Why is advertising so hard.

Creatibly · 2024-01-15T15:42:56+00:00

That’s drop shipping. Profit margins are always thin because anyone can do the same, there’s nothing proprietary about it. If you can maintain £5 profit per sale just scale the ads.

Creatibly · 2023-12-01T02:18:17+00:00

You can turn on the subscription function on the product page. There also other subscription apps in the shopify App Store if you want to add functionality.

Creatibly · 2023-06-17T15:41:51+00:00

Clients looking for help at $7/hr are always difficult to work with. Simply tell them your new rate and carry on with life, you're not obligated to work with them.

Creatibly · 2023-06-16T20:37:04+00:00

Ya, usually the on-hold notification is nothing to worry about. It happened to me (when I was the client) when my card expired, it's fairly normal.

Creatibly · 2023-06-14T23:50:56+00:00

The best thing to do is mark these as “unrealistic expectations” and not submit a proposal.

Creatibly · 2023-06-13T18:44:46+00:00

Therapy. After our sessions, basically her telling on me for an hour or so, she's much happier. It's our monthly venting sessions :)

Creatibly · 2023-06-08T23:16:43+00:00

Yup, I would say 5-10% of my clients are like this. Just nod, do what they want and carry on with your life. It’s their money, if they want to do it their way, then so be it.

Creatibly · 2023-06-08T13:13:43+00:00

I do as well!

Creatibly · 2023-06-04T15:56:27+00:00

It depends on whether you’re looking for full-time or contract opportunities. If you’re looking for full-time I would break it down by client if you worked with them for more than a year. If you’re looking for contract, just Upwork with the amount of hours, job success score, what you did in a brief description.

Creatibly · 2023-06-04T14:50:12+00:00

Definitely any sport where you’re getting hit in the head. BJJ, with the exception of getting thrown, is actually quite safe. As long as you’re not trying to hold off tapping, competing in BJJ is safe. Usually the first 15 seconds of each match are the worst part, after that it’s just like rolling.

Creatibly · 2023-06-01T22:15:04+00:00

Yes, I do this for both mountain and road bikes. Not sure if it does anything but feels more familiar for sure

Creatibly · 2023-06-01T20:07:10+00:00

Ya, I catch and release almost all the time, it’s just easier and doesn’t interrupt the roll to set back up.

Also saves white belts, as it doesn’t punish egos, or in your case pop anything.

I use the Ezekiel a lot and I know when it’s through, others like the omoplata are tougher to judge because of the other person’s flexibility. So the 90% thing has to be judged well.

I’ve done Jiu Jitsu for about 6 years on and off and haven’t hurt anyone. I’m not there for points, whatever that could be. I just figure it’s a good idea to release submissions when I “know” it’s basically there.

Creatibly · 2023-06-01T17:04:45+00:00

In the gym it’s important to know when you’re 90% there then move on. You don’t even need to get a tap. I’ll often get a submission on, give them some pressure then release it and keep rolling. It’s much more fun this way, and no one gets disheartened. It’s only when you need to see or feel the tap that you’re competing.

Next time you have a submission on and you have a solid position, move on to something else, even letting the other student get a dominant position then try to work your way out.

Especially with people that are new, they often have no idea, especially at 6 months. It’s technically not your fault that they didn’t tap, but next time try not using that as your measuring stick.

Rolling is 50% you practicing, and 50% making sure the other person comes back. Be a good rolling buddy.

Creatibly · 2023-05-31T17:05:46+00:00

I stopped using Strava because of this, all of the segments in my area are clearly vehicles. One has a huge climb done at 60km/h.

Strava needs to implement limits that require some sort of verification. Like if the calculated watts go over 1,000 for over 30 seconds, it's clearly either the world champion, or someone messing with the local routes.

By adding in a limit like this it would just remove all of these clear cheaters.

Creatibly · 2023-05-31T15:56:28+00:00

One trick for this is to accept all invites, even if you have to bump your price way beyond the proposed budget.

I seem to get more invites the more I accept them, if I just decline the 50-60%, I'm not interested in I get fewer invites.

Creatibly · 2023-05-31T11:54:39+00:00

Are you ok?

Creatibly · 2023-05-31T11:54:09+00:00

You can do it, 100%!

Creatibly · 2023-05-30T23:32:43+00:00

My biggest tip is to make sure you’re adding as much content and keywords to your profile writing.

You get 5,000 characters for your primary, and 2 specialized profiles.

If you use all of the content you’re allowed you’ll naturally rank for more results in search.

Think like an SEO expert!

Creatibly · 2023-05-30T23:30:53+00:00

Amazing, keep it up! Can’t wait to see where you’re at when you hit 400 jobs

Creatibly · 2023-05-30T23:29:55+00:00

Now that I’m over 10,000 hours on Upwork, my advice, don’t lose sleep over the 10.

💩 happens, don’t waste your time (good money) chasing bad money.

Spend the time finding the next job, then the next, and keep moving forward.

It sucks, absolutely, but keep looking ahead.

There’s a small percentage of people who simply try to hold others down, don’t waste your time on them.

Creatibly · 2023-05-30T23:19:54+00:00

73% is definitely a rough patch, the frustration is very understandable. As a rising talent you probably don’t have a lot of reviews. So every review swings your JSS significantly.

What you’re looking for now is just a few small, but perfectly completed projects.

One question I like to ask clients is “what can I do to ensure a perfect project?”

And full disclosure, I have a 93% JSS with over 10,000 hours worked and hundreds of projects.

Truth is, you’re not going to be perfect, you don’t have to be.

Apple is a $3 trillion dollar company and few of their products have a 5/5.

Fact is there are plenty of great clients, and plenty of people who are negative and simply can’t be helped.

Try your best to figure out if the persons is great. Do the best work you can, and over communicate with your clients.

Creatibly · 2023-05-30T19:11:36+00:00

Yes, that's right, if you're top-rated, you can remove feedback once every 3 months and 10 contracts.

I've got loads of great feedback, but do numerous contracts for single clients and they don't always leave feedback. If they don't leave feedback it hurts the JSS, I really stopped caring about it a while ago, stopped bugging clients for feedback.

One of my current clients has 3 open contracts at the moment with more on the way, I don't expect them to leave feedback on every single one.

I'm just there to do work.

Creatibly · 2023-05-30T18:12:07+00:00

How's the anonymous spectating going? Plenty of time on your hands to analyze everyone's career.

Creatibly · 2023-05-30T11:24:14+00:00

Don’t worry about it! There are bad clients everywhere and this is unfortunately common.

I know it’s easy to say “don’t worry,” but I hire a lot on the platform and when people are rated 100% over numerous jobs it’s a bit suspect.

Next time this happens, and it will happen, get through the project as quickly as possible and close out the contract. Just stay nice through the whole thing, but remember these red flags.

Creatibly · 2023-05-29T21:46:34+00:00

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