I started this year with a plastic chair, table and a laptop and I’m ending it with a good setup. Thank you God🙏
Like every creative out there, at the start of our journey, we have to ourselves little resources and an idea to keep us going which on the flip side is usually
I GOT PROMOTED ON UPWORK.
Few days ago, I got the Top-Rated badge on
@Upwork
and I was skeptical about posting it so today I asked myself; Ayomiposi, do you really want to put yourself out there?
YES, I DO.
Looking far back, I've worked so hard to get here, I've cried so
I woke up to a $10,000 monthly contract job offer that I didn't apply for. Don't congratulate me yet😣
Yesterday was a thrill of events, as I received a mail from a client via Upwork and it read "Offer: Promotion campaign." It was surprising because it wasn't a regular job
Today is my birthday.
I’m 21 today.
I really don’t want to celebrate it, I just want to sleep throughout the day😂😂
I wasn’t feeling it yesterday, maybe because of the loads of calls and texts I might receive or because of attention towards me. I just want peace. But I know why
HOW TO GET REVIEWS ON UPWORK WITHOUT LANDING A JOB IN UPWORK
I checked a few profiles and I realized that most people don't know about this.
If you've landed jobs outside Upwork (might be local jobs) and you have few reviews from those clients (even if you don't have reviews),
+1🎉🎉
Happy birthday to this champ 😁😁
It's been a year filled with beautiful memories, amazing goals, workflows and great testimonies❤
Thanks for being the best people I'd ever wish for❤❤❤
Cheers to new years of great achievements😁✌
Hey, guess what? My Top Rated Badge is back haha. For most people that didn't know, I'll share this knowledge.
Can you lose the badge? Yes, you can. There are many factors attached to it; these are the ones I'm aware of: your total earnings for 12 months and your JSS score.
This year I started a foundation with a couple of my friends called “Helping The Streets Foundation” and we had our first outreach in February. We visited an orphanage in Ife and we supported them with gifts, clothings, food items and teachings. We also taught them the right way
Hello Twitter people, I am Obisakin Ayomiposi, the founder of
@_htsfoundation
alongside a few friends, a Top Rated freelance video editor
@Upwork
and a student of Biochemistry
@TheGreatestIFE
. I am redefining my content and niche and I will walk you through an interesting part
We visited a village yesterday, not an orphanage. It’s a very rural area near Gbongan. I must tell you, we are enjoying life here🥹. These people live on little resources. Thanks to the missionaries that kept the place running. That building there is the only school in that
Out of many secrets to getting invites on Upwork, I’ve been able to crack a few.
This will be a thread, let’s go.
Someway or somehow you might have been invited for a job on Upwork and you just wondered how or why you got the invite even when you didn’t have lots of completed
It’s hard to find a balance between making “money in school” and “getting A grades.”
It’s either one side suffers for it or both stay at medium level.
What do you think?
Hey everyone, 2022 is almost over. I want you to know that I’m not giving up on you and I love you. I will celebrate and congratulate you before this year ends.
IT DIDN'T COME AT MY DEADLINE BUT IT CAME ANYWAY
This is coming from someone who wanted 3 contracts before the end of September, had a difficult time landing even 1 contract yet wasted 80+ connects. Prayed to God for direction, got the direction, spent 3 weeks writing
UPWORK PROFILE OPTIMIZATION: AVOID GENERIC INFORMATION
TIP 1: UPWORK ISN'T FIVERR; vice versa
One thing I've learned about both is that they have different modes of usage.
Freelancing calls for research and to be a step ahead, you need to learn and make deep researches. I
Break well deserved!
- Two small video contracts in January
- One video tutoring contract
- Hired someone to help with my tasks
- Assigned little parts of my work to a video editor learning under me.
Let’s get something going for February.
MY DEPARTMENT WANTS TO KILL ME😂😂
Today is Saturday. Let me tell you about my day.
My week wasn’t as nice as I wanted it to be, can’t lie. I didn’t eat good food, I was just snacking up and down; gala, coke, Indomie, chips😩. The level of stress is high, and most times it’s
I have decided to stop deceiving myself and my followers with a facade of knowledge.
Everyday I come up here and act like I know more but truthfully I know little. I’m done trying hard and I finally quit looking for likes, comments and retweet.
I’m finally chasing something
I’ve sent 177 proposals since I started Upwork but I’ve only landed 16 jobs before you give up, read this thread👇
I started Upwork in August 2021, got my first job via referral and I started putting out proposals in January, 2022. I made several writing mistakes, wasted a lot
At a point this year, I made a huge amount of money and I couldn’t account for my spending. My friend who was also a video editor kept asking me; Posi how did you spend it? Where’s all that money?
