$40,000 on upwork as a complete beginner - what I learned
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- I didn't create this video to brag or anything like that, I just want to show people that I'm doing this as a normal guy. I started from 0 just like everyone else and I'm telling you its possible. This is what its like being one of the top freelancers in the social media management niche on upwork.
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To be honest, you are not an average guy. You have worked really hard to get to where you are right now. I mean, look at your total hours. Consistency is what really matters. Good job!
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Power to "The Normal Dude"! Thomas you say you're not special...but brother, you accomplished your goal of this vid-- and that was to inspire others so thath they (we) have no excuses. That is indeed special. Again...power to the Normals! Thanks for sharing!
Power to the normals!
I appreciate how genuine you are! Cheering you on!!! 💕💕💕 And congrats on every accomplishment.
brother, your Intention is Beyond Seeking Money, It is to Uplift every Talent. You already have my pre-order for any of your Courses. Wishes of luck from Tanzania.
I did search social media manager and your first (from France) congratulation bro
Thomas it's good to see you work hard for your goals!! Keep it up bigdog!
I probably already watched this video 5 times just to keep myself on track. Thank you Thomas for these videos! You are amazing and I feel like you genuinely want to help.
To be honest, you have really worked very hard and I admire you. You have encouraged me to push hard
One of the best videos I've ever watched on TH-cam. Thanks, Thomas❤
This is my favorite type of video, so transparent and informative
Thank you man. That's such an inspiration to see your work.
this video randomly came up, without a doubt one of the best Ive ever seen
Thank you for sharing ! This was a very inspirational video ! Seeing you can do it from you room and achieve the amazing results you have accomplished.Thanks for showing your profile and set the expectations right for me. I appreciate it bro.
You not only share your experience, but you also encourage people to start! That is so wholesome 👍
Thanks!
Great work moral. Keep going your doing fantastic.
Thanks for the inspiration dude, especially the part where you mentioned that you weren't super skilled or super special or smart.
And also your setup being average, it's nice seeing things like this
appreciate it!
I really appreciate the humble approach Thomas. I made a profile on Upwork a couple of months ago, despite not really having a talent or education to refer to. I don't have any talents or education so I listed I could do voice over / voice acting in English and Norwegian. A week after, still afraid of taking this seriously I dipped out because I felt like a scam artist, despite not having done anything.
After seeing your video, I think you've sparked something within me to give it another go.
Wish you the best of luck from Norway.
appreciate you doing this man definitely a big motivator
Let's get it
Man, you're such an inspiration. I have put off building my upwork profile for years now. You've given me the greatest motivation to start ASAP!
Thanks so much Thomas! Much love from Toronto
Im just a regular fella like you, but inspired by your work ethic. Thanks man
You earned a fan from Indonesia. Love your content, Thomas! ❤
Flames Brah! You are the humble GOAT. "There is no excuse!!" No cap
Thanks for the video, I’ve got to jump in and build my profile with small jobs and good reviews.
Legend. Thanks for sharing!!! 🙌🏾
Thanks for the inspiration. That's good stuff.
You da man Thomas, we all have to start some where and grind it out.
This is good motivation thanks! Keep up the good work
Congrats Thomas!!! I hope as a newbie too in Upwork I can make it as well as you :) Keep it up, you did an awesome amount of time! :)
i am gonna watch you until your channel grow
Very inspirational! I tried several times to start on Upwork and no luck! I get my clients from ads, cold calls, recommendations, reviews, etc. Also I think you location helps you to get a well payed job. I have lived in Barcelona since 2014, originally from Ukraine, and still trying to find enough payable clients.
Needed this video, thanks buddy
The video is simple, the content is simple, audio quality is not kind of youtube standard but information is so on point and rich for beginner like me. The way you look normal and genuine might inspire more people like me because it seems achievable by being normal ourself.
Amazing achievement! It's inspiring to see your progress starting from scratch on Upwork.
thanks, I appreciate it!
