How I Made $1,703 in My First Month on Upwork

With only two clients — here’s every step of the way.

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I made $1,702 in my first 3 weeks on Upwork. I’m adding another week because it takes a minute to set up the profile and get comfortable with the platform.

Upwork is not everyone's cup of tea. I judged the platform through the bad experiences of many freelancers that came before me. Medium is full of negative Upwork stories.

• Cheap clients that always complain.
• Revisions until your fingers bleed.
• Bottom-feeding competition.
• Upwork takes 20% from your first $500.

The downsides are immense, and looking at them might sway any sane person away from Upwork. I stayed away for almost two years. Then, I read Matt Lane’s post about the value-up-front proposal strategy and thought it might work.

Matt made $12,000 in five months on Upwork. He would complete a part of the job upfront and send it in with the proposal. If you haven’t read Matt’s story about Upwork, then go and read it after this post. He unpacks ultimate Upwork knowledge and cool tricks to score clients.

My Upwork story is different than Matt’s. But I still made a nice chunk of change with only 2 clients, writing what I love. Here’s every step of the way on how I made $1,702 in 3 weeks on Upwork.

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