How to Make $10K/Month on Upwork as a Creative Strategist (Full Blueprint)

Alright, so in this video I want to talk about how anyone or how you potentially could make $10,000 a month on upwork as a creative strategist. Okay? I'm going to make it as brain dead simple as possible. I'm not saying this is going to be easy by any means. It's quite difficult to make that kind of money on upwork, but it is possible, it's doable and it's something that I've shown and help other people do multiple, multiple times. So I feel very, very confident in that. If you literally just follow the steps on here to a T, it will work. I give these steps out all the time. Everyone who just follows what I say gets it to work. People who don't and they try to take a shortcut, they're always message me like, oh, what you said didn't work until I like push them and like, hey, did you follow the steps? They do the steps and they get the results. Okay, so first, you know, one question is why upwork? Because typically you, if you're a brand new beginner, some people are like, I don't want to do upwork, I don't want to buy connects, I don't want to do that. If you're worried about connects, this is not the video for you. Okay? I respect and appreciate it, but it's not the video for you. The other flip side is that you get a lot of people who are a little bit more advanced or intermediate and they just have this stigma that they think upwork. You can only get low level clients, which is partially true, but not entirely true at all, especially. And so they're more advanced and they're like, I don't want to go back to upwork and their ego is in the way, which is fine, I understand that. But you can have an ego. But if you are someone who's like, I don't have as many clients as I want right now and you don't have an upwork and you're just doing that out of ego. That doesn't make sense to me, right? Like if I were in a position where I wanted to get more clients and I had tapped out some of the other stuff or whatever, like actually if I was just in any position where I needed more clients than what I have right Now, I would 1000% be on Upwork. I'm not on upwork right now because I haven't needed it. Right. I've had enough clients that whenever I want to do client work, I have more than I can possibly work with and I'm blessed and I have that benefit. Right? But if I were in a position where I didn't have that, I would 1000% be on upwork, no matter what stage that I'm in, even right now. And in fact, it's kind of a cheat code. If you're really, really good on upwork, you get pretty much all the clients. That's how this thing works. Okay, so again, why upwork? It's the easiest way to get started. You get third party proof. So when you're first starting out, one of the best things you can do is you're just building a portfolio on a third party platform. You can show to anyone El and it just shows that you're legit. Okay. And you get reps. This is probably one of the most important one. There's so many people who want to be a creative strategist or copywriter or want to get started and they're like, I don't know, I got to do a portfolio, I got to do this. It's like, no, what you need is you need reps. Massive, unbelievable amount of reps for anything you want to do in life. You just need an insane amount of reps. So you need to bias yourself to just taking the action. That's the most important thing that you can do. The day I decided I want to be a copywriter, I was like, you know what, I'm going to do it. And I just put myself on upwork and I'll just figure it out from there. Those are the people who win. Because you're just taking action and you're getting reps. You're going to hit bumps along the way, you're going to fuck up along the way. It's okay, it's not the end of the world. That's the only way that you're going to learn. So it's so important. It's like if you want to learn a skill as soon and as fast as you can start getting reps instead of just learning theory, the faster you're going to be able to grow. And if you just get that bias for yourself for any area of your life, you'll always have way more success. Okay, so here's some quick proof of just people who I've helped. I here's Mr. Steve who basically says, let's see, I've had an upwork account for over a decade. It was called Elance. When I created the account, well, I hired a bunch of people on it. I never tried to get work as a freelancer. To be honest, pay attention to this. I thought it was below me. That and I thought it'd be too much effort to break through and get my first couple clients on the platform. I resisted doing the upwork parts of the protocol from the freelancer client avalanche training for a whole month. That's one of our workshop trainings that we did where we went in depth on all 12 different ways to get clients. When I saw others in Genesis winning solid projects and platforms on brand new profiles, I swallowed my pride and got to work. Within two weeks of seriously pursuing work on upwork, including getting my profile revealed by the real life versions of Mario and Luke, in addition to the bot versions, I secured a deal with a company that serves enterprise level clients that is likely to worth 8 to 11 thousand dollars per month in revenue to my business. And so far I've used the Oracle bot in addition for all the deliverables, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, that's eight to eleven thousand dollars per month. Here's maps. The past four months I was making anywhere from 5,000 to 7,500. I made 7.5 thousand in the last two months. The this month I closed two new clients and double my income. I believe these are through upwork. Double my income. Yeah, through Upwork. 