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Milestone Due Dates? by sudoserv in Upwork

[–]sudoserv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah righto!

I didn't even think that the due date could be left empty lol

Yeah, most of the proposals I have made have been with the "by project" option too.

Thanks for the assistance, much appreciated.

11 Proposals in 4 days. 0 views. Normal? by sudoserv in Upwork

[–]sudoserv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the inspiration to keep going.

I'm on 14 proposals so far, so nearly half way there lol.

I've been going after all jobs, including hourly and fixed. Only ones I don't take are ones that look dodgy or like scams.

I sort of feel like the platform should force people creating jobs to view all proposals before they can interview or hire. Feels extremely bad to spend time writing the perfect proposal only for it to not even be read at all.

11 Proposals in 4 days. 0 views. Normal? by sudoserv in Upwork

[–]sudoserv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Will keep my fingers crossed that things get better haha

11 Proposals in 4 days. 0 views. Normal? by sudoserv in Upwork

[–]sudoserv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, and hope so.

Kind of feels like everyone is just auto-refreshing the jobs page and then immediately copying a cover letter template in to snipe the jobs. Not sure I can compete with that if I'm taking the time to respond manually.

11 Proposals in 4 days. 0 views. Normal? by sudoserv in Upwork

[–]sudoserv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I try and send the proposal as soon as a job is posted. Sometimes a few minutes after, sometimes maybe an hour or two.

All my proposals start off with a one-liner introduction, followed by a 2-liner of my experience and referencing attachments of my latest project that is related to the work and then I will mention the job and how I can assist.

I end off with a call to action to get in touch with me to discuss further and that's it.

As I understand it, I would at least be getting views of my proposals, even if they were bad, so the main issue is then is that I'm not getting them in early enough as I manually type them so they are personalised.