He couldn’t believe I didn’t have it, in fact he argued that I probably saved it
A REVIEW OF MY PREVIOUS COVER LETTER THAT GOT ME HIRED. (Dated Aug 26 before my learning process)
This thread is the presentation. I'll prepare a detailed explanation to it tomorrow. Due to policies, I've covered some important info about my client in coloured rectangles.
Happy Sunday!
Today I entered church and I got overwhelmed by joy. I stepped out and I just felt this inner happiness as if I just won a billion dollars.
I’ve been smiling since but I don’t know why😂. “In the presence of the Lord, there is fullness of joy…
IF YOU RECEIVED THIS MAIL FROM UPWORK?
(This is what it means and what to do.)
Most freelancers in and outside the U.S received this mail yesterday( in Nigerian timezone anyway.)
Upwork wants to know if you have a tax identification number and once you can’t provide it, it’s
I didn’t grow up wealthy but I grew up comfortable and I appreciated every moment and memories I had. Not all have that choice in life and it saddens me to see children hawking, children in pains from hunger and malnutrition and families depressed, sad and downcast. One of
The first question most clients ask me on my first interview is “How do I pronounce your name?”🤣
Most of them have had issues pronouncing my first name “Ayomiposi”🤣
As a freelancer, I would say my second job is to teach them the pronunciation by breaking it down into
Today I’m celebrating 3,000 amazing LinkedIn followers😌 and a happy new month too. I remember when I had to deal with phobia and I couldn’t make my first post. I kept on imagining how it would be, I was pretty skeptical and scared. But one day,
I didn’t work for my first Upwork contract, it just came to me
Today, I woke up and as I was self-reflecting (as my namesake, Blessing, would say), I reminisced on my Upwork journey and how my beginning story is quite different from most Upworkers out there. Every time I’m
@yabaleftonline
Nothing go do the girl as she block you, she might even meet a better guy. DEVELOP YOURSELF MY GEE, girl matter no suppose dey shocking.
TEDxLAUTECH
I created this awareness video for the TEDxLAUTECH event. It was a nice experience having to work with a prepared sketch of how I want the workflow to go, the only challenge was how to pass all these information under 1 minute. Which was your favourite transition?
This might be your cue to not give up
- 7 years ago I learnt graphic design, my first payment was a
#200
recharge card.
- Years after, I was getting
#2
,000 per flyer design.
- School came up and I had to face studies, after each semester break I kept at it
“It could have been me”
The thought alone scares me, I’m just a student, a freelance video editor and brand designer, a founder of a growing NGO and the fact that I could be picked up and painted as a criminal because I own a pc and an iPhone makes me shiver.
A few people I
LOGO BRANDING FOR JIGGY THE PLUG STORE.
I wanted a combination mark that would be simple to understand and relate with. The icon there was designed to look like a human in clothing, moving in a jiggy manner. This mark shows how the brand makes people discover their finesse.
#Logo
10 months after making our FIRST ORPHANAGE OUTREACH, we’re here again to make the SECOND ONE🥹🥹. Today
@_htsfoundation
we are supporting children in a nearby village and putting smiles on their faces.
Can you see the smile on the faces and the joy we create?😊 You can do that
This February, this year we touched about 20+ kids at the Covenant Orphanage, Ile-Ife. I’m so happy at the moment. As a new foundation I’d say it’s hard for people to trust your effectiveness but people have been turning up. Organizing a team was and is still an hard one for me,
“Your best is most reflected in people; if you want to operate at your best, help people.”
A friend told me this and I felt it. I had to ask myself; Ayomiposi, what do you want people to feel when you’re around them? Who do you want to be? A joy giver or a joy taker?
It’s
From getting rejected, failing interviews and deadlines, I realized that I'm on my way to sharing my story with the world. Yesterday was fun, learned, connected with people, and fired up my desire to chase my dreams.
Thanks to
@TEDxOsogbo
for the opportunity.
#Tedxosogbo22
FREE TIPS!!!
Get started on Upwork easily by following these steps:
1. Create a good profile about how you help clients and not about how professional you are.
2. Niche down to increase your chances of winning jobs. Niching down will reduce competition and increase demand.
An Upwork newbie got a $99/hr contract around August😂. The craziest start I've ever heard of, and you think you can't get yours too. What's limiting you? Tell me in the comments.
