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Everything here is written from reading a lot of profiles and a lot of proposals. None of it comes from inside Upwork, because there is no inside to come from.
- A free profile review that scores seven things and tells you what each is costing you
- Written guidance on proposals, positioning, pricing and being found
- A person who will read your profile link and reply to you
- Paid consulting, when a conversation turns into one and only after we say so
- Affiliated with Upwork, or able to speak to anyone there on your behalf
- Able to change a ranking, a Job Success Score, a suspension or a dispute
- A source of guaranteed results, because nobody controls whether a client hires you
- A bidding service, a proposal mill, or anything that writes in your name
Kato Chojiro
Full Stack Engineer
Kato Chojiro is a full stack engineer with ten years of client work behind them, which is also ten years of writing proposals, reading job posts and losing a fair number of both.
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Find out what your profile is costing you
Seven questions, no account. You get a score, the three gaps costing you the most, and what to do about each one.