Amazing work, my guy👊
You deserve it. Well done!
Even though you succeeded at Upwork I don't like to do that it looks boring to me. I feel like I need to find my own thing and get "addicted" to it. In fact, I already have it in my mind I just did not dare to take a risk or get out of my comfort zone yet. Watching your progress and advice has been very important to me. Thanks for being so transparent and genuine! Congratulations, I hope you make a million!.
awesome video bro, thanks for the insights.
Thanks Thomas you just inspired me to grow my web dev upwork profile thanks a lot I'll put in the work.
Hi Thomas, from an entrepreneurial perspective, I think you should scale this work and set up your own agency rather than limiting yourself to Upwork. I know it may sound like it's simpler and easier now, but once you scale up you can have people working for you and automate processes, which will make it way simpler than it seems! The potential revenue here is insane. Reach out if you need a hand. I do not charge haha
Thinking about it!
@@ThomasIm And Upwork has that option built in if I remember right...a way to easily hire underneath you on the platform.
You such an inspiration, bro!
Your dedication really needs to be studied.
Watching from Nigeria.
Fascinating! Good stuff!
Thank you!
Sweet man. Glad I stumbled across this. Would love to send you work.
Can you do a video how to be a social media manager? What skills do you need to have? What software do you need to know etc.?
appreciate the transparency
keep going you are the really top G
You're amazing, dude!
appreciate it!
"You're not gonna outwork me" Love this
Great insights on leveraging your Upwork profile for passive client engagement! Your experience highlights the power of a strong profile and reputation-key for anyone aiming to minimize active proposal efforts and maximize opportunities. 🚀
Thomas, you're inspiring!
Hi,Thomas..This video is an eye opener for a newbie freelancer like me .One thing I must say,the level of success you're getting now is not a cup of tea for everyone,it requires serious dedication and a tremendous hard work to reach this stage.Upwork,fiver all of these have huge competition now-a-days and it's extremely hard to stand out.But ,you really did it .Hats off to you man 🎉
Wanted to show people that all it takes is hard work
thank you for the video it motivate me😊
Awesome video 😊 thank you for sharing !
Thanks for watching!
Great value, thanks!
Thanks man, you are cool.🎉
'like look at me, look at my setup, look at my room' THIS WAS SO FRIGGIN CUTE THOMAS. made my day!
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Hi can you please explain more about social media Manager and what skills set required?
Very nice video 👍
amazing transparency, thanks for sharing,
Very inspiring Thomas!
You earned a subscriber!
Inspiring bro!
Thank you so much for this video
Love you bro
Damn brother youre a real one for this
Looking forward to learn upWork from you. Please guide us from the start 🙏
we need this tutorial please 🙏🏻
This is indeed a great motivation
Thank u man I am also thinking about freelancing
Inspiring 🎉
WoW super nice video sir! How do u become a social media manager? What's the roadmap to achieve that?
Brother Well done! Can you make a video or just reply to me how you learned those skills?
Thank you Thomas!
Awesome video brother it is really inspirational. Just curious what inspired you to choose the social media management niche specifically? Also how did you go about developing the skills for it , was TH-cam enough to learn or did you have a mentor etc?
The video I watched at the time was for social media management so I just went with it
Amazing bro. Congrats. I’m looking to get started on upwork as a Wordpress dev. Can you tell more about the roll of an smma guy? In hear this term a lot but haven’t actually seen what it is exactly that they do.
it stands for social media marketing agency. If you look it up, you'll get a lot more information than what I can tell you here. But its essentially running the social media accounts of businesses and brands.
@@ThomasIm ok will do, thanks bro. One more question, how did you know you were ready to start monetizing your skills? Like i said, i want to get started on up work and other freelancing websites but the fear of not being good enough is holding me back a little.
respect earned
Good job Brother, thanks for the value in your video. First question that popped up, when receiving so many proposals, is it not time to up the hourly you ask? From $15 to $20-25. People like to pay more, they feel it gets them more value ;)
Yeah, I've been thinking about that for a while too. Was thinking of upping it when I get to 100k.
