It seems to me, or are there any peculiarities with working on UpWork?

Question

Upwork

Good day to all. I have such an observation or even I would say a problem.
Previously, I started working on elance and odesk in parallel. It didn’t work out for me with odesk and I got a normal amount of reviews on elance, etc., etc. Soon there will be no elance, so I merged elance with upwork. What is my problem. To this day, I take projects on elance without any problems and work, for a long time there have been no problems with finding projects on elance. But just as at the very beginning it didn’t work out for me with odesk, and now it doesn’t work out with upwork. Profiles are the same, reviews and experience too. But over the past 4 days, I took 2 projects on elance and 0 on upwork. At the same time, I sent fewer requests to elance. I understand that it depends on various factors, etc., but this is a stable situation for me. Maybe my question is ridiculous, but still: Tell me, maybe I don’t know something about the features of upwork? Maybe clients do not see my applications? I understand that the problem is most likely in me, but what are your thoughts on this?

Answer 1

I have the same situation. On elance, when there are already enough jobs, the job is not as difficult to get as at the beginning. But on Upwork, it seemed to me that there are a lot of redneck jobs with a price of $5, while on elance you can get at least $20 for such a job. And the order, even with the transferred account, has never been received.
Plus, elance is more convenient for me than Upwork. On elance, at least the picture is clear to whom and for how much the job was given, in order to understand what you said or did wrong. And on Upwork, nothing is clear what and how ...

Answer 2

Firstly, you are not just one developer there, and a certain number of freelancers are interested in any project, and N can be 10, or maybe 50, 100 or more. Those. Naturally, there is competition there, and depending on the project, it can be very high. Those. if a day after the publication of the project you are 135th in the queue trying to push through your proposal, there are, of course, few chances - whoever got up first, that and the slippers usually.
And then it all depends on what hourly rate you asked for, what you wrote in the proposal, what rating you have, what Job Success (i.e. how much you hit the cake so that the client left you a good review, be it wrong), etc. etc. Look also at how much the client pays on average (if he has $5 Avg Hourly Rate, and you asked for $25, you have very few chances), at Level (Entry, Intermediate - i.e. how much he is willing to spend on this project) .

Answer 3

Do you only trade on hourly contracts?
Well, it’s logical to somehow apply a link to the profile.