Amir A wrote:
does this means , he should quit?
I am a React JS Developer and new to upwork spoiled all of my connects and can't get a single job yet, people tell me that you have to buy fake reviews for the startup of your work once you do that clients will come to you............. If you have no reviews nobody even bother to talk with you ....... are they telling right?
I assume that fake reviews are a TOS violation so you are definitely risking getting your account punted. But really the biggest problem with fake reviews is they look like fake reviews. They also tie back to client accounts that have a lot of reviews that look like fake reviews.
I don't know if someone should quit, that is a personal decision, and I cannot speak about what Petra meant, but I can say you cannot walk into a room filled with people all wearing the same black suit as you and expect to stand out. So many people come on here and plunk down the skills they have or what they think they can do and just expect miracles to happen. It is literally like they are adding themselves as
JUST ANOTHER WORDPRESS DEVELOPER
JUST ANOTHER VIRTUAL ASSISTANT
JUST ANOTHER REACT JS DEVELOPER
I came to Upwork a little more than a year ago. I was:
JUST ANOTHER .NET DEVELOPER
I may have just gotten lucky. I am an American, I think that helps a lot, but there was a guy on here the other day, also an American, declaring this entirity of Upwork basically as a hoax. He also said that me and people like me are just plain lucky. Maybe that is all there is to it.
However, if he had asked I would have suggested that his problem is he is standing around thinking he is awesome waiting for his turn to get picked. Instead you have to go around proving you are awesome over and over to every client specifically in the way they need you to be awesome. You have to find some way to shine a light on your particular skillset that makes it at least seem you are the best candidate for the jobs you propose on.
Good clients generally don't come here for JUST ANOTHER ANYTHING, what they want is their problems solved. They are looking for people who will solve their SPECIFIC problem and will do so with the least friction for themselves as possible.
So if all you can say about yourself is I am an X, you are probably not going to stand out. But if you can take this huge pool of X and carve some niche out of it and feel good about positioning yourself as really great at that niche, then you have a chance. You also then know who your clients are and can focus in on solving their problems.
