Aug 20, 2019 11:03:56 PM Edited Aug 20, 2019 11:14:11 PM by Goran V
How does Upwork take control of the buyers offering jobs that are basically no better than the jobs on **Edited for Community Guidelines**?
I have wasted 2 days and my connects on a job to write for a professional company who were looking for an intermediate level writer for a specialised industry that I have experience in. I quoted a professional rate and was asked to drop a little to fit in with a long term budget and I did.. After 2 days it became apparent the client was not intending to spend any real money on professionals and my rate of $30 per hour soon became less than $5 per hour as the client wanted to pay per article at a rate of around $10 per article or $2 per 100 words.
At what point are those looking for freelancers on Upwork going to realise this is not Fiverr.com but a professional network?
Surely there has to be a way where quality becomes the norm rather than cheap.
#JustSaying
Aug 21, 2019 02:29:41 AM by Martina P
Matthew N wrote:How does Upwork take control of the buyers offering jobs that are basically no better than the jobs on **Edited for Community Guidelines**?
I have wasted 2 days and my connects on a job to write for a professional company who were looking for an intermediate level writer for a specialised industry that I have experience in. I quoted a professional rate and was asked to drop a little to fit in with a long term budget and I did.. After 2 days it became apparent the client was not intending to spend any real money on professionals and my rate of $30 per hour soon became less than $5 per hour as the client wanted to pay per article at a rate of around $10 per article or $2 per 100 words.
At what point are those looking for freelancers on Upwork going to realise this is not Fiverr.com but a professional network?
Surely there has to be a way where quality becomes the norm rather than cheap.
#JustSaying
As long as there are freelancers accepting these low rates, nothing will change.
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