15k a month, making this my first five figure month on the books. Genesis changed my life. And here's Cosman, who we'll talk about more. I don't get paid for this new gig yet, so I'm not sure how it's going to go. But this month I'm already at 11k and it didn't add. That's on September 22nd. It didn't add the two and a half thousand for the new gig since it's in my bank account and another 2,000 from another agency. So looking like a $15,000 a month, right? He's done. He's done $20,000 and more, et cetera. And a lot of his stuff is from upwork. Okay, and then here, real quick. We'll look at this in a second. But this is something that Kosman wrote about. The newbie copywriter's guide to crushing on upwork. Upwork is for losers. That's what my initial experience and what dozens of gurus and experts in my space led me to believe. But I was completely wrong. And I have Luke Mills to thank for job kicking some sense into me. Back in May, I got selected onto one of his calls. Luke says upwork is the best place to start for you. The Eye roll. I had to fight back. Was hard. Cause all I could think was, boy, what a complete waste of time this is going to be. But here's the thing. I just spent the last four months being a copy slave at an agency. My back hurt, my brain hurt, my eyes hurt. So I decided to shut up and trust the process. And that changed everything. In just a few months of following Luke's upwork approach, my income tripled. I was turning down work left and right. Two and three business owners were sliding my messages every week, all while doing less hours. This was all from upwork. Okay? Started at zero, no clients, no experience, no reviews on upwork to hitting top rated status, leveling up to top rated plus. And he basically followed all the strategies I'm literally going to give you on this video. Okay? So that's not to hype you up or to even tell you to join Genesis. Although, you know, I think Genesis is a great place and you could join and buy our products. I think we make great stuff. But that's not what I'm telling you. This is for the reason I'm telling you all this is so that you trust that this is possible and doable. Because these are all the objections I see over and over and over again. People think it's beneath them. People think it's only low level clients think you can't make money on that. And if you really believe that and you're still watching this video, which many people, I don't know, I don't know why you'd be watching this video. But I just know I work with so many people, one on one on this topic, I get passionate about it because I literally just tell them the information and then they just don't fucking do anything with it. And it's always because of these same objections over and over and over again. So I just want to bombard your mind with proof to get that out of your head and just trust this process. Okay? I don't even think most people watching this video will. Right. If this video gets a thousand views, maybe 10 people on here will actually follow this. Like, maybe. Okay? And I hope those 10 people follow this process, make money and, and then let me know that they made money, okay? And I'll take you to the next level from there. That's really what this is for. Okay? Maybe I can get it from eight people to 10 people. That's why I'm ranting. Anyways, for everyone else who wants to follow along, let's go through it. Here's the seven simple steps to make $10,000 a month on upwork. It is so dumb. Simple. Number one, fill out profile to 100% absolute completion. This is not a typo. This is not minced words. I didn't just put this together. This is doable. If you do not do this process, Skip everything else. 100% absolute completion. It blows my mind how many times I tell people to fill out the profile to 100% completion, and they don't do it. They make all kinds of weird excuses. I don't care. Anything that you could put on your upwork profile, education, mentorships, portfolio, your profile thing, a video, whatever it is, do it all. The reason why is because you're creating this, this, this glow in your profile that feels full and it feels like you have a lot of things that are in there. Okay, so you're filling it up completely using every asset and resources on this profile. Okay. There's so many times I talk to people and I'm like, hey, you were a dental student, right? Or you were like an engineer. Why is that not on your profile? Okay. Or why did you not put a video on your profile? Or whatever. And they'll give me all the weird excuses like, oh, I'm shy on camera. It's like, I don't care if you have six eyes poking out of your forehead. Make