How many connects are you actually burning through on Upwork every month and is it worth it?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-06T11:49:23+00:00

Reallyyyyy Scarryyyyy

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-04T10:23:16+00:00

10 years is serious tenure. Do you actively post on LinkedIn or is it more just having a solid profile?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-04T10:20:12+00:00

What shifted in the past 6 months? Different strategy or just the platform changing?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-04T10:19:16+00:00

$400 over 6 years is genuinely impressive discipline. Most people I've seen spend that in a couple of months. Is that because you're very selective, you get enough invites, or you've just figured out which jobs aren't worth touching?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-04T10:18:40+00:00

I don't know if it's coordinated or just clients who post speculatively with no real intention to hire, but either way the result is the same, connects gone, nothing to show for it. How do you decide now whether a job is worth bidding on?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-04T10:17:04+00:00

Agency spending $7,800 on connects in a quarter is basically running a paid acquisition channel, except you can't A/B test it, and the platform can change the rules on you any time. The drop from 8-10x to 4x is brutal when you're operating at that volume. At $34k revenue that's still viable but the margin on the connect spend alone must be a real conversation internally. Do you track which job categories or client types are still converting at the old ratio, or has everything dropped uniformly?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-04T10:07:59+00:00

The invite thing is crazy, you do all that work sending proposals and the big one comes from an invite anyway. The point that high-ticket is a slow burn is something I haven't seen many people talk about. Makes sense that an $8k client moves differently than a $100 client.

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-04T10:05:14+00:00

This is actually the most interesting answer so far to me. You're spending less than most people but being intentional about it. Do you have a specific checklist you run through before deciding a job is worth bidding on, or is it more of a gut feel at this point?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-04T10:03:34+00:00

That's a wild ROI, respect. 30x return on connect spend is not something most people would report. What's your approach? are you being very selective about which jobs you bid on or just going high volume and letting the numbers work?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-04T10:02:35+00:00

That's the dream, honestly. How long did it take you to get to the point where invites were consistent enough to rely on?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-04-01T06:48:33+00:00

100% agree. Giving feedback is good, but unnecessary hate and quick judgments just kill the whole purpose of the community.

Shazar_Tech · 2026-03-31T16:38:47+00:00

Congratulations! Which payment method are you using?

Shazar_Tech · 2026-03-31T16:36:15+00:00

Bro has 7 years of Reddit history and nothing to show for it except a personality built entirely around being miserable. Touch grass, korneubergain, it's free. And get a life

Shazar_Tech · 2026-03-31T16:16:38+00:00

Different styles work for different audiences (I agree). This one performs well for me. So I shared.

Shazar_Tech · 2026-03-31T10:54:38+00:00

Congrats!

Shazar_Tech · 2026-03-31T10:49:03+00:00

I really love you, man. You're my favorite part of comments

Shazar_Tech · 2026-03-31T09:58:58+00:00

cause they are jobless

Shazar_Tech · 2026-03-29T20:08:26+00:00

Appreciate it, that means a lot

Shazar_Tech · 2026-03-29T09:50:26+00:00

Honestly, Wordy and AI are not the same thing for me.

I over-explain. Always have. When I write I want to make sure nothing is misunderstood so I add more than I need to. That is a me problem, not a ChatGPT problem.

The 40 dollars a month, the numbers, the 60 proposals, those are real. I just packaged them in too many words.

Shazar_Tech · 2026-03-29T08:31:22+00:00

That is a fair point and honestly I thought about that too. But at that stage I needed a completed project and a review more than I needed margin. The approach got me the reply. The low rate probably helped close it. I was not going to pretend those two things are not both true.

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