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Pierocash:
To me 16 yrs old girls are no longer kids.

I keep saying that the Senate should review age of consent downward from 18 to 16, because 16 yr olds of this days are full grown babes ,except we just want to continue deceving ourselves

Dude, even 13 year olds ar very wild. As soon as they become teenagers, boom!

When you were diving in raw, you weren't scared. Now you're shiverring like a chicken that they poured water on. Congratulations in advance on your HIV positive status. I have zero compassion for you.

She had the audacity to sack you but lacked the decency to pay you. Pathetic!

The lady looks too exposed and experienced for a guy like Mohbad. I guess he was blinded by the big boobs.

Just as the title suggests. If it's a Nigerian account and the niche is writing, pls quote this post.

kezmanribety:
THE ULTIMATE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO UPWORK

Getting Started on Upwork as a Total Beginner

If you are not a fan of reading epistles, this may not be for you, BUT for those who dream of making money in DOLLARS, it gets better from here. You should read it!

Don’t forget to RT with your friends so they can start the journey of earning in dollars with you. It is good to walk together.

INTRODUCTION

Many people have heard about Upwork over the last few years but don’t understand it. I heard about Upwork in 2018, when I was still a fresh freelancer on Fiverr.

Then, Upwork was a myth as only a few people had an approved account making money in dollars. Because of this gap, some people started charging to approve Upwork accounts, becoming a booming industry.

The Upwork approval template was decentralized as time passed, and many people could now approve accounts. But are they making sales?

In the last two years, there has been a significant increase in freelancers who have tried or want to try their luck on the professional freelancing platform.

This is because Upwork is more professional than any other conventional freelance marketplace and is tailored toward building a sustainable freelance business for yourself.

WHAT IS UPWORK?

Upwork is a freelance marketplace where people with skills like you merge with businesses or hire managers who need such skills to build their businesses.
In simple words, Upwork is like a market where different wares are displayed. Those who need these wares go to this market to shop and, in doing that, pay a certain percentage to shop there.
Those who sell goods in this market pay a specific rate to Upwork for using their platform to sell too. If you look at it well, it is a win-win for everyone.

HOW DOES UPWORK WORK?

Upwork is simple to use for both the freelancers and the clients. As a client, after signing up for an account and getting it approved, the next thing is to create your profile and start bidding for jobs.

Check out these steps (broken link) before Upwork can start working for you as a freelancer.

APPROVING YOUR UPWORK ACCOUNT

One of the biggest challenges people face on Upwork is getting their accounts approved. I have been there before, and it was not easy at first. However, I got the hang of it with time, and the rest is history.
To approve an Upwork account, ensure you have your details readily available.

Steps to approve your Upwork account:

1. Sign up on Upwork with your correct email
Enter your skills as Machine Learning, Robotics Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, UI/UX, Blockchain development, or any other modern skill that is not common.

2. Fill your education
3. Upload a professional picture of yourself.

What Next After the Upwork Approval?
I know it is a herculean task to approve your account on Upwork, and while most people get it quickly, some have to pay a fortune to get it approved and underway.

Anyhow you did yours; you are just starting your journey. It is still a long way before success.

I don’t mean to discourage it, but I love saying things how it’s supposed to be said.

It makes me remember one of the girlfriends I had then who asked me if I had ever dreamt of marrying two wives, I sincerely told her my mind thinking everyone wanted the truth, but I was mistaken.

Do you know why I was mistaken? Because that truth caused our breakup.

So back to our business, I enjoy telling the truth, and I hope you won’t be like that my girlfriend.

Yes, you are just starting your Upwork journey after the approval.

The next thing to do:

1. Put your Upwork account in order:

Some things were tweaked before you approved your Upwork account. It might be your location, image, skills, or education. It is time to change it to how it is supposed to be.

As for the skills, if you don’t want to go through the stress of deleting and adding the relevant ones to you, you can start bidding for jobs by searching for the kind of jobs you would love to do and then saving them for future reference.

Fill in all your specialized profiles until it gets to 100 percent.

2. Set up Specialized profiles

After setting up your main profile, you should set up customized profiles for different skills. You can have up to two personalized profiles for yourself.

Personalized profiles improve your chance of getting hired as it narrow down the best jobs in a niche.

For example, you can use two different profiles if you are a writer. One might be for social media content, another for website copy, editing, proofreading, or resume writing.

Whenever you want to bid for the job, you can select the profile that align with the job criteria.