a video to introduce yourself so people see you're a real person. It makes a difference. I. I don't. I don't have any clients. Go into AI. Write some fake. Not fake, but write some portfolio emails and samples and put it on there. You can update this stuff later, but fill out everything. Here are two examples. This is Cosman, and this is another individual here. So you can see what they're. What. What their stuff looks like. Okay? So we have the hours, we have the different profiles that are here. Actually. Hold on. Okay. I forgot how to log in. So we have the video here. We have education, we have job history, we have portfolio. Right. I like to recommend multiple pages to the portfolio just to make it look full. Lots of skills, project catalog. Again, just make some sort of offer on there. Certification. So he did my copyblocks certification, which is awesome. You can get that below. It's 27 bucks. Maybe it's an upsell or something. You get certified on that. I actually put a lot of time into that certification, so it's kind of hard to get the test right, but it's good employment history. Put everything on there. I told him, put this Genesis copywriting cohort, which is where he was in, right? Put everything you can. His doctor of dental medicine. If someone is like, oh, this guy's a doctor, like, all right, this guy's got to be smart somewhat to do it. So that's his profile. This is Kosmon's profile book. A consultation. Lots of these languages on here. Portfolio testimonials. Right? So Shaq is missing these. I got to yell at him. Employment history, other experiences. Cool. I told him to put his copy cohort on there, right? So it doesn't take that much work, but just do it one time and it's done. Okay. And just fill it out and don't skip that. Step number two is bootstrap your profile with three reviews. This is one of those things that like, I just not found a way around it. If you are a brand new cold start upwork profile, it's really hard to win and compete jobs. I found that the first thing you need to do is just get any sort of three reviews for that are like five star reviews, okay. And I don't care what the amount is for. So let's go and look at like his first one is $5. Okay. My guess is that what I told him to do was to go. So what you need to do is you need to bootstrap your profile. What do I mean by this? What I mean is you find someone, friends, family, someone in your warm network or an existing client, anyone, it doesn't matter. And you say, hey, let me write some copy for you. Make an upwork account, hire me on upwork and I'll write some copy for you, okay? And then just tell them I'll reimburse you the amount. Right? So $5 or something like that. Again, look at the details. I don't know if this violates Upwork's terms of service or whatever. Maybe it does, but just be smart about it. Use common sense, okay? At the end of the day, everyone's still getting paid. It's ethical, like you're writing them something they need to. If it's. Maybe it's a birthday note, right? Just say this is direct response copy to make somebody feel something, right? It could be a birthday letter. Write something for somebody, get the payment. Everyone is getting paid. You lose a little bit of money on a transaction, but again, you're just seeding your account with these initial reviews. Three is what I recommend to do is if you can go and win, and win an actual job, amazing. I recommend that you go and do that, but people get stuck on this. And I've typically found that the best thing you got to do is you got to bootstrap your account. Okay? So just use common sense with it and done. It doesn't need to be for a lot of money, $5, right? Like I think Shaq did. Maybe, maybe this was, this was the bootstrap one. And then he just got started getting all these other kind of jobs here. Easy, right? Cosmon, I don't think the history goes back that far, but that's what I recommend that you do. Okay, next thing is apply five to ten times per day. Now, you know, some people maybe do like three to five times per day or something like that, but I want to dispel this notion and be like, apply five to 10 times per day. With AI and with everything I'm about to give you, it is not that hard to apply to five to ten times per day. People are like, oh. Like, they'll tell me, oh, there's not enough jobs on there. And I'm like, that's just bullshit. I mean, one, I looked at create a strategist jobs the other day and it was like all of these were jobs that were posted within 24 hours. And it was like 20, right? Yeah, it was a whole page. It was 20. They're not all listed here, but it was 20 that were posted. Maybe 19 that were posted within 24 hours. And that's just create a strategist. That's not copywriter, marketer, email copywriter, whatever. Okay? Apply to everything. I don't care if it's a job that's outside your pay, right? Or they're like, oh, I need you to be blank, blank, blank, blank, blank. One of the jobs that I got on upwork that ended up paying me on retainer and probably ended me paying, you know, multiple five figures over the lifetime. Working with them, a big, you know, an eight figure company. They were like, oh, we're