If you’re just starting out as a freelancer, Upwork is a great place to begin. It’s a freelancing platform that connects you with businesses that are looking for freelancers.
To stand out on Upwork, you’ll need a professional profile and to master the art of submitting Upwork proposals. As you might suspect, ChatGPT can help us do both of these effortlessly.
The prompts in this article are incredibly detailed. You need to fill in the blanks with the relevant information about you and your services. When you’ve done that, pop it into ChatGPT and watch it work its magic.
Add a Professional Overview
When setting up your Upwork profile, you will need to write an engaging overview to demonstrate what you are all about to potential clients.
We can use ChatGPT to help us write a professional overview that persuades prospective clients that you are the right person for the job.
Prompt: I am a [YOUR PROFESSION/ROLE] and I want to write an engaging professional overview. for my Upwork bio. Here is some relevant information about me and my goals for this section:
1. Who I help: [Describe the specific audience or clients you help. This should be as precise as possible to ensure the reader immediately knows they are your target audience.]
2. The problem I solve: [Identify the common problem, pain, or unachieved goal your target audience has that you can help resolve.]
3. The solution I provide: [Explain the benefit or transformation you offer that helps to solve their problem.]
4. Experience: [Provide details of the kind of work you have done in the past, and the kind of work you want to do for clients on Upwork.]
5. Style preferences: [Do you prefer short sentences, bullet points, bold letters, or emojis? Do you want a formal or informal tone? Any specific language nuances?]
Given this information, please draft a concise, engaging, and visually-friendly 'professional overview' section for my Upwork profile that engages my target audience and persuades them to use me for their jobs. Please remember to:
• Make the fist sentence a real attention grabber. It is the first chance I have to get the prospective client's attention
• Make the overview easy to scan with short paragraphs (2-3 sentences each per paragraph)
• Be no longer than 4-5 paragraphs in total.
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Submitting Proposals (Cover Letter)
The quality of your Upwork proposals will be the sole determinant of whether you are successful on the platform. If you send bad proposals, you’ll get no work. If you send incredible proposals, you’ll get more jobs than you can manage.
Use this ChatGPT prompt to help you write the perfect Upwork proposal.
Prompt: I need to submit a proposal for a job on Upwork. Here is some information about me and my qualifications:
- Name: [FREELANCER'S NAME]
- Years of experience: [YEARS OF EXPERIENCE]
- Degrees/Certifications: [DEGREES/CERTIFICATIONS]
- Awards: [AWARDS]
- Similar projects: [DESCRIPTION OF SIMILAR PROJECTS]
- Impressive clientele: [CLIENTELE]
- Unique selling point: [UNIQUE SELLING POINT]
And here is the job posting. It starts with {JOB POSTING START} and ends with {JOB POSTING END}: {JOB POSTING START} [JOB POSTING] {JOB POSTING END}
Please help me craft a proposal that is brief (around 200 words), uses the client's name, compliments their proposal organically, highlights my qualifications and unique selling point, demonstrates my understanding of and interest in the work, addresses all requests in the job posting, and ends with a call to action and my full name.
We need to quickly grab the prospective client’s attention, so make the first sentence a real eye-catcher.
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