Unofficial Guide to Upwork: Finding Work

This lecture describes my approach to searching for jobs and the things I think you should consider about the jobs you are searching for.

This Quick Tip gets in to how to setup your Job Feed so that it shows you all the jobs you might be interested in.

This lecture explains the different Upwork Search Operators and how you can use them to refine your searches.

In this lecture we will go through the different filters on searches and how and when you might use them.

In this lecture we go through my process of "hearting jobs" (I know it's a dumb thing to call it) and quickly selecting jobs that might be good fits.

A Review of what we learned in this section.

This lecture is about some very common Upwork Myths and misconceptions that we will go through and I will demonstrate why I think they are bad ideas.

In this lecture we go through all the different elements that make up an Upwork job post and how they are relevant to you and where they come from the client.

This lecture goes through the client history that can be found at the bottom of each job and the information present and what you can learn from it.

In this lecture I take you through what a client sees when reviewing proposals so you can understand how what you provided is presented to the client.

In this lecture I present some introductory thoughts on how to create a proposal and introduce the next section where I do a proposal live.

In this video, I video myself creating a proposal on the fly.  Just to be up front, I did not win this job.

In this section I introduce some tactics I might employ on some proposals to try different ways  to hook a client into reading your proposal.

This quick tip is really about the philosophical mindset you should use for proposals wherein you write them, send them, and then walk away from them doing your best to not look back at the job again.

In this lecture I will explain the brand new Beta feature allowing you to Boost Your Proposal to the Top of the LIst.