hiring someone. You need to be an expert in email, you need to be a woman, and you need to have five years of direct response experience. Right? I had only been writing copy for maybe like eight months. I was a male, obviously. I had nothing about email. I didn't even know metrics. I was literally. They were asking me questions about email and I was looking it up. I didn't have chatgpt back then. I was looking it up on Google. Like, what do these metrics mean? Okay. But because I impressed them with all the stuff I'm gonna tell you here, and because I did good in the interview and stuff like that, they hired me. I Got the job and I worked with them for, you know, a year, two years. Right. And gave out other kinds of money. And that was a big company. So don't limit yourself, just apply. Now one thing that I put on here is apply as practice. Meaning again, the job of copy is to convince people to do something. So you know, remember when I said reps is the most important thing? Well, one of the most important reps you can do is just selling yourself. Okay. So literally most of my early profiles I didn't even use templates. I didn't have AI, I just wrote it by hand every single day. And that put the grooves in my brain about how to actually apply and think like a copywriter. And I would come up with new lines or new angles or new approaches and it was just me getting reps every single day. So I would just recommend that you do that. Five to ten per day. That's it, just bite the bullet. Five to ten per day. In general, when your profile, so when profile is maxed out, you will get 10% response rate. And you know, typically if you get a response rate and you're not dumb, you may be able to close like 30 to 50% of those, you know, and you follow up. So that basically means that you're getting about 2 to 10% of every two. Yeah, about around I would say 1 to 2% of every job that you apply for. Okay. And this is like when your profile is maxed out, when you have good things going for you, when you're in beginner, it might be even less. So this basically means that if you apply 10 times per day, you are likely to get zero. That's it. If you apply 10 times per day for a week, you're still likely only will get zero of those jobs. You'll get a response rate. By that point you should have, you know, maybe five, 10 response rates, but you should probably get zero. But if you apply five to 10 times per day over the course of two weeks, what is that? Five times 14 is what, 70? I hope my math is right. Hope I don't embarrass myself here. Used to be an SAT tutor. I should know this. I can't remember the last time we did math. Alright, not that dumb. So 70 or it's like 140. So what's 2% of 70? Like one. So if you do this for two weeks, you should get anywhere from 1.4 to like three clients. So basically one to three clients is what you need. Now here's the secret with upwork is like, when you get one client, that's going to just make your profile better. It's going to move you up the rankings of upwork. So every single client you get, it just. It's an exponential curve. It really, really is an exponential curve. Okay? So you get one client, then you get more clients. More clients. And the amazing thing is those clients, if you do a good job for them, they will continue to hire you for more stuff, right? On platform or off platform. They will then recommend you to other people. Then you can use referral strategies, then you can use whatever, and then you're building this portfolio so it becomes this big whatever. So one to three clients doesn't seem like a lot. And it may not be maybe for 10 bucks or 50 bucks or 100 bucks or 150 bucks, it's not changing your life, but it's those stepping stones that's going to move you along this exponential curve, and then everything will shoot up. Kosman right now has more clients than he can possibly deal with. He is cutting clients and pushing people away. And people come to him now, like, through upwork and off of upwork, because he's just proven himself and worked with some of the biggest brands that are out there and has amazing, winning ads that, like, really top marketers are breaking down. Like, he's basically set, okay? And people are coming to him. But it didn't start that way. But every single client you get moves you closer and closer along the way. So, again, the reason I say five to 10 per day is like, if you want to do two per day, that's great. But just understand that you may have to do 100 proposals before you get a client. Okay, Again, sometimes it happens earlier, sometimes it happens a little bit later. But it's like, if I know I need to do 100 proposals to get one client, then I can do it, you know, in two months, or I can do it in two weeks just by applying five to 10 times per day. It is a numbers game, and these are the numbers to expect. Pretty much always true. Number four is over deliver every single time. This is where the skill comes in. This is why I make the videos I make. This is why I hope you buy my products and watch my videos and study everything else. Okay? When I was getting there, people were like, well, what books do I read? I read every copywriting