From Survival to $1 Million on Upwork
New Podcast With Arman Assadi where we discuss going from 0 – 7 Figures on Upwork.
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Let me know what you guys think!
Show Notes:
● Adam explains how he ended up in Brussels during COVID-19. [0:10]
● How Arman and Adam met, and began using UpWork. [3:00]
● From restaurant owner to freelancer. [8:25]
● Merging ELance and ODesk to create UpWork and all its possibilities. [14:34]
● Adam explains how UpWork changed his life and helped him get out of debt. [25:05]
● What is Adam’s hourly rate now? [28:20]
● The freedom of getting rid of debt and ending the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck.
[31:07]
● Would you do anything differently if you were starting today? [36:30]
● Arman shares his process for bidding on UpWork jobs. [41:45]
● What about this type of work ignites your passion [52:11]
● Adam talks about what comes next [54:20]
● Adam’s final thoughts. [1:00:38]
Links:
● Learn more about Adam and read his blog
● Learn more about Arman
● Connect with Arman on Twitter
● Connect with Arman on LinkedIn
● Text Arman at 619.825.2595 to share your thoughts on the episode and let him know if you’d like to hear more from Adam!
This was a great talk, @Adam!
I have a question from my end related to income metrics to you:
What kind of rate jumps did you do after each job?
My profile has been rising by 5$ after every project. Started at 15, then 20, 25, now 30… and I feel like after 2k hours put in, i will die before I can reach 500$/h
Wow – sorry I didn’t see this! No you have to increase much faster than that. I went to an Upwork Huddle in LA a while back and the guy from Upwork was saying that he was doubling his rates when he was increasing it. That seemed to be working for him.
What I like to really do is give myself a nice pretty size-able raise after every completed job that I get an outstanding review for. That way it keeps it fun and exciting. I think doubling everytime is a little aggressive, but you can certainly look to adding much more than $5 increments each time. Look at it more like a percentage, so as you make more the increase is more.
Hope that’s helpful and apologies for the late reply on this!