Where are customers going with Upwork?

Question

Freelance

I work exclusively on a fixed price, usually in the price range of $50 -300$.
Firstly, the number of good orders in this segment in my niche has somehow decreased. Secondly, the interest that needs to be paid has increased - now it is 20% (if you count correctly, then 28%).
I have a feeling that upwork customers are going somewhere, and in light of the rate increase, I probably need to go there as well.
Where?
I will clarify that I am the first performer for 35% of my customers. Usually my services are needed by those who do not really need cheap labor in general, but just a task has turned up that others cannot effectively solve. And the average order is somewhere around $100, although the average customer would be willing to pay $200, but competitors bring down the price.

Answer 1

It's time for you to either join a company in which you will be in demand less episodically
or raise your level and switch to hourly work.
PS:
Clients are not going anywhere.
You just got into a niche where you compete with low-paid workers who are becoming more

Answer 2

yeah, fuck on the hourly. And such work is generally rarely done on an hourly basis. The customer there generally cannot predict the hours required for work, therefore, if adequate, then he does not offer hours. And if not very adequate, then why should he.

Either you've worked with strange customers or you don't know how to work by the hour...
Why does the customer have to predict (what's the correct word you wrote) how many hours will you need to order?
The customer discusses the order with you, you can tell him the approximate time of execution.
And in the process, something can change, become more complicated, supplemented - this happens in 99% of orders.
Accordingly, the customer who hired you with an hourly rate must understand that the terms may change, especially if he asks for something extra.
You, in turn , can justifiably discuss with him what has changed.
You are either very greedy or I don't know.
You do not lose by doing faster, but leaving the client satisfied, while you yourself can already look for another order and earn $50 on it.
Or do you not need satisfied customers who will come back for the second, third time and even recommend to friends, is it more important to charge them $ 50 more for the work that you do quickly and without difficulties?
Again, there are two options again, or you raise the bet (since you don’t like the execution time / price ratio).
Or you work for a good profile and a base of loyal regular customers who quickly receive a completed order.
The fact is that with a fixed price, if the order becomes 2 times more complicated, you will still receive $150, and with an hourly rate, you will tell the customer that there were nuances when working on the order, and this results in N additional hours.
If this is justified , then customers will not be able to present anything.
And if it is like you write "pull an order for 10 hours that you made for 3", "I'm losing $ 50".
Those. stupidly shake out the dough, naturally there will be claims.

Answer 3

yes, with this turn, customers began to work more with regular freelancers, many began to work directly without upwork

Answer 4

Maybe they go to the "free search" of performers.
It’s not the first client who writes that it’s “expensive” to make a deal on upwork, it’s easier for them to directly pay for the work (I wouldn’t want to overpay).
But that's my personal opinion.

Answer 5

"I need customers who want urgently, quickly, tomorrow, high quality, expensive. Here they disappeared somewhere .."
Such customers will not trust random people from the exchange. They have already found trusted performers and work with them directly.

Answer 6

Dude, you can't help you with this approach, no one is going to win you a ton of clients with a wave of a magic wand. Yes, many leave - it's expensive, yes, many will choose to solve problems from 50 to 300 bucks for 50 bucks, if not lower. Yes, there are few good clients. What to do? Raise your qualifications and go where the competition is not 50 rates. Because the Hindu will not go to hard work because they have little experience. + You need to go on an hourly basis, this is both stability and income. And don't worry, but here I could earn more and so on, the key word here is "could" but you can't. So go ahead and hang with a song. Regarding other exchanges, it’s generally nonsense - upwork is practically a monopolist, the rest is all small where 2 orders per month as a maximum

Answer 7

I think the normal reaction of your client is to get a good service for your price tag and think "I wonder if I'm overpaying?" and try searching again. I myself constantly order content on the text exchange, and I always give 80% of orders to proven specialists and 20% I try to give to others. Well, I think the number of clients is not infinite. The majority sticks to normal performers who are not greedy and are no longer looking for upwork.

Answer 8

Well, you can, in principle, still try freelancer.com. Also an American freelance exchange. You can try your luck there.

Answer 9

There are some communities inside upWork, such as Rising Talent, TopRated, you are invited there if you have 90+% job-success and about 10K monthly earnings, as far as I understand, top clients are all there, they pay for participation and they are warned to focus on hourly payment of about $ 70 phr, working with a fixed price is unlikely to get you there, so I recommend trying to switch to hourly if you really can work quickly and efficiently.

Answer 10

I heard on a freelance podcast that clients are on LinkedIn.
Perhaps you should pay attention to this social network.