book. What courses do I buy? I bought every copywriting course. Everything I could get my hands on that I could afford at the time. What videos did I watch? Everything. I became obsessive about mastering the skill and the craft because I want it to be as good as possible. And if you read my reviews, which I'll show you in a second, I went over and beyond with everyone. I used it as a learning opportunity because I'm like, this job may be $10, but me working with the client, thinking through the problem, that's going to make me so much more money down the long term. It's still how I approach everything. I just always trying to learn as much as possible and pushing myself in it because that will pay dividends as you stack those skills. So you want to over deliver every single time. This is in terms of how you present yourself. So like, are you on time to your meetings? How do you respond to the client? Are you fast? Do you hit the deadlines that you do? Do you try to think beyond to what needs they might have? Do you spend time on meetings with them? Do you suggest new ideas? Do you actually care about what they're doing? If they ask for three emails, do you give them five emails, right? Do you over deliver every single time? This is going to get you amazing reviews and ratings. It's going to make them want to keep working with you. It's going to help you to increase your skill set and it's going to make them more likely to recommend you to other people who may want to hire you. Done. Number five, ask for good reviews and protect against bad. So one thing that I do, not everyone does this and people don't, typically don't do it, but I did it this way is like when I would get a job, I would just get a verbal agreement for the job. I would do the work, then I would give them the work before I even set up the contract. And then they would be like, oh, this is really, really good. And then they'd be like, okay, like let's set up the contract and then pay them. The reason I did that, it's a little bit defensive, right? Because they could have just taken the work I gave and ran off with it. Nobody did, but they could have. The reason I did this is to protect myself with my downside, right? If I turn something in and they had a bad mood or they just, they had a bad attitude, right? Like, I try to make sure that I only work with good clients. So I look at the feedback they give to other people, I look at kind of their vibe, right? Are they going to be nitpicky and annoying? Karen's Are they going to be like sort of like the Chad, like, whatever, fuck it. Like, here's the money, spend it, send it. Right? Like, I'm not going to take the time to give someone a bad review. I just don't care. But other people will. And what that will do is early on it will impact your score quite a bit. Right? If you have like a bunch of five star reviews and then a couple one or two star reviews, like, it's bad. And oftentimes that comes from, you know, if you're over delivering, it typically comes from the client on the other side kind of being a dick or you just misreading the situation. So the way that I avoided that is I turned into work. I made sure that they seemed to be happy with it. Then I got the request, right? Because if I turn in the work and they were disappointed we didn't actually have a contract. So they couldn't even like even leave me a review, to be honest, if they wanted to. Right. But if we had already started the contract, they could close it and leave a review at any time. So again, this is me being overprotective. But long story short, just make sure you're asking for good reviews. Like do good work, ask for the reviews, ask for it to be positive and try to protect against the bad ones. It's not the end of the day, but it will slow you down quite a bit. Especially earlier on. Right. Like Kosman, at this point, if you got a bad review, it's like he has so many five star reviews, it doesn't really matter. Right? But if you're earlier on, it's, it's quite different. Okay. The sixth thing is you want to get top rated status as soon as possible. This is where the game changes. Top rated status is really easy to get. It means you earned a thousand dollars on the platform. It means you have, you've been active over the last 90 days and you have like consistent positive reviews, five star reviews and your profile is filled out, it's done. That's not that hard to get to. But very few people are in top rated status. I think it's like less than 10%, right? That's the competition you're dealing with. Once you're in top rated status, it's like, great, now people will start coming to you. Like, people still send me job applications. I haven't been on upwork or active on upwork for like three or four years. People still send me stuff, right? Then from top rated status you get to top rated plus. And then from there it's like the. Everything reverses. People just reach out to you like when I hire on upwork, I don't even make job postings to be honest. I just go and look at the people who are top rated and the best and I just send them direct messages and I'm like, I want to work with you, I want to work with you and work with