My gee, I know you sometimes feel jealous when someone is doing better than you. Trust me, your time is coming, keep at it.
Don't break, "like" their post, learn from it, discard that jealousy and push your dreams ♥
I lost a contract and I hope you don’t make the same mistake I made too
My growth on Upwork was rapid and interesting last year August. I got a couple of jobs, landed contracts after months of applications without feedback. I gradually began to get really occupied and I couldn’t
Most brand designers I know are better than me, I lost interest for a while but this week I decided to start acting on my fears. I dropped a project just now, not the best but maybe a stepping stone, you can check🙂
I'm not just freelancing on Upwork because I want to. I'm building and planning for years to come. Times will come when I'll have to shift focus off freelancing into my main career, when that time comes, I'll have a brand fully ready to go as an agency and do great stuff.
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This is my most recent video edit for an e-commerce website,
In this video
@TheCruiseCat
@IretioluwaCraig
@IhinoseGlory
@theDemiJay
I wish I have a mentor. I don’t know how to ask people to just be a mentor figure for me.
I’m scared to hit them up, because I don’t think I have the achievement to take me serious.
I caught the attention of one of my mentors🥹. Thing is I’m not even anywhere close to success, I have only few achievements but I’m not bothered by those few achievements and I won’t stop putting myself out here🤝. What about you?
Hello guys, like I promised in few hours, I'll post one of my cover letters that got me hired. I've taken time to mark it properly; highlighting the points the client wanted to see and the ones I observed myself. It's important to know that I am not perfect. Thanks as we learn!
DID THIS BRAND IDENTITY FOR "DÉLICE TREATS"
Délice Treats is a brand aimed at making people happy by satisfying their cravings 😋.
A month ago I received a mail from
@Rhoda28287260
to BRAND her business. We talked, made calls and had discussions about
Yesterday, at the
@LinkedIn_Ife
event, I had the opportunity to speak about my foundation
@_htsfoundation
with
@kehindejohnty
a co-owner who was also present there. I’m glad for the opportunity to finally tell a larger audience about our story, our experience and our mission.
I’m a video editor, of course people think I just merge videos and audios together
I’m a video editor, of course I spend hours looking for music for every video I work on
I’m a video editor, of course changing the music after the video is done,is just like editing another video
I had reasons to believe that I wasn't good enough, what an imposter!
Creative block and accumulated stress have been my tough challenge for weeks now, I had this feeling of distaste and uninterest in creative needs and social media, I just wanted to lie in bed and sleep away,
Biochemistry is a crazy course.
There’s nothing else you can tell me.
I’m studying it, there’s a thin line between it and madness.
It’s not hard but it is hard. I can’t even explain.
THIS COVER LETTER I WROTE GOT A RESPONSE FROM A CLIENT
I wrote this cover letter a week ago and I got a response from a client (although I didn't get hired because I replied late). On that day, I logged into my Upwork and decided to check what's up, I checked to see if I can
6 months no job, I was sad and I couldn't enjoy my life, don't be like me (here's what I changed)
I've always shared this story, wrote proposals for 6 months before I got my second job on Upwork but this is what I did different:
1.Asked myself what others were doing that
Recent branding for Helonis Meal. The combination mark contains the brand name, Helonis Meal, and describes the brand with the transition from a served delicacy (the bowl with food) to the point where it is consumed (fork illustration), then a "smile" to show satisfaction.
FREELANCING WRONGLY CAN CAUSE DEPRESSION
(We know this but we ignore it)
As freelancers, we should know that our mental health is important and even if our client’s project is necessary, we should consider our health more. You can’t deliver when you are mentally unstable.
Many of us are lazy and that’s why we don’t achieve success on Upwork or other platforms we use. It starts from even sending a DM to someone who can help us. We want to reach out for help from someone who can help us and all we send is “Hello” without any proper introduction
Had my worst interview today because of bad reception and light. I rescheduled for the night and the same thing happened. I hope my client understands.
ANYWAY REMEMBER OUR VOTES COUNT.
After connecting with this client via call, discussion for almost 2hrs, with lots of laughter.
Today I got a text that read “Thank you for expressing interest working with us. While we were impressed with your qualifications, unfortunately, we’ve decided to move forward with
7 important things to know before freelancing on Upwork
One mistake I made when starting on Upwork was not studying how Upwork works, knowing the ToS, knowing how to write the right proposals, when to write proposals, how to optimize my profile, what type of jobs to apply for
Last week, I was talking with a white friend of mine via Zoom and a girl about 13 years of age asked if I was into "yahoo." I felt a bit offended but I had to explain that "I freelance" in the easiest possible way I could.
