I hope this gets some traction through HN to bring it to the attention of the right people.
I am currently looking for a Freelancing platform and also looked at upwork. Thanks for that, will avoid them!
My advice, get a blog. Write about your experience within industry. My best example would be a man called Simo Ahava, whom writes about GTM and GA. Join Slack groups and communities and just network.
I highly doubt he knows the CEO and even if he did, would said CEO actually act on such an inconsequential thing. I mean, imagine the PR meltdown from such an act.
Anyway, time for some tea and a chillout. Have a good Sunday :)
I have had absolutely no success with Upwork at all and had been reaching the point of walking away from it and what should I see but this post.
I want, actually desperately need, to be working outside my day job. I'm out of my element. I realized I had to start a blog and have done so and am writing a series of articles relevant to my knowledge and experience.
Aside from that, how might you recommend I make contacts to have long term work with good clients? Your comment is the first I've ever seen about "join Slack groups" - where would I go to get started doing that?
A million thanks if you bother to read this, a million more if you reply :)