you. Same thing that probably happens to Cosmon. Right? So the best clients, like I love upwork, I still hire on upwork, I love to pay people. So I will just go and I'll select and sharpshoot the people who have this top rated status. So that's what you want to earn. The last thing you can use is a nuclear vsl. I'll talk a little bit about that in just a second. Okay, then what you do is you parlay clients off of upwork and you add in 30 second referrals. I made a video about this later. I think it's called how to be a creative strategist in 2026. And I say parlay clients off upwork because typically the way things go is you meet good clients on upwork, they want to take you off the platform and you work with them. Done. Okay. That's basically how this works. Then they recommend you to other people and then that's how you can make your $10,000 a month. Alright, so some rapid rules, quick jobs are the best. So move in and out. Typically when you're first starting out, your jobs are the first jobs you do are not going to be that highly paid. $5, $10, $50, whatever. It's not going to be with great clients. So you don't want to get stuck in these long term arrangements where you're working with people for a long time. So get quick jobs that you can get in and out to get the review right. Because the first thing you're trying to do is just get, just stack reviews really, really quick. Once you have a few five star reviews and testimonials under your belt and now you want to start looking for volume. So you actually want to get paid. Right? Because you could hit the top rated status. Once you hit top rated status. Now you actually want to start hunting for some of those whales. We'll talk about that in a second. Again, like I said, it's hard in the beginning, it gets really easy later on. Everyone should do this. I don't care what level you're at, you cannot complain about clients if you don't do this. I say work with the shitties because you're one too, with a smiley face. What I mean by the shitties is yes, there are shitty clients. And when you first start out, chances are you're probably a shitty freelancer. I don't mean that in a demeaning way, but you're only as good as you can be because you don't have the experience, right? So you're an inexperienced freelancer, so why would you expect to work with really experienced, amazing business owners? You're probably going to be working with inexperienced business owners who are not that good. The shitty clients. That's okay, right? But it doesn't mean you need to stay there. You just need to get in and out, make sure to protect your downside, learn the skills and then move on and eventually you graduate to the best clients. Don't worry about connects. Okay, I know it seems weird, but it's like if you're in a scarcity poverty mindset around connects, I understand there are real limitations. I'm not trying to like demean anyone. I'm just saying like, if that's the mindset at which you're going about this, then I don't believe that you really have the resourcefulness or the right mindset to make you move forward, right? So that's the litmus test. You figure out how to get your connects. Don't eat your blood, I don't care. Figure out how to get your connects to make this thing work. And you simply should not worry about them. Spend connects like you should be trying to. You should be trying to like just throw connects like you're in a fucking strip club. Like I don't give a fuck about my connects, right? That's the mindset you want as a sort of abundance mindset. So it's not a limiting belief because for some people it is. They're like, oh, I'm afraid to apply because I'm worried about these connects. But it's like the reps that you're going to get, the probability you're going to get is going to be way you're going to get a huge ROI if you are resourceful and push through. And then again you must follow every step exactly. People try to skip the process and it doesn't work out for them. Okay? There's basically three levels of upwork mastery. So level zero is where you got nothing. So first thing you want to do is just to get in the game. You got to bootstrap your testimonials like I said and complete your profile. Good. Now you're level one, you're in the game. First thing you're going to do is Try to get 10 five star testimonials in and out, doing, over delivering, doing everything. I said try to get a thousand dollar earned, right? Then you want to get top rated status. Typically if you accomplish this on level one, this happens automatically, but sometimes you need a little bit more time. So all you're trying to do is get top rated status. Once you have top rated status, you want to start hunting whales. So you want to start focusing on making more money, which typically comes from using a nuclear VSL and using some of the proposals. I'll show that's when you get top rated status. Then you parlay off the account and you do new connections. Okay, so what do I mean by nuclear vsl? I don't have time to go into it, into this video. But essentially what it is is you make a custom VSL for the job that you're applying to. The logic went like this. I started using these when