3. Master the art of sending proposals

As a budding freelancer on Upwork, one of the best ways to get your first job is by sending convincing proposals. If you are good at writing suitable ads, this is where you will need it.

Ideally, you need to master the art of selling before you can send winning proposals. Simple as ABC! No matter how good you are, you won’t get sales if your proposal doesn’t convert.

Proposal writing is an art. You have to introduce yourself, your expertise, and what the buyer stands to gain from hiring you.
Ideally, it is 30 percent about selling yourself and what you can do, while the remaining 70 percent is about what the buyers will enjoy from patronizing you.

You need to be at your wittiest. Don’t go and be writing:

My name is Ibrahim Kazeem, a writer, and I have ten years of experience in writing. (what do you write)

I will help you do what you want to do and deliver well. (What do they want to do?)

I have done this before and am convinced I will do well. (Where is the link or sample of your previous work?

If you are an avid follower of what I have been doing since, you will know that this proposal is not convincing enough for you not to talk of the highly demanding foreign buyers that need your service.

A normal proposal goes thus:

Hello (First Name of client where applicable),

I understand the need to get the right freelancer for your job, especially as it pertains to building converting and effective marketing funnels through social media. (Hook)

Getting the right leads and keeping your audience informed takes a lot of time and creativity, and sometimes, one may find it difficult to tend to other equally important aspects of the business. I emphasize with you. (empathy)

So as a content writer and social media manager who has written tons of content calendars and copies for all the marketing steps and helped businesses get leads and increase engagement and sales, I am available to help you out. (sell yourself)

When are you available to talk so we can discuss more on some content strategies that may be a fit for your business? ( bait+CTA)

Best,

Ibrahim Kazeem.

Here is a quick sample of what a winning proposal should look like, and I can assure you that If you bid well, you will get jobs.

Note: don’t copy this proposal word for word; that is plagiarism. You only need to edit and tailor it toward what your client wants, and then paraphrase it originally. And besides, this is simply guesswork and not addressed fully to any job.

Once again, after your profile, your proposals will determine whether you will have jobs or not; take it seriously. Be creative and practice proposal sending daily.

UNDERSTANDING UPWORK CONNECTS

Connects are used to bid for jobs on Upwork, and it is a relatively new policy for freelancers on the platform.

Before, Upwork didn’t charge for connects, but things have changed a bit in the last two years. If you want to be bidding for jobs consistently, you need to buy connects.

If you finish the free connects, Upwork will give you as a new seller on their platform; you need to buy connects to continue bidding for jobs, and each connects bundle costs $0.15.

This is one of the sacrifices you must make for your account before it picks up.

HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR BUYERS AS A NEW FREELANCER ON UPWORK

I know it is not easy to start a new venture, especially one as complicated as working online to make money.

However, it is not something difficult as people make it to be. You only need to do the right things and learn how to close your sales. This starts with knowing how to communicate well with your intending buyers.

You need to learn the psychology of people and play with their emotions. As a seller, what will a buyer be interested in? Definitely, the benefits he will get from patronizing you.

Here are the things to take seriously and master:

1. Greet personally:

When you want to bid for a job or reply to a job invitation, it is advisable to address the person by his name. It will bring out the intuitiveness in him. He would be thinking; do I know this person from Adam?

This is an excellent way to keep him waiting for long looking for answers he might never get except by buying from you. Cool, isn’t it?

I don’t know for you, but anytime a random person I don’t know hits me up for something by calling my name, I am always attentive because it shows the person knows me from somewhere, and I would want to treat them right.

Between Hello and Hello Kazeem, which one do you think I will reply faster and get nicer with? Lol, the second one because he may even give me a discount for probably knowing my name. Buyers are selfish, and you should let them feel that way, just that you are the person playing with their psychological state to improve your chances of selling.

Now, how do you know your client’s name?

I know you don’t know one another before from Adam, but there is a way to get their first name. Be attentive when going through their profile; someone will address them by their name when leaving a review on their profile.

It works 90 percent of the time.

For example, there was a time last year I had a client from Saudi Arabia. I checked his profile and saw his name. I greeted him with Salam Alaykum brother (name), and he was as happy as surprised. What do you think will happen afterward? I got the job, of course, and we even talked about Ramadan because it was during Ramadan.

Learn how to foster a good interaction with your client.

2. Don’t go overboard with your compliments.

I know this is an online business, but you need to know it is strictly professional most time. Your client is not your dear, sweetheart, love, or anything. They might be coming from something terrible and don’t want to be reminded of anything. You don’t need it at all! Go home, meet your wife or girlfriend, and stop emotionally torturing your client.

