Dear freelancers,
can you help me!
why are my numbers like that?
I tried more than one technics for cover letter and probosals
Thanks in advanced.
Thank you for your reply!
are these two bars ?
A couple weeks ago, something happened to me that cast a lot of doubt on my huge trust in upwork. I am very grateful to Upwork for many of its features and policies. But it seems that the mission has changed recently, and the people who work with upwork have become less important. And I would like to know if I'm the only one who noticed this or if the problem is more massive. At first I wanted to find out privately with technical support, but after their answers it doesn't seem so productive anymore.
- Situation:
With one of my clients for some reason we decided that it would be convenient to pay for the task I completed through upwork. I couldn't send a direct contract because he had already been registered on the upwork a long time ago, so I suggested just creating a task. The client couldn't find me to send the invitation, so he just told me the title and description of the task. I found the task through the search, checked the description, the client's location and budget, responded, and... after a couple of days, he client sends me the photo of the list of responses to his task, in which there was only one response, and this is not mine. And we are sure that I was not mistaken in the task (and technical support confirmed this).
- My conclusions from this situation:
After that, I began to think about how small the probability that this is an individual case.
And how lucky I was to find out about this with the help of a client with I have a connection beyond the upwork.
And isn't this the reason why for the last three months my statistics on the ratio of responses and their views by clients has fallen 3 times relative to statistics for the whole year, minus the last three months and those when I could not work here.
It is also alarming that this coincided with the moment when the upwork cancels rewards for a message from a client on a response.
- Question:
So I'm interesting if anyone else has noticed a similar thing in their statistics? (My stats -> Analytics -> Show me -> Proposals)
Maybe if this turns out to be a mass situation, tech support will still do something besides offering to read articles about effective responses, update my portfolio and change the profile photo.
- About me:
I have been actively working with Upwork for more than 2,5 years, have the Top Rated badge, 100% Job Success and an average rating of 5 stars.
I don’t spam on all tasks, but respond selectively to the most interesting to me and relevant skills, with detailed answer for each task and attached examples. "Available now" is most often switched on. Some of these tasks are highly specialized and get no more than 10 responses in the first 24 hours.
And if earlier I was satisfied with this approach, then after these three months, which I barely survived for the most part thanks to tasks outside the upwork and regular clients who applied with new tasks, I already strongly doubt both the upwork and myself.
Hi Andrei and CJ,
I can confirm that all proposals sent for a job are delivered to and viewable by the client. There haven't been any changes recently to the Proposal Manager. The client may need to scroll further down the list and click "Load more" to see all proposals but they can definitely access them.
CJ, threads were merged because Andrei linked the topics as related.
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