I first started because I was like, I want to work with better clients, but I don't really have the experience to compete. So I was writing like long proposals to people that were like a sales letter. And I was like, all right, well, what's better than a sales letter? A video sales letter. So I'm like, I'm going to make a video sales letter for every client I applied to right now instead of being, you know, you can do it in a segmented kind of way. But what I decided to do was like, I'm going to make a custom one, meaning every single time I want to apply for the best jobs, right? And I only do this for the best clients. I'm going to personally record a new VSL for them. Right. And I want to make sure they know it's recorded. Right. So it's not going to be prerecorded or anything. I'm going to even say the date and say the exact title of the thing they're applying to and show the screenshot. Okay? And then I went through it and every time I did that, I landed about 50% of those jobs. Right? Which is super, super high. Right. It went from like 10% response rate to like land, like, you know, to like a 1 to 5% closing the job to like I'm closing 50% of everything I apply to, even when I'm not qualified. Because people love this VSL and I recommend it and it works for people. Right? Even Cosmon said it down here. This is one strategy responsible for like 80% of my success and almost no one is using it. Okay? And basically that's what it is. It's just a video form of the proposal where you mention the exact date and the exact whatever that you're applying to, right? And then talk about, you know, why you're, why you're doing this. Cool. And that's basically the flow. So in my own experience, just to kind of show you like, what is, what I mean by a five star review, you want people saying stuff like this Lucas is a rock star, right? Just reading Lucas proposal, I knew that he was the man to work with. Lucas was phenomenal. Like you want people. I couldn't believe how he went above and beyond with us on his project. He had more than a deep understanding. He understood many nuances. With Lucas in the fold, he'd been able to craft our message. He found the right words, I'm trying to see, let's see, very comfortably bounce ideas and suggest edits. And this was important for me. Very respective, respectfully and with a reasonable explanation guided me into changing or keeping or changing the copy. He went above and beyond the scope of the project. He not only got the job done well, but he actually wanted to participate. Eager learner, great team spirit, determined to succeed at a high level again, it's not hard to stand out. But this is what you want. Because when people hop into your profile and they're like, man, this guy's a rock star, right? Or look at cosmons, his writings are amazing. The engagement is high. I had the pleasure of working with him. He helped me rewrite my entire sales page. His knowledge of copywriting. What really amazed me was his research skills. Like, you're just showing how amazing you are. This is what I mean by a five star review. That's really what you want. And then here's some other ones, right? Like brilliant, absolute pleasure, all that kind of stuff. And then also to show you, like, these are my first jobs on the platform. $5, $10, right? Like, started from the bottom, started for change, right? But again, it didn't matter. I put work in as if it was a $50,000 client. And guess what? Within a year of doing $5, I. I was able to be writing sales letter that people were paying me $50,000 to write. Okay, so it's like that's the level at which you got to think, basically it's exponential, this kind of stuff. And then here's all the jobs that you see here. And then real quick, I put a proposal template. Hi, client name. This is what I use. You may want to change it because a lot of people use it, but it still works. Hi, I can help you with this job. I waited do this 100% over to you. And then here's just basically my whole proposal and profile. You can see the real examples on here. You can get access to this Again, I put everything in my email dump. You just put your email in, I'll send you the thing and you can unsubscribe. I don't care. But that allows me to send that to email it to you. All of these files, everything will get sent to you for all my videos, including this one. So if you want to use the proposal, that's what I recommend that you do. And that is basically it. Hopefully this helps you to make more money on upwork as a creative strategist. Okay, this is all the sauce that I have. That's basically it. Let me know in the comments below, any sort of other videos you want to see, your questions that you have. I try to read and respond to everything and then make videos based on that. So that's super, super helpful. There's some products and stuff below like Copyblocks and Hyperdrive. You heard me talk about those a million different times. But if you're interested, there's some products and things that you can buy $27, you can opt in or get stuff for free. And a free AI marketing newsletter, stuff like that. So again, thank you so much and I will see you in the next video. Peace.