As far as I'm aware, there is no way to check if a proposal has been viewed by a client. I could be wrong about that.
It would be nice if a symbol appeared next to opened/viewed proposals. For example:
*the eye symbol was added for illustrative purposes*
Knowing if a proposal were viewed would help me, as a freelancer, gauge which style of proposal works best for me.
Thank you, but are you sure you calculated it right? I've been observing this view:sent ratio and it usually goes between 10% to 30% which is still weirdly low in my opinion. 1-2 people has higher ratio, but they still don't go above 50%.
Here's mine in the past 30 days:
It's 10%. And looking at how it is right now, client will interview me if they view my proposal. Which I know is not necessarily true.
So is it possible that the views are somehow recorded incorrectly? Maybe clients can actually view the proposal without being recorded? From email notification maybe although mod Avery said clients are still encouraged to click (view)?
The View - if the numbers are correct - is the first thing to improve. Interviews & hires will follow. Good proposal is useless if they're not viewed.
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And to respond to the original question. My comment, from what I see, even the worst proposal can get you client. So maybe there are things like "client's experience", or "luck", or "bot", or "tricks" to consider -_- It's sad seeing those kind of proposals that leads to "those kind of services" affects the clients. And talking about bots, copypaste, immediate 50+ after a few minutes, if you think about it, they do it because they CAN get profit (hires) from it.
I forgot to move the decimal over
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@Jonathan, your stats is slightly above the (observable) average.
My stats checker seems to be broken
In case you didn't notice the update date & time are different for each dataset:
No data update on my profile views for almost a week now, although I'm not sure if it can goes like that for months.
From my personal experience, inteviews and hires are correct. Views are the ones we can't check, while this should be the first thing to improve before we can see improvement on interviews & hires.
As for invites, yes I read they're not included.
About Boosted, I'm currently unsure if it's a sure way to raise the view ratio or not. There are boosted stats that looked like yours, but there are also the ones where boosted has less views than the unboosted.
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My current "view" for the boost feature is also still "uncertain". Not enough "observable" data (real data will not be released I'm sure). In general I saw it as Upwork's attempt on "business innovation", which is okay, although they should still need to wait and see if it'll bring good (to them) or not.
Bad freelancers will use it, but so does the good ones. The boost feature will only be removed if there are really so many bad freelancers use it, and so many clients got lured by the (bad freelancers') top 3 positions. Otherwise it shall stay.
So far I only saw 1 real client commented about the Boost feature, and he said it has no effect on how he look at the proposals. If only based from this, then the boost feature will stay.
