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Hi New Upwork Freelancers!

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I'd love a review and expert eye to my profile! Thank you in advance!!

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Excellent start, Gita! Including a video is a great step. Do you have any portfolio items that you could display? Your specialized profile is shorter than general profile. You have 15 years of experience and hence, some bragging rights in the area of training & development, right? I'd encourage you to add more. 

Good luck, and have fun freelancing!! 

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Hey Gita, Well done on setting up your profile. Great Start. A few  important updates I recommend doing:

1) Change your profile "Title" to something that clearly explains what problem you are solving for what clients.

I like to think of   "Title" as "Your Value Proposition".  When clients are faced to choose from a pool of talent they need to quickly and easily understand what value you bring to the table. This is critical and it also helps you establish your niche, stand out of the crowd, get more work, and charge more!

2) While your profile "Overview" is nice and descriptive I suggest looking at it from a client's perspective. They have a problem and you can provide a solution. That's one of the reasons why people hire.  Replace words "I, ME, Years of Experience, " with "You, You will get, etc..." The hard truth is people don't care much about other people they care about themselves and how you can help them in their situation...This is fundamentally important to understand. Everything on your profile needs to be about clients and how you help them!

3) Your intro video is nice yet you can make it better.  3 Important you want to cover on your video:

1. Quick Intro (This can be the same as your title) Here is a great recipe for this:

My area of expertise is helping ______ to ______ by ________.

I typically work with __________ and I help them to ________

2. You want to quickly explain your work process. Don't got into fine details and don't use too much tech jargon.  Let people know you have a proven process you follow

3. Explain what it's like to be working together with you and what people can expect.

You want your prospects to think “That’s me” and “That’s my situation right now” and “I definitely want to achieve that result and work with this person”

To your success!

Tom

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Hi,
I am Fayzun.
Can you please check my profile?
I also need suggestion on sending proposal & replying to invitation.

Regards
Fayzun Nahar

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Hey Fayzun

Just had a look at your profile. A few things absolutely need to do to improve it:

1) Check the post above and implement all the same things I suggested above. 

2) Add a video to your profile. 

3) Increase your hourly rate. Architects with 6 years of experience don't charge $6/h. Great architects are expensive. People across the world know that. Unless you want to compete for the lowest price...

4) Decide what you want to do. Be an architect or graphic designer. You can't do both things well.  Your clients will get confused by what it is you do...Find your niche.

To your success!

Tom

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Hey Tom,
Thanks for your advice. I must work on it.

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Fayzun N wrote:

Hi,
I am Fayzun.
Can you please check my profile?
I also need suggestion on sending proposal & replying to invitation.

Regards
Fayzun Nahar

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Add a little detail to your title, as in what kind of architectural services you offer.

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Fayzun N wrote:

Hi,
I am Fayzun.
Can you please check my profile?
I also need suggestion on sending proposal & replying to invitation.

Regards
Fayzun Nahar

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Are you planning to offer writing and transcribing in your native language only? That would be fine, if you want to attract English speaking clients, you must improve your text and correct all grammar and other mistakes. If you offer transcription, punctuation and spelling has to be flawless, and it should be not neccessary to point out to you that you misspelled transcription. 

You definitely need a portfolio to present your prior work. 

[#10]

hello there,

i am a newbie at upwork and i am unable to win my first job. Can you please help guide me how i can win jobs on upwork

Regards

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Khadija L wrote:

hello there,

i am a newbie at upwork and i am unable to win my first job. Can you please help guide me how i can win jobs on upwork

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I'm not sure what you do. Are you a physical therapist and how do you make money on Upwork where 99% of the work is remote (especially now)? Or are you a writer? Or a translator? Create a general profile for one of your skills and specialized profiles for the others...that could possibly earn you $ here.

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Thank you for your feed back

[#13]

Hello, 

Could you take a look at my profile please? Thank you! 

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Cecilly,

I think you are presenting what you have been and what you are capable of but the way I approach a profile is to present what problems you can solve for a client. A client is looking at your profile because they have X problem and the way I see it you are asking them to pick through what you said to find it.
I would try to have an answer to that problem in the first two lines of your profile. Those two lines are critical because someone looking at your profile in a search only see that. Just like in a proposal the first two lines need to be good enough to make a prospect read the whole thing.

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Cecily S wrote:

Hello, 

Could you take a look at my profile please? Thank you! 

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You need to forget everything you ever learned about writing a resume, because this is not what you need here. You need more focus on how you WILL solve a client's problem, and less about what you did in the past. The picture is good, but could be much better and clearer with better lighting. 

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Hello 

 Please check my profile too and give me feedback. Thanks

[#17]

A wonderful services and very helpful for new commers like me. Please review my profile and suggest.

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Tauheed A wrote:

A wonderful services and very helpful for new commers like me. Please review my profile and suggest.

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It looks mostly ok to me, but missing the most important information - for which country/ countries are you qualified? Accounting standards can be very different and are constantly in flux, how are you keeping up to date with changes?

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hi upwork community

i am new on upwork please can someone review my profile and my payment methos is inactive needs your suggestion thanks

[#20]

Hello,

I am new to Upwork and could someone please review my profile and suggest any improvements?

Thank you!

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Jennifer N wrote:

Hello,

I am new to Upwork and could someone please review my profile and suggest any improvements?

Thank you!

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Jennifer N,

Include the # of years of experience you have in accounting upfront. Instead of starting the first 2 sentences with "I am..", change it up. The first 2 sentences are what a client sees in a search so make sure they stand out. 

Good luck!

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Good Evening Mike....

Greetings from India !!!!

I am new to Upwork.

Please suggest me how to update my profile so that I can get some work.

Waiting for youe reply.

Thanks

Ananya Mishra

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Hi I was wondering if someone could take a look at my profile and tell me what you think. I haven't had a lot of interest from potential clients I have submitted proposals to.

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Amber P wrote:
Hi I was wondering if someone could take a look at my profile and tell me what you think. I haven't had a lot of interest from potential clients I have submitted proposals to.

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Amber, I think you have great skills but you aren't selling them. Your profile is reading like a bio. Think of it like a pitch. What services do you offer and why are you the best fit for their needs? Try and stand out, make it unique (if someone else could say the same sentence and it holds true, rewrite it to be unique to you and your skills). Try to reframe it to be less about you and your expertise and instead what you can do for them (and then how your skills and expertise will help them). 

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I rewrote my profile to mostly have the services I can provide. What do you
think now?

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Amber, I would make the last line of your profile the first line. It's a clear summary of the different services you provide. I think it's a lot better with the bullet list you've created of different things you can provide.