Getting Top Rated Plus or Expert-Vetted on Your Upwork Profile 

That's a great story about the power of freelancing, thanks for sharing!

Awesome! Good job!

Awesome man!

Yes that would be a good update

Hm, what do you mean? You can work on multiple contracts simultaneously, both flat rate and hourly.

@@socheekypirate yes... That would be perfect...

Awesome! Good job!

Did u pass how was it

@@openheavenz Yes I did! It was nervous and anxious huhuhu the interviewer just ask me questions regarding my skills and my dedication working in Upwork and I didn't expect after 2 days the badge was posted.

same here

Same here did you apply for it?

Great question! I'll put together a video on this, because it is very important

Sorry for the late reply. Many of my clients are long-term, nothing is permanent with freelancing but I seek long-term mostly, meaning 6+ months. As a UX designer you can definitely find those types of long-term gigs on Upwork. I recommend proposing to the client that your contract is only month-month or week-to-week even though you're wanting a long-term relationship because they like knowing they can bail out if it's not working out and more willing to sign the contract if they aren't locked in for 6-12 months. And I'm not saying there isn't a time and a place for locked in long-term contracts with some jobs, but I've never done those with what I do.

@@FreelanceFamilyMan appreciate your reply and attention. Yeah, my long-term strategy is to kind of emulate a day-to-day job through Upwork. Thanks for the valuable insights.

Yes expert vetted should not only be available for freelancers in the united states. And it doesn't matter what category you're in but the more odd of a category it does take longer for Upwork to select you for expert vetted

How long have you been on Upwork?

You already got a Job Success Score. Rising Talent is for those who don’t have a Job Success Score yet.

@@dksdmusic wow I didn't know. Thanx for information.

With your niche, it will be more difficult unfortunately on Upwork because Upwork favors longer-term projects and is built around that. Fiverr would actually be a better option for you because it's built around shorter term small projects. With that said, over time with many projects and good ratings you can still likely get to top rated plus it'll just take longer. I don't know the exact percentage Upwork likes with long term clients to get you top rated plus, they don't tell us but my percentage is 71% and it was maybe around 50% when I got top rated plus. So hopefully that helps!

Did you ever figure it out? I'm a voice actor, so we too customarily do the same.

Great advice!

I don't use other freelancer marketplaces because it's hard to manage more than one, but I do find clients through other means like LinkedIn or cold outreach, my website, networking. Most of my clients come through Upwork though. You can use multiple freelancer marketplaces if you think you have the time to manage both

They'll mainly ask you how long you've been in business, whether you do your business full-time, how responsive are you, what's your expertise. They basically want to know that you're committed to this before they start promoting your profile more so they don't waste time promoting someone who only occasionally gets on upwork.

This is helpful! Thank you