In 2018, I had a client on Fiverr I helped proofread and edit her ebook on female menstruation and the pains attached to it.

Everything was going well. I got $300 for five thousand words that I finished in 72 hours, and she was convinced.

We were discussing her new book when I addressed her as a sweetheart, and that was the end of the gig.

She warned me off strictly, and even though I apologized well, she never came back for work till I lost that account.

So maintain the professional relationship strictly.

3. Give them what they want:

Buyers are only concerned about how they will get value for their money. Give them more than they want.

Even if you didn’t make as much as you would love to on the first job, you would make triple later if you are patient.

In early 2019, I worked for a Canadian; I think her name was Candace. She wrote an ebook and wanted someone to proofread, edit and format it for her.

During our conversation, I discovered that she had given the job to someone before, a Nigerian like me and you that didn’t do his job well. She paid $700 for a 15000 eBook on a relationship.

I told her sorry and stated that thousands of Nigerian sellers do their job better. And I told her to send me a page of her book to edit and proofread so that she could know I was serious.

I did it for free and sent it back to her in two hours. She was so happy and placed an order of $200 that day, which was the start of our productive relationship.

After helping her edit, she outsourced the ebook design to me and also a promotion on Kindle. Guess how much I totaled from working with her by offering a free service? Lol.

Yes, that is what you should do as a new seller. Provide value, value, and value. The money will come.

Build your account first and watch the wonders of the world.

I am not saying you should do free work every time tho because you invested in yourself too.

I am saying that for a job you are meant to take $100 for two articles, tell them to pay $80 for three, and so on.

4. Buy reviews to your account till you get a JSS score or badge.

Reviews are positive feedback from clients you have worked with before. JSS score is referred to as the Job Success score on Upwork.

If you don’t want to go through the stress of sending proposals every day until you get your first job, an excellent way to fast-track the process is to get them until you get a job success score. It will fast-track your Upwork growth, and before you know it, you will be earning in dollars almost on a daily basis.

If you don’t know how to get reviews, some guys can help.

CONCLUSION

Upwork is one of the most competitive freelance platforms in the world and arguably the most productive.

It is a herculean task to create an account and get it approved, not to talk of making it productive.

But it is doable; many people make thousands of dollars on Upwork every week.

Ensure you create your profile the right way, optimize proposals to make them convert, look for a mentor who can always guide you, and be prepared to make some sacrifices. If you do this, you will marvel at how much you would have accumulated in a short time.

I know it’s been a long read, but I have had to cut down on some things to make it even shorter. I hope you enjoyed every part. Thanks for staying with me till the end.

If you enjoy my story, kindly give me a shoutout peng_writer .

Hi! How can one buy upwork reviews? I have an old account and want to start using it.

Mumu girl. No grace, tact or decorum. Very razz.

Dude was using you and silently saw you as a competition. Run as far away as possible from people like that.

zomoears:
Empty vessels like me make a lot of noise.

No wonder.

zomoears:
Empty vessels make the loudest noise. If you don’t know, sit back and learn and not showing your ignorance to the world.

The misconception started due to the polygamy and unsatisfied wives. If you are a knowledge seeker, read and understand. Click this link, be patient and read.

Unsatisfied wives were having sex with visitors and strangers without the knowledge of the husbands. Later when the men knew what the women were doing, a rule was established that any man who sleeps with another man’s wife can be put to death by the husband, and that custom is still alive today.

Go and sleep with someone’s wife now. I will attend your burial.

https://www.nairaland.com/1208543/reason-why-tiv-men-offer

You go explain tire but that doesn't change the fact that tiv men are scums who derive pleasure in giving out their wives to men.

BMCSlayer:
Yes, your sister's Tiv husband gave her to me yesterday night

Unfortunately, my sister turned it down because she doesn't do STD infested men.

zomoears:
Abeg, visit Benue state ehn, enter Tiv man house and demand your right as a guest.

Keyboard warriors with little knowledge.

Inter-Tribal and intra-tribal wars have been fought because of women in Tivland, that’s how fierce they are about their women. But sosha media has given you voice, so talk.

Shut it if you don't know jack. That practice amongst tiv men was very rampant. Although civilizaton has curtailed it, some men in the rural areas still practice it and not only do they give out their wives but their daughters as well.

Kyase:
If your mama dey summit to other men talk, no dey talk rubbish

I will talk after you ask your mama who your real father is.