I feel something is wrong about how
If you're reading this today, I just want you to know that FEAR is a big threat to your greatness and it's funny how the things we are scared of; don't even exist or won't even exist.
I have a problem with being scared of things especially when I think I might fail while trying.
One of the highest level of deception is taking care of chickens when you’re still finally going to eat them.
These guys trust us so much and every time we betray their trust and we let them down🤧🤧
Newbie freelancers!!!
Here are 13 simple proposal/cover letter tips you need to note (I call it a game of numbers)
The goal is to be unique with your proposals and avoid following or “try to tweak” processes that a lot of freelancers intend to follow.
1. Avoid using copy-paste
Today, I ended my first ever contract on Upwork. The contract was dated 2021, I reached out to the client but after waiting and hoping for a positive response from the client, I felt it was time to move on. I am grateful to him and I hope this is the beginning of more great work.
If you study how people get popular and influential, you'd realise they started long ago, many years ago, until the boom came.
Don't pressure yourself, that shii takes time, discipline and some effort.
Your time go come mafo.
AFTER LOSING MY TOP RATED BADGE, I STILL GOT 3 JOB INVITES BETWEEN 21-25TH
When I had my Top Rated Badge and I got invites, there was this part of me that felt like the invites were because of my badge. Even when I shared tips, I had a little feeling that the badge might have
Please read job postings before applying. It goes a long way honestly.
Initially when I receive invites, I thought it wasn’t necessary to talk about the job posting and I missed out on a lot of ways to connect and impress my clients.
I stopped being careless months ago.
I got
Hey guys, just a quick reminder that setbacks happen to all of us, but it's important to keep pushing forward. When I first joined Upwork, I was excited to find work but eventually hit a rough patch where for 6 months I wasn't getting any responses from clients.
How I got a second job on Upwork after 6 months of continuous application
I would consider myself one of the few lucky Upwork users, unlike others, I didn’t hustle for my first Upwork contract. It was a direct referral from a friend of mine (whom I am always grateful of and
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN; REJECTED PROPOSALS!!!
(I hope this inspires you)
I'm typing this around 4pm Nigerian time, hoping to tweet it by 4:30pm.
I'm actually resting my head on the wall with my pc right in front of me.
1 year 2 months of failure is getting
I just lost my Top Rated Badge hours after celebrating my new contract because I’ve been busy with school activities and my earnings dropped.
This is the beginning of a new journey for me and a bigger challenge here😂
Let’s get this😂🤝
Talking about deadlines??
I have edited videos in a commercial cab from Osogbo to Ife before because I wanted to meet up with one.
But I haven’t edited on a bike though.
I remember the driver suspiciously looking at me and teasing me.
Have you done something like that too?
-Stayed alive
-Landed a couple contract jobs on Upwork
-Got a good table, a monitor and an ergonomic chair
-Got a beautiful princess❤️
-Helped people land jobs on Upwork with my posts
-Got admitted as a fellow under Millennium Campus Network
I won’t ever stop believing, you shouldn’t too
(Here’s a picture of me back then in 2021)
One thing we all say is that our dreams are valid and all we need to do is dream. As easy as it sounds, most times it’s not always a smooth path to achieving them. I’ve always dreamt of
Yo guys, this is my last post this year, rough year but still the best!
And yes , you’ve been the best.
I didn’t achieve much this year but if there’s something I learnt; it’s definitely the importance of humanity.
I pray we all win next year and we all share our successes❤️
Remember the live proposal I shared with you all? Guess who got a reply last week😊
I might be hesitant as to the next round due to the number of people currently interviewed but I’m glad I got a response, I mean that’s the thrill.
I’ll remember to put in on Loom and share.
Last week I recorded myself writing a cover letter for a job invite I received. I will attach 2 minutes of it here but later I'll drop the full video and share it here via a link so you all can access it. What do you think about my process and idea?
Let me know in the comments🙃
Months ago, I wanted to be on a TEDx team and also be a speaker on one of the events so badly. I applied to be on the OAU Team, my application got declined. I applied to be a speaker, my application got denied. It was sad but I knew giving up isn't an option for me. I decided to
Please read job postings before applying. It goes a long way honestly.
Initially when I receive invites, I thought it wasn’t necessary to talk about the job posting and I missed out on a lot of ways to connect and impress my clients.
I stopped being careless months ago.
I got