@@ThomasIm you don't need to wait, I think you deserve more
Great Dude!
Thanks!
Great video. Thank Thomas. Was curious if you had a ton of experience before this and what type of projects do you find yourself working on more often? I've been using canva in my free time for certain projects and I'm starting to look more into this
No experience at all (at least with content creation and social media management)
what overall skills are required ? as a social media manager ? can you make a realistic vid around it ?
Every day there's a new market for self employed people to take advantage of and most of them won't spend a single second to share their experience on their journey for gatekeeping purposes but watching your video made me feel welcomed to this new world of online freelancing gigs that makes banks. Thank you for making this video as transparent as you can!
making bank? He said he works 12 hours a day....for 11 months. Do the math. 40,000 divided by slave labor = ???
Hi! Thanks for the inspiring videos. How did you learn social media manager? Was it by yourself?
Hey Thomas, I’m in school looking for a side income. I was thinking to become a freelance social media manager. Do you have any course you took or how you became a professional social media manager ?
Thanks for sharing
Such an inspiration
You did all that in 2 months? Mad!
I am looking to enter the chatbot AI industry, you definitely earned yourself a sub🎉
Enter the "chatbot AI industry" ? Can I ask, what does that exactly mean ? As in, do you want to fine tune/RAG LLMs ? And then some MLOps ?
hi thomas. this may be an odd question, but are you usually this chill when youre in call with potential clients? i ask because i think we have a similar tone of voice and i assume most people want a more "upbeat" or energetic tone, or does it not matter as long as you can show you can do the work? sorry if this is answered in another video
you should definitely raise your rate!
Hey, Great!! Can you please make a video on writing Proposals?
uploading now
Saw the I can’t do a 9-5 vid worth the sub
Great video keep it up
Thanks!
Bro I am a beginner mern stack developer and i have done 5+ projects watching TH-cam tutorials can I add these tutorials in my portfolio and start freelancing. 😔 I just have a 8gb ram laptop. My conditions are worse than what you showed by the way it was a motivational video ❤ you got a new subscriber.
This is so inspiring man, great job, any advise for someone like me just starting out
That's a broad question so I have to give a broad answer.
Just get started. Make mistakes and learn from it, don't worry too much on setbacks. Take it one step at a time and you'll be good!
@@ThomasIm thank you for advise. did you get to join any community for your area of specialization for client or information about the industry when you started out?
nope
wish I did - it would have helped
you did almost a year's worth of work hours in 3 months!
Love what you do. can you tell are you getting client only bidding upwork job or are doing outreach outside upwork to bring client on upwork
All my jobs are from upwork except for one client I have that I got as a recommendation from a client that I got on upwork. Don't know if that counts
thank you
love the chill video dude. How many hours do you work daily? and weekly?
12 hour days typically - weekends about half that
Bro it's good if you improve your thumbnail and video you can get more veiw keep going
Inspired
See you at the top
Hey, great video . Descriptive . also i had a few questions - from when did you start on upwork ? Can you describe your skills in a sentence or two , i would like to know more in depth. Also can i do something in upwork with moderate level html,css and javascript or do i need more time on those to start earning?
April 12, 2023 was when I made my account
I am a social media manger and content creator on upwork.
No you don't need more time. I sold social media management services for the past 11 months. I didn't even have any social media accounts until a month ago (I created this channel and a IG page). I never created content before, I didn't know how any of the algorithms worked.
A moderate level is way above any sort of experience I started with.
thanks a bunch for the valuable info , helped a lot@@ThomasIm
i got scam once and i quit upwork, but now i see ur video
Are you a middleman? or do you acutally do the work yourself? Do you outsource? Thanks for the video.