Tiv men used to do that. Some still do.

It doesn't look hygienic at all. Just look at that dirty man almost stepping on the meat.

The driver should be jailed for being stupid. He should have demanded for half payment first.

Goalminded1:
I was guilty of that same thing back in 2007. She was 6 years old and I was 12 , and she was in my younger siblings bedroom. I don't know where the idea came from, but it sha came. She tried to accommodate it into her mouth and I was moving my body.
Sometimes when the memory comes back to me, I ask myself if that wasn't a sexual offense? Even though I was only six years older than her.
Chinda, wherever you are today, and if you so get to read this comment of mine, I hope you have forgiven yourself and me for what we did that day. We were little and acting silly. Even if we thought we were in a consensual hidden relationship.
I've tried to locate her since 2008 , but to no avail. Wonder what she looks like now, and if she turned out to be a good lady or a " baddie "

Some kids start things early, and hide them from their parents. That's why I don't see any child as innocent. I know what I did in my time, to now fall for any child's innocent face or tricks. This is coming from me who first poked a girl's vagina using my kiddish deek at the age of six. Happiness Udoh was her name. Our driver's daughter, living in the BQ.
I've also not been able to find her till date and it hurts, because this one was my childhood lover. We should be age mates today, or just a year apart in difference.

Unfortunately, I agree with you that kids are not as innocent as they seem, but that doesn't give any adult the right to take advantage of them. Did the six years old girl initiate the act or you did? Both of you were kids, but a 12 year old is old enough to decipher good from bad. As a 12 year old, someone tried to do things with me and I stopped it.

Humans are just too wicked, but there are more wicked men than women. Take away sex from the human race and the world would have been a saner place. Imagine penetrating a little girl's mouth with his dirty dick. Disgusting!

ppogba:
Stop assuming.
It might be it might not be.

Making assumptions is a part of life.

Pepperdemisback:
The mother is biracial, they use to have full and silky hair. You go barb tire, their hair grow very fast. Maybe when he is older, he can be barbing frequently, clippers are irritating.
Have you seen Denrele's hair? His mother is India.

Your explanation makes sense. Although, I don't like it when boys are treated like girls and vice versa.

vickydevoka:
Come outside Nigeria. U local

How is life in Cameroun where you are presently?

Profitsystemx10:
And where is the report or survey that has been carried out, that states boy child’s with plaited hair turn out to be gays in adulthood? Idiot! You can’t be happy for them or congratulate them. Na negativity you dey find.

This is one problem with many Nigerians, always looking for the stain on a white shirt. You wey your pikin no dey plait hair, we still never see am for Nairaland o. Clown 🤡

Try and use your fish brain to figure out why more men are becoming gays. It is mostly because of the lifestyle they were subjected to as kids.

xtervaganza:
stop capping nonsense. Our ancestors grew theur hair long and plaited it. Cutting hair low started from European invasion and borrowed culture

Really? Then why not go back to their primitive ways of life like idol worshipping and the likes?

spiritedtete:
Stop showing your primitive ignorance... Read books, travel and get perspectives.

The same perspectives that is breeding gays like you? I will pass.

Lovely couple! Unfortunately, I don't envy them because a lot of unpleasant things might be going on behind the scene.

dominique:
Her Ikoyi house that she "demanded" for her sugar daddy to buy in her name, can she afford it? Can she afford her lifestyle with with her OAP salary?

Gbam! Well said.

Why is that boy's hair being plaited? This is how they end up raising transvestites who will eventually turn out to become gays.

That man doesn't look fit or healthy at all and his big stomach alone is cause for concern. I would expect someone like him to be able to afford his medical bills. Anyways, while I wish him a quick recovery, I think it's best for him to seek a second medical opinion because some of our Nigerian doctors are still learning.

Charmingrascal:
The same court and Police that didn't do anything when D'banj and his family refused to obey court order that says Dotun should be given access to his kids.

God knows D'banj was my favorite artist that year but man has been in the news for the wrong reasons lately.

First na Npower money he chop now he is oppressing Dotun simply because he is richer and influential than him.

Dotun is going through pains.
Unfortunately D'banj and his sister will be lying to those kids that their dad is irresponsible.

I hate oppression.

#JusticeforDo2un

Say what you know. On the contrary, Dotun is the abuser. That dude is a cocky lunatic.

This story just made me sad. What is the way forward for Nigerians if her fellow countrymen keep making life impossible for others? Must everyone own a ride before they are safe in Nigeria?