Ahmad Zabir

There's a step before the buyer, and it's where you're losing

Most freelancers on Upwork are competing on a page nobody is looking at. Not because they are bad, and not because they are new. Because of one classification step that happens before any buyer sees them, and that almost nobody knows exists. We found it by posting 50 jobs and reading 3,147 proposals from the other side of the platform. It takes an evening to read and you can apply it to your profile the same day. $7.