The Freelancer’s Guide to Upwork: Make More Money, Work from Home or Travel Anywhere

By: Jennifer Dobson

Narrated by: Abi Van Andel

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

A six-figure, top-rated freelancer on Upwork tells listeners how to work from home, travel full-time, and make more money through freelancing with her proven online business strategies. The tools and tactics outlined in this audiobook are designed to help you quit your nine-five job, work online and have more freedom. Whether your dream is traveling the world as a digital nomad, creating a home-based job to spend more time with your family, or earning a six-figure passive income, let this be your guidebook.

This comprehensive guide to freelancing on Upwork teaches listeners how Jennifer earned $100,000 working a 4-hour workweek in her first year on Upwork, how to outsource your business to a team of virtual assistants for passive income, how to analyze and beat your competition, how to productize your services to make more money in less time, how to maintain a high job success score and top-rated status to win more jobs, and more.

This audiobook is designed to teach listeners how to productize and sell their unique skills as freelancers on Upwork so they can make enough money to live and work from anywhere, on their own schedules through profitable online business strategies. After four years of wading through online business models, Jennifer finally found Upwork to be the easiest, fastest way to make a full-time income online.

She has now completed more than 50 freelance projects and is a top-rated freelancer on Upwork with over 1,000 paid hours and a 100 percent job success rating. If you want to learn how to freelance, start an online business, create a home-based job, regain control of your schedule, live a life full of freedom, travel the world as a suitcase entrepreneur or digital nomad, or turn your creative passion into a full-time gig, this audiobook has everything you need to start the journey.

©2020 Jennifer Dobson (P)2020 Jennifer Dobson

it was a good read, not for overly sensitive types

The author hits hard on making profits and charging premium prices. I'd say to go a few steps further and charge the highest rates on the platform.

Some stuff is good advice on paper, but not exactly plausible in real life. For instance, Upwork allows you to bring in your own clients, but bringing clients in as a new freelancer will raise red flags. The book suggests doing that if you get discouraged looking for that first 5 star review. Often times they'll force you to jump through hoops to ensure you aren't commiting fraud or gaming the system. In my opinion, it's less hassle to send out 50-100 proposals to find your first client.

Also, the author suggests that you could theoretically lower your prices when starting out to attract clients. It's pretty clear from the rest of the book that the author just threw that snippet in the book to appease the emotional needs of money-sensitive readers.

Overall, it's a 10/10. This is the only relevant book on Upwork freelancing since they changed their proposal process to include paid connects. It even gives a few tips on automating your services and outsourcing project work through invoicing systems. The book rightfully assumes that if you follow the system laid out for you, then you'll have an overload of available work.

It's worth a lot more than a few bucks if you plan on actually doing what the book says to do.

Tons of great information for beginners and seasoned Upwork freelancers!

Great book! I found the outline style very easy to follow while listening v reading. Very knowledgeable author and inspiring.

The beginners' guide to Upwork

Essential instructions for Upwork beginners, although most content can be found on Upwork's official websites for free.

From my experience, my best clients were the ones that searched and invited me before I finding them, none of my cover letters that based on templates worked as expected. I also acted as a client and let my money work for me, then I find that most of the appliers used templated cover letters, I quickly got tired of reading them, only cared about links and attachments, and also the answers to the on-screen questions. So I'm not really sure if it is a good idea to use a template for cover letters.

I do expect this 2-hour long audiobook to contain some step-by-step guide to being an agent, but it's more of a beginner's guide for freelancers.

Recommended if you are new to Upwork.

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really useful information I see in this grand book you see I really like it. yes i do