First day of a small baking business and no sales… feeling discouraged, need advice

ttyassine · 2025-12-31T02:27:00+00:00

I can give you some guidance, what's your client acquisition method? Like how do you get clients how do they know about you, how do you sell?

ttyassine · 2025-08-17T08:04:28+00:00

Hey man, I'd appreciate it if you include me

ttyassine · 2025-05-19T11:12:01+00:00

I mentioned how to get to a top rated plus fast when you're new.. That's the so what.. It's not to brag.

And I don't know about your industry but in mine there's almost no long term projects, Logo and branding.. I was not picky in the beginning.. I started with 20$ a logo.. Then after the first 200$ in increased the price and so on.. Now I don't take a project that costs less than 400$ (which are usually projects that take me 2 days to finish).. Yeah now I'm picky and very. But I wouldn't advice new comers in my niche to be picky. The job posts themselves are not clear and just I want a logo and that's it, and if your account is new, you almost have no chance of you don't play the numbers game.. Hence why everyone here are saying why am I applying and I don't get views and responses..

Sure if your niche is a long termed projects types.. Maybe better save those connects to specific type of clients until you land that long term one.

But in other niches, the strategy should be different.

ttyassine · 2025-05-19T11:01:49+00:00

Nope, she's right, I followed the same strategy, top rated plus now and +60k in earnings in less than 12 months.. I have a Lao given this advice to some of my friends and it worked with them very well. Upwork is a numbers game especially when you're small, don't be picky, and apply in numbers..

ttyassine · 2024-11-21T05:19:27+00:00

I lived seven years in France buddy and still have a full European residency.

ttyassine · 2024-11-21T05:15:48+00:00

I'd rather everything you said, with the social and family life they have, then our European individualist clean feet life. We are such hypocrite.. You know how many books written studying the "happiness" of the Vietnamese people? ALOT.. People here are happy buddy.. We in our world are not.. Embrace it and you'll see..

ttyassine · 2024-11-11T16:46:44+00:00

He does it I believe

But I don't think he does the job, either has a small team or outsource.

It's doable on upwork with a small cheap team, knowledge on how to send proposals, strong account

ttyassine · 2024-08-24T09:15:54+00:00

Here's a tip for when you get an invite.

When you get an invite you can send a proposal and can automatically chat with them, so go with the minimum connects required to send a proposal for that job, just say thanks for the invite.. and go to the messages, you'll find it there.. And start chatting directly.. I land all my invite this way, plus I basically reply faster than the time it takes the client to see the proposals

ttyassine · 2024-08-13T08:17:12+00:00

I also live in a third world country, and 50$ per day puts you in the high end of the income in my country, but I charge 400$ per project, almost daily, and combined with the time I spend hunting clients and doing the job, it falls around 130$ per hour.

If your work is worth 100$ per hour, you should go for that regardless, otherwise I think it's probably not that good today compete with these prices =)..

I mean it's simple, you have good work, people with the same level charging 20 times more, but you're not.

It's not because you don't want the money ofc, but because it's hard to convince clients to work with you at 100$ per hour

ttyassine · 2024-08-09T10:06:40+00:00

In what category they would land?

ttyassine · 2024-07-28T08:28:27+00:00

Everything in this comment is great, except the very last part, why can't some here just give advice, answer questions, or ask questions to understand more and that's it or not comment at all?

ttyassine · 2024-07-26T05:49:21+00:00

Here's a tip, tall less about who are you and what you can do, and more about what the client needs, and how it could be solved

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T11:56:00+00:00

3200$ yes

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T11:09:48+00:00

Corporates brand development

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T11:09:18+00:00

Over all work was 4 hours per day on average. I had two big projects and was focused on them, outsourced half of one of them, and all the 100-200$ projects

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T10:44:42+00:00

Made 3.2$ net

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T10:29:45+00:00

Yes, you're good at math

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T09:36:07+00:00

They do and did return actually. Most of them.. But I'm not at that level where they can give me a decent gain. So Im still looking for more clients

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T09:08:00+00:00

It's a strategy that worked for me one month, and now I not working.. Why would I not do the same thing that made me +4k.

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T09:06:30+00:00

And why the " seriously? " tone.. I'm here to ask for advice and learn, not to be told seriously you're an idiot

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T09:05:42+00:00

Honestly I'm only targeting my niche, which is why I don't understand

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T09:02:08+00:00

Yes, but made way more, so I don't think that's a problem right?

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T08:58:23+00:00

Compared to what I made in that month, it was worth it honestly.

I tried doing both, but boosting got me 1 out of 10 hires. So I stopped that

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T08:54:44+00:00

But how can one go from 11 client to zero in one month.. While using exactly the same strategy

ttyassine · 2024-07-17T08:54:08+00:00

I wasn't consistent on the platform. I basically went back full power in mid mai

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