02:55
  • The Best Source of Word of Mouth Clients
    05:17
  • Incentivizing Client Referrals
    04:22
  • Local Word of Mouth Clients
    07:28
  • Helpful Practice Activity 3
    00:27

  • Preview07:05
  • Thoughts on Creating a Website
    01:21
  • How Will Clients Find You?
    05:10
  • Helpful Practice Activity 4
    00:33

  • Alternate Method 1
    05:48
  • Alternate Method 1 Supplemental Materials
    01:25
  • Alternate Method 2
    03:19
  • Alternate Method 2 Supplemental Materials
    01:20
  • Alternate Method 3
    04:48
  • Alternate Method 3 Supplemental Materials
    00:46
  • Alternate Method 4
    03:10
  • Alternate Method 4 Supplemental Materials
    01:04
  • Alternate Method 5
    05:54
  • Alternate Method 5 Supplemental Materials
    02:58
  • Thoughts on Stealing Clients From Upwork
    03:45
  • Helpful Practice Activity 5
    00:48

  • Last Minute Tips and Strategies
    00:50
  • Thoughts on Learning New Skills (Teaching English, Transcription etc.)
    03:37
  • Where to Go From Here
    01:32

Instructor

Lex DeVille
Escape Corporate Prison & Build a Freelance Empire!
Lex DeVille
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 2,813 Reviews
  • 7,878 Students
  • 15 Courses

Lex DeVille holds a multiple degrees in Psychology and is an NLP Master Practitioner, Ericksonian Hypnotherapist, and Enneagram Personality Profiler. Using strategic psychology, tactical empathy, and over a decade of field experience with personality studies, Lex built multiple profitable online businesses from scratch including two full-time freelance businesses, a publishing company, a coaching company, and more.

Lex has been featured on The Fastlane Forum, Military Spouse, Unf*ckwithable Girlfriends, Next Gen Mil Spouse, iNLP, The Joplin Globe, Kill Bigger Radio Show and several other places.

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