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Zubair A Community Member

Top six Tips to bid on UpWork

I’ve been freelancing since 5 years and upon my experience I would like to suggest. Bidding plays the big part. Note these bullets while bidding:

 

These are some important points while bidding:
– Make sure you send proposal with your bid.
– Your proposal must contains this line: “Your Invitation over a private chat would be highly appreciated.”
– Your bid amount should neither be higher nor be lower; make it moderate an average sized bid.
– Always communicate in professional language and don’t use short forms of the spellings like Your to “ur”.
– Try be first while bidding on the projects because it give an impressive feel to the employers.
– Make sure you use correct spellings and grammars while communicate.

 

  • Tip 1: The Early Bird Gets The Worm
  • Tip 2: Maintain Your Profile
  • Tip 3: Have Good Samples
  • Tip 4: Don’t Copy and Paste your Proposals
  • Tip 5: Make Your Proposal a Sponsored Proposal
  • Tip 6: Follow Up

**edited for Community Guidelines**

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Ramon's avatar
Ramon B Community Member

'Make sure you use correct spellings and grammars while communicate.'

 

Doh! Cat Embarassed

 

Plus:

 

Your proposal must contains this line:“Your Invitation over a private chat would be highly appreciated.”

 

Yes, if you want them to think you're a potential stalker! Cat Mad

jasbir's avatar
jasbir s Community Member

Hi Can any you let me where i will place this line Your Invitation over a private chat would be highly appreciated.

 

in starting or at bottom of proposal.

Jasbir Singh
Tiffany's avatar
Tiffany S Community Member


@jasbir s wrote:

Hi Can any you let me where i will place this line Your Invitation over a private chat would be highly appreciated.

 

in starting or at bottom of proposal.


 Don't say that. I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. If you've already bid, you don't need the client to invite you...he/she may INTERVIEW you by private chat, but you don't need to solicit that. It's the natural response if they're interested in working with you.

Pandora's avatar
Pandora H Community Member

Upwork has several great Proposal Tips posts and videos, and if you want to create a profile that works on UPWORK, you should check these out.

 

Proposals that Sell - Video Guide

Submitting A Winning Proposal - + Video + Profile Sample

How to Create a Proposal That Wins Jobs Do's and Don'ts about Creating Great Profiles

Onel Enrique's avatar
Onel Enrique F Community Member

" Don't say that. I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. If you've already bid, you don't need the client to invite you..."



I disagree.  Like any good ad, you need a call to action. Let the buyer know what the next step is. telling the client to contact you to discuss details about the project makes total sense. 

 

Miraj's avatar
Miraj M Community Member

You are totally right. Sometimes by reading those invitation, they might message you. This is very good trick to get replies from client.

Maria Liza's avatar
Maria Liza J Community Member

Before you send your proposal, can you include the following sentence, like your ending message to the client

"If this interest you, we can schedule a call to further collaborate, thanks"

 

Avery's avatar
Avery O Community Manager

Yes, Maria Liza!

That's a great call-to-action to let the client know what steps they need to take to continue collaborating with you. 


~ Avery
Md's avatar
Md J Community Member

Thank you for your suggestion

Minarul's avatar
Minarul H Community Member

Thank you so much for your suggestion. I am new here so I was kinda puzzled about the ending. Now I am going to follow your suggestion. 

Riya's avatar
Riya B Community Member

Could you elaborate on what bidding is exactly?

Muhammad's avatar
Muhammad U Community Member

At the bottom

Lyam's avatar
Lyam B Community Member

I personally don't believe quicker bidders have a higher chance. I don't know what the client's interface looks like so it may or may not be beneficial. I'd like to think clients look through every applicant regardless of when they applied. That said, I think a client would post a job and check back within a certain time frame. 

 

As for the bids, I agree bids shouldn't be too high/low, but some rates are very high in comparison to their competition. I wouldn't suggest lowering your bid to compete. If that's your rate, then stick to it. 

 

“Your Invitation over a private chat would be highly appreciated." sounds a little cheesy. Similar to "Dear Hiring Manager". Although we should all act professional, there are more creative ways to ask for such a thing. 

 

Edit: I clicked the "More Tips" link and was taken onto a website that supplies not only information but cheat sheets for the tests...I'd suggest removing the link 😉

Muhammad Iftikhar's avatar
Muhammad Iftikhar K Community Member

Hi Lyam,

I agree with your statement below:

 

I personally don't believe quicker bidders have a higher chance. I don't know what the client's interface looks like so it may or may not be beneficial. I'd like to think clients look through every applicant regardless of when they applied. That said, I think a client would post a job and check back within a certain time frame. 

However, what if there are 50 or proposals and the potential or competitive bid is the 51th? As a human, there are chances that that will be ignored or missed. There was a function in Elance where freelancer had the option to place the bid on top by spending more connects. But Upwork has removed that function. Do you know if there is a way to place the bid on top?

 

Regards,

Ifti

 

Avery's avatar
Avery O Community Manager

Hi Muhammad Iftikhar, 

Unfortunately that feature is not currently available on Upwork . 


~ Avery
Mayur's avatar
Mayur S Community Member

Now, this feture is available.

Iftikhar's avatar
Iftikhar I Community Member

Just surprised that in 5 year you have done 22 jobs not 220 where you have got this expereince?Best of luck having 100% JS.

Ainal's avatar
Ainal H Community Member

You know we are all expert to give free advice. It can be work or not but we really expert to give you free advice 😛 

Abdul's avatar
Abdul R Community Member

Hello,

 

I can sum it up in single sentence.

 

" your cover letter should be unique than that of others " 

 

Best Regards

 

Abdulrazaq

 

 

Iftikhar's avatar
Iftikhar I Community Member


@Abdul R wrote:

Hello,

 

I can sum it up in single sentence.

 

" your cover letter should be unique than that of others " 

 

Best Regards

 

Abdulrazaq

 

 


How could you know that yours one is unique?

Abdul's avatar
Abdul R Community Member

Hello Iftikhar, 

 

" your cover letter should be unique than that of others " 

 

In other words, focus the given task and make outline Or give the best solution. Tell the client, project duration and invite to send you more details. 

 

Best Regards

 

Abdulrazaq

 

Iftikhar's avatar
Iftikhar I Community Member

Yes we can try our best but we really dont know how other applicants or writing may be they are better than us,Everyone try thier best to convince the client,Ok you have great cover letter but what if you have nothing to show client  like portfolio,work history,feedback etc.

Preston's avatar
Preston H Community Member

re: "How could you know that yours one is unique?"

 

Clients are smart enough to know the difference between a cover letter was written specificaly for them, and a cover letter that was copy-and-pasted.

 

Also, Upwork knows. Upwork has automated algorithms intended to detect copy-and-paste cover letters and spam-posting. and it will auto-hide or otherwise diminish the prominence of job applications that are calculated as being such.

Iftikhar's avatar
Iftikhar I Community Member


@Preston H wrote:

re: "How could you know that yours one is unique?"

 

Clients are smart enough to know the difference between a cover letter was written specificaly for them, and a cover letter that was copy-and-pasted.

 

Also, Upwork knows to. Upwork has automated algorithms intended to detect copy-and-paste cover letters and spam-posting. and it will auto-hide or otherwise diminish the prominence of job applications that are calculated as being such.


I think we are talking about writing a unique cover letter which will be unique from others we are not talking about the system,

 

If a client will see 10 unique aplications passed from the system what he will do than will hire 10 of them or choose one of them which is perfect for him seeing